2007 was a very busy year for me…and it seems most of that boiled down to the last few weeks of December. The biggest news of the year, I’m heading back to Michigan next month! I’ve accepted a position with Pivotal Communications, an interactive media studio and communications firm located in Kalamazoo. As the new Senior Interactive Developer, I’ll be responsible for  shaping the company’s framework for development, formatting each interactive project’s architecture and user interface design, and directing the focus on new technology R&D for future ventures. Very exciting!

In other news, I finished a couple of websites in the past few months. One is just the beginning, but it’s the start of a site for my father’s business. A lumberyard located in Hartford, MI (www.redarrowlumber.com). This year, I hope to add a customer registration feature for special coupon offers, an email newsletter CMS, and a DIY Q&A section (that’s a lot of initials).

The other website was for a skateboard brand in Australia, Folklore Skateboards. The biggest feature behind this site, is the custom CMS (content management system) that allows the people at folklore to handle all of their own content updates. Seeing as how the site just went live this morning, there isn’t a lot of content yet…but check back often as I think it’ll grow quick.

明けましておめでとうございます！２００７年はとても忙しい一年でした。最後の一ヶ月間が特に大変でした。年末の一番大きいニュースは、来月アメリカに帰る事に決めました。地元の近くにあるメディア会社のオファーを受け入れ、３月に入社します。そして、上記のリンクで最近完成したホームページが見れます。このホームページに、お客さんがすべてのコンテンツを自分で管理できるために、カスタムCMS（内容管理システム）を作っておきました。まだアップしたばかりなので、まだ内容が少ないようだが、そのうち増えるでしょう。