Web
Below, you will find a gallery of various web projects that I’ve worked on in a variety of capacities. On some, I’ve done everything myself from the ground up; on others, I may have been the designer, the programmer, the manager or some combination thereof. I’ve tried to indicate a little bit about why each project was interesting, and to provide some information about which parts of the project I was responsible for. Click the screenshots for full-size graphics. I’ve tried to provide links to the current versions of these sites, however, many of them have changed substantially since I worked on them.
Acceler8or(2011-present) Acceler8or is a site edited and curated by R.U. Sirius, the well-known author, editor, and counterculture scholar. The site is devoted to transhumanist and Singularitarian news, links, and articles, all updated daily. The site is based on WordPress 3, and the theme is custom-designed and coded by me, completely from scratch. Beyond standard WordPress, this site uses custom post types and custom fields to make it a more robust content management tool. Additionally, I did substantial amounts of tuning on the webserver to make sure it could handle significant traffic spikes without fail. I accomplished this using Varnish as a reverse-proxy cache, Apache tuning, and W3 Supercache for WordPress, as a second level of cache. Click here to view the current site. |
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation(2011-present) This is a Drupal 6 website for a Chicago-based, national non-profit medical organization. The site was originally designed around the Zen framework by a different developer. I was brought in to support the site after the original developer became unavailable. I was tasked with making some programmatic changes in Drupal, including Views, Contexts, and Books. Additionally, I re-worked their theme to make it more modern, and more consistent with their current branding. Click here to view their current live site. |
ABA Journal(2010-present) The ABA Journal tracks daily news regarding lawyers, litigation, the justice system, and other topics of interest for its nearly half a million members. A companion to the glossy print trade magazine, the site gets more than 1.5 million pageviews a month. As a web producer for the ABA Journal, I’m responsible for updating content, maintaining website functionality, and helping produce new content, including audio and video. The site is based on the expressionengine content management system, which I work with extensively, particularly with templates. Click here to view the current live site. |
  Leslie Hindman Auctioneers(2010) I worked on lesliehindman.com for about six months while I was employed by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. The site was driven by expressionengine, and I was responsible for maintenance and new development. I worked a good deal with the CMS itself, including templates and themeing, though the design pre-dates my tenure there. While at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, I also built a Drupal-based e-commerce site, LHHome, but it wasn’t launched by the time I left. I created a custom Drupal theme for this new site, based on designs by their in-house graphic designer. The goal here was to create a simple, elegant, sophisticated e-commerce experience for high-end clientele. Click here for their current live site |
TheWineBarn.net(2010) This was a project for a brick-and-mortar fine wine retailer who had an existing, but underperforming, ecommerce site and wanted to upgrade to something more modern and extensible. We opted for Drupal 6, and Ubercart 2. The project included setting up and configuring the software, themeing Drupal, and integrating it with an existing point-of-sale system for inventory management via custom php scripts. Additional, the project included a heavy emphasis on social media integration and audience engagement. |
Orlandoweekly.com(2001-2008) I worked for many years at Orlando Weekly, an alt-weekly in Central Florida. Their print circulation was about 50,000 weekly, with their website getting something on the order of 200,000 pageviews per month. During that time, we went through five major website redesigns, three systems of content management, and three different advertising systems. This is a screenshot of what their page looked like in August, 2007, at a time when the design was my work. I wrote a great deal of software that is
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Understanding Complex Adaptive Systems(2009) I put this site together as part of a Northwestern University graduate journalism class. I was responsible for all design and implementation on the site.
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MrAntonym.org(2009) This is a micro-site I made to promote an album of electronic music I released in 2004, and re-released as a publishing-on-demand version. |
Windy City Horror(2009) Another project for a Northwestern grad school class. This is a blog about horror movies and the associated subculture in Chicago.
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Orlando Weekly Restaurant Week(2008) A micro-site created for a promotional project of Orlando Weekly. |
Fair Districts Florida(2008) A petition and donation collection site for a political cause. HTML forms passed data to a database, then populated a PDF form (including a unique barcode) for the user to print, sign, and mail in. The barcodes were scanned as completed petitions were mailed in. Most of the design was done by a graphic artist, and I implemented the designs and the logic.
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Archaic designs |
Uniquebeers.com(2003) This was a simple site made for a beer distributor in Orlando, Florida. Not very fancy, but it didn’t need to be. One interesting thing about this site is that I developed a custom, super-simple content management system to keep track of brewers and beers which they distributed. The business was sold several years ago and merged with a larger company, so no link. |
 My very first weblog(2001)Aww, isn’t that adorable? It’s like this site’s great-great grandfather! Back in 2001, weblogs weren’t nearly as ubiquitous as they are these days. I built this site by hand, and I used blogger as a content management system for it. It wasn’t fancy, but it was a learning experience.
Included only as a historical curiosity. This site has been gone for years, so no links, sorry. |
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By pervasive development disorder, January 23, 2011 @ 11:33 pm
Your vocabulary is so strong, that i had to go through it again to understand it completely.