Above you can see a picture of our progress on the new island after 5 days of work. With the addition of the new team member that we have brought on for this project we are really able to hammer things out at a much faster pace. In the first couple days we were able to get in and start laying out the island as far as where the roads would be and what buildings would go where. After one week we had the school, courtroom, coffee shop and bookstore all created. It is nice to be able to move faster on these projects. When does then next one start?!?

We completed the development of the Human Resources Bridge Website for a company in Belgium. This website is a content management system that allows the client to edit, add, and delete pages from the site. To view the site click here.

Anderson Hills Animal Care Hospital has a new website!

 The redevelopment of the clinic’s website is complete, and can be viewed here.

Designing Digitally is at it again! Only a couple days after announcing the completion of an island we have started a brand new island! This island will be posted about and we will be posting a few pictures when we get the opportunity to do so. Few details are available now but here is the run down.

The island will be a metropolitan city with a main focus around a University that will be used for teaching classes, conducting meetings and displaying the possibilities at American Century University. The island will also be complete with an office building, coffee shop, bookstore among many other things!

We are also very pleased to add a new member to our Second Life development team! He will be joining us for this project and hopefully for many more to come.

Designing Digitally Inc. is very pleased to announce the completion of another Second Life island. Unfortunately, because of a nondisclosure agreement we cannot give away too many details. What I can say though is that it is a private island with the island theme that reflects Washington D.C., complete with the Capital Building, Reflection Pool, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. This island will be used for youth and therefore we cannot provide an SURL to the island. Nonetheless we are very happy to have another fully customized island under our belts and are very happy with the friendship and connection we have made with our client.

President of Designing Digitally, Inc., Andrew Hughes, spent the week of June 16-20 giving back to his hometown community. Andrew developed the curriculum and taught the Summer Technology Camp 2008 at the Putnam County Educational Service Center in Ottawa, OH, providing Middle School kids with the opportunity to learn about the latest technologies. Some of the activities the students were involved in included Second Life, creating a Video, creating a magnet, and creating a “Wanted Poster.”

The feedback from students was outstanding and Andrew hopes to continue teaching technology to Putnam County students for many years to come.

To view the comments from students in attendance, as well as their Wanted Posters visit http://pcesc.wordpress.com

Designing Digitally, Inc. donated their time to develop a website to accept payment for tickets to the Something for Sarah benefit on July 12. The website also accepts donations to help Sarah Alward and family. Sarah is 6 year old girl who has been diagnosed with a rare brain disorder and will soon face a very radical brain surgery. To view the site, go to http://www.designingdigitally.com/somethingforsarah

Designing Digitally, Inc. is currently working with Something for Sarah organizer’s to develop a website to help raise money for Sarah, a 6 year old girl who has been diagnosed with a rare brain disorder and will soon face a very radical brain surgery. We should have the site up and running in a few days, and are very happy to be able to donate our time to such a wonderful cause! To view the progress of the site, visit http://www.designingdigitally.com/somethingforsarah

Designing Digitally is delighted to announce the beginning of a brand new Second Life island. Unfortunately this new island is on the teen grid and will not be open to the public, but we are all very excited to get started and we will be posting with updates and news on this project when possible. Keep an eye out for pictures on our blog and upon completion we will have full album of new snapshots added to our portfolio of this new island.

Designing Digitally Inc. finishes OrangeDoorStudio.com. This site is a flash based content management system using XML to publish the information to the audience. Includes loading images externally, text externally, and music externally.

Check out the site here:http://www.orangedoorstudio.com/

Designing Digitally Inc. completed KP Scholars website updates. This includes dynamically developing forms, mysql databases, custom interactions, streaming videos, and content updates. To review this project please visit KP Scholars website by clicking here.

Designing Digitally Inc. completed a 3×10′ vinyl banner design for their client. This banner was ordered in mass quantity to be shipped all over the world. This banner is being printed as a 2 color process.  With our competitive print prices we are able to obtain affordable prints for clients that rival most all print studio prices. For a competitive quote on your projects contact us today!

