Hand Crafted User Centered Design
The user should be coddled, protected, and spoon fed exactly what they are looking for. A website should be designed to be golden sweet honey for a visitor's visual and mental pallete.
Easy to use.
Simple to understand.
Beautiful to look at.
Work
I started producing websites for the internet over a decade ago in the summer of 1998. From the day we met, it's been a labor of love. I mockup interfaces, program functionality, design beauty, and breathe life into every project. Every job I learn something new. Each business: a fresh idea. The feeling of bringing a dream into reality is intoxicating. Now you know my passion, let me help you with yours.
Fluid
Fluid Recovery needed a website design to educate their client base as well as sell Fluid. The initial site incorporated a simple eCommerce solution with Pay Pal integration. The site now uses an eCommerce solution provided by Everest Software and is scheduled to be skinned to match the current site once Everest has updated their eCommerce platform. Livefluid.com is currently being ported to WordPress MU.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Visual Studio, ViEmu, PHP.NET
- Language
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2.1, Javascript/ECMAScript, AJAX, PHP 5.0, MySQL
- Comps
- Homepage
- Year
- 2007-2009
VREO Inc.
This is VREO's new web design that never saw the light of day. VREO Inc. went belly up after I left and unfortunately this design never made it onto the web. Identities were created for each of VREO's products: Real Estate Dashboard and Consumer Websites. Business cards, and print material was made to match.
CSS Menu Maker
CSS Menu Maker needed a new design, identity and information architecture. Logo ties into the icons representing menus and represents the website's main focus. Colors were chosen to be more aggressive and to draw attention to the end product to increase sales. Client was extremely happy with the new design and clarified message to customers. Client is implementing design.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, gVim
- Language
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2.1
- Comps
- Homepage
- Year
- 2008
Realty World Agent
Realty World wanted a series of websites to act as portals for each of their businesses: Careers (Agents), Franchises (Offices) and Corporate. Special care was taken to maintain brand identity but create unique visual experiences for each site.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, gVim
- Language
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2.1, Javascript ASP 3.0
- Comps
- Homepage
- Year
- 2007
Realty World Office
Realty World wanted a series of websites to act as portals for each of their businesses: Careers (Agents), Franchises (Offices) and Corporate. Special care was taken to maintain brand identity but create unique visual experiences for each site.
Lombards Stereo
Lombards Stereo needed a website design. Hosting company became unresponsive.
eHomeResearch
Realty World needed a portal page for their product: eHomeResearch. eHomeResearch needed to tie in multiple services with minimal effort and frame support. Website went through two designs before the end of 2007.
Glenwood Rehab
Glenwood Rehab needed a clean and simple website solution to show off their facilities and services. Special care was taken to make sure the text could be resized for customers with poor vision. A logo and identity was also established.
Main Street Realty
Main Street Realty was built a brokerage solution: office website and agent website templates. The system allowed them to pick between multiple website design templates. All design templates completed.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, gVim
- Language
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2.1, Javascript ASP 3.0, SQL Server 2k
- Comps
- Homepage, Interior
- Alternate Sites
- Deon Clement, Bill Keye, Sharon Leibl, Geoff McIntosh
- Year
- 2006
Prudential San Bruno
Prudential San Bruno needed a brokerage solution: office website and agent website templates. The design was completed and system was live for a few months until client swiched web companies. The design was stolen and modified to its current incarnation. Website design won an award at Posh'd before it was ripped off.
Gods of Destruction
Gods of Debauchery was a online video game clan in need of a logo & website design for their resurgence into Tribes: Vengence. The website is no longer available.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, gVim
- Language
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS
- Comps
- Homepage
- Year
- 2004
ESPNZone
ESPNZone needed a portal page for their newsletter signup and login for ESPNZone: MVP Club.
- Technology
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Language
- HTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS, ColdFusion
- Year
- 2003
Apple
Apple's Video Game section was redesigned to incorporate new video games and their new concentration on gaming.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Language
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Year
- 2003
HP
Hewlett Packard needed a redesign for their products section.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Language
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ColdFusion
- Year
- 2003
Cadence
Cadence needed a server side language independent dynamic web solution. All dynamic content was loaded from XML with XSL and a few lines of ASP.NET.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Visual Studio
- Language
- XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, C# ASP.NET, XML, XSL
- Year
- 2003
RIM
RIM needed a redesign for their website.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks
- Language
- HTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS
- Year
- 2003
Barbeques Galore
BBQ Galore needed an eCommerce and community website as well as marketing. Custom built a forum system to handle incoming customer questions and give out recipes. Custom built a session based shopping cart with extranet integration to brick and mortar inventory management. The system utilized the brick and mortar stores as distribution centers for shipping, removing an item purchased online from the brick and mortar's inventory. A zip code location algorithm was utilized to determine nearest brick and mortar store. Search Engine Optimization techniques were able to place the site as #1 on search engines under keywords: 'BBQs' & 'Barbeques.'
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio
- Language
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Visual Basic/JavaScript ASP, Stored Procedures T-SQL
- Year
- 1999-2002
Madonna Inn
Madonna Inn needed a redesigned website and eCommerce solution.
- Technology
- Adobe Photoshop, SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio
- Language
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Visual Basic/JavaScript ASP, Stored Procedures T-SQL
- Year
- 1999
Microsoft
Microsoft needed a sales management solution that allowed for sales bids to be sent up a management chain for approval. Project was internal and no external link is available.
- Technology
- Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server 2k
- Language
- HTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, ASP
- Year
- 1998
About
I'm a talented designer, developer, and strategist passionate about using the internet to build brands and useful products.
My Approach
My approach is one that is cyclical in nature. Each phase of the overall process builds upon the previous but guides what lies ahead, and plays a key role in the final product. What binds this entire process is engaging in constant dialogue with the client to ensure objectives are met and everything is on-brand and consistent with the consumer.
What I Do
Business Consulting
Your website is a company competing in a market of billions of consumers, are you making the right decisions at the right times? I can help you build a plan of attack and make sure you're buying the right services for your website at the right times in correlation with your business goals. Before you do anything, make sure the business will be utilizing its resources and assets efficiently and effectively.
Web Design
Design is about the user experience. If the customer finds the website pleasing to their eyes they will trust the website. If the customer finds what they are looking for they will tell their friends about the website. If the website reacts the way the customer expects, not requiring much effort, the customer will return to the website again and again. Our designs are simple to understand, easy to use, and beautiful looking so customers trust the website, tell their friends and come back again and again.
Web Development
We create sites powered by clean code written to deliver a seamless interactive experience. Whether you need a basic site, one with all the bells and whistles, or anything in between, we can build it.
Visual Identity Design
Visual identities are important. They are packed with meaning and contain the DNA of a brand. The visual identities we design are memorable and communicate a brand's true essence.
Contact
If you have a question, need a quote, or just want to say, "How's the weather?" Please feel free to put it in a note and send it below.