Web Design
My First Site:
While I've been a media designer since 2003, I started designing websites in 2006. My first website was a basic personal site, which was part of a class in grad school. That site has since been deleted, but it was very similar to the updated site you see here. It was my first experience with Dreameaver and using a CSS, and I used CS3 to design and code it.
Liora String Quartet:
I designed and developed this site in 2010 for a friend in a string quartet at Texas State University. I coded it using Dreamweaver and created the logo and navigation buttons in Photoshop. It took about two eight-hour days to complete.
The Fire Station Studios:
This site was created in 2008 mostly in Flash CS3, using ActionScript 2.0. It was a journalistic look at the historic Fire Station building in San Marcos, TX, which is now a music studio owned by Texas State University. To add more interaction, I took photos inside the studio and used Flash to simulate a walking tour. It takes a few minutes to load, since I have so many videos in it.
South By Texas State:
This was a collaborative effort in one of my graduate classes at Texas State University, where SXSW Interactive allowed us to write articles and cover the festival in March 2008. In 2009, the site won 2nd place in the AEJMC Best of the Web in the Journalism category for a student project. We used Wordpress to host the blog, and we created unique pages and edited the CSS.
Rubber Vs. Road:
For one of my last projects in grad school, we were to tell a journalistic story via a Web site. Working with three other classmates, we examined alternative transportation methods in San Marcos, TX using video interviews, interactive maps, and a quiz in Flash. While I was not integral in the design process, I was responsible for many of the videos and quiz.
San Marcos Community Church:
This site was created in 2006 using PHP4, MYSQL, XHTML, and Javascript by someone other than myself. I have since been updating the site and have redesigned it. I am currently redesgning the site to an even newer version, and it should be updated soon.