Bonasa Flats Kennels

Bonasa Flats Kennels is a redesign to help promote a talented dog breeder. Among its many features, the concept for this site includes a Flickr–powered image gallery, news–feed or blog section, interactive gallery of studs and dams, as well as their progeny, static content describing the processes and philosophies of the breeders, and additional resources for hunters, and trap shooters.

• Flickr API-powered image gallery.
• Google font API used for nicer, more legible fonts.
• CSS3 techniques to enhance user experiences.

FSU Football

Concepts for a redesign of Florida State's Football recruitment site. The previous all-Flash version was in need of an overhall and some better organization of its content. The client had specific features to show on the home page but left the overall look and structure open for discussion. I moved their content into intuitive categories and used the excellent photography to showcase the legacy and spirit of FSU.

• Texture and contrast in design elements were used to create an aggressive yet clean look.
• Category descriptions for clarification of content
• HTML and Javascript for functionality and accessibilty optimization.
• Google font API used for nicer, more legible fonts.

Terrapin Club

The University of Maryland alumni support site needed a facelift to resemble their football recruitment site and to allow donors to register and support their programs. This meant clean, easy-to-use navigation and quick access to donation capabilities.

• Slideshow with several easy-to-use forms for quicker conversion.
• School Sprit background pattern used to enhance visual impact.
• Google font API used for nicer, more legible fonts.

Nutrilife Fitness

Dwayne Weston is a talented personal trainer with years of experience but a sub-par web presence. I took his proposed content and expanded on it to provide visitors with a more colorful picture of what Dwayne does. The site was designed to fit within a standard tablet resolution and even functions and looks great on IE7!

• Slideshow customized to provide a modern look.
• Contact Form with inline validation.
• Google font API used for nicer, more legible fonts.

Graphic Designer Portfolio

Vertically-flexible and scrollable portfolio for a graphic designer, made as a graduation present for a friend. Unfortunately it has not been used yet and still contains some Lorem Ipsum but the idea is still there.

• Seemless and vertically-flexible to allow for more or less information and portfolio items.
• Smooth-scroll javascript added for a more relaxed experience.

The Mad Planet

With the help of my friend Chase de Languillette, we created a brand new site for a classic Milwaukee venue using the club's decor and punk rock history as inspiration.

One of the coolest aspects of the site is its dynamic image gallery which is powered by a Flickr account. The gallery allows the owners of the venue as well as authorized account users to upload photos of shows and events from their phones via any Flickr uploader app.

To power Mad Planet's new look I decided to enlist the help of my friend Chase to create a very simple and unique Content Management System: We decided to call it BigRig and its pretty neat. Several user accounts have access to modify bands, events and ticket information which is posted to the site. The original plan was to market a similar system to other venues and small businesses but video games ruined that idea.

• Ruby on Rails CMS set up by Chase de Languilette with easy access to bands, events, calendar items and more.
• Flickr API used for gallery to allow real-time image uploads from live shows via mobile devices.
• Database of bands and events for future re-booking or repeating events.

UCF Golden Knights Club

The University of Central Florida's Alumni Association was looking to update their current donation site with the hopes of being more accessible and intuitive to visitors. They requested an ability to showcase posts and future fundraising events in a blog-like manner and wanted a simple layout.

• Simple form for quick capture of information.
• Typography and legibility as the focus and main design element.
• Large dropdown navigation to provide a unique user experience.

Shine Mobile Site Concepts

For Shine Advertising

With a little bit of downtime I took it upon myself to come up with some comps for a mobile version of Shine's web site. Since more mobile devices are being used as advertising aides these days I figured why not use them to show off work on-the-go to potential clients? These ideas feature the potential to use jquery touch or other javascript libraries to enhance the user experience.

• Swipe and drag gestures would be enabled to engage the user.
• CSS3 to simulate gradients and image-elements to help speed up loading times.

Favorite Foods

For Shine Advertising

The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board hired Chef Michael Symon to create unique dishes featuring different Wisconsin Cheeses which led to this site. Initially, the site revealed one recipe each week and allowed users to share, comment, and "like" the videos and cheeses via Facebook. A nice aspect of the site was its compatibility with the iPad. We used an HTML5 video player with a Flash video player as a backup so that people can check the movies out on all sorts of mobile devices.

• HTML5 video player set up for iPad and mobile device users.
• Facebook integration to help drive traffic to the site and increase brand awareness.

Glanbia Nutritionals

For Shine Advertising

The task at hand was a redesign of the entire site, and my role was to create the HTML/CSS templates for our CMS. Typekit was used for fonts to enhance the look and feel and an extensive database was set up to store the categories and sub-categories for all of the products, uses, applications, and global information for Glanbia products and availability.