Client: Simmons College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Studies is home to a number of respected programs in education, communications management, and liberal arts.
Problem: The visual design and organization of the existing site needed to be simplified to better attract prospective students and highlight important programs.
Role: Project manager, visual designer, and front-end developer
Skills: Information architecture, visual design (Photoshop), front-end development (XHMTL, CSS, JS)
Solution: After producing a simplified IA, I worked with the admissions office to develop a marketing focus for each program within the school that will be used to drive the development of the visual design of the site.
URL: groups.simmons.edu
Client: MySimmons is the intranet for the Simmons College community.
Problem: Design an interface for the groups feature in a Drupal-powered intranet.
Role: Visual designer, front-end developer
Skills: Visual design (Photoshop), front-end development (XHMTL, CSS)
Solution: Produced XHTML and CSS templates that were handed off to Drupal developer. Templates were needed for each content type within groups: events, blog postings, forum topics, images, and files. Templates were needed for the individual group pages as well as intranet-wide listing and search pages.
Client: First published in 1786, the Daily Hampshire Gazette is one of the oldest continually published newspapers in the country.
Problem: Replace an aging, table-based site run by a home-brewed Coldfusion CMS with a fresh, standards-compliant design powered by an open source CMS.
Role: Visual designer and front-end developer
Skills: Visual design (Photoshop), Drupal theme production (XHTML, CSS, JS, PHP)
Solution: A custom Drupal theme built with standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. The theme radically changes the organization and layout of the site to bring in user content, blogs, and multimedia content.
URL: amherstbulletin.com
Client: The Amherst Bulletin is a free weekly paper published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette for Amherst, MA and surrounding towns.
Problem: Bring the print edition of the paper into an online edition for the first time.
Role: Project manager, visual designer, front-end developer, back-end developer
Skills: Information architecture, visual design (Photoshop), front-end production (XHTML, CSS, JS), back-end programming (Coldfusion, MySQL), Apache (mod_rewrite)
Solution: Reorganized content of print edition into a format suitable for web production, then developed templates for home page, section pages, story pages, and other content areas. Modified existing Coldfusion CMS that allows online editor to publish weekly content.
Client: The Daily Hampshire Gazette New Media department offers web development services to area small business.
Problem: Develop a marketing site to display past work, show employee bios, and explain services offered.
Role: Project manager, visual designer, front-end developer
Skills: Conceptual development, visual design (Photoshop), front-end production (XHTML, CSS)
Solution: Developed a smart, friendly visual design with concise presentation of work and services within standards-compliant XHTML and CSS pages.
Client: New England Center for Cosmetology Education (along with a sister school for Esthetics education) is a Northampton-based school that trains students in hair design and styling and nail technology.
Problem: Redesign an aging site with a fresh look in coordination with a rebranding of the school.
Role: Co-project manager, visual designer, front-end developer
Skills: Visual design (Photoshop), front-end production (XHTML, CSS)
Solution: Developed a sleek, modern visual design matched to standards-compliant XHTML and CSS pages.
Client: Minuteman Collective was a company started to offer web development services to clients using the freelance services of a collection of web professionals I was associated with.
Problem: Develop an identity and web presence for a new company.
Role: Project manager, visual designer, front-end developer
Skills: Conceptual development, visual design (Photoshop), front-end production (XHTML, CSS)
Solution: Built a clean and concise visual design paired with standards-compliant XHTML and CSS pages.