I’m an architect on the information superhighway.
But that’s just my day job. By night I build web sites on the internet.
(Examples follow.)
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Next American City
Complete design and technology overhaul for this Philadelphia-based magazine. With a new identity and magazine redesign by art director Keith Webb, I brought the magazine’s new look to the web. The new site encourages reader interaction through content submissions and discussion, and gives focus to their popular Daily Report; all using the extensible and powerful ExpressionEngine CMS.
Design, HTML, CSS, CMS setup
March 2008
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Alice’s Drive
The Alice’s Drive project hopes to recreate the 1909 drive of Alice Ramsey — the first woman the drive across America — on the 100th anniversary of her historic drive, in a restored 1909 Maxwell DA. The site serves to keep interested folks updated on the progress of the project; as well as solicit partnerships and sponsors to make the drive possible.
Design, HTML & CSS, CMS setup
January 2008
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Bob Torres
Blog design for author, podcaster, publisher and Professor of Sociology Bob Torres. Bob — whose work centres around veganism and animal rights issues — needed to consolidate his personal and academic blogs, and also highlight his published books in a design that was refined and readable while maintaining an edge.
Design, HTML & CSS
April 2007
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From the Ground Up
Making Green Building A Mainstream Practice was the theme of this, the inaugural event of the Urban Innovation Series. The organizers needed an informational site for the event to announce the speaker list (featuring actual news anchor celebrity Tom Brokaw) and provide logistic details; plus a space to present archived audio and video of the event afterwards.
Design, HTML & CSS
February 2007
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Greg MacPherson
Long-overdue update for my friend and occasional band-mate Greg MacPherson, one of the most talented songwriters in Canada today. Minimalist approach, using photos taken and found by Greg as oversized background images, providing random shifts in mood on each page load.
Design, HTML & CSS, CMS setup
November 2007 -
Spencer Jo
Small site for Calgary-based political songwriter Spencer Jo, featuring art by Irma Kniivila from Spencer’s CD My Old Home. The colour palette was taken from Irma’s paintings for a unified aesthetic that matched the CD packaging.
Design, HTML and CSS, CMS setup
November 2007 -
GigPress
“Product site” for GigPress, a free WordPress plugin that I wrote to help independent bands easily manage their tour dates online.
Design, HTML and CSS, CMS setup
November 2007 -
Canadian University Press
CUP’s incoming president requested a realignment of the site (which I had built for the organization a year earlier) based on internal design mockups. I enhanced and implemented these designs throughout all areas of the web site, and added a blog for the CUP executive.
Design collaboration, HTML & CSS
July 2007 -
Monica Schroeder
A simple site for this talented singer/songwriter which offers news and concert updates, biography and press info, downloadable photos, and streaming audio and video, all within a design the matches the cool, soothing nature of her music.
Design, HTML & CSS, CMS setup
June 2007 -
Lisa Reid Audiology
This family-run Winnipeg audiologist needed a simple, easy-to-navigate site to cater to her older demographic, presenting concise information about hearing loss and the services offered by her practice.
Design, HTML & CSS
April 2007 -
Red Alert Visuals
Jason Rosenberg — a skilled packaging designer based out of San Francisco — provided me design mockups to transform into a protfolio site. Incorporating the incredible SlideshowPro Director web application I enabled Jason to upload, edit, reorder and caption pieces in his portfolio quickly and easily.
HTML & CSS, CMS setup
April 2007 -
Dissident Voice
“A radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice.” The Dissident Voice editors came to me needing to modernize how they posted their daily collection of articles. I setup a WordPress installation for them and designed a simple, readable, printer-friendly template on a narrow timeline.
Design, HTML & CSS, CMS setup
April 2007 -
Ticket Workshop
Winnipeg promoter Sam Smith needed an alternative to Ticketmaster for selling tickets for his local concerts and events, so I partnered with a local PHP programmer to build him his custom alternative, with the e-commerce end driven by Miva Merchant.
Design, HTML & CSS, e-commerce setup
March 2007 -
Silenced Press
Mike Alfaro needed a web site with which to launch his self-published book of poetry real.m, but also wanted to expand in the future to post contributions by others, stream music, and more. Using WordPress as an engine, I built a flexible layout that he could easily self-manage.
Design, HTML & CSS, CMS setup
February 2007 -
Old Market Autonomous Zone
Getting like-minded individuals and organizations, activists, as well as alternative worker-run businesses together under one roof, the A-Zone has been going for over 10 years in downtown Winnipeg. Home to Mondragón, Canadian Dimension, Natural Cycle, and many other Winnipeg institutions.
Design, HTML & CSS, CMS setup (pro-bono)
October 2006 -
Stealworks
Portfolio site for graphic design John Yates. John provided detailed page mockups which I actualized. Some judicious use of sIFR allows the use of uncommon typefaces on dynamically-generated text.
HTML & CSS
October 2006 -
Planet of the Yates
Another site for John Yates, this time for his socio-political poster work. Once again, he provided me with a site design which I then transformed into valid HTML and CSS … and once again, some sIFR gave John the typefaces he wanted, without the hassle of dozens of images depicting text.
HTML & CSS
October 2006 -
Riverstone Spa
The Riverstone is Winnipeg’s foremost day spa, located in the historic Forks Market inside the Inn at the Forks hotel. The focus here is to present the full spa menu and pricing, offer online purchasing of gift cards (customizable to match specific treatments or packages), and offer general info about the spa.
Design, HTML & CSS, e-commerce setup
September 2006 -
Redline Photo Agency
Winnipeg photo agency focusing (no pun intended) on social and political issues. Each of the three member photographers have individual online access to add and edit new collections of photos, as well as post blog entries, using a combination of WordPress and SlideshowPro Director.
Design, HTML & CSS, CMS setup
August 2006 -
Canadian Dimension
I used elements of the 2005 identity redesign of Canadian Dimension — Canada’s longest-running progressive publication — in this complete web site overhaul, married with standards-compliant code, an accessible page structure, an articles database, blog, and online store.
Design, HTML & CSS, CMS & e-commerce setup
September 2005