Portfolio
Summerhill Day School Website
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- September 6th, 2000
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A re-design of a website for a private school in Oakville. Not the hardest thing ever but it did have to look EXACTLY like the Photoshop mocks. The home page includes a fancy menu that changes transparency when hovered and works cross browser.
Ryan Masters Website
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- September 6th, 2000
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A WordPress powered website for singer/songwriter Ryan Masters. Full of awesome plugins for a photo gallery, an audio/video player, an event calendar and an online store. Ryan Masters Website
Matt Mays Ecard
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A Flash ecard to help Canadian alt country rocker Matt Mays promote a tour. Matt Mays Ecard
Steve Earle Splash Page
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- September 6th, 2000
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A “coming soon” splash page and mailing list sign up form for Rock/Country music legend Steve Earle. It has since been replaced with a full website designed by Tim Grafton.
Greg Keelor Website
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- September 6th, 2000
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A website for Greg Keelor of Blue Rodeo fame. Greg needed a website to promote his solo record. We worked closely with his management team and the designer of his album artwork to come up with a properly branded site design. This site includes a style sheet switcher that resizes the text. The back end is ASP.NET with a news section driven by Community Server. www.gregkeelor.com
Jim Cuddy Website
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- September 6th, 2000
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A website for Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo fame. I did everything just like Greg’s site above but this time I added a style sheeet switcher so fans could choose from 4 different colour schemes. I took steps to make sure 4 themes wasn’t too much to manage with a site so frequently updated. www.jimcuddy.com
When The Angels Make Contact Website
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- September 6th, 2000
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A mini site for an album released by Matt Mays. The album is a soundtrack for a movie that was never made so the site was originally supposed to look like a movie website. This mini site kept growing and is now much more than just a site for a movie trailer and some songs.
Web Standards
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- September 6th, 2000
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Tight deadline? Grumpy client? None of that matters when it comes to web standards. I ALWAYS code using current web standards and best practices. I will preach web standards to anyone who will listen. Semantic code using XHTML and CSS makes a lot of sense and saves a whole lot of money. It also makes sites more accessible and more visible to search engines.
Designing From The Ground Up
There is nothing I can’t do with CSS & XHTML. I can take the most complicated Photoshop mock-ups, slice them up, and recreate them perfectly using CSS & XHTML. i can even make then look the same across all major browsers.
From Table-Based Layout To Web Standards Layout
I have no problem stripping table-based layouts of their tables and leaving them with semantic code that makes them more visible to search engines, takes up 1/4 of the server space/bandwidth, and saves time and money when it’s time for a re-design.
Cross Browser Compatibility
I design in Firefox and then use as few hacks
as possible to get sites working properly in Internet Explorer, Safari (usually not a problem), and Opera (2%). I know the ins and outs of cross browser compatability and it’s a big part of any project I am a part of.
PHP & MySQL
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I have over 5 years of experience programming with PHP & MySQL. I started out making my own Content Management System (I hadn’t heard of Open Source
back then), now I mainly use PHP & MySQL when working with WordPress, osCommerce and phpBB.
My Own Content Management System
When I first started making websites I wanted to give people the ability to update their own sites. A friend told me to look into PHP so I bought a book and made my own CMS. Looking back it would have made more sense to get Joomla or WordPress but I wouldn’t have learned as much… right?
WordPress, osCommerce, phpBB
I currently use PHP & MySQL while creating and customizing skins for WordPress blogs, ocCommerce e-commerce sites and phpBB message boards.
phpBB Message Boards
phpBB is an open source message board package that uses PHP & MySQL. I use it every time a client requests a message board. phpBB is prone to get hacked if you don’t keep it properly updated but I’ve fought a few hackers in my day and I always win!
UWA Hardcore Wrestling Message Board
A wrestling message board with over 550 members and over 25,000 posts. It has been hacked twice by some crazy guy in Germany,I’ve never had too much trouble getting it back online. The entire UWA site has since been re-done with garbage code and questionable graphics. I no longer have anything to do with it.
Various Band Message Boards
Every band I’ve ever done a website for has wanted a message board so that their fans can build a community and all of that fancy marketing stuff. I always use phpBB. Here’s a list of some of the bands (most you probably haven’t heard of): Sydney, Luke Brodie, Big Ideas, Audio Ritual, Turbulent, Outside Fairvale.
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