Curtis & Meredith Hannah are in the process of adopting their first baby. I created a blog for them to share their story with their family & friends.

This site was created using the WordPress blogging platform.  I created a custom plaid background and header to match the color scheme of their nursery.  All graphics were created using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8.

Visit the site: CurtisJHannah.com

Head on over to check out the set of Birth announcements that I created today: Photo Cards & Announcements.

KY Homeschool is a resource blog for homeschooling in Kentucky. Site includes links to curriculum, printable worksheets / coloring pages, planners / to-do lists, record keeping and more. General homeschooling information such as Kentucky requirements & laws, getting started and other faqs can also be found there as well.

This site was created using the CMS tool Wordpress. Graphics created with Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7.

Launch site: KY Homeschool

Garrard web designer eyes San Francisco

LANCASTER – A freelance Web designer in Lancaster is helping the public watch over one of San Francisco’s grittiest neighborhoods with the hope of making it a more peaceful and livable place.

Gypsy Nicole Betty completed the design of a Web site for her friend, Adam Jackson. The site, called Adam’s Block, can be found at www.adamsblock.com.

Using two Web video cameras, it documents activities that take place at the corner of Ellis and Taylor streets, showing violent acts such as street fights, break-ins and high-speed chases. The views shown are from Jackson’s apartment in the Tenderloin district.

“It’s a gritty dose of reality from what Jackson calls one of the worst neighborhoods in San Francisco,” Betty said.

According to a posting on the Web site Saturday, Jackson has received death threats and has suspended broadcasting images from his cameras on adamsblock.com. He said he may have to move from the neighborhood for safety reasons.

The site, which also has an interactive chat section, launched Dec. 1 and had 80,000 views and 25,000 visitors in its first three days. Forty percent of the site visitors were from outside the United States.

Betty found out Jackson was looking for a Web designer in late November when she was reading a news article about Web cams. The article identified Jackson’’s Web cam as one of the top in the nation and Betty was able to connect with him in a chatroom shortly after reading the article.

Betty, the mother of two young children, said she and Jackson discussed ideas for the Web site and she compiled it quickly, “while my kids were sleeping.”

Jackson decided to use the widespread publicity the site has received to hold a 24-hour Internet fundraiser Saturday for Glide Memorial United Methodist Church (www.glide.org), which sits on the corner of Taylor and Ellis streets.

Jackson and Betty hope to raise $5,000 for the church, founded to help San Francisco’s poor and marginalized populations overcome the barriers of poverty, violence and addiction.

In addition to having his own site, Jackson is willing to help others in San Francisco put video of their blocks on the Internet.

Copyright:The Advocate-Messenger 2008
[Source: amnews.com | Full Article]

Adam, from www.AdamsBlock.com that was designed by Gypsy, was interviewed on December 1st by the local San Francisco’s Channel 2 news station, KTVU. You can view the full article as well as view the news segment that was aired nation wide at http://www.ktvu.com/news/18184320/detail.html. Here is an excerpt that explains what his web cam is all about.

San Francisco’s Tenderloin has long been considered one of the city’s grittier neighborhoods, but now an intersection in that area is receiving new notoriety on the internet because of a web cam set up by a local resident to stream images live on the net.

Adam Jackson, the creator of the web site, held a fundraiser at Lefty O’Doul’s Monday night to try to raise money to get a better camera to show the world what happens outside his apartment window.

The site is called Adam’s Block. It documents 24-hours-a-day the activities that take place at the corner of Ellis and Taylor streets. From Street fights to break-ins to high-speed chases, it’s a gritty dose of reality from what Jackson calls the worst neighborhood in San Francisco.

SF Gate: San Francisco Chronicle by C.W. Nevius

Front-window spy cam puts Tenderloin on the Web

The results have been pretty dramatic. In three days, adamsblock.com has had 80,000 views and 25,000 visitors, a remarkable 40 percent of whom live outside the United States.

Excerpt from:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/05/BANM14ITI9.DTL&tsp=1

Tenderloin Webcam Project Turns into Online Craze

KRON Channel 4 news segment:
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=3946838001

Future Tense, Public Radio Interview by John Gordon

Web cam shines a light on a seedy street corner:
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2008/12/web-cam-shines.html

I just recently completed the web template (HTML / CSS) for www.AdamsBlock.com. The creator of the web site, Adam Jackson, asked for a clean simple layout with light grey and blue colors as well as an area to place two embedded web cams and a chatroom. He left the rest to my imagination. The web template was created then files were sent to Adam to complete the final process; He added content to the About & FAQ pages explaining the history and basic information about the web cam.