Fishy Business Inc. is (was?) an aquarium shop in Belgrade, MT. They wanted a site to advertice the store and it's services as well as list changing livestock inventory. They let their web presence die, but this what I salvaged from the design phase to put on my own server. The coral pic on the upper left of the home page is changed randomly with a php script every time you go to the page.
I built all of the regional election coverage pages and most of the rest of the RespectMontana.org site from the ground up to go with the companies $100,000 media campaign for the fall, 2002 general election voter education campaign. Previously, it had been a clone of the original MCV site. Part of the challenge was integrating the old Frontpage site with the new site I was trying to create. This link is to part of the site I salvaged to my own web hosting account when it was taken down, so it is not fully functional.
The Prickly Pear Land Trust site was originally done in Dreamweaver years ago, then interns and volunteers at the non-profit organization took over and added FrontPage to the mix. I was contracted in April of 2005 to re-construct and maintain the site and rescue it from the bloated, confused mess it had evolved into. The challenge has been to revamp the site while keeping it active and functional the entire time.
Montana Conservation Voters was one of the two sites I had responsibility for in my previous job. I started work for MCV in March, 2001, and crude versions of the sites were already up and limping along. Crytech designed and initially maintained them, after which they were turned over to office staff and interns, which left them in great disarray. I took over maintenance in April of 2001 and revived and reshaped them.
In 2003, I did a complete makeover on the Montana Conservation Voters web site for my capstone project at Rocky Mountain College. I removed it entirely from FrontPage and recoded it in XHTML and CSS, which cut page weight bt 60%. I also added a legislator lookup function using PHP and MySQL for voter information access, an email action alert sign-up form, and an improved membership signup page.
The second site I designed and ran for MCV was Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund. I also designed a stand alone web log feature for them for the 2003 state legislature. This allowed their lobbyist to put out updates directly from Helena with "This Week in the Legislature".
This page is a rough, early mock-up of the Nor-Bis-Con Group website. It is a non-working look at a rough draft of a home page. They approached me to do a website, but getting feedback, input and direction has been like loading frogs in a wheelbarrow. Someday, this might hit the web. Or it might not.
The first business I constructed a site for was the now defunct Tropical Shop. It's nothing fancy (all table based, pre-CSS, etc.) and it shows its age as well as my design naivete', but it is my first born, so I can't take it down.
Click on each of the dapper Dukes to access two different takes on the same content, produced for a class assignment in the Rocky Mountain College IT program. This collection of pages started as my jazz tribute site and a place to pontificate about the superiority of the art form, then evolved into a site design exercise. Speaking of art, the page on Ornette Coleman and Jackson Pollack will one day house my essay on the link between free jazz and abstract expressionism.
Turn up the volume (really) - this little site is one of those "under construction" things that lead nowhere. I liked the animated gif, so I started collecting some neat things about drums. Right now, all it contains is my first attempt at creating a drum loop with my congas.
This site is just a sampler that was put together for a class assignment at Rocky Mountain College. Its claim to fame is the conga background music and the redone jazz page using frames.