PBKingdom
As it turns out, the largest "forums" based website in terms of concurrent users is a paintball oriented. The client for pbkingdom was interested in tapping into that group with a slightly different marketing strategy. This project was a challenge for me since it is based both in WordPress and VBulletin. In addition to writing themes for both platforms, I was also the designer. pbkingdom.com
Frosthawk
Frosthawk Games is a pen/paper gaming vendor. Up until now, they have been a blog but were interested in expanding to selling their wares online. This is a Magento implementation of a custom template . . . loosely based on the Acumen theme. Magento won't be my favorite platform, but it is robust in what it does. While the site is not live yet (the client is still entering content at the time of this writing) it will live at frosthawk.com.
UC College of Nursing v2
The College of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati was interested in being one of the first colleges at UC to implement the DAY CQ5 cms. This design takes advantage of several custom components and utilizes two separate templates. I like this design better than the last . . . seems a bit more lively. You can see this at nursing.uc.edu.
Cannon Design and Marketing
Melanie Cannon, a print designer by trade, asked me to whip up a little something-something for her portfolio. This is her first foray into the web design world, and I think it turned out quite well. She's super talented. Check out her work at brandingfor.me.
Nursing.uc.edu
University of Cincinnati College of Nursing
My first task at UC's College of Nursing was to "blow up" their former site and make the new site more inviting, and show off the "softer side of nursing. I think this site design and structure do just that. nursing.uc.edu
BJ Meyer & Sons Final Design
This is the final and production site of the BJ Meyer & Sons Funeral Home site. This site faced several challenges, not the least of which was connecting the site to their internal office obit database. The site features a CMS back end. bjmeyersons.com
Virtual Feedback
This was my least favorite project, and is now defunct. The goal was to take a product that was written by an internal-to-VF person (written, by the way in PHP3. Icky.) and resurrect its functionality. The idea was to allow customers of the company to leave feedback and fill out surveys, which generated a "star" rating that the sales person's profile. Let me tell you, not a pleasant experience. That said, once I completed recoding, it worked like a champion before the company decided to pull the plug on the project. Oh well.
Athletes Joined Against Spondylitis redesign
Athletes Joined Against Spondylitis (my non-profit) was in dire need of a redesign, but TJ and I have been so busy with other projects that it kept getting shoved to the bottom of the queue. We finally had a few minutes to rub together . . . this launched about 2 weeks ago. http://www.joinedagainst.org.