Portfolio of website projects

A selection of my website design, development & management projects

Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of working on hundreds of projects for a wide variety of clients. Below, I’ve showcased ten of my most unique and diverse projects, along with detailed descriptions of the specific tasks at hand. Following is a list with links to images and accompanying summaries for every additional client that I’ve worked with. Although goals, visions and budgets inevitably vary, I consider each new project my next masterpiece and I’m proud of every single one.

Featured Clients

design: Fred Sokolow

From a design standpoint, Fred wanted to overhaul the former Sokolow Music webiste to make it more modern, friendly, and inviting.

He was also interested in portraying his unique style and showcasing his talent with a wide range of the various string instruments for which he’s published instructional material.
development: Fred Sokolow

Along with a fresh new look, Fred wanted online sales to be made much easier through his new website. Rather than typing out an order description and calculating their own totals, users can now use a fully integrated, custom shopping cart. Credit cards are also now processed directly from Fred’s site.

Additionally, Fred can offer music and video samples (shown) that may be listened to or viewed directly.
management: Fred Sokolow

The new Sokolow Music website is virtually entirely editable by Fred. Editing a page’s content (shown) is as easy as using any common text-editor. Adding, editing, or removing products, images, and even audio & video samples may also all be done by Fred through an intuitive, custom content management system.

Other important features include the ability to disable sales on an item that is temporarily out of stock.
Without JavaScript enabled, Fred Sokolow’s testimonial may be viewed on my testimonials page.

design: Ergonomics Simplified

Ergonomics Simplified was looking for an attractive and unique custom website design that feels appropriate to the field of ergonomics.

I was assigned the goal of emphasising help as the main purpose of the web site rather than e-commerce—focusing on and highlighting the simplicity and usefulness of the website, not products.
development: Ergonomics Simplified

The Ergonomics Simplified website is loaded with intuitive tools to improve the user-experience and provide visitors with free ergonomics tips & techniques as well as ways of choosing products.

Specific features include: a “Keyboard Chooser” (shown), an advanced “Chair Chooser”, a 24-step interactive evaluation, a “Where it Hurts” page, storing of recommendations, cart contents, and more.
management: Ergonomics Simplified

A custom content management system allows full control over the contents of the entire website.

Among other things, administrators may: edit (shown), add, and remove products as they please, assign new keyboards and chairs to “Chooser” characteristics, manage the interactive evaluation’s resulting recommendations and products, view and manage accounts, and much more.
Without JavaScript enabled, Ergonomics Simplified’s testimonial may be viewed on my testimonials page.

design: Momentous Insurance Brokerage

Momentous wanted a bold design for their new, high-end insurance company’s web site—based heavily on their logo and with a focus on portraying the grande and professional nature of the company.

I was asked to create a prominent yet timeless design. The image featured here is actually a first draft (my personal favorite) and I have since implemented an alternate, 3rd party design.
development: Momentous Insurance Brokerage

Their website contains several specifically requested development features:

An announcement on the home page may alert users of important news information—which may be edited by Momentous or turned off/on. Also, certain page elements expand as their headlines are clicked, allowing pages to start concise and compact, yet grow as desired (shown).
management: Momentous Insurance Brokerage

Momentous’ website is practically entirely editable by anyone with secure access. Everything from managing pages in any of the site’s main categories to editing or assigning “corner images” (shown) may be done in-house.

Momentous regularly posts news updates and resources to keep the website up to date and relevant.

development: Innovative Skincare

In managing Innovative Skincare’s two websites, I’ve had the pleasure of implementing several development-intensive tasks:

I’ve created a complex order-form & price calculator, implemented an online bulletin-board for their staff, re-developed their custom navigation menu (shown), installed and advised on tracking metrics, and more.
management: Innovative Skincare

Innovative Skincare came to me a couple of years ago in need of a website manager able to provide reliable updates of high quality in quick timeframes. I am honored to remain their only web developer.

Everything from product pages, news & press updates, current promotions, and the online order-form I created have been updated upon request.

development: Kara Leach Creative

Kara needed someone to put together the website she’d just finished designing for her company, and she needed it done perfectly.

Designs were conceptualized and submitted by Kara—my job was to bring everything to life. Many aspects fade or slide into place rather than staying stagnant, and the home-page features a clever splash-page.
management: Kara Leach Creative

Rather than a content management system, I advised Kara that periodic updates done by me would save her a bit of money—given the scope and plan for the website. I keep her client list (shown) and portfolio (shown here) up to date, upon request, for a fraction of the cost of a custom content management system.

