I met ‘Bob’ on the wblivesurf forum when I saw his current site – man was it ugly.

Anyways, at the time I was trying to build up my portfolio and I was also looking to progress in my surfing by moving down from a huge 6’8 king fish to something smaller.

‘Bob’ and I worked it out where I could do the entire site in exchange for a new custom made board.

His main concern was that he wanted the ability to upload/mange his board inventory whenever he wanted. So I built him a backdoor where he has the opportunity to upload pics of his boards and load information about those boards such as price, dimensions, fin setup, etc.

I also wound up using some Lightbox/Javascript technology so that when you view a larger image of the board thumbnails, the larger image expands and adjusts to the size of the original image. Also, the rest of the page sort of fades to black and the larger image sort of jumps out at you. If you have no idea what I’m talking about you can see an example here:

http://www.blueridgesurfboards.com/boardPics.php?boardType=shortboards

Just click on the board pic and you’ll see what I mean.

Anyways, if you’re looking to support a local shaper and get something custom made, ‘Bob’ is your man over at Blue Ridge Surfboards.

To see the board he made me, go here:

http://www.blueridgesurfboards.com/boardArt.php

Mine is the Blue Rising Sun, top line, far right. He did a sick job – I love this board!

My friend Heath over at http://www.mtgotraders.com/ referred Ryan to me a couple months ago. Ryan and I eventually made contact through http://wblivesurf.com ‘s forum and we discussed developing a site for his photography business.

Impulse Web Solutions of Wilmington NC is starting it’s own blog courtesy of Google’s Blogger.

The purpose of this blog is to discuss up-and-coming technologies in the world of web development and to inform site users about what’s new with Impulse Web Solutions.

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