• Web Design
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  • Web Design Projects

    Below you will find several projects that I feel represent a good cross-section of design styles and site types on which I have worked. For each of the sites listed here, I was responsible for all design and development.

    If you have your #2 pencils sharpened and your scorecards at the ready, you may begin forming your opinions...now.

  • Genesis Salon and Day Spa

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    As a salon and day spa, Genesis required a soft, warm, soothing tone. I drew elements from their salon decor to tie the physical space to the virtual.

    Features: Intro Flash animation; Photo gallery; Dynamic price guide.

    Tech specs:Template built in Dreamweaver with some XHTML/CSS coded by hand; Final site built using ModX CMS with some custom PHP and Javascript code.

  • Emerald Leisure Source

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    I first created a site for Emerald Leisure Source several years ago. ELS and I gave the site a thorough re-design which went live in May, 2011.

    Features:Flash header; nice tabs.

    Tech specs:Template built in Dreamweaver; new site powered by Concrete5 CMS.

  • Lavender Daydreams

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    Pat Gantz is a kind, sweet, lovely lady who maintains her own lavender farm and makes products such as soaps, lotions, sachets and many other dainty-sounding fragrant items. (FYI, I built another craft-based site featuring soy candles, though the company has since closed. That site offered over 100 products. )

    Features: eCommerce site with ~30 products; Shopping cart; Event calendar.

    Tech specs:Built with Zen Cart, including custom template and PHP merchant plug-in.

  • Energy-101

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    Energy-101 is a non-profit organization with the goal of being an unbiased source of information and resources related to energy and energy-related issues. It is a growing collection of articles and interviews.

    Features: Intro Flash animation; embedded YouTube videos with accompanying mp3 download and printable transcript.

    Tech specs: Powered by Wordpress.

  • Sportspower

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    Sportspower is a non-profit organization which uses basketball as a means to promote leadership skills, self-discipline, teamwork, sportsmanship, and educational opportunities to young people, particularly those in inner-city schools.

    Features: Intro Flash animation; Events calendar; Photo gallery; Online applications; Player profiles.

    Tech specs: Original site built with CMS Made Simple--later ported to Wordpress.

  • Sunrise Basic Training

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    Sunrise Basic Training is an ecommerce site that sells training videos for the hospitality and food service industries. SBT is the distribution outlet for Innovision Media Concepts, the production company that also hired me to help create numerous elearning programs, some of which, conveniently, you can view in the next tab above.

    Features: eCommerce site, not built by me, but maintained by me; Flash intro; Extensive library of video samples; Email subscriber list; Email marketing blasts.

    Tech specs: Built in Dreamweaver; Video gallery created mostly in Flash.

  • LV Media

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    This a portfolio site for a good friend of mine, Bob Elvey, who does freelance video editing.

    Features: Video gallery; what more does an editor need?

    Tech specs: Built in Flash with dynamic XML-based content and links to all descriptions, thumbnails and videos.

  • Terragrid

    This was a cool project while it lasted. It was to be an interactive experience to tie-in with a series of sci-fi webisodes. I created the animated Flash interface, complete with fun transitions, audio effects and a female PDA voice-over.

    I don't know what's become of the films, but sadly, the web site has been abandoned.

    Tech specs: Built in Flash with numerous animated effects; audio, photo and video galleries.

  • eLearning Projects

    Under the direction of Innovision Media Concepts (Lansing, MI, USA), I have helped create over a dozen training programs that are used world-wide by Best Western, Marriott, and Choice Hotels International. The projects listed below offer a look at the wide range of content and techniques used. For each of the courses listed here, Innovision supplied the script and production resources, while I was responsible for all design and development.

    Aside from the graphical and technical experience gained from developing these programs, I also worked with a wide variety of corporate content specialists and IT professionals to conform to the parent companies' branding standards and to ensure that we accurately and reliably exchanged information with the host learning management systems (LMS).

    Links to these courses are not freely available to the public. If you would like more information about my elearning experience, please contact me.

  • Best Western Front Desk Staff Training

    This course for Best Western contains over 100 lessons, exercises and quizzes.

    Features: Interactive city map; Game show style exercise; Acronym glossary; Drag and drop; “Phone Skills” audio activity.

    Tech specs: Framework was developed using Lectora with each lesson built in Flash. Extensive use of video and dynamic animation via Actionscript.

  • Choice Resource Training

    This informational course includes six sections with a total of thirty lessons. Each lesson offers custom animation of text and photos to voice-over narration.

    Features: Dynamic navigation and animation.

    Tech specs: Authored in Flash; Menu content in XML file.

  • Problems Are Opportunities

    This course for Choice Hotels International was a big challenge but also big fun to produce. It features dozens of interactive scenarios in which animated avatars act out common guest problems. The student can then explore several different dialog options.

    Features: Animated avatars; scripted but non-linear dialog trees.

    Tech specs: Authored in Flash; All content in external XML files; Dynamic navigation; LMS tracking.

  • Quality Breakfast Service

    Eight chapter course for Best Western, built in Flash; each chapter included a lesson, exercise, quiz and list of resources. Lessons were a mix of video and animation.

    Features: Dynamic navigation, video player, an "I Spy" activity, "Build your own breakfast bar" simulation and an order calculator..

    Tech specs: Authored in Flash; All content in external XML files; Dynamic navigation; LMS tracking.