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1. KMH Creative Changing Focus
If you came in via my index page you know that I'm planning to change my employment situation, namely to not be self-employed as an independent contract designer any longer. This web site and my business will be shifted in focus toward promoting my own art and projects. I do not plan on accepting any new independent contract design projects at this time.
2. Changes to Rates & Services
If you are one of my clients, and do not have a maintenance contract in place as of September 1, 2006 my service rates have been increased. When I started my business I set my rates at approximately half what was then the average industry rate for each of my services. Now, after five years in business I am raising my rates and reducing my service offerings by eliminating those services which proved unprofitable or simply unrequested. My revised services and rates are available to existing clients upon request.
3. Virtual Tour Project Completed
I am proud to say that the LeDuc Historic Estate Virtual Tour project has finally been completed! It was a real education for me as my first Quicktime VR project - a medium in which I'd never worked previously. The LeDuc Historic Estate is a Gothic Victorian mansion constructed during the Civil War in the city of Hastings, Minnesota. The LeDuc was recently restored for operation as a museum by the Dakota County Historical Society. The Virtual Tour is currently available on the DCHS web site, but will also eventually be available on a kiosk at the museum.
The primary purpose of the tour was to provide visitors who cannot physically get to the upper floor a way to tour it virtually. The project is also very visually-oriented, having over 50 Quicktime VR panoramas and over 200 other photos, with high-contrast scrolling captions. Javascript coding keeps all the elements synchronized and provide pre-defined "guided virtual tours" as well. This easily represents one of the largest, most complex web projects on which I've ever worked.
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