Portfolio
I've built a lot of customer web sites since about 1994 or so. Most of them, in hindsight are horribly embarrassing! But we learn, we grow and we (hopefully) get smarter.
These days, I try to keep things a lot simpler than I have in the past. I strive to build sites that are easily maintained — no need to buy any specific apps just to manage the site.
I also strive, to the best of my abilities, to deliver sites that validate.
Past Work
While a lot of what I've done is behind corporate firewalls, what follows are a few examples of sites that can be examined.
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Solo Technology 2008 edition
January of '08 and time for change. I was aiming for something quite a bit visually "simpler" than what
I've had in the past, but keeping the familiar (admitedly odd) colors for branding purposes.
This one is also a fluid layout which has presented some interesting challenges.
Inspiration and starting bones from Layout Gala.
Keystone Advisors, Inc.
Delivered
in March of 2007, the
Keystone
Advisors site is a significant face lift of what was
originally a one page parking spot.
The design is derived from the redRevenge open source template. It's been customized a fair amount, but still is quite faithful to the original design. The inner pages "veer" a bit more but also still remain faithful to the original design.
Solo Technology (Orange-w2 version)
December, 2006 it was time for a facelift.
This one has a bit of an interesting history. The original design by David Herreman is for a product called sNews. I stumbled over it one day and immediately dropped him an email asking if there'd be any issues with my converting it to a WordPress theme (WP runs my blogs).
He responded by letting me know there were already a couple conversions available. One thing led to another and I never made much headway until a third WP conversion was done by ericulous. I grabbed it and began tweaking it to fit my blog and vision.
The final step was the odd step. Normally one converts a standard XHTML/CSS template to WordPress. For this project, I converted it from WordPress to plain ol' XHTML/CSS — which is pretty backwards. However, I think it turned out quite well.
