Kupatrix
My personal site has gone through many designs through the years, this is the most recent version. This also serves as my test bed for new ideas, techniques, designs, etc... Most recently I spent time learning how best to target mobile visitors with Wordpress.
- Photoshop
- HTML/CSS
- Wordpress
Blizzforums
Blizzforums is a vBulletin powered community that’s been around for around a decade. I first redesigned it by rebuilding certain graphics in Photoshop and then creating a new style. The second full (and current) design occurred because of the vBulletin 4.0 update which made older styles incompatible.
- Photoshop
- HTML/CSS
- vBulletin 3.x (First redesign)
- vBulletin 4.x (Second redesign, current)
Starcraft.org
Starcraft.org has been around since '98, but has suffered downtime in recent years. In October of 2011 I was contacted to help get something up in time to cover an event (generously given two days!), doing my best I had the site back up w/Wordpress. Since then I have completely redesigned Starcraft.org and slowly begun implementing former features.
- Photoshop
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript/jQuery
- Wordpress
Starcraft.org Forums
Starcraft.org used a customized custom style for vBulletin, but it clashed horribly with the site's theme and was almost universally disliked by the user base. I implemented a temporary style that better matches, with plans to implement a true full design in the future.
- Photoshop
- CSS
- vBulletin 4.x
StClairCrystals
Working with an international team, my job was to take the orignal design concept in PSD format and turn it into a fully functional ecommerce site with several pages including media updates. The main focus of this site is Michael St.Clair's crystal artwork, but he is also well known for being a futurist, visionary and personal consultant, as well as a gifted astrologer. In addition, I created a separate "members-only" website utilizing the same graphics and a new design layout.
- Photoshop
- HTML/CSS & jQuery
Business Redesign
This project was to redesign a small business website. Previously using flat html, this redesign and update allows the owner to update and maintain their website quickly and easily with Wordpress.
The client has not yet deployed this website publicly, but I completed my work to the client's satisfaction.
- Photoshop
- HTML/CSS
- Wordpress
Uglysbooks
I was commissioned to help fix, and update certain areas of this website including the menu and header areas. This site utilizes an ecommerce script I am unfamiliar with, however I was able to learn my way around enough to implement the requested updates.
Utilizing the default theme for Wordpress and incorporating certain header elements I helped deploy a blog as well.
- Photoshop
- HTML/CSS
- Wordpress (for the blog)
Humboldt House of Horrors
This was a website I whipped together on a very small budget and a tight deadline, as such it doesn’t have many bells and whistles, but the client was thrilled with the design, and Halloween was always a favorite holiday of mine growing up so I had fun putting it together!
- Photoshop
- HTML/CSS
- Wordpress
About Me
I am passionate about website design, and I keep up with the latest news, trends, and techniques... but more importantly, I know when to use them. I have created dozens of websites over the years from simple brochure-like business websites to more complex ecommerce websites.
I have skills in all major website design techniques, including HTML/5, CSS/3, and Photoshop. My focus is on usable, accessible and standard compliant designs. My specialty is front-end web development, including many years of experience with customized themes and designs in both vBulletin and Wordpress.
On a final note, I have maintained two vBulletin-based communities, each with custom designs, as well as various websites powered by Wordpress for many years.
Skills & Expertise
- HTML/5 & CSS/3
- Photoshop
- Javascript and jQuery
- PHP and MySQL
- Mobile Websites
- Accessibility
- Usability
Experienced With
- vBulletin
- Wordpress