News

December 7, 2005

I added a gallery of CAB Spotlights today to showcase the weekly design work I did to advertise CAB's events.

December 2, 2005

Time for a post-co-op update. I finished up at Nazareth College (and RIT) in mid-November. In my time at Naz, I got the opportunity to use my Flash skills and learn some really interesting new stuff like Contribute. I worked on a variety of projects, including a presidential inauguration and a complete site redesign. Two of my best projects from the last nine months, the Fulbright Map and Holiday Card, are now in the projects section.

March 10, 2005

As of this past Monday, March 7, I work for the IT Department of Nazareth College. I'll be there (on co-op) until the end of the summer. We have some pretty cool projects lined up; more details and links to follow.

Jan 22, 2005

Wow, it's been a while. I came back up to Rochester in the fall and started school, and things got a little hectic. Anyway, you see the new, expanded site design. Each project now has its own page so I can provide more details and more illustrations.

CAB is still my main day-to-day project (and occasional source of headaches). Back in November We won second place in the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA)'s Northeast Division website competition. Since I'll be on co-op this spring and summer and graduating after next fall, I've been involved lately in the process of hiring a new assistant designer.

In December and January, I developed a ticket sales system to help us keep track of tickets for our shows. We sell tickets at multiple locations, and in the past it had been difficult to keep track of how many tickets students were buying on their IDs. My software helps to enforce our sales limits and also aids in totalling up daily sales.

This year I also became involved with Signatures magazine, an arts and literary yearly published by a club of students here at RIT. Working with Signatures' IT director, I contributed to the main site, as well as several back-end administrative functions, and we're currently developing a voting system so that the staff can evaluate student submissions and decide what goes into the magazine.

Finally, in my spare time I've been working on a bit of photo album software. I needed something to keep my pictures from various trips in order, and the photoblog I wrote last year wasn't cutting it. The album software is about half done; photo uploading, automatic cropping and resizing, tagging, and displaying are completed, but I still need to implement album creation, moving photos from one album to another, and user authentication.

13 Jul 2004

A few bits of news today. I posted a new site I've been working on, the College Activities Board 2004 layout. CAB is my job for the six or nine months a year I'm at RIT, and for my last full year there I wanted to do a layout that's attractive, usable, and 100% standards-compliant. The new site isn't very functional yet, but the layout is complete so you can get a sense of the site look-and-feel.

Sadly, my layout for Brean Water didn't end up getting used. You can view the final design (not my work) at www.breanwater.com.

2 Jul 2004

New project today with Ohio Media: Metro Trading Association. This site was abandoned halfway through by the previous designer and was laid out using every old-school trick in the book: tables, spacer GIFs, gobs of non-validating proprietary tags (thank you very much, Adobe GoLive). My CSS redesign cut page weights by 50 to 75 percent and standardized the look and feel of what had been an extremely visually inconsistent site.

9 Jun 2004

I've just finished a new site layout (for Ohio Media) that I'm kind of proud of. I've been maintaining a lot of sites with poor alignment and typography lately, so I made a really conscious effort to follow a grid on this one. It's pretty flexible, and I feel like I've gone a lot more graphical than you normally see with a CSS-based site. Check it out: Brean Water.