Preview of the design:

Our president Andrew Hughes was offered a teaching position at Miami Valley Career Technical Center to teach Second Life building and design to a programming class. Andrew taught the students for seven weeks which consisted of building, texturing, scripting, and best practices. We were proud to see him work so diligently on improving the quality of life for students in the Dayton Ohio area. We hope that MVCTC enjoyed our instructional class and would like to invite any other organization to participate in our direct instruction for kids. If you are interested in obtaining direct instruction on how to use, build, design, script, or plan within Second Life feel free to contact us today!

The students were to build custom airplanes that were fully functional within SL. Below is a picture of the final day from the class:

Designing Digitally has added a YouTube channel containing our Second Life tutorial videos. Check out our YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/designingdigitally.

Designing Digitally, Inc. has completed a website for 5 Girls and a Boy Entertainment which was designed to promote their upcoming event, Be Inspired! Inspiration Speaker’s Series and Inspirational Talent Showcase. This event will take place on August 30, 2008. The website can be see at www.5girlsandaboy.com.

Today I got a chance to stop into Andrews class. For those of you that don’t know, Andrew has been taking some time to teach a few high school kids a little bit about Second Life.

This got us thinking that it would be nice to host a few classes for people out there that may want a learn a little more about Second Life. We plan to hold a class sometime in the near future and would love for you to join us. Please contact us and let us know if you would be interested.

I also posted a new short video today just to show some shots of our new island. Check it out on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R0efuev7S0

The Honolulu Second Life project was exciting for Designing Digitally, Inc., as it was unique to most builds that had been done in the past. Rather than owning a private island, Honolulu Fish and Seafood Corp. They had 4 regions next to each other on the main land. Although they expressed interest in purchasing a private island in the future, they felt it would be best to utilize their current land at this point. This was no problem for the Designing Digitally, Inc. team. The client had a strong vision for their island which they were able to convey through pictures and discussions, and the build took little more than week to develop from the ground up. Honolulu Fish and Seafood Corp.’s island is a replication of Pier 38 in Honolulu, Hawaii, complete with a dock and a building to hold all of their videos and product information.

Designing Digitally Inc. sucessfully finished Nintchapter.com today! Congrats to our web development department!

NinthChapter is a forum for a community of writers with the ultimate goal of completing a book in nine chapters. Once you sign up to become a member of NinthChapter, you have the ability to write and submit a 1st Chapter. Other members can read this 1st Chapter and, if they like it, can write and submit the next chapter. Once a chapter is submitted, members have 3 weeks to submit the next chapter for a vote to take place on a specified date. The chapter that gets the most votes becomes the next chapter in the book. This process repeats itself until a book is completed – hopefully in nine chapters! Members are encouraged to discuss these chapters on message boards in order to create more ideas, to decide when to bring a story to a close, etc… NinthChapter will then attempt to get this book published. Those authors whose chapters were voted to be included will have their name, photograph (optional) and a short biography printed in the finished book. A percentage of a book’s profits will be split equally among the writers whose chapters were included in the book.

For more information see:

http://www.ninthchapter.com

We have released our 2008 Corporate island. This design was out of the ordinary for most SL builds. We wanted to push the limits of Second Life by developing an abstract corporate headquarters. Many times when building we take for granted that there is no gravity within this virtual environment. We wanted to show everyone out there looking at Second Life that we can push the limits of design to better promote the organizations that are in need of branding themselves. If you are looking for a professionally designed island/sim within Second Life you are definitely at the right place!

Designing Digitally, Inc. is pleased to announce the grand opening of it’s newly re-designed Second Life Island on March 31, 2008. Designing Digitally, Inc. is a full-service design firm specializing in Second Life development, graphic design and printing, Web site design and programming, and e-learning and interactive media design. The Second Life island will showcase past, as well as current projects and will offer free video tutorials on using Second Life.

The new island will also provide space to rent for meetings and presentations with streaming video and slideshow capabilities. To learn more about what Designing Digitally, Inc. can offer you or your company, please visit us in world at:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Designing%20Digitally/129/123/58/?title=Designing%20Digitally or

on our Web site at

http://www.designingdigitally.com.