Archive
It's an unfortunate truth that some projects don't come to fruition as fast as I might hope. Despite enthusiasm on all sides–from the client, from me and everyone else involved–some projects just take a long time to get launched for a variety of reasons outside of my control. Case in point, the website that I […]
Pleased to launch the brand new website of the National WIC Association. This 9-month project entailed a complete information architecture overhaul; development of a fully integrated system to support content management, association/membership management, event management, and payments; and design implementation of an entirely new responsive/mobile-friendly HTML5 and CSS3 user interface. Other technologies employed include the […]
The 120DaysMovie.com website is for a documentary film by Ted Roach. Originally designed and developed nearly two years ago, It was essentially put on ice while the film production was being completed. Even though web technologies and design aesthetics seem to change at the speed of light, I'm happy with how the site turned out […]
I've got a new site coming out for a documentary filmmaker — well an old site that was on hold for almost 2 years — that has some background audio (aka "soundtrack") enabled via the SoundManager2 javascript API. The site also has a trailer video (of course), so I had to take advantage of the […]
Performing a major code rewrite of NDTAC's Fast Facts as part of their annual data update. Previous versions relied heavily on MySQL data requests to render the site's Google Chart / Visualization API-based charts, as well as supporting data tables. With the new version, I've moved to loading the necessary dataset into an associative array […]
Launched the Reformer, a new interactive tool for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). The interactive tool allows users to choose from a variety of policy options and see the impact of those policies on the solvency of the US social security system. The tool provides users with instant feedback via data displays […]
The Map70 case study is about the prototype I built for a new crowdsourcing and data collection mobile app. After working with the client to develop the user flows and some initial sketches of the app, I built a working, interactive prototype. The prototype used HTML5, responsive CSS from Twitter Bootstrap, and custom javascript and […]
Practical Problem: Create a group (multi-person) event registration feature for a forthcoming website. Users need to be able to select multiple persons and register them in bulk. Users then need the ability to add data on a registrant by registrant basis. Technical Problem: Design a multi-select form field that allows for additional data to be […]
Designed and developed a new tool for CRFB's website: the Corporate Tax Reform Calculator. It builds off the design aesthetic of another tool that I previously developed for them (the Deficit Reduction Plan Comparison Tool). The client delivered the calculator's model in Excel, which was translated to javascript for the online tool. Most of the […]
Performed an initial performance audit of TripTuner.com. Reviewed several website optimization areas including HTTP requests, code simplification, file combining, minification, and compression. Provided the development team with a list of critical optimization tasks including steps to optimize the site's CSS, javascript (JS), and images.