I craft The Intarweb.
Here are some websites I've done. (And here is some info on this site.)
- Waterford Eau Claire
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The design of this one was primarily handled by somebody else, however, I was responsible for many of the interface's visual details within the front-end Living Options section, including some fun back-and-forth between Flash and JavaScript . The back-end code to manage it all was handled with Ruby on Rails.
- Esultants Web Services
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A design I completed shortly before leaving the company. It is put together using ColdFusion which I was also mostly responsible for. Since my departure the site has been updated with some new content, including the excellent main images for each section which were not chosen by myself.
- Lakes Area Motors Auctions
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Lakes Area Motors Auctions is a division of Lakes Area Motors, a local dealer and trader of used vehicles. The client wished to expand their business to include an auction site, and I fulfilled from start to finish, from the ground up.
I assissted the sales staff in some preliminary meetings and eventually completed the interface/information design and programming as a one man team. The site has a very modern, intuitive look and operates on a solid foundation of clean code that degrades gracefully when necessary.
The dynamics and content management are handled using systems I designed and wrote using ColdFusion.
- Bystrom Bros.
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Bystrom Bros. is a local manufacturer and supplier of a myriad of machining tools and parts, and their large warehouses have some of the world's most up to date technologies. This was a redesign, and one of the only things carried over from the old design was the use of "next" and "previous" buttons to go betwixt the site's eight pages. .
In concert with the design and layout, it feels very whole, and the remaining legacy design element actually extended the appeal of the interface overall by adding that subtle extra option. I love the way those orange links pop off the page.
I also had the fortune of taking photographs for this project.
- National Shelley China Club
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The National Shelley China Club is an organization of collectors and admirers of the Shelley chinas and potteries. The site features a clean look with the focus resting on what's important: the excellent content.
I learned a lot about coding practices and expanded my horizons on things like the bulletin board which I wrote from scratch. Literally, I've probably even got the notes somewhere... anyway, the point is I also learned a lot about Shelley pottery. One of the features that crept into this site was a series of scans and reproduced text from an old Shelley promotional booklet called The Oldest Craft in the World which is an excellent historical artifact.
Much of the aforementioned content is managed through a custom content management system done in ColdFusion.