I am sitting here in Farish Hall on the University of Houston campus prepping for Air Houston to begin at 9am sharp. Farish Hall is a pentagon-shaped room with three levels decending to the center ground floor. It is also right in the center of the UH campus.

As I scan the room, I see familiar faces of Houston’s top web designers and developers. Teams from Schipul, TopSpot IMS, Poplabs, Idea, and more. My team is called Team Whiteboard and it is made up of Darren Ansley, Angelo Directo, and then of course myself and I work at Adcetera.
Stephen from Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has already arrived. He works for the non-profit that now owns the Beer Can House.

Ok, the time is getting close. Stayed tuned for the new website.

November 3rd is the big day. Darren Ansley, Angelo Directo and I have teamed up to build a website in one day for a non-profit in Houston, TX. Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) is an award-winning, Web site building competition held annually around the country. This exciting competition has been recognized for excellence and innovation by business and political leaders and was held for the first time in Houston in 2004. The competition is judged based on accessibility and section 508 compliance for building website that people with disabilities can use effectively.

Our team has been assigned “The Beer Can House” as our non-profit. It is a house in Houston that has been tastefully decorated with over 60,000 beer cans or different shapes and designs by a homeowner during a 30 year period. The owner, John, passed away and the property was recently purchased by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Arts. The Orange Show is working to restore the home and then eventually open it to the public early next year.

It has already been a great learning experience to dig in and study how to build an accessible website. Please return for a link to the website! Wish me good luck this Saturday.

My sister and her husband just had their first baby! Her name is Penelope (Penny) Palmer. Check out her pictures at PennyPalmer.com. She is about 2 months old now and weighs about 9 lbs. When she was born she weighed just 4 pounds 11 ounces!

My sis brought Penny in town from Austin for the weekend so this was the first time I was able to spend some quality time with Penny. She’s so sweet!

My company, Adcetera, just released a 3D Halloween animation to promote our interactive skills. Check out the 3D or 2D version at www.adcetera.com.

We also had our pumpkin creation contest. Check out all the cool pumpkins that we created. I did something more traditional compared to everyone else and it got picked up by the news!