Web Site Portfolio

Fast Forward Fund

[Note: this site was recently redesigned with new layout & color scheme by Amy Anderson (link to follow) & implemented & updated by myself.]

A rapidly devloped and still-evolving site for a youth-driven, social venture fund, directing philanthropic capital to youth-led initiatives for global change.

The site has been developed in CSS for flexibility, and the color scheme has been chosen to reflect and enhance its youth appeal. As the site develops further, it should contain more interactive and animated elements.

I also modified their blog to more closely resemble the web site.

Link: www.fastforwardfund.org

Narcissus Press

A small literary press, of which I am the creative/art director. The site is simple & extensible, with elegant and logical design & placement of elements. The layout is all done in CSS. The site should load quickly, work with all current browsers, and be easy to understand.

As the press grows the site is expanding to contain more multimedia elements, such as video clips.

Link: www.narcissuspublications.com

Team Marketing USA

A site designed "from the ground up", including logo design, animated GIFs, Flash, rollovers and bright, clear, simple design. Team Marketing USA is a nationwide, promotional event marketing, management and staffing agency. They make the connection between clients and consumers to increase brand awareness through experiential marketing. This site was recently redesigned using CSS. The slideshow on the home page is done in Javascript (using MooTools).

Link: www.teammktgusa.com

Dutchess County Historical Society

This site was actually mostly designed by Holly from the Historical Society -- she came to me with all of the elements pretty much in place, which just left it up to me to make it all work. We did change the layout a little for the sake of usability, and there were a few other tweaks. The site shows off the Society's collection of historical photographs, and there is a slideshow highlighting their contemporary activities. Done in HTML and CSS, with a Flash news "slider" on the home page, and a javascript slideshow on the Events page.

Link: www.dutchesscountyhistoricalsociety.org

Nathaniel K. Charny, Attorney-at-Law

A smallish site designed for lawyer Nathaniel Charny, who specializes in employment and workplace law. The site is very simple & restrained, done in CSS to make maintenance easy.

I also modified his blog so that it would more closely resemble his web presence.

Link: www.ncharnyesq.com

Moloney Design and Horticulture

This is another simple "brochure" site for a local business offering gardening and horticulture services here in the Hudson Valley. The client chose or specified many of the elements (color scheme, photos, typeface for the logo, etc.) that went into the site. We have made the site as search-engine friendly as possible -- time will tell how succesful we have been. The site is done in HTML and CSS with a javascript slideshow on the home page.

Link: www.designandhorticulture.com

The Alternative Baker / Lemoncakes.com

Essell Hoenshell-Watson's (the Alternative Baker) web site was recently redesigned using CSS for ease of maintenance and search-engine friendliness. The Alternative Baker is located in Rosendale, NY, and sells natural, handmade baked goods.

The site's color scheme reflects the baked products, and the site includes an interactive Google map.

Link: www.lemoncakes.com

Ayton.net

This is my own web site which functions as a portfolio and gallery for my artwork of the past 18 years or so. The site has existed for at least 10 years, and has grown extensively during that time. To decrease the time it takes for the site to load, I recently added a CSS menu on the left side, to replace the large number of graphical buttons that were previously there. In time, I will convert the entire site to CSS, but as it's around 300 pages, that will not happen anytime soon, probably.

Link: www.ayton.net

Cantor Bob Cohen

Cantor Bob Cohen is the cantor at Temple Emanuel synagogue in Kingston, NY. He is also an accomplished musician and performer, who was in the New World Singers in the 1960s—they were the first folk group to record "Blowing in the Wind" by Bob Dylan. His colorful, CSS-driven site contains Bob's story, along with many photos, MP3s & a video clip or two.

Link: www.cantorbob.com

NAEM

The site for the premier association for EHS Management, a non-profit, non-partisan educational association dedicated to advancing the knowledge and practice of Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) management.

This site integrates two sets of pages—standard HTML ones coded and designed by myself, & database-generated ones from memberclicks.com, which are specifically designed for organizational websites. The two sections are tied together using a hybrid frames/non-frames design, which allows for specific bookmarking of individual pages, plus the seamless use of the database section. Navigation is managed via the drop-down javascript menu.

Link: www.naem.org

Cadge Productions

Jeff Cadge and Cadge Productions, a photography, film & video house, already had a very presentable site. In this case, I did a makeover for them, making interface and graphical improvements where possible, enhancing the brand image with multiple uses of the logo, improving text layout and site navigation and flow. I also arranged the photo galleries into thematic sections with a "hidden" (but very visible) navigation using the circles under the photo display on the home page. I did this while trying to maintain the look and feel of the original site, adding visual enhancements such as enlarging the home page photo presentation and adding animated GIFs of sequences of Jeff's photos to subsidiary pages.

Link: www.cadgeproductions.com

Stevan Jennis

This is an artist web site for a friend. The site is very simple, clear & easily navigable, yet a little quirky to reflect the nature of Steve's art.

The home page has a slide show animation to show several artworks, but apart from that, the site is very basic, clean & classic.

Link: www.stevanjennis.com

Context Interior Architecture & Design

This is a small web site for a local interior design consultant and her company.

The design is very clean and simple, to hopefully give a zen-like minimalism and flow to the site.

Link: www.contextid.com

Bluegrass Journey: A Documentary

This is a site for a recently completed documentary on bluegrass music. The site features stills from the film prominently, as well as information on the songs, artists etc. The site will also eventually include film clips & a message board where bluegrass fans can log in & discuss the movie & other items of interest. I designed this site so that Ruth & Rob (the directors & producers of the movie) could add their own updates (via Macromedia Contribute) -- adding or changing text, images, even adding new pages and sections. It's a quite simple, easily maintainable site.

Link: www.bluegrassjourney.com

Peter McCarty

Peter McCarty is a children's book illustrator and author. His children's books are known for their elegant simplicity of language and image, and the site hopefully reflects this. This site basically serves as an online portfolio for his books and other illustration work.

Future features to be added include the ability to buy books on amazon.com directly from the site.

Link: www.petermccarty.net