This is where I show off what I've been up to the last few years. My designs are my babies, they're what I obsess over, what I lose sleep over, what I work on until they're as perfect as I can get them. Of course, as is the case when one works for a company and collaborates with others, the design doesn't always stay that way.
So featured below is a sample of sites that are out there, and in the works, with my stamp on them.
Instead of repeating this below, tediously on every frame, I'll cover this here. My part in these sites below include:
Wireframing with client
Custom-created design and graphic elements
Organization of content and menu structure
Communication with clients for approval of initial design
Coding of design in hand-written CSS and HTML
Implementation of JS and Jquery for menus when necessary
Setting up preview pages for client
Testing in multiple browsers for compatibility (ie 7,8, firefox 3,4, safari, opera, chrome, mac and pc platforms)
When not implementing into a CMS (Joomla, Drupal), I was responsible for creation and implementation of all pages, images, and content, often being the copy writer for our clients as well.
Updating sites on a continuing basis for clients for the last 4 years at VistaWorks
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VistaWorks: Web Design and Development Firm in Colorado, whom I worked for full time for the last 4 years. Site designed and implemented while working for VistaWorks.
Launched: re-launched Summer 2010.
Site: http://www.vistaworks.com -
Pursell Manufacturing: An e-commerce site for a Christmas Tree wholesaler. Designed and implemented while working for VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Custom-drawn Flash header, actionscript animation, hand-drawn accents, logo updated and re-drawn. Collaborated with programmer on integration into shopping cart software.
Launched: August 2010.
Site: http://www.pursellmfg.com -
Independence Film Festival: Film Festival site created while at VistaWorks. Featured on Design Meltdown's Events page - click to see.
Launched: Fall 2008
Site: No longer live. -
The Sanctuary: A religious vacation rental in Colorado. Designed and implemented while working for VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Gallery-style site to highlight photos and room details with a calendar of availability for guests. Collaborated with our programmer on integration into Drupal.
Launched: July 2010
Site: http://www.sanctuarybv.com -
The Caravan Inn: Hotel site. Designed and implemented while working at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Integrated current logo into more sophistocated design, site brought into Drupal so customer can alter all photos, including rotating home page photo, across the site.
Launched: September 2010
Site: http://www.caravaninn.com -
Royal Gorge Region: Chamber of Commerce site. Designed and implemented while working for VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Implemented rotating images on home page as background (utilizing Jquery). Collaborated with our programmer on integration into Drupal.
Launched: early Summer 2010
Site: http://www.royalgorgetravel.com -
Rifle Chamber of Commerce: Chamber of Commerce user-driven site. Designed and implemented while working for VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Flash header, custom drawn graphic art, re-creation of logo and online identity. Everything from wireframe to actual launch handled by me.
Launched: Spring 2010
Site: http://www.riflechamber.com -
SEED: Educational interactive site. Designed and first step implemented while working at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Live site is currently a 'placeholder' for an extensive multi-user-controlled site being working on.
Launched: Summer 2010
Site: http://www.educationdelivered2u.com -
Cile Chavez: International Motivational Speaker website. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Logo implementation into new design for a motivational speaker. All design and code created by myself. This site was not implemented into a CMS, therefore the CSS is left un-bastardized by generators.
Launched: Spring 2010
Site: http://www.cilechavez.com -
Whitewater Photography: E-commerce site for whitewater photography company in Colorado. Designed while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Collaborated with programmer for implementation into shopping cart software and browser compatibility after bringing it over.
Launched: Early Spring 2010
Site: http://www.whitewaterphotography.com -
My Caricatures: Caricature artist's site. Designed while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Collaborated with our programmer on integration into Drupal so client could upload his own artwork onto the home page.
Launched: Pending
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Performance Tours: Whitewater Rafting company in Colorado. Designed and implemented while working at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Video header option in addition to JS rotater on home page. Site was not turned into a CMS, so all pages created and maintained were of my hand.
Launched: Spring 2009
Site: http://www.performancetours.com -
ColoradoRVParks.net: A hub site that VistaWorks owns. Redesigned and implemented while working at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: JS rotating header, portal information site. Implemented and manipulated ASP code on this one, but did not write ASP by hand.
Launched: re-launched Spring 2008
Site: http://www.coloradorvparks.net -
Assist2Hear: E-commerce site for hearing impaired demographic. Designed while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: JS Rotating header. Handed over to our programmer who collaborated with me for implementation of site into shopping cart software.
Launched: October 2010
Site: http://www.assist2hear.com -
Schultz Fine Homes: Upscale home builder in Colorado. Designed and implemented while working at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: This site is not a CMS, so CSS and HTML are left unscathed. All updates were also handled by myself.
