Problem: Quickly deliver an email newsletter on a low budget.

Solution: Modify an existing email template to conform to the design.

Role: Front-End Developer

Technologies: CampaignMonitor template

Problem: Mercy wanted to provide its patients with a drill-down, search site to find a doctor during the open enrollment period of their employer’s health plan. Mercy wanted it done in a week.

Solution: Using a web application framework the site was deployed on time, complete with multiple search vectors, DHTML and AJAX elements, e-card form with different templates, admin UI for the custom CMS, and the ability to operate under two separate, branded domains.

Role: Front-End and Back-End Developer

Technologies: Kohana (PHP), jQuery

Problem: Build a custom CMS to manage an online store’s inventory on a $200 budget.

Solution: Use frames to emulate templating. Use the filesystem as the data store and create a custom PHP script to read a folder of thumbnail images. The filenames of those thumbnails contain the name and size of the product. Use jQuery to create an interface for filtering those thumbnails.

Role: Front-End and Back-End Developer

Technologies: PHP, jQuery

Problem: Create a spin-off site to support the growing user base of my popular script for restyling Google Calendar.

Solution: Used off-the-shelf software and services for providing downloads, support forums, wiki, etc.

Role: Designer, Front-End Developer, Administrator

Technologies: WordPress, Google Code, jQuery

Problem: Create a public-facing brochure site integrated with a private ecommerce site for registered users.

Solution: Deployed and customized Magento for the ecommerce site and leveraged the built-in CMS and template system for the brochure site.

Role: Front-End and Back-End Developer

Technologies: Magento, Prototype/script.aculo.us

Problem: CHBP wanted a series of US and UK product mini-sites that each funnel into a centralized, custom checkout.

Solution: Build a master application each for the US and UK mini-sites that can be replicated easily. A configuration file contains the site specific data. The templates use a standard grid system so that designs are easily swapped. Create a single checkout system under an umbrella domain for introducing the parent brand.

Role: Front-End and Back-End Developer

Technologies: CodeIgniter (PHP), jQuery, 960.gs

Problem: Loving Dedications created a Google Books library and wanted to provide this suggested reading list to their funerary clients with an easy-to-use interface that can be easily deployed and rebranded.

Solution: Export the list as an XML file, read the XML file, dynamically build the list, and finally create a filter based on each book’s set of tags.

Role: Designer, Front-End and Back-End Developer

Technologies: Google Books, PHP SimpleXML, jQuery

Problem: Bored of cliché designs for my personal blog.

Solution: Rolled my own.

Role: Front-End Developer, Administrator

Technologies: WordPress, 960.gs

Problem: jgt needed to manage an ever growing number of abstracts.

Solution: Create a custom CMS so that abstracts are filed by volume, issue, and author. Also provide a hierarchical set of topics for tagging the abstracts. Finally provide multiple search methods for users to find the abstract they are looking for.

Role: Designer, Front-End and Back-End Developer, Administrator

Technologies: MS-SQL, ASP, Flash, IE7 JavaScript library

Problem: LBG had a static site with lots of content, but not a large budget. How do you redesign a site that is flexible and easy to update without using a CMS?

Solution: I provided different CSS classes and HTML templates to handle the various content types, and trained the client how to make the necessary edits. A noteworthy item is that drop shadows are rendered using CSS.

Role: Designer, Front-End Developer

Technologies: IE7 JavaScript library

Problem: Marketing was updating content in two places—the website and the accounts receivable database, AcumenBook. How do you save time and reduce mistakes?

Solution: I leveraged AcumenBook’s ODBC interface to pull updated data on a nightly basis into the website database. This way, only one database served as the master source for content.

Role: Designer, Front-End and Back-End Developer, Administrator

Technologies: MS-SQL, 4D, ASP, VBScript, Flash, Google Calendar

Problem: Given a small budget, create an online brochure with an email form and design a logo.

Solution: Minimize and reuse design elements. Since the content spanned only 6 pages and was not going to change very often, we decided on a basic HTML site using only 2 templates. The graphics I needed to create were also kept to a minimum—a header background image, the home page background image, and the logo. Client-side validation for the email form was provided by JavaScript.

Role: Designer, Front-End Developer

Technologies: CBE cross-browser DHTML API

Problem: How do you turn a graphic artist’s print materials into a dynamic web design?

Solution: Pixel-perfectly, using CSS and JavaScript.

Role: Front-End Developer

Technologies: CBE cross-browser DHTML API