During my senior year in high school, I was tasked with creating a history course based on studying and analyzing foreign US conflicts. I decided to focus on smaller interventions that did not receive that much attention in order to make the course more interesting. In addition, I came up with the idea of a complementary website to help visualize the text. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Without images of the dictactors and warlords, how can one put a face to the actions they committed? That was the main idea of this site. To illustrate the people involved, the conflict, and the often messy resolution of each United States intervention.

The Children Direct Foundation needed a way to communicate with its audience online. I stepped in to help them create a easy to use, simple CMS powered website that allowed that them updated it without the need of any IT support. This site has helped them raise thousands of dollars to help poor children with education in South Carolina.

The bright color scheme envokes a childish yet official style. The use of large graphic images is relied on throughout the site to convey the importance of the foundation's missions.

With this personal project, I wanted to use a very simple, to the point design to complement the blog. And because it was an opinion blog, I decided I wanted to lay out the site sort of like a newspaper, with text being the primary component. I wanted to show the power of text alone without imagery. In a way, this was an experiment to see if a blog could be written without depending or even using pictures to complement the text. The large textual header draws the reader in, while not being too dominating, while the content of our posts are displayed below. I feel like if this project would have been continued, it might have taken off with some more work.

Marge needed someone to truly understand her business and to help her put it online. I talked her through the process of completing such a project, from the beginning stages all the way to the final product. She wanted something extremely simple and to the point in order to showcase her own abilities.

After several mockups and several revisions later, I came up with the final product. This site incorporated several key features including incredibly simple look and user interface, allowing anyone to use the site. In addition to being easy to use, the text on the site is really easy to read and personalized with a touch of handwriting text with the help of SIFR text. Finally, the site also uses several stock photos in an interesting way, literally showing how Marge can help her clients.

Small Blogs Network started as an idea of mine a few years ago. The rise of web services targeted towards web designers and developers exploded creating such sites as Smashing Magazine, CSS Mania, and others. I wanted to create a service also targeted towards web professionals, I saw a open niche within the web gallery category.

There are a lot of web galleries on the internet today, however I wanted to break the mold by creating a gallery that focused on a often overlooked niche. Most web galleries often just listed as many websites as they could find, I saw that blogs were often clumped together with other types of website, destroying any value they had as online journals. My intention with Small Blogs Network was to create a web gallery devoted only to blogs, only blogs with great content as well as great designs would be listed.

Cristiana's original blog was a terrible, horrific mess of a website. It also had no easy way for her to update whenever she went traveling around the world. I sat down with her to determine exactly what she needed in order to create an awesome revision of her existing blog.

In the process, I shifted to different types of designs in order to try to get a sense of what she wanted her site's style to be. I really liked a extremely literal interpretation of her online journal complete with many graphic elements, however we both settled on a more clean, streamlined modern approach. I then took this mockup and developed into a full fledge blog complete with the Wordpress backend, enabling Cristiana to easily update her site.

Like almost all of the websites I have done for myself and for my clients, I choose to stick with the most simple and effective way to show my work. The design is simple, relying on solid typography and images to carry the website. The reason why I decided to create this new portfolio is because I felt this version seemed a bit too old fashioned with a over reliance on serif fonts.

This version of my portfolio your looking at now, embodies exactly what I feel like a portfolio should be. Even with a modern, glossy feel, I managed to keep the site still simple and to the point.

After listening to their needs, I helped them create a visually appealing website that also heavily engages viewers into purpose of the foundation. In addition, I implemented Wordpress (an example of a CMS or content management system) so that the foundation could continue to update the site easily and quickly.

The Children of Kibera Foundation is involved in a great noble cause, and when I was approached to help them establish an online presence, I did not hesitate. In addition to helping them create the first edition of their online website, I am still the sitting webmaster/designer and developer. I intend to bring a new design in the coming months along with a new, expanded promotion campaign to help spread awareness.

Because this project involved many photographs, I implemented several slide shows around the site using a customized version of a javascript library.

ATCO Mechanical Engineering needed me to help them create a simple, modern solution to help promote their business online. I sat down with them and came up with several solutions that eventually culminated in this current design you see here. The site accomplished all of our goals, including looking simple, easy to use, and graphically pleasing with Javascript powered slide shows. This site was created with valid (X)THML/CSS in addition with a touch of Javascript.

Weather Control Inc. came to me seeking a clean, easy solution. After sitting down with them and brainstorming several ideas on how to achieve this goal, I came up with a simple, clean, and accessible website to advertise they services to potential customers.

I wanted to make sure their website showed the quality of their services, so I designed the site with a heavy emphasis on images to showcase their talent. I also made it really easy for them to display all of their previously hard to read information on single pages, cutting down on the clutter and streamlining the site. This site was created with valid (X)HTML/CSS.