Category Archives: Web Development

Type: Full Solution

About: All Around Bend is my travel guide and this is the companion website. I ran it like a blog mostly, with Bend-related news, and for a while it had an ecommerce shop. As it is, I am not in Oregon and both the site and book are on somewhat of a hiatus. This website is built in Joomla, custom themed, with a companion Facebook social media presence.

Type: Full Solution

About: Creating sites for non-profits is rewarding, but creating sites for boxing champs…is awesome! I had full creative control over Pawel’s site, and with his enthusiastic feedback went from design to a live site in mere weeks. The site is built on Drupal, with a full Prestashop ecommerce store attached. It’s one of my more creative sites, graphical and gritty. Pawel is currently in semi-retirement, so the site isn’t as slick as it was when he was selling tickets and in the news a lot.

Type: Full Solution

About: Blooming Desert Landsapes in Bend, Oregon is one of my favorite personal clients, and an amazing husband-wife landscaping team! For this client, I built the site from scratch in Joomla, integrating custom flash slideshows, complex forms, as well as working with client on design, site layout, SEO and social media. There’s also a companion blog, facebook presence, and their awesome Steel Life web store.

Type: Develop and Deploy

About: Beyond the heaps of non-profits and personal pages, I also have quite a few business sites in my portfolio. Northline is a Bend-area financial advisory company site, built on a custom Thesis-based WordPress solution. It was a collaborative effort by myself and several colleagues at ZuriGroup, but I coded most of the site, as well as provided my lovely All Around Bend photography across their different pages.

Type: Support

About: iPivoted.org is a great microcharity site where aspiring inner-city students post profiles with hopes that donors will help with education expenses. A good bit of this site was designed and coded by my great co-workers at ZuriGroup, but I played a role as the Joomla/CiviCRM resource: building out the JAT3 theme, setting up and managing the back-end, and technical project management. This is an amazing Joomla site, really showing what can be done with a bit of custom code and a great design!

In addition to full site or page designs, I also do a ton of small buttons, banner ads, icons, emails, photo editing, and pretty much any designs a client needs.

Type: Full Solution

About: Camp Carathir is a back-burner pet project of mine and some nerdy friends; an ongoing effort to create a community of historians, re-enactors, medieval enthusiasts and performers, with the hope to meet and provide a resort or camping experience for the community. For the site, I did all the design, copy, site coding, forum moderation, social media, marketing work and more. This site is Joomla based, with many custom elements

Type: PPC and SEO

About: For this non-profit client, I developed an effective EOY campaign for their online store, which focused on driving both organic and paid search traffic. On a budget of $1624, the adword campaign drove $21,058 in direct sales. Total site sales topped $80k thanks to both my SEO improvements as well as client-based newsletters and email campaigns.

Type: Full Solution

About: Living Goods is a non-profit that took the ‘Avon Lady’ model to the poorest parts of Africa. They provide both healthcare and medical products, and through micro-loans and charity, allow local women to become stable and long-term business owners. A great idea! This project was a full-site remodel, with the provided designs. I rolled out their entire new site from the server up. This site is actually built on WordPress, though hard to tell; it’s heavily customized from the normal ‘wordpressy’ styling.

Type: Design and Development

About: Designed a site for ChildFund International; a standalone landing and donation page customized for the huge CSC corporation as an internal fundraising drive. This is a hand-coded site with mostly html/css, custom JS for the thermometer (thanks Mike!) and custom styling of the web form. I also designed and coded the confirmation page and email confirmation templates.

Type: Facebook App Build-out

About: The awesome folks over at the International Rescue Committee are doing great things, and they have a very talented designer on staff. Via client-provided designs, I was tasked with coding up the php/html and turning it into gorgeous and interactive Facebook pages/Apps. I’ve done a total of three unique FB Apps for the IRC, and look forward to many more!

Type: FB App, Custom embedded form

About: Integrated their large Halloween fundraising drive to leverage their existing Facebook presence. Created a custom donation form and convered it into an App, embedded within FB itself. I also did much of the backend work, building the form and wrapper in both e2RM and Convio CRM solutions.

Type: Facebook App

About: Compassion International is a faith-based non-profit that helps kids worldwide. I helped them develop several effective Facebook campaigns, as their project manager and also with some of the design, coding, and facebook app developer aspects. We launched three successful campaigns with them.

In addition to normal web design, development, or project management, I sometimes get to spread my wings and go on some field trips. The latest of these included stops in Dallas and Chicago to moderate both 1-on-1 and larger focus groups. These sessions put an assortment of folks in front of websites we were designing, and it was my job to get feedback, guide and instruct the participants, and ask questions. Following the sessions, I then had to analyze the data and make recommendations to the client.

Type: Site Migration/Rebuild

Heifer International is an amazing non-profit that provides many things, including livestock, to families around the work. For Heifer, I managed the entire site migration from an older CMS into Drupal. I rebuild (‘cloned’) the old site as a Drupal theme, and led our team that migrated all the data (some 400+ nodes) and spearheaded QA. For the intricate site, we used both out-of-the-box solution like the Views module, as well as custom code for things like navigation, lightboxes, and interactive elements. This was a four-month project that culminated in a seamless transition from old site to new.

Type: Design, Develop, Consulting

About: In my current capacity with ZuriGroup, I perform ongoing work for the national UMC board’s many websites, including design work. Sites include their community portals, internship program, general board page, etc. I have also designed and built the entire blog mini-site: http://healthcarejustice.org/

Type: Event ‘Thon’

About: There are thousands of non-profits that have walks and events across the country every year. The Lung Cancer Alliance holds their “Shine-a-Light” event every November and I designed, coded and deployed their 2011 thon. (Some of the fancier elements like the interactive map on the landing page were not my doing). This project was built on a custom Blackbaud FaF CMS/CRM solution, but all the code sits as html and javascript.

In addition to design work, I also do a lot of hand-coding of existing designs, specializing in cross-client compatibility. Getting a complex email to look right in Outlook, Thunderbird, iMail, Gmail, Yahoo.. is not easy, but with a good eye for detail and knowledge of CSS and HTML quirks, I’m able to turn any design into reality!

I’ve created email for dozens of clients, such as: Arthritis Foundation, Amnesty International, Autism Speaks, ChildFund International, East Bay SPCA, New York Blood Center, PolicyLink, UNICEF:Canada, and more…

Type: Email Buildouts

About: Amnesty International is a wonderful client, and I was proud to help on a few small projects, including the coding newsletter templates, cleaning up code, and performing QA services for copy.