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Creative Compulsions just launched version 4 of it’s website. With the launch of the new site, a new beginning has arisen. Creative Compulsions is now accepting new clients and is now offering more web design services to meet the needs of a larger variety of clients.

A small Web Design and Graphic Design company with big ideas! located in Winnipeg Manitoba, and catering to a global audience. My specialty is in developing creative, eye catching designs, that not only look good, they work good. They will help get you the results your looking for. Impact! A brand identity that sticks.

Creative Compulsions can work with everyone from:

• The small business owner looking to expand their business model
• The up and coming musician needing a creative identity to compliment their creative style
• The mainstream high end corporate guru looking to add some creative flair to their projects
• The affiliate promoter looking to break the mold with a new style
• And most important of all, I can work with YOU!*

Creative Compulsions has a wide variety of services to offer, with a large selection of web design services, including:

XSitePro Custom Site Design. - No templates here. Full custom site design built to look creative, professional and most importantly UNIQUE. Send me your idea and I can make it happen. Send me your content, and I will format it for you so it will look great. I will publish the file for you and send you a complete XSE file for you to use.

XSitePro Template Design. - Just need a template so you can add the content on your own? No problem. I can do that for you. Just like the custom design it will be uniquely yours, and built to suit. Complete template sent to you, including original graphic files, ready and waiting for you to add in your content.

Blog Templates. - Need a blog added to your site, that actually blends in? I can build custom WordPress or MovableType templates that will match your existing site. Or build a whole new site using WordPress or MovableType.

Custom Website Design. - Creative Compulsions was built based on custom website design. Designing creative and affordable web sites, that utilize unique graphics and styles with eye catching colour and current programming solutions for your web development needs. I will always offer you the most affordable and exceptional site for your online presence that is designed specifically to your business, the way you want. PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, CGI, PERL, whatever format you need. The site can be a traditional site, Web 2.0 w/Ajax, complete CSS tableless design or whatever mixture you need to get it just right. Let me help you.

E-Commerce. - Do you have an entire line of products you want to sell, and want it automated? You need an E-commerce solution. I can create a custom design E-Commerce site for you based on the popular ZenCart platform. Designed to be easy to main, you will love the way it works for you. AND you will love the way it was designed for you. Get your store noticed.

Maintenance. - Tired of struggling to maintain your sites? Let me do it for you. I can do monthly maintenance of 1 or 100 sites. You tell me what you need done, and I will get it done. Just need a few things done to get your site just right, let me know and I can hook you up. Or if you just need some minor assistance, with formatting or script installation, I can do that to. Monthly rates, hourly rates, per task rates, whatever suits your needs best.

Want to see what I can do?
You can see my large and ever expanding portfolio online right http://www.creativecompulsions.com/web_samples.php

Like what you see? Ready to get creative?
Submit your Request For Quote.
I will respond promptly.

Regards,
Myles O’Reilly

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Creative Compulsions
http://www.creativecompulsions.com

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I said in my last post I had an idea for a new design for Creative Compulsions. The new design will be “similar” to the current design in essential structure, but different colors, and a modified layout.

Biggest changes would be to features and ease of use. Although not a difficult site to navigate right now, I would like to streamline it more. More user friendly. And add more user functionality.

I know of several things I will be adding to the site, such as:

• Social Bookmarking
• User Comments/Ratings on the galleries & articles
• Quick Contact Option
• Update ALL Galleries
• RSS Feeds for galleries
• Improved blog interface
• Actual testimonial page, with links to those clients sites

I would love to know what others would like to see added or changed about the site. Post your comments to let me know how to improve Creative Compulsions.

Design won’t roll out till the new year, so plenty of time for input.

Thanks

Myles

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Is it possible? Designing something while I sleep?

Maybe if my mind was connected to a computer while I slept, sure. But then I would need to be Bluetooth enabled, and ensure the firewall is up, and make sure anti-virus is up to snuff. Otherwise I could wake up with a massive head cold. Bah! Who needs that hassle.

Rather just chalk it up to a dream. If I remember it when I roll out of bed in the morning, it was a good one. If not, best to be forgotten.

But, I guess it is true, I do design in my sleep. Some of my best designs came to me as I slept, or more commonly, just as I am drifting off. Happened just last night, and I scribbled them both down on paper sometime this afternoon. If they stuck with me that long, they must be gold!

One of them is for a new project. I had another idea planned out, but this one looks better on paper I think, so it is a keeper. The other is a new design for my main site, but I do not have the time to implement it yet, so it has to get filed under my massive to do list. Roll it out in the new year I think.

I got lucky with these two, by having a use for them both. Often times I will come up with a concept, but it will not suit any project I am working on currently. In which case it gets jotted down on a small scrap of paper, and filed somewhere. Possible forgotten … most likely lost …

Good dreams, good dreams
Myles

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A quick glance at my portfolio told me I have not updated my site since early July. Being that it is October, and I KNOW I had a lot of work done between then and now, I felt it was time to update the portfolio. There are a lot of updates that need to be done, some for the Logo Gallery, some for the Flash Gallery, and lots for the Web Gallery.

But I do not have the time to update everything all at once. So I picked one and got it done. I updated the Web Gallery as it needed the most updates.

While I updated it with my recent work I also upgraded it. It is now split into segments showcasing the different options for web design. Standard HTML & PHP with CSS, XSitePro, WordPress & MovableType, and ZenCart ecommerce. This way, at a glance, everyone can tell how a site was built, and what I have done and can do, in various platforms.

There were 11 new sites added to the gallery.

• 1 Site Added to the Standard Web Design section.
• 5 New sites added to the XSitePro section.
• 4 New sites in the Wordpress and MovableType section.
• 1 New site under the Zencart Ecommerce section.

That brings the total up to 53 web sites designed since Creativwe Compulsions started. AND there are still a few more that are in the works right now and not yet ready to go intot the portfolio, AND some more that will begin in the next couple of months. Busy, Busy, Busy.

Possibly next week I will update the other galleries as well. There is 1 logo to add, and 3 Flash entries to put up.

Happy Thanksgiving To everyone.
Enjoy your Turkey Day!

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If “The Amazing Race” and “The DaVinci Code” ever had a love-child, its name would be “GothamQuest”. GothamQuest is a one-of-a-kind, competitive elimination race around the island of Manhattan to a number of New York City landmarks. Throughout the day-long race, teams receive “clue cards”, which must be deciphered to reveal the identity of the City landmark represented by each clue. Teams must head to these landmarks, where they will be greeted by a race “sentry”, who will then provide the next clue card for the next landmark. As the race progresses, teams that fall behind the pack are eliminated from the competition and at the end of the race, only one pair will be crowned “ultimate champions”. Chances are, if you have reached this website, you might have seen at least one of the GothamQuest teams running right past you in a race.

Some time ago a person was referred to me by a client whose site I just completed. He was in need of having a Power Point presentation converted into a Flash intro for a web site. It needed to be exactly like the presentation with perfect timing to the background music.

The project went well, and once completed he decided I was the right person to develop the full web site.

Gotham Quest is a great looking event based in New York. Based on the name, and the design of the intro, I knew a dark and Gothic site would be needed. Using, Black, White, and Grey I built just such a site amongst a New York silhouette, with hints of Red and Blue to bring out the accents.

In the end, Gotham Quest has a suitably gothic theme web site. There is a Flash intro, and will soon have a forum and blog set up, along with team profiles and race information.

Check it out online at:
http://www.gothamquest.com

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Myles

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