Portfolio
Charlie and Elizabeth (2008)
http://www.charlie-and-elizabeth.com/ [visit]
| Customer | Charles and Elizabeth Burger (my wife and I) |
| Purpose | To create a simple communication medium for my wedding and reception information and photos. |
| Theme | Matching artwork to wedding invitations, with simple and clean design lines. |
| Resources | First CSS and XHTML validated site. Improved on embedded online contact form, adding homegrown spam protection and dynamic form elements. Created artwork for invitations and webpage. |
YouthElevate Blog (2007)
http://blog.youthelevate.com/ [visit]
| Customer | Union Center's ELEVATE Youth Program |
| Purpose | To create stronger online presence and increase communication potential to Elevate audience. |
| Theme | Incorporate artwork and color scheme from recent t-shirts to bring brand continuity, while creating clean, easy-to-read blogging environment. |
| Resources | Popular blogging software used with SQL backend. Heavy template modification to colors and artwork. Artwork manipulation from original file to fit image form factor. |
Charles Burger (2007)
http://www.charlesburger.com/ [visit]
| Customer | Charles Burger (me) |
| Purpose | My personal website, filled with information about myself. |
| Theme | Simple formatting with a distressed theme. Attractive with many color schemes. |
| Resources | Templated page with custom artwork. Reused embedded online contact page from GreaterScapesNC.com. Dynamic photo album for artwork and pictures. |
Greater Scapes Landscaping (2007)
http://www.greaterscapesnc.com/ [visit]
| Customer | Greater Scapes, Inc. |
| Purpose | Provide online presence and porfolio center for Greater Scapes capabilities |
| Theme | Create simple and attractive website using earthy colors and customer's own photos |
| Resources | Worked with customer to generate content, including new photos of landscaping he'd provided. Created waterfall flash element, and wrote script to provide live weather details (from Weather.com). Also, this was the first site to use the embedded online contact page. This site is currently maintained by Charlie. |
ELEVATE CD Release Site (2006)
http://elevateband.youthelevate.com/ [visit]
| Customer | Union Center's ELEVATE Youth Program |
| Purpose | To increase hype of the worship team's CD release |
| Theme | Create simple, yet visually dynamic, elements to create aesthetic experience. |
| Resources | To provide continuity with the CD, art was provided. Dynamic Flash elements were created from still art. Also, embedded controllable music is provided. Slick interface provided for lyric images. |
ELEVATE Online (2005)
http://www.youthelevate.com/ [visit]
| Customer | Union Center's ELEVATE Youth Program |
| Purpose | Provide online presence and muster point for all ELEVATE activity |
| Theme | Create visually dynamic elements to create intuitive and aesthetic experience. |
| Resources | Basic layout was provided. Most visual elements were provided, but all dynamic elements were created from scratch or integrated from purchased solutions. Site features dynamic image hosting, database calendar, flash music player, unique user settings (through cookies), and database driven profile server. This site is currently maintained by Charlie. |
RXSeven.com (2003)
http://www.rxseven.com/ [visit legacy site]
| Customer | Gift to family member |
| Purpose | To create online presence, gallery, and showroom for our family's interest in the Rx-7 community |
| Theme | Create intuitive and aesthetic experience, while keeping it easily maintainable. |
| Resources | All layout and art was created from scratch. Forum was heavily modified and integrated into sites's look and feel. Site has been dissolved. |
SUNY IT IEEE Club (2002)
http://www.sunyit.edu/~ieee/ [visit legacy site]
| Customer | SUNY IT IEEE Student Club |
| Purpose | To create online communication for student club to members |
| Theme | Create intuitive and aesthetic experience, while conveying large amounts of information. |
| Resources | IEEE provided guidelines on layout and art, but actual code was built from scratch, and significant modifications to the art were made. After leaving the school, the club has changed the page. |
