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Worked on a lot of websites over the course of my life. Here are some that I can show you. Larger thumbnails are sites I've designed. Smaller thumbnails are sites I've worked primarily on the code or for other studios.
Involvement ranges from development, content editing, design or some other modification or enhancement.
Key factors are focussing on accessibility, functionality and design all the while bringing the identity and voice of the business through the site.
Little Hills of Kentucky Animal Rescue, Inc.
No-kill animal rescue shelter located in Albany, Kentucky. The 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation handles the surrounding three counties of Clinton, Cumberland and Wayne.
Allows people from the region to see what's going on and how they too can lend their support or volunteer in helping the pets get a second leash on life.
Work includes setting up Google Apps for the email and calendar for public events and contact management. Making use of Trello to keep the volunteers up-to-date on what is happening with current projects and stages of fundraisers.
Hooks into the Petfinder API in order to show the latest adoptable pets from the shelter.
Kohana, Petfinder API, Google Apps, web design, content management
Crack a Spine
Book reviews blog with a single-user CMS built on the Kohana HMVC framework.
Entirely hand-drawn site design with Photoshop line fade colouring techniques to create a soft-sketchy look.
Kohana, PHP, XHTML, CSS, web design
the Comic Shop
Extending the atmosphere and attitude of the brick and mortar, the site serves both as an information and entertainment resource for new and current customers to help drive foot traffic to the physical retail store.
Writing is clean, at times quirky, matched with a simple design striking news and updates right between the eyes with a polystone statue base.
In talks with the client on their needs and vision, created and designed the website from the ground up. Operates on an original and custom-made content management system that allows the client to easily update and maintain the website.
Clean presentation and relevant information helping with the SEO campaign to rank highly in both Yahoo! and Google for "comic shops" and "comic shops in sydney" to the Australian market.
Also involved with occasional graphic design of flyers, sale posters and promotional relationships with companies such as Dendy Films, Village Roadshow and Sony Pictures.
PHP, MySQL, SEO, XHTML, CSS, content management, graphic design
The Wax Conspiracy
Bespoke content management system written in PHP/MySQL. Occasionally refactored in lulls between projects and a testing bed for new programming and experiments.
Includes a modular ad management system that pulls relevant ads based on article being read that can shift display positions.
Tag system created suggests other articles and reviews as possibly related reading based on frequency and use.
Responsible for design layout, search engine optimisation, maintenance, content editing as well as research and writing of articles and reviews.
PHP, XHTML, CSS, MySQL, SEO, content management, copy editing
Kerrie Gentle - Makeup Artist
Freelance programming for Create Studios.
Slicing supplied Photoshop mock-ups from Create Studios into a WordPress theme.
Makes use of the open-source blogging platform as a content management system to allow client to update pages as and when they see fit.
Use of the font replacement plug-in allows the site to display headings and text with type outside limited web-safe set.
WordPress, PHP
Handband and Handband News
Freelance programming for Create Studios.
Installing and configuring various shopping cart modules as well as minor copy writing of the summary product page.
Brought back at a time to help plan the layout of, and later code, the country switching methods and functions in completing the first stage of an internalisation project already in progress.
Skinning the news section of the store running on WordPress based on a supplied design. Look and feel of the template was to carry over the branding and style of the shopping cart section of the site.
osCommerce, WordPress, PHP, copy writing
Counterside Noise - the Comic Shop
Blog of the Comic Shop. Runs in conjunction with and delivers thoughts outside the editorial constructs of the main site.
Developed from scratch with an architecture similar to that of other content management systems. Designed to be clean, easy to read and quick to noodle.
Currently on indefinite hiatus but was part of a sustained campaign driving more traffic and readers to the main site.
XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, content management, design
Medibands - Medical Awareness Bracelets
Freelance programming for Create Studios.
Skinning osCommerce platform with artwork supplied by Create Studios.
Extending shopping cart modules as well as helping to complete and refine some of the inner workings of internalisation project.
osCommerce, PHP
The Wax Conspiracy - Printfection T-shirt store
Skinning and redesigning base template at the print-on-demand store to carry over the rough edges of The Wax Conspiracy.
Features the scant results as designs in time off from writing and eking things such as malapropisms.
And because it's good to wear things covering you up from cold and tongues.
Graphic design, CSS