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Mt. Mary Event Registration

Crys — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:53:03 +0000

Mt. Mary Events Registration Form

Mt. Mary needed an event registration form that could both send them information via email and post over to a credit card vendor at the same time. It also needed to be easy to update but had no database or admin system to work through. So I used a php array to allow the client easy access to update the events without the need for them to learn html or javascript. This form includes the ability to add/delete guests and a running subtotal, as well as in-place validations via jquery which are then revalidated via php in case the user has javascript off.

You know you’re a geek when…

Crys — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:56:53 +0000

You know you’re a geek when…

… you spend your Memorial Day bouncing between making a checklist for finally upgrading your WoW guild’s (Keepers of Stromgarde) forums/portal application, moving content from your old website to your new, trying to get your calluses back for the guitar you finally have again after more than a decade without playing (ouch), modding your WordPress files, and writing a serial story for one of your MCs (Adrien/Aydrien Seelund — watch this space for the first story soon) who’s been both a Birthright and and World of Warcraft character at this point…

… all while having had more good red beer than any rational being should consume…

Schroeder Bros. Construction, Inc.

Crys — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:06:17 +0000

This one might just be the best design I’ve ever done. It’s certainly one of the top ones. And they made it really easy to make the site for them. They do amazing work and gave me excellent photos to work from. If I was building a house, I’d want them to do it. And I’m not just saying that because they were clients. Go take a look at some of the gorgeous woodwork in the gallery.

Website: Custom Homes and Condos – Schroeder Bros. Construction, Inc of Pewaukee, WI

Details: Fixed width site with repeating background. All of the textures used in the site are sampled from client-supplied photos from their homes, including the background /bracketing texture. Summer of ’2007.

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Precision Screw Thread Corp.

Crys — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:18:34 +0000

I’ve done a lot of industrial and manufacturing sites. Most of them are very cut and dried, get it done as fast as you can, we want it to look as plain as you can and still get our information across. That’s not a value judgment, just a constraint that you usually have to work under with certain industries.

Precision Screw Thread stands out from their industry for their recognition that “functional” does not have to equal “ugly”. I had a lot of fun putting this one together.

Precision Screw Thread, Inc.

The initial landing page for the site was conceived as an abstracted display panel from one of the threading machines and evolved into what you see on the page now. We wanted to showcase the short movie but avoid the typical “trash splash” intro that trips up a lot of sites. This display panel instead brings together the site’s navigation and news from the company blog to make it easy for users to get where they want to go on the site (I was outvoted on making the movie start playing immediately. Sorry visitors, you’ll have to hit stop instead of start).

The internal pages carry through the theme and the navigation from the intro page. We wanted to add a little motion so I animated the starburst behind the logo in the upper left so that it glows and rotates on mouseover.

Associated Surgical & Medical Specialists, LLC

Crys — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:40:33 +0000

Associated Surgical & Medical Specialists, LLC

Liquid layout, javascript enhancement, dynamically generated menu items

Lithograhics.com

Crys — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:50:45 +0000

This is a site worth visiting. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. The brief for Lithographics included a small book that they print and use for promotions and my task was to keep the website in line with that book while still giving them a dynamic — in both design and technical terms — site that would stand out from the competition and convey the quality of their print work despite being a non-print medium.

I wrote all the code and markup for this site, with the exception of the reference desk, which I heavily modified from an application written in-house by another programmer at the company, and I created all the banner ads using single-frame cel animation techniques in Photoshop and ImageReady. I also converted all the photos from press-ready to web-ready with an eye to making them look the way they looked after coming off the press, rather than just making them look like digital photos. (I was very successful at that, if that tells you anything about the exceptional quality of the print-work that Lithographics does).

Lithographics, Inc. – Quality Printing, Superior Production

When I did the site in 2005 it had a different look for each of the sections; looks like they liked the lightbulb so much they had the agency that hosts the site change all the sections to match that. Here are mockups of two of those other two sections:

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Twilight Games

Crys — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:26:21 +0000

This site is no longer available, but here’s a screenshot and one of the animated banners I did for the site.