Web design portfolio
259 Lafayette Street View Project
I built this site for client trying to gain extra exposure and visibility in order to sell a condominium. The site runs on Wordpress with a customized version of an existing theme.
Corps Connect View Project
I love drum corps & making websites, so I made a drum corps site. It's a niche blog, designed to “be the ESPN of drum corps.” The site runs on Wordpress with an original theme and CSS3, HTML5 & jQuery.
Dave Sullivan for District Attorney View Project
Dave Sullivan's site is one of my favorite projects. I was commissioned by a web solutions company to design & develop this site for a political candidate. Given the client's needs, accessibility was a primary focus. The site is 100% W3C standards-compliant and uses a minimal amount of javascript. Based on the client's wishes, the site is entirely hand-coded with no framework, codebase, or CMS.
Meg and TJ's Wedding View Project
I built this site for my own wedding to inform and entertain our guests and friends. It has an original Wordpress theme, designed to match our wedding colors. The site features a custom-built jQuery Flickr photo gallery.
Mobile Percussion Seminar View Project
Thom Hannum's Mobile Percussion Seminar is a percussion clinic for high school students that operates every summer on the UMass Amherst campus. I originally designed the site several years ago, drawing inspiration from other youth camps and service groups, trying to adhere to convention. The has since been updated, but still reflects some outdated design techniques.
Daniel O'Connell's Sons, Inc. View Project
To meet DOC's needs, I chose to build their website on Expression Engine. This is my first project to launch on EE and I was very impressed with the system. The site includes numerous portfolio items completed by the engineering firm over their 170-year history. Each portfolio item has its own page, description, and photo slideshow.
Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity View Project
Pi Kappa Phi's website runs on a heavily-customized version of Wordpress. It maintains the highest standards of usability, accessibility, and search engine optimization. The task of creating an identifiable, respectable identity for a college fraternity, based in a community where Greek Life is anything but respected, has been a difficult one.
Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps View Project
I helped The Spartans graduate into 2010, updating their layout and codebase to meet modern standards. The site runs on Wordpress with a 100% custom theme. It utilizes several plugins for contact forms and blog archives, and features a custom-built HTML/CSS/jQuery photo gallery.
StudentCity Spring Break View Project
StudentCity.com is a subsidiary of First Choice Student Travel, my current employer. I have worked for them, designing new sections and updating existing ones since late 2007. This website grows and evolves on a daily basis. Our homepage was redesigned close to a dozen times during 2009. I have been responsible for designing layout & interface for each new page for 2+ years.
StudentCity Redesign View Project
StudentCity is my current employer. I designed this interface for their site over the last few months. The site was designed to appeal to a high school and college audience. Its inspiration was the concepts of fun and excitement. Clarity and ease-of-use was a major focus.
UMass Alumni Demo View Project
I built this site to demonstrate to the UMass Amherst Alumni Association how a redesign of their site could look. The site has no CMS and is filled with example text and stock photos.
UMass Drumline View Project
This website uses a heavily customized version of “Wootube,” a premium Wordpress theme by Woothemes. I chose the Wootube theme for its YouTube-esque functionality, not for its appearance. The site also features integration of several social media outlets, like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. The group and its market appeal strongly to a high-school-aged crowd, so the use of social media was a major requirement.
UMass Campus Center Hotel View Project
For this project, I was commissioned a second time by Glexia, Inc. to redesign the UMass Amherst Hotel website. Being a UMass alumnus, I was proud to be building a site for my alma mater. As with most travel & lodging websites, the UMass Campus Center Hotel's website focuses mainly on showcasing their inventory.