Websites

To commemorate the 50th Anniversay of the Vietnam War, I was asked to rebuild The Vietnam Experience website. One of the primary goals for the new design was to invite people to become involved in preparing for the anniversary event by taking a survey, sharing memories relating to the war and offering feedback. It was also constructed to be extensible, where additional content and features could be built out in phases.

Operation Sail (a.k.a. "OpSail") is a non-profit organization that brings together the world's remaining tall ships to promote goodwill among nations. For the 2012 Bicentennial of the War of 1812 tour, I built two sites for OpSail – the main site and a secondary site focused specifically on the OpSail2012 event.

This was a fun project because someone else did the design work. All I had to do was build the site and add flash functionality for navigation and image transitions. Given that the design is so clean and elegant, I tried to come up with animations that were subtle, yet would give the site some vibrancy. That's not easy with something like this where there's a lot going on, but I think it came out nice.

I built this site entirely in Flash. It's highly interactive, with lots of pizzazz and special effects. It also incorporates special features for optimized Google site ranking.

"aPound aWeek" is a personal training program. Rather than have it look like a typical website, I came up with a design that functions like a handbook. Very easy to understand because it puts the material into a natural context.

This one goes way back. Our kids were on the local town swim team and there was no website, so I built one. We recorded meet results into a database so that everyone on the team could go to the site and see their times for any given event. Pretty cool if I do say so myself! This was my introduction to building websites with dynamic content.