Niagara Outdoors

Niagara Outdoors (2008/2009)

Niagara Outdoors is a small outdoors store located in North Tonawanda, NY. The new website features a "quick links" bar to allow easy access to regional information such as weather forecasts, lake temperatures, and more. A number of outdoor photos are also randomized to make each page unique.

This project also involved the theming of the Magento, an open source shopping cart application.

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BrewFinder

BrewFinder (2009)

If you've ever wandered around the beer isle looking for a new beer to try, then this project is for you. This handy iPhone webapp was developed to allow users to quickly find the rating of a beer from the popular beer review site, BeerAdvocate.com. The application relies on Google's API and AJAX for searching and the display of data. Never buy bad beer again with BrewFinder! It can be accessed from iPhones everywhere at findgoodbeer.com.

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Web Hosting Site Mockup

Web Hosting Site Mockup (2009)

This is a mockup layout intended for use by a web hosting company. It was created purely in Adobe Photoshop using some stock icons and imagery from the web. The purpose of this project was to practice composing a color scheme based on a pre-existing image.

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960 Grid System Test Prototype

New Outdoors Prototype (2009)

This prototype was created to experiment with the 960 Grid System and designing with a width of 960 pixels. I found it to be a breath of fresh air from the majority of 800 pixel designs I have worked on in the past.

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Restaurant Finder for iPhone

Restaurant Finder for iPhone (2008)

This application was created exclusively using XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and a JavaScript library to emulate the look and feel of the iPhone OS. The application prototype consists of one database containing several tables for storing restaurant information, ratings and reviews, and local cities. The interface allows for browsing by restaurant name, cuisine, and rating as well as searching by restaurant name and/or location.

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Recipe Prototype

Recipe Prototype (2008)

This project consisted of creating a database to house recipes, ingredients, cuisines, and courses in addition to developing a PHP-based frontend and backend interface. The backend interface allows for easy entry of recipes, ingredient, cuisines, and course vocabulary. The frontend interface allows for faceted browsing of recipes as well as searching using a controlled vocabulary.

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Call-maker Arnie Jonathan

Call-maker Arnie Jonathan (2007)

This site was created to showcase the work of custom game call maker Arnie Jonathan. It has received numerous compliments for its ease of use and photo-centric design.

Plogger, an open source photo gallery, was used to allow Arnie to easily upload images and make changes without any knowledge of HTML.

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Precision Effect

Precision Effect (2007)

Precision Effect is a web hosting company focused on quality over quantity. As the owner of the company, I felt the site needed to be both usable and aesthetically pleasing. Based on user feedback, the new site has been a great success.

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HCI Mortgage

HCI Mortgage (2006)

HCI Mortgage is a mortgage banker licensed to conduct business in over 30 states. With their website becoming out of date, the new site aims to give users a great deal of information before taking out a loan.

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