Work: XHTML
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DeVotchKa Content Management System
Client: DeVotchKa
One of the drawbacks of an all-Flash site is that they can be hard to update. What we did for DeVotchKa was create an amazingly rich Flash experience combined with current and easily-to-update content. I used the Symphony XML/XSLT framework to build an easy to use content management system so that the band could post new show dates, photos, music and news without having to hand-edit XML or edit Flash files.
Disciplines Used: PHP, XHTML
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DivinoWineBroker.com
Client: Divino Wine Broker
Divino Wine Broker represents several Southern California wine makers and needed an online presence to highlight their brands. This project is another good example of super-clean and simple markup. The CSS is built on top of Nathan Borror's Boilerplate CSS. I had never been a huge fan of CSS frameworks but Nathan has crafted a really great reset with default screen and print styles that work amazingly well. For this site I also built a simple PHP email subscription script.
Disciplines Used: PHP, CSS, XHTML
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EmericaMedia.com
Client: Emerica Media
I did the markup, CSS and Flash for this site. The design was very simple and clean and I wanted to keep the code equally clean. I'm always trying to find ways to make markup as simple and concise as possible and this site was a great exercise in creating clean markup.
Disciplines Used: Flash, CSS, XHTML
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Internship Website and Video
Client: Bernstein-Rein Advertising
The idea we came up with for the 2008 BR Internship campaign was "Interns Make History." Think of all the great contributions interns have made in the past. Maybe Christopher Columbus' intern, or George Washington's intern or other possibly-maybe-fictional interns. The video we made is a short story about Abraham Lincoln's intern. I did the audio production, animation and designed the one-page site.
Disciplines Used: Flash, Design, CSS, XHTML, Viral Marketing
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The Office – Corner Hit
Client: Myself
If you haven't watched The Office on NBC, you need to drop whatever you're doing right now and go watch some episodes. In the opening of one of the episodes, everyone is watching one of those infamous 'bouncing square' screensavers and anxiously waiting for the square to hit the very corner of the screen. I thought it was so funny that I re-created the screen saver in Flash the next day. I wanted to see if I could get it to 'go viral' so I did my own blog seeding and created a downloadable screensaver as well as a widget that people can embed on their MySpace or Facebook page. It was a big success. I received almost 40,000 unique visitors in October and November.
Disciplines Used: Actionscript, Flash, Design, CSS, XHTML, Viral Marketing
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BeautyBrands.com
Client: Beauty Brands, Inc.
In February 2007, I took over maintenance and presentation-layer coding for this Ruby on Rails based site. My work with this site includes monthly feature updates as well as translating traditional advertising campaigns into great online campaigns.
Disciplines Used: Flash, Design, CSS, XHTML
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C3 Pass-Along Thoughts
Client: C3
C3 developed a packets of month-themed postcards that they gave to vendors and clients as promotional materials. The task for this project was to translate these postcards into an effective viral online campaign. Each month, C3's mailing list would receive a link to that month's online postcard animation where they could easily send the same postcard to their friends. Instead of doing an animation with a beginning-middle-end, I decided to use Actionscript to create some type of perpetual motion in many of the cards.
Disciplines Used: PHP, Actionscript, Flash, CSS, XHTML, Viral Marketing
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AboveTheRestWeddings.com
Client: Above the Rest
Above the Rest is a full-service wedding and event planning company. They needed a professional and simple website to promote their services. I took this site from concept to design to development to live in record time. I love a quick turnaround!
Disciplines Used: Design, CSS, XHTML
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HabitatShoes.com
Client: Habitat Shoe Store
I did the presentation-layer coding for this e-commerce site built with Ruby on Rails. Habitat is a locally-owned store here in Kansas City that sells amazing clothes and shoes. My role in the development of this site was to take the designer's concepts and create clean XHTML and CSS to smoothly integrate with the Rails back-end.
Disciplines Used: CSS, XHTML