My Portfolio

Stovalan's Fall

I really hd a lot of fun working on the design for this site, which is unique for me. I developed a site managment tool for this site. It uses TinyMCE as a WYSIWYG editor. It uses a php back end to manage the pages on the site. I'm now maintaining the site. This is the site for Nimbus Gaming's primary asset. I compleated the site design and back end technology prior to joining the Nimbus Gaming team.

Nimbus Gaming

I developed a site managment tool for this site. It uses TinyMCE as a WYSIWYG editor. It uses a php back end to manage the pages on the site. I'm now maintaining the site. Nimbus Gaming is a Denver based game studio. I'm currently working as their webmaster. I'm working on several other sites under the Nimbus Gaming brand.

Velours Noir

I'm using the blog software I developed for Lost Girls with some interesting modifications. I'm going to have the blog section include events from the calendar and gallery sections.

The idea behind the gallery section is that the client will be able to upload images into a folder and the images will be automatically added to the gallery and processed.

The calendar will allow users to schedule appointments with the client, as well as showing events she's planning.

Green Rabbit Productions

This is a flash site I'm developing for Cara's film production company. The site loads showing thumbs of her most recent shorts and when you click on them they expand and play.

The idea behind this site is a simple expression of what's she's currently doing. There's no noise or unnecessary content there, just her work. There is a link to an RSS feed which has more of more of her projects.

I'm still working on a stand alone player for embedding in external sites. This will allow people to blog her short films. The player will obviously include information about the site and link the viewers back to the main site.

Lost Girls

This is my testing server and family site. It hosts a blog for the members of our family and files we're sharing with our friends. The server is located in our basement.

I'm really happy with the blog system I've implemented here. I have it harvesting the public posts from our Live Journals and formatting them for our site. There's special tags that make it easy to link to php.net's function manual and wikipedia articles. I've also implemented my own version of the <lj user=""> tag. My <name> tag uses arguments to update information about a name in my database so we can attach web site links, custom icons, and live journals to them. It also converts <lj user=""> to my tag if there is a matching <name> tag.

I also have a cronjob that creates a record of all the sites I'm working on every day that I work on them. This has proven useful when flash ate one of the files I was working on. I also plan on creating a client blog that will link to all these versions so people will get a glimpse into my creative process.

Wyoming Heritage Festivals

2007

I used some simple PHP to make the header and menu work. This makes it easy to update the header and menu for all the pages at once by having them in their own file. The menu is generated form an array that holds the pages and menu titles. It checks to see if the menu item it's printing is the current page and if it is it doesn't make it a link.

Technology used: PHP, CSS

OraRose Counseling Inc.

2007

This is a site I'm doing for Suzanne Orahood's new counseling office. The site includes basic information about her professional experience and her mission statement. Her clients can also go onto her site and download the forms they'll need to fill out prior to receiving treatment.

I've included a google map on her contact page so her clients will be able to get driving directions, and see what the surrounding area looks like.

I want to take some photos of her office and surrounding area to add to the site. I also want to get a better photo of her for the site.

Music Bot

2007

I'm developing a music bot that scans music blogs for new music and automatically downloads what it finds. The bot can download directly linked files, and files hosted on the zshare service. For the services that I can't automate I have the bot sending a daily e-mail to the client and myself.

This project makes use of advanced PHP functionality, including the file functions, and the system functions. I use the system function to use a linux command to submit a form value to the zshare service as part of the automation for downloading files from that service.

Bonnie's Wyoming Quilts

2005

I developed this site around the idea of making it easy for the client to update her own content. I used PHP's graphics library to size and crop the images of the quilts automatically. I also included database backups to minimize the risk of the client damaging the data. This is the first client site where I used PHP and MySQL.

With the design I wanted to do something simple and innovative. I also wanted to focus on the product being sold.

Technology used: PHP, MySQL, CSS

Wyoming Sight and Sound

2004

This is my first web site client. The site is designed to showcase projects the client had done. It does this by using JavaScript to show images. The side also includes lists of venders the client uses.

Technology used: HTML, MySQL, CSS