Launched: re-launched Spring 2010
Site: http://www.schultzfinehomes.com -
Leadville.com: VistaWorks owned portal link site. Re-designed and re-launched while at VistaWorks.
My Part: Reorganization of extensive content into intuitive layout and ui. The small logos seen on this site, as a part of a larger network, were also created by myself in the 4 years I was at VistaWorks. Implemented and manipulated ASP code on this one, but did not write ASP by hand.
Launched: re-launched 2007
Site: http://www.leadville.com -
Blue Sky Adventure: Whitewater Rafting Company in Colorado. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
My Part: User-driven in the sense that the home page image which rotates is completely customizable by them, something collaborated on with the programmer in house. All other pages created and maintained by me.
Launched: re-launched Spring 2007, again with second design in 2009
Site: http://www.blueskyadvantures.com -
Travel Colorado: Reservation site VistaWorks owns. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Creating a new identity for a reservation system endeavor by VistaWorks. Included logo development, plotting out site content and organizing, collaborating with the owner and programmer on project. Project was implemented into a CMS by our programmer, and is maintained by everyone in the office.
Launched: Late 2008
Site: http://www.travelcolorado.com -
Mineral Information Institute: National informational and educational mineral site. Designed while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Organization of a site gone wild. Design of a cartoon-ish entirely flash splash page and HTML full site. Integration of current logo into new design, sketching flash image, wireframing flash, graphic art collaborated on with fellow designer in house. Utilized actionscript a great deal for this project alongside CSS Sprite and Jquery to achieve desired effect with minimal file weight and tweaked for browser performance issues. Site itself was coded originally by me, including menus, then integrated into Drupal to manage the thousands of pages existing.
Launched: Pending
Site: Pending -
Mineral Information Institute: National informational and educational mineral site flash splash page. Designed while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Well I could repeat myself from the last frame, but I thought that'd be a bit pretentious and entirely boring of me. This was a beast to develop, I'm not going to lie. But it was so much fun. This is scheduled to launch very shortly, and will be linked as soon as it is.
Launched: Pending
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Coldwell Banker - Bev Coggins: Real Estate site for Realtor in Colorado. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: A re-design for a long-term client. Implementation of RELM system into site (programming the owner had written to utilize a database to display all the client's listings). This was designed right before the company went over to primarily CMS backends to sites, so every single thing about sites like this one, are of my hand. I met with the client, created a design, coded it, tested it, input content, created contact forms, tested again, launched. I'm the site's own god.
Launched: re-launched 2009
Site: http://www.mountainrealestate.net -
Buena Vista Chamber of Commerce: Chamber of Commerce site. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Rotating header images. This is an older design, so none of it's in a CMS. As with most of the sites done while at VistaWorks, everything before summer of 2010 was created the old fashioned way, one page at a time. Calendar of events is a program written by the company's owner.
Launched: Winter 2008
Site: http://www.buenavistachamber.com -
Missing Pieces: Therapist's site. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Client wanted a site that looked 'Apple-ish' and modern a few years ago, and continues to love her site. Entire site drawn out, coded, launched and managed by me.
Launched: Summer 2008
Site: http://www.missingpieces.org -
Chalk Creek Campground: RV Park and Campground site. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Hand drawn header, redrew logo to update look, use of facebox for zooming photos. Client wanted a cartoony look, something that would attract families with young children and younger adults to come camp. One of the many who, when asked "what do you see for your website", answered "I don't know, something nice".
Launched: Spring 2008
Site: http://www.chalkcreek-campground.com -
SCE Construction: Construction/custom home builder site. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Features a photo gallery that client can upload their own photos into. Collaborated with on with our programmer for this section.
Launched: 2008
Site: http://www.sceconstruction.com -
Aspen Property Rentals: Property Rental/Real Estate site. Designed while at VistaWorks
Additional Notes: Uses an RELM program our company's owner wrote, collaborated with our programmer to make the site completely customizable by client.
Launched: Fall 2010
Site: http://www.leadvillepropertyrentals.com -
Skyline Homes: Vacation rental site. Designed and implemented while at Vistaworks.
Additional Notes: Simple one-page site. In general the one page sites we did constituted about an hour to an hour and a half of work total. This is what an hour and a half brings from my brain.
Launched: early 2010
Site: http://www.skylinevacationhomes.com -
Elk Mountain Ranch: Dude Ranch site in Colorado. Designed and implemented while at VistaWorks.
Additional Notes: Hand drawn elements, reworking 'look' for their vacation business. All pages created by me, as this was before our company started using the CMS systems. Another site for whom I am parent, god, savior from the obscenity of an ugly existance online.
Launched: re-launched late 2008
Site: http://www.elkmtn.com
