Just a couple of quick snapshots from a recent trip to the Gadsden, Alabama shopping mall. A really...
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A New Website for the Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston, Alabama
Just finished a quick redesign for the Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston, Alabama. Redesigned using, as I pretty much do all websites now, in WordPress. Very...
Alabama Communities of Excellence
Website (really, websites) in progress. Initial redesign included new logo, complete overall of website design, color scheme. Now working on developing a...
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Newsletter for East Alabama Tourism Project
April 4, 2013
Just sent out the first newsletter for our East Alabama Tourism group. Turned out pretty good....
Invitation to the Alzheimer’s of Central Alabama Garden Art Party
March 21, 2013
They do great work. Always love working with Alzheimer’s on projects. The artwork is created...
A New Website for the Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston, Alabama
January 31, 2013
Just finished a quick redesign for the Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston, Alabama. Redesigned...
Alabama Communities of Excellence
January 12, 2013
Website (really, websites) in progress. Initial redesign included new logo, complete overall of...
Amazing Old Hinson Family Photo
December 30, 2012
Have taken a little time off this holiday season and have been scanning old family photos....
Photo Album from Octagon
December 9, 2012
Pages 1-10 of an old photo album from Octagon, Alabama. Hinson Family photos. ...
Your Town Alabama Redesign
December 7, 2012
One of my oldest clients / favorite projects: Your Town Alabama. Created a website back in 2001,...
The Herons of East Lake Park
December 5, 2012
Interpretive Panel developed for the Birmingham Audubon Society in conjunction with the Alabama...
A Little About Joe Watts
I live with my wife Ann, three Burmese cats and one adopted tabby Siamese mix cat in one of the historic neighborhoods of Birmingham, Alabama.
I grew up in the rural Black Belt before moving to Birmingham to attend Birmingham-Southern College. After college, I moved to Auburn for graduate school, but moved back to Birmingham after a year to be with my future wife, Ann Watts.
I've worked in several fields, including a reasonable stint in the publishing industry, working for Southern Progress as a food editor and general writer for several magazines. I've been a non-profit executive director and I've worked for myself as a web developer, graphic designer, writer, tourism consultant, interpretive planner and occasional freelance photographer since 2000.
This website is all about me: my professional life, my personal life, my family life. It is about things I enjoy doing: from working on a birding trail in Alabama to cooking great, locally grown food or taking photos of some of Alabama's most spectacular places.
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