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Simple design approach with web 2.0 architecture for this local non-profit organization. Site includes PHP calendar and events, jQuery front-end design and PayPal donation functionality.
Perpetual Excellence Property Management
Quintessential 'portfolio' web site. Architecture includes Ajax visual graphic effects, PHP/MySql back-end management tool for user to update content and custom PHP/OOP mailer functionality.
This site is a scaled down social networking site for home owner associations. Built on PHP/MySql, the site features a community message board, events calendar, sales and classified listings, as well as links to condo association board members and property managers. Site includes seamless payment portal connection with PayPal for association assessment payments.
Cedille Records
(Flash/PHP/XML MP3 Player)
Built back-end PHP/MySql admin interface with open source Flash audio player to dynamically generate xml play lists from osCommerce database for featured artists on Cedille Records' site.
Programmed PHP script to read simple spread sheet of WVON's weekly program schedule and dynamically update the schedule hourly and according to weekday.
Web site number 2. TRU restaurant wanted a site that represented its elegance and style. This was the second site acting as a developer for Purple Monkey Studios. Visiting the site, one is immediately struck by the simple understated beauty. Here, the challenge was in messaging basic HTML down to the most subtle nuance. Working closely with the lead graphic designer, each page was scrutinized against the original layout. Many of the thin, 1 pixel lines were made to be liquid html table cells rather than using tiling images. Also, the rollover images Tour and Art pages were my first crack at hand coding rollover images in javascript.
Baptism by fire. That's how I would describe my first assignment as a lead developer for a web site while working for Purple Monkey Studios. In 2000, the Village of Oak Park embarked upon a complete rebuild of it's municipal web site which consisted of "sub" sites for each village municipality. Having learned HTML freehand and being very new with Dreamweaver, much of the site was hand coded including extensive sub navigation for Village services, logical directories for public forms such as permits, and a cool but complicated pop-up scheme for inter-related services. The key was site architecture and planning.
Built for a local Chicago Jazz band this site has all of the simple but crucial elements for an eMarketing tool. A PHP events calendar for concert dates, photos and bios of band members, mailing list, promotional video, and streaming flash audio player with some of the band's latest hits.
Show Courts
Showcourts was an independent adult basketball league on Chicago's north side. A subscriber based site, the architecture used standard PHP/MySql design. The statistics section reflected season stats by league, team, season, player, and game all managed using an administrative tool built in PHP/MySql. (Site No Longer Active)