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4BetterSleep Center – Dallas,TX

William — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:43:02 +0000

As a client of BubbleLife Media we worked to develop a website that would capture new clients through many specific design elements intended to shorten the number of clicks between a client considering contacting the business and getting a response from our client with the intention of gaining a new long term customer. One the most important things about medical professional offices and their potential clientele is people always have questions related to health issues and the easier and faster you connect people and their questions to a medical professional who can help the more likely they are to become a long term customer of that medical professional.

SPOTS

William — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:31:29 +0000

As a client of BubbleLife Media we worked to build them a brand new website that would be valuable resource for parents looking for more information about how SPOTS helps children as well as make that information easy for search engines to crawl to increase the overall SEO value of the site in order to attract new business.

White Rock Tree Wizards

William — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:18:54 +0000

As a client of BubbleLife Media we worked with White Rock Tree Wizards to redo their website keeping the content they already had and design the new site to attract new local customers through targeted SEO and other web design techniques.

Fort Worth Avenue Development Group

William — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:03:48 +0000

As a new BubbleLife Media client we worked with members of the Fort Worth Avenue Development Group to redesign their old site and increase their visibility on the internet through modern SEO techniques and local targeted messaging to make the organization easier to find for the people who would benefit the most in the many efforts the volunteer group promotes throughout the year. Fort Worth Avenue Development Group

The Big City and My Ford Fiesta

William — Tue, 24 May 2011 04:39:22 +0000

I love living in a big urban area like Dallas, but one of the most dis-pleasurable things for me personally is parking the big cars us Texans are known for. If Big Hair is what Dallas is known for around the world, big Trucks and SUV’s is almost just as synonymous with a Dallasites modus operandi. So what did I do recently that broke that mold, I bought a compact hatchback specifically the new 2011 Ford Fiesta. Sure the dealer said this new generation of compact cars are selling like crazy so maybe I’m not that original but hey we all have confidence in our decisions to be over reaching more than they actually are.

So the Ford Fiesta, its moderately sized so I can fit in those less average size parking spots but it doesn’t fall short in other areas like some people may think. It has what I sort of bought it for which is the quite innovative Microsoft SYNC system fully integrated into the dashboard. No it doesn’t have a touch screen with every app under the sun albeit it does allow some nice integration with my iPhone iOS apps like Pandora, Stitcher and the Podcaster. It did something so surpassingly great yesterday morning I hope the smooth action continues as I learn more about it.

In the morning, I have a ritual, one that involves starting my commute to BubbleLife Media with podcasts catching me up on the most recent tech news of today, yesterday, and maybe tomorrow when they discuss whatever Apple computer rumor has churned up this week. I walk up to my “Blue Flame Metallic” Fiesta, think Dallas Cowboys, or Dallas Mavericks blue, ready to charge towards work and just as the car turns on with the twist of the key the podcast stops playing in my ears and the car stereo picks up the podcast where the Apple white ear buds left off just a second before. It was a simple trick, no doubt the Bluetooth Media streaming feature listed as a bullet point on the brochure but it meant so much more to me. Life moved so smoothly in those moments thanks a simple technology trick involving a few existing technologies working together elegantly.

I don’t know if the entire life of my new ride and its innovative computer system will be as slick but I hope it has a couple more moments like that. You see that made the car worth it, it made the morning and the day start off smoother leading into the evening when I would enjoy that again for the ride home.

BubbleLife.com Portal

William — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:36:13 +0000

One of the first major collaborations while working at BubbleLife Media as Web/Graphic Designer was establishing a new design leaping off point for the entire BubbleLife.com series of neighborhood sites. In the early concept stage we identified a limited timeline and a goal of simplicity. After careful study of many other successful portal designs a design was chosen to keep the main graphic as the focus with a floating center dialog box for user input. After that it was just the addition of tasteful javascript to slide in and out the various dialog boxes needed to direct users to correct internal BubbleLife.com pages.

Textures, Graphics, and Concepts

William — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:25:16 +0000

This is just a mosaic of some of the various graphics I’ve produced for various projects over my graphic design history. A few of them are from College the others were created for contests and/or derived from brainstorms I had over the years.

Logos made here

William — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:38:13 +0000

These are a couple examples of logos I’ve made in the past for clients and for my own needs. Just for my WilliaMedia logo alone there are hundred’s of drawings and concepts I did before I settled on the ribbon like WM I use today. Each logo tells a different story and I love weaving those stories into pictorial representations of companies or the people who run those companies.

2 August events in Dallas to check out

William — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:46:05 +0000

I’m a man of the city if you haven’t guessed it already whether by meeting me in person or by trying to follow my Gowalla stream (gowalla.com/williamedia). Every month I spend countless hours running around town attending events that I enjoy that also expose me to something new. This month is nothing different there are two great events that I can not wait to attend now we are finally almost in the month of August.

Spark Club

First Up is Spark Club a monthly event born here in Dallas and not afraid to reach for exciting locations in the city when they meet. Sure this months event will be held at the recently successfully reopened Kessler Theater in Oakcliff but that wont stop this months presentation from covering failure, The Big Dang. We all know innovators have all failed at everything at one point thats why you should attend this month Sparks Club and learn from their mistakes.

Don’t worry this month the audience will be able to contribute to the failure. After the main presentation there will be an Open Mic for all the failure we have waiting deep inside us all. They say its easier to admit it when surrounded by people who have failed like yourself. A sort of “Hello my name is William Addington and I have failed” except the people at this meeting will clap loudly at your jokes and shake your hand happily after words.

What: Spark Club The Big Dang (Plancast.com)
When: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 6-9:00pm (RSVP)
Where: The Kessler Theater (thekessler.org)
1230 W. Davis St.
Dallas, Texas 75208 (Map)

OpenCa.mp

If you were to look into the deep dark origins of my blog you would find an article about WordCamp Dallas 2008 well to be short for shorts sake thats where OpenCa.mp started. Course the important thing to note is OpenCa.mp is not just a rename like Radioshack and their odd “The Shack” branding scheme. OpenCa.mp is its own event with its own Golden Knights flaming skydive. Ok that last part is just the appetizer blogger bait for OpenCa.mp but its got plenty of other things for bloggers, business owners, podcasters, and web developers alike to munch on.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Its only once a year so this is it, buy your hotel room now so you can attend the fun parties for the hotel stayers only after the flood of daily speakers during the two day event. Before you go I have to admit though I helped found the Dallas WordPress meetup group quickly after the Dallas WordCamp 2008 so would ya blame for endorsing an event that I have some happy community connections with. I mean look at the schedule they got posted on the OpeCa.mp website its got something for everybody who wants to have something to do with the internet.

What: OpenCa.mp (Plancast.com)
When: August 27-29, 2010 (Tickets)
Where: Crowne Plaza Addison (Website)
14315 Midway Road
Addison, TX 75001 (Map)

Graphic photo collage

William — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:40:27 +0000

This simply put is a demonstration of couple of techniques for creating faux realistic items in digital form. I made these various faux items from scratch to test my skills. On regular occasion one the best ways to learn is to try to create something just by looking at it and taking the tools you have to build with, this is just that.