I work with each client to ensure the best and most cost-effective way of maintaining their websites.
Without JavaScript enabled, Kara Leach’s testimonial may be viewed on my testimonials page.

design: VivaLift

The project called for a fresh, appetizing, and animated update to VivaLift’s old website. The color scheme of their new site is based upon their main product (shown, yellow/orange tube) and was designed to increase appeal while informing about their products.

Condensation, appetizing colors, animated bubbles and fruit helps add to the effect.
development: VivaLift

VivaLift’s redesign features several aspects that add life and individuality to their site, including:

Carbonation-bubbles continuously flowing towards the top of each page, a Flash animation on the home-page that demonstrates their product being used (powder pouring into water), popup descriptions that fade in as items are clicked (shown), and more.

design: Zack Herrera Photo

As with many photographers, minimalistic was the objective with Zack’s site. Nothing more than absolutely necessary was to be included—allowing users to view his photography without distraction while still providing a thorough overview of the website.

Font colors and typefaces are strong yet minimalistic.
development: Zack Herrera Photo

Relevant links appear while browsing, aiding the execution of a minimalistic design. Also, when browsing galleries, each image fades out before the next fades in—effectively cleansing the users visual pallette before each photo.

Information about each image appears upon hovering over the photo, much like this information did.
management: Zack Herrera Photo

Zack can easily provide news information as well as keep his online portfolio organized and up to date with his latest photos (shown) thanks to a fully custom content management system.

Adding, removing and sorting images is extremely intuitive and there’s no need for Zack to contact (or pay) anyone in order to update his personal website and portfolio.
Without JavaScript enabled, Zack Herrera’s testimonial may be viewed on my testimonials page.

design: RunningMeets

RunningMeets’ race-track themed website was created based on a design submitted by Coach Rickerman. Reds and grays were the colors of choice for the design, and a Flash animation on the home-page provides movement and portrays the wide audience of the RunningMeets program.

The main goals of RunningMeets’ design were to showcase the program and inform about its offers.
development: RunningMeets

Coach Ken Rickerman came to me several years ago with a dream of turning his 5 Speed Running system into a program that could be managed and reported from much easier, online.

By systemizing Ken’s training methods—not only may he manage runners about 5 times as effectively, but also provide a place for his runners to easily provide feedback, get their schedules, and stay engaged.
management: RunningMeets

Although runners and race directors of RunningMeets manage their individual areas themselves, the RunningMeets system has been consistently expanded upon since its launch.

A number of new features have been added, including three new graphs for runners (shown), networking functions such as a “social page” editable by each individual, a message center and many more.
Without JavaScript enabled, RunningMeets’s testimonial may be viewed on my testimonials page.

design: Botanescapes

Botanescapes doesn’t hide the fact that they specialize in tropical style landscaping—and they didn’t want their website to either. Everything from the background, framing, fonts and imagery portray, entice, and draw visitors toward the concept and beauty of tropical style landscaping.

The website’s design is kept fresh and interesting with frequent background image changes.
development: Botanescapes

Botanescapes.com’s development included an animated introduction video, drop-down navigation menus and a portfolio that’s easy to browse and maintain.

I’ve also created a extensive plant database for Botanescapes where information is stored on numerous plants—unfortunately it is (at least currently) for internal use only.
management: Botanescapes

Here’s a shot of the “Add a plant” page under the internal plant database. For ease of management, certain characteristics have been hard-wired into the database while other aspects are dynamically added, edited or removed by Botanescapes.

They may also manage their portfolio and page content on their own using a custom CMS.
Without JavaScript enabled, Botanescape’s testimonial may be viewed on my testimonials page.

design: TwoFoot Creative

TwoFoot Creative’s website was designed after their existing brand, including TwoFoot Creative’s business card design, their logo (shown) and other professional material.

The design makes use of the company’s colors and I’ve also integrated their logo, “swirl” theme, and other elements into the overall design.
development: TwoFoot Creative

TwoFoot Creative wanted a blog integrated into the rest of their new site, where the overall design and feel remain intact throughout the entire blog—preserving the experience as users browse the blog.

As with all of my websites, theirs was developed to be cross-browser compatible and search engine friendly.
management: TwoFoot Creative

TwoFoot Creative’s website was created to be editable entirely in-house.

Apart from the obvious (their blog), everything from text content to gallery images and videos may be managed as they see fit, without needing to contact or pay a developer.
Without JavaScript enabled, TwoFoot Creative’s testimonial may be viewed on my testimonials page.

Additional Clients