Welcome to the online home of Darren Hendricks.
I'm a graphic designer in McPherson, Kansas.
I provide clients a unique blend of creativity and technical expertise
in web design, print design and photography.
This Web site design for tmagrain.com allows TMA to publish news articles and provide up-to-date commodity prices for their patrons. It’s built on a content management system so they can add new content to the site easily. I tried to give the design a little of an “agricultural” feel, while giving it an updated look. We integrated several third-party scripts to provide market data and commentary.
My recent SmugMug customization for Michael McGinnis Photography includes a slideshow on the homepage which uses SlideshowPro for Flash to automatically pull images from one of Mike’s galleries, using the gallery rss feed. This integration between a SmugMug gallery and SlideshowPro was a little easier said than done. Creating the slideshow in Flash is a snap, thanks to SlideshowPro, but when you place the .swf on the customized SmugMug page, issues arise. Most frustratingly, everything seems fine when you preview the slideshow in Flash. The images load and everything looks great. But when you you try to view the same slideshow online, it breaks. Keep reading…
This project was a basic design of a Joomla! template for a non-profit in Kansas. The content-management system will allow them to expand the site as needed.
The SmugMug customization and subsequent WordPress integration for mmprophoto presented several challenges. Mainly, how to get SlideshowPro for Flash to pull images directly from Mike’s beautiful photo galleries. The solution lies in correctly constructing the URL for the media rss feed in the Flash file. I couldn’t find good help on this, so I pieced it together myself. Maybe I’ll post some instructions someday.
As time permits, I’ve been working on a new coat of paint for my site. Hopefully the new design will make a few things a little easier to find, and I can feature some recent work a little more prominently. My site is a custom theme I’ve created for WordPress, a popular blog system that works well for many applications. Please excuse any broken links or missing images you run across. Let me know how you like the site.
