Web Site Design and Development

Over the last nine years, I’ve created a variety of web projects and am fluent in all aspects of web design.

I can design (photoshop, illustrator), code (css, html, asp, php), animate (flash) and produce and edit video (iMovie and Final Cut pro). My web design background gives me a great perspective and understanding on how to accomplish the goals of a client.

Please see below for some of my work.

Strategy One Insight

This is a customized wordpress template website set up for Strategy One. It’s a extension of their website and allows them to write about several different news and trends in their field.

W.G. Grinders

I’m currently working to redesign the W.G. Grinders website. After finalizing the design, the site will be built in wordpress. This is one of the site designs that I proposed.

Click on the image to see the full mock-up.

Ohio Brew Week

This is a design that I presented to the committee that runs the Ohio Brew Week festival in Athens, Ohio. I designed it for a class in graduate school.

It’s a great event and I encourage you to plan a trip down to Athens for the festival. To see the full mock-up, click on the image.

Rawle Murdy

I was asked to provide some design samples to Rawle Murdy, a agency based in Charleston, SC. They were seeking a more “modern look” to their site and asked me to mock up a redesign in photoshop.

I also created a template for their email newsletter. Click on the images to see the mock ups.

worthingtonjewelers.com

This custom designed site was launched in February of 2010. The site is built in wordpress and gives the client the ability to update the web site (including the gallery) all on their own.

I also helped them revamp the web site architecture to be more friendly for search engines. Additionally, I supplied the client with keywords that would help them increase leads and traffic to their web site.

Approach Online

This was a site I launched for a local advertising agency in town called Approach Online. It’s a customized wordpress template.

2007 Playhouse Square Broadway Series Web Site

The 2007 Playhouse Square Broadway series e-marketing campaign featured a flash web site that subscribers and new subscribers were directed to. The Broadway series is the biggest subscription series campaign and the subscriber base has a huge impact on the well being of the organization. I created this flash web site along with a viral video contest and interactive trailer. Click here to see the archived web site.

Bobcatattack.com Site Design

I did this mockup redesign in the Summer of 2007 for bobcatattack.com. At the time I was working to sell banner advertising on the web site and I offered to upgrade the look (which hadn’t been upgraded for a while). The mockup was never integrated but I wanted to share it with you.

Ohio University Digital Media Studio

While I was working on my core master’s classwork at Ohio University, I was employed at the Ohio University Digital Media Studio as a Graduate Assistant. Ohio University Website Design- Digital Media Studio It was a new and innovative computer lab that sought to help tutor undergraduate and graduate students in programs such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Dreamweaver.

My primary duty was to serve as a tutor for the people who came into the lab. Since the DMS was new, I helped create a logo and a marketing brand for the lab to try and help differentiate it from other labs on campus. Part of that marketing plan was to create a website with information about the lab. This is the look I created for the lab. The website was launched after I finished my graduate work at OU.

athenshub.com

I started athenshub.com in January of 2008 while in grad school. It took 3 months to plan, design, and program the website. With little to no traditional marketing, I’ve had over 16,000 visits and almost 95,000 page views to the website. It has become a resource to both Ohio University Students and the Athens Ohio community.

It’s a free classifieds website where you can find rentals, real estate, news and events going on in Athens. There’s also a book exchange section for Ohio University students.

Playhouse Square Website Redesign 2006

I worked at Playhouse Square as the Online Marketing Coordinator for almost three years. Playhouse Square is the largest performing arts center outside of New York City and they own and operate seven theaters in downtown Cleveland, Ohio

I was in charge of managing their website and their mass html e-blast campaign. While there I implemented several mini-sites which helped market special events and many of their subscription series.

One of the most important projects I worked on was the redesign of the Playhouse Square external website. When I came on board in 2004, the site had just been redesigned. The goal of that redesign was to allow people to search through and purchase tickets for shows.

By 2006, the PSC website had expanded and the site needed to be changed to allow people to more easily navigate the website. I sketched out a redesign in photoshop and had implemented the redesign in December of 2006. I implemented a javascript pop up navigation as well as restructured the homepage to showcase all the different things that were going on at Playhouse Square. The image show here was what I launched in 2006. If you go to the current site, http://www.playhousesquare.org, you will see that the structure of the site remains.

Soul of Athens 2008

The Soul of Athens 2008 Web site was a special project completed by students in the School of Visual Communications at Ohio University. The project was started and completed in a span of three months during Spring of 2008.

My role was to coordinate the marketing strategy of the site and help with other small aspects such as the construction of the youtube.com video player. Please check out the Web Site. It’s a truly amazing piece of work and the stories, images, and videos on the site are excellent.