The Force Behind the Jungle
My name is Rogie, formerly Jesse (long story) and Komodo Media is my site. Currently, this site is an icon shop, a blog, a portfolio, an experiment lab, and an area to express myself creatively on the web.
I am a father, a husband, a former youth leader, Jesus lover, a web designer, illustrator and blogger. I love designing, especially with vectors. I get giddy about using CSS and newsk00l JavaScript to create sweet stuff.
If you want to know more about me, hit me up on twitter or view all of my contact information on my online business card at rogieking.com.
About This Site
This site was hand-built by me. 99% of the graphics were produced using Adobe Fireworks. This site is a mixture of a love of jungles, reptiles, swiss-family robinson, a butt-load of coffee, a love for jQuery, PNG images, inspiration from other designers, and a desire to create my own mark on the interweb. Oh, and yeah, this site was made using a Mac (however, I think you could still pull it off on a PC).
If you want to know about the technologies involved in this site, here ya go:
The Backend
- Wordpress 2.7.1
Blogging CMS/Do it all wonder - Simple Ratings Wordpress Plugin
Home brewed star rating plugin - Post Browser Wordpress Plugin
Home brewed 4-fold post tab thing - Media Temple
Site hosting - Last.fm & Yahoo Pipes
Showing my playlist - Twitter & Yahoo Pipes
Showing twitter conversations - Paged Comments
Wordpress plugin taming comment lists - Widon’t
Wordpress plugin by Shaun Inman.
The Frontend
- jQuery
The sweetest JavaScript library. - ZoomBox
Home-brewed jQuery Image Zooming Plugin - CSS
Making HTML pretty again - Adobe Fireworks
100% of this site design - Archer Font
My font of choice for this site.
Komodo Media, Through The Years
Komodo Media, as of this writing, is on its 4th redesign. Each version expresses some part of my personality, as all of my redesigns were very personal. Version 2 was really the start of something big. That’s when I hooked up some mad JavaScript and got some recognition in web galleries as well as covered in Web Designing magazine. Version 3 kept the ball rolling, as I received much recognition and gallery showcasing as well. One can only hope for version 4
I'm Jammin' out to if you see britney spears or hillary duff here, it's my wife's ...*cough*
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