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The idea is simple. Make a food-review website that is for the first time completely relative to your location, your lunch-time, and your work schedule. Many of you, like me, work an eight-to-five job and get stuck in ruts of eating at the same few places every day or every other day for weeks on end. Wouldn’t it be great to have something to recommend you new places based on what you enjoy?

That’s Lunchism. I hope to have a closed beta soon. Visit lunchism.com and sign up for the beta pool—your tummy will thank you. Hallelujah and r’amen.

I have a soft deadline of Spring Break 2008 for the beta test. Stay tuned!

Clam Gulch Lodge is a small fishing lodge and vacation destination on the Kenai peninsula in southern Alaska. Owner Gary Katsion wanted to update his site to bring it in line with the services he was offering. This is important, considering two thirds of all people planning travel will use the internet as a major resource in the planning or purchasing of their trip.

The resulting site showcases Gary’s photography, and has driven approximately 25% of his business in the last six months, business that didn’t exist before his updated web presence.

I started at Kittelson in the summer of 2006. I was tasked with heading up the redevelopment of their website, which was, at the time, a framed site published from Frontpage, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks.

The resulting site, launched September 1st, 2006, is a major update to the image and brand of the company, and represents what Kittelson really is—a youthful, progressive firm at the forefront of their industry.

Over time, there have been many additions to the site on the back end, including a content management system for the update of staff, news, and projects. On the user-facing side, Kittelson Movie Clips is a recent addition that shows more of the youth of the firm, and a series of blog-like landing pages for advertisements published in various magazines in the engineering industry.