Website Design —
My philosophy on website design is to keep things simple. My goal is to create a website that the end user can easily update and change, without the assistance of a webmaster. Websites by nature are dynamic; creating a one-shot site that a small business owner cannot edit is useless and an ultimate waste of time. Each site here is designed for maximum compatibility: they can be viewed on any computer, they can be seen at 800 x 600 resolutions, accessibility features are not disabled so that the viewer of the site is able to read or have the computer read information provided.
North by Northwest Restaurant and Brewery - 2006 - Current |
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NXNWBrew.com is probably the largest and most comprehensive site I've done for a client. It is written in PHP rather than just HTML; this allows for the menu and "news bars" on each page to be changed in just one file. The site is currently up and running, and updated regularly. All images and photos created by me. |
Patchwork Faces - 2007 - Current |
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PatchworkFaces.com is home to my own face painting hobby business. This site must have a wide variety of information and pictures to appeal to customers' various wants and needs. Graphics created in Illustrator. |
A-Kon Artists' Alley- 2007 |
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A-Kon is a large Japanese Cartoon convention that occurs in Dallas each year. They have an "Artists' Alley" where people can sell their own drawings and merchandise. This website had to be easy to update, free of clutter and have incredibly simple design for the person in charge to add information to. Graphics drawn in Photoshop. |
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This is an inner page on the site; the owner wanted only text and low resolution images in order to cater to every computer user's need for quick-loading information. |
Budapest Cosmetics /Salon Budapest - 2005 |
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Salon Budapest was/is owned by a proud woman from Budapest who wanted a design that had the country's parliament building in it. I enjoyed doing this site, too bad the client decided that a website wasn't in the budget! Regardless, this site was designed to be beyond simple. The client wanted to be able to edit it in Word (!) thus everything was kept short and sweet. Stock photos used. |
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This is the secondary design for the site; the client expressed a preference for the first design. The geometric pattern is the ceiling of the parliament in Budapest. Stock photos used. |
The Print Research Institute of North Texas at the University of North Texas - 2003-2005 |
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PRINT Press is a fine art printmaking shop that I was once employed as an apprentice at. My primary goal was to create a site that acted like the walls of a gallery; unobtrusive and clean. My secondary goal was to make the site easy to update. Most of the folks who work at PRINT Press aren't "computer people" they're "art people." Therefore, it was necessary to create a site that had an easy-to-understand template. |
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The "Gallery" portion of the site. As simple as the site is, oftentimes the persons at PRINT spend more time making art than updating their site. (And rightly so!) |
ATTVenture - 2002 |
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ATTVenture was somewhat unusual; the website never made it to "the public." Rather, it was only used internally in the company. The structure on the site is a little more liberal with the graphics than I typically do now, but the client wanted something kinda "fun." |
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The rest of the ATTVenture site. Very simple, built with tables, more information oriented. |
HiRiide Online - 2002 |
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HiRiide Online was built for an online database about railroad crossings. It too was used for private use. The HiRiide site was also built only for use in Internet Explorer, as the persons using it were Microsoft exclusive. The side menu pictured is a collapsible menu tree in a separate frame. It's current status is unknown. |
J&J's Pizza - 2001 |
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Ok, I admit. This was for a group project in college. It was never an official website. But it was so much fun to make! The pizza parlor does actually exist in Denton, Texas. Each triangle on the main menu rotates when a mouse cursor hovers over it. |
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The rest of the J&J's Pizza site. While it was not functioning, we constructed an "online ordering system." We understood that the guys at J&J liked the site we made; if only they put it up! When I had a test version on my server, it received quite a few hits a week. |