Eliza Dushku Design a Myspace Page Contest

Earlier this year I entered a design contest. The contest was to design a myspace profile for the actor Eliza Dushku. Fox provided all the materials and it was the job of the contestants to use the material as they needed.

I designed two different profiles.
1. Simple Sexy Profile: This profile was just a simple white background with a simple image of Eliza Dushku. The profile was one colunm wide and is not your typical Myspace page. The profile run in the Profile 1.0 enviroment.

To view this profile please goto: http://www.myspace.com/elizacontest

2. Flash Action Profile: This profile was more focused on Eliza Dushku's new series Dollhouse. It featured a large banner area and had hot links to the main sections of the Myspace. All and all this is my favorite profile. I even added a Image rotators (via ASP on Myspace, a pretty cool trick I must say)

To view this profile please goto: http://www.myspace.com/scratchProfile


In the end, it would be my simple sexy profile that won!

facebook rant

I am convinced that Facebook is a Spy ware site. My girlfriend has a facebook account (I do not use facebook as I prefer myspace for my social networking needs). I got her a brand new laptop yesterday, because her other computer is hosed (and it's a little out dated being 4 years old) it was time to migrate her to a laptop and get her into the 21 century.

She installed the basics on the laptop (Adobe master suite and Ms Office) which is all the programs she needs or uses. She then proceeded to goto her FaceBook (she plays all these social games)

within hours of playing her games, her computer was hosed. The IE has a hijacker program and won't go to any URL without erroring out. Even restoring the to a previous date did not fix her issue.

Make a long story short, I ended up restoring her computer back to it's original state and had to start over. This time I'm taking a "snap" shot of the hard drive so when it gets infected again I don't have to redo her WHOLE computer again.

I have been long time protestor of Facebooks for several reasons, now I am Convinced that this site is after your soul! (or at least your browser!)

STAY AWAY FROM FACAEBOOK!

DJ ... My Real Passion

By day you guys know me as Scott Robertson web developer, however my real passion is not sitting on my laptop banging out websites. My real passion is playing on my turntables and mixing (DJing for a lack of a better term).

You see after 5pm, I usually jump on my turntables and dj for a little while. It's a great stress releif and it allows me to get lost in my own little world. (if only for a few min)


Over the Last few years, I started on making t-shirts for Dj's, DJ Shirts if you will. I've had them available on zazzle for a while now and they sell fairly well.

I wanted to make a fun site to display my work and link to zazzzle to sell these items.

I feel that my http://www.Dj-Shirt.net has accomplished this. It has several small sections.

Men's Ware, Ladies ware and Skateboards.

Check it out and let me know what you think about the New Website!

Don't forget for all your web design needs www.NewTechLabs.com
Thanks
Scott Robertson

Deutch & Deutch Fine Jewelry and Watches

I recently developed a Website for Deutch & DeutchFine Jewelry and Watches.

They have 3 locations, in Houston, Laredo and McAllen.Their website includes over 2000 items of inventory in their Website's database.

Their Brands include : Aaron Basha, Antonini, Barry Kronen, Beverley K, Bixby , Bucceleti , Bulgari, Cartier, Chad Allison , Charles Krypell, Charriol , Davidoff, Fope , Hidalgo , Honora, James Breski, Jordan Scott, Judith Ripka, Jyes International, KC Designs, Konstantino Treasures, Norman Covan,
PE Jay Creations, Rina Limor, Sal Praschnik, Stuller, Trimoro, William Levine

Please visithttp://www.deutschdeutschjewelers.com Houston Fine Jewelrey.

NewTechLabs Hosting Vs Hurricane Ike

Over the years, I've had to defend the cost of web hosting. It always starts with I can get web hosting for $5.95 a month at some other hosting provider. I always state, "Yes, you can get Linux hosting just about anywhere for that price. However My servers are a windows hosting solution and the same service goes for about $99.99 a month at other service providers."

The truth is my $29.99 a month plan is very reasonable when you look at how solid my servers are. My hosting service was put to the test last week when Hurricane Ike came thru the Galveston and Houston Texas. As most of you know my servers are located in the middle of Downtown houston and right in the path of Hurricane Ike. During the hurricane, over 3.5 million people lost power*. NewTechLabs Houston Web Hosting stayed up all thru the hurricane and it's aftermath. NewTechLabs Houston web hosting allowed all of it's Houston users to make changes to their web site and allowed people in Houston (who still had power) to access websites and email.

So when the Houston phone's were down, Our Houston customers were still able to send and receive emails! This allowed people to correspond to their loved ones when they could not get thru Via Phone!

I'm happy to be able to give my customers the ability to communicate to their loved ones in the their time of NEED!

All for under 30 dollars a month for Web Hosting. How much is communicating to your loved ones worth to you?

Thanks to everyone that helps make NewTechLabs one of Houston's best Web hosting Company's. So Thanks to the NewTechLabs partners and technical teams. This includes: Ingrid Fuller with Cityscope Web Hosting and Chris Duke With NewTechLabs Houston Web Hosting Who help make things happen!.

For All your Houston Needs Please Visit NewTechLabs Houston Web hosting.



* Source: Reuters News; http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN13445757._CH_.2400

Wood-Mode Houston

I recently launched a portal for Houston Wood-Mode Dealers. Wood-mode manufactures Cabinets for your kitchen, Bath room, closets, media centers, and studies.

The wood mode portal features alittle history about Woodmode, Samples of cabinets and showroom locations!

Please visit: www.Wood-ModeHouston.com for more information about the Houston Kitchen Showrooms

Houston Jewelry Store

I recently launched a new website for a Houston Jewelry Store. The Jewerly Store is Located in Rice Village just off of Kirby.

Please check out the Fine Jewerly Store at www.ShaftelDiamond.com For more details.

Thanks!