After many months of anticipation, it’s here! There’s quite an interesting story behind this new design, too.

Around the end of summer last year, I asked my good friend Andrew Sepic over at Think Up! Design if he could help me create a better design for WizOneSolutions.com than the one you’ve seen for the last forever. He created what you see now. As time went by, in my spare I gradually put it together, implementing it as a Thematic child theme (thanks ThemeShaper), coding the CSS and ensuring it worked well in all modern browsers (sorry, IE 6). It’s such a relief to finally get this out of the way, and it’s a big step in terms of giving a real picture of what I can do. The old theme had the unfortunate effect of casting my programming skills in a mediocre light. I think this one does them some more justice

I’m not done yet, of course. I’ll keep improving the site, particularly the Portfolio area, so keep an eye out for more to come over the next few months.

Sincerely,
Kevin

Let’s break it down – oDesk offers providers that “fit any budget,” and from a freelancer’s point of view that sounds something like, “oDesk lets certain providers offer laughably low rates and get all the work.” Believe me, that’s what I thought. I didn’t think I stood a chance!

But I got to the point where I had to make some money or go back to working full-time, an unsettling thought, and for the provider, oDesk’s motto is, “Verified Work – Guaranteed Payment” for hourly jobs. And it’s true! Whenever I work on hourly jobs, about 11 days after the end of the work week, the money’s in my bank account. I’m in the US, and I can transfer it with EFT for free! This is big – when I take payment with PayPal, I get dinged every time, which I don’t like.

Obviously, from the above statement you can infer that I have successfully gotten a good amount of work and met some awesome clients through oDesk, and once I have the opportunity, I am considering working exclusively or almost-exclusively through oDesk. Anyone who says that all job sites are the same has got to try oDesk. And while you’re at it, if you’re a buyer who needs Drupal development, why not try me? (see Hire Me section to the right )

Again, the site is oDesk.

(Disclosure: If you sign up through either of the links in this post, I get a (much-appreciated) affiliate commission. But don’t worry – everything in this post is my real experience with oDesk.)

By the way, if you’re wondering why I don’t blog much, it’s because I’m busy working on client projects. Once some of those wrap, I’ll have time to improve the look and feel of everything. You should look me up on oDesk if you want to see my portfolio in another light. I am almost done with implementing my new site design, so you may see that at any time.

Nonetheless, contact me at any time!

I’ll write another post when I can. Until then, have a meaningful Easter.

Kevin

Just to let you know that, as I’m sure you must wonder upon seeing this site, a new theme is indeed coming. In fact, it’s already been designed and is currently being implemented.

So stay tuned…it’ll be quite nice to look at.

Kevin

I know I’ve been kind of quiet; been busy working a lot with osCommerce. It really makes me want to learn Magento, which at least looks a lot nicer and easier to customize.

So I’m going to do up a “coder’s comparison” for them in the near future, once I learn enough Magento.

Look forward to it!

Kevin

I just noticed the contact form has become a captcha nazi. Contact forms don’t like me, for some reason. But not to fear – I’m on the case and it’ll be fixed shortly. Watch for one of those fancy Update: messages on this blog post!