The Intervention Course website complements a history course focusing on more obscure United States foreign interventions. The idea of the site would be to provide additional material, enabling students to have a more interactive experience rather than just reading plain text in a textbook.
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The Children of Kibera Foundation (CoKF) is a charitable and educational foundation working to create opportunities for underprivileged children living in Nairobi’s largest slum – Kibera. The foundation needed a web presence in order to attract more donations to help their cause.
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Marge Coffey is experienced, and extensively trained. A psychotherapist with 27 years of providing competent and caring individual, couples and family therapy. She needed me to help her establish an online identity to help promote her services. After evaluating her needs and wants, I worked with Marge to create a clean, to the point website to showcase her business.
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Small Blogs Network is a web gallery. But not just any web gallery, I launched this iteration of SBN to showcase the best of the best blogs out there on the internet. I needed a clean, yet interesting design to draw readers to. The design you see here is very newspaper-life, literally interpreting the function of the website.
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Cristiana Valentini Katsu is a world traveler. Every world traveler needs somewhere to record the results of their varied, awesome journeys across the planet. And so, I helped Cristiana change her old blog into a more rich user expereince filled with pulled in media from Flickr. I also installed a CMS to help her easily update the site without any issues.
Launch Project“Eric is a solid guy, he developed a web interface for ICO. The final product was inexpensive, creative, well integrated, and graphically pleasing. It was a pleasure to work with him, and I look forward to reading about him in the business section in the future.”
“I was impressed with his portfolio and hired him to improve the site for my company. We are very pleased with Eric’s work which you can see at MrChilly.com. I enthusiastically recommend him to anyone who is looking for web design at a reasonable cost.”
“I had a blog that I updated often but it was cumbersome and looked antiquated. Eric met with me several times to figure out how to help me, coming up with a modern, sleek, and easy to update solution. I am still impressed with his work that I would recommend Eric.”
Hey there! My name is Eric Huang. I am a freshmen at the University of Notre Dame, way out in the middle of no where. You are looking at my awesome portfolio right now. I am a Web Designer & Developer focusing on creating simple, awesome solutions for my clients. I started in the web business a few years ago after I first started to tinker with the internet when I was little. The internet is an ever changing place, and soon I became interested in teaching myself the inner workings.
However, let me first talk about what I can offer you and your business. I have around two to three years of experience in the web industry, freelancing the great majority of the time. I have worked on websites and projects ranging from personal blogs to larger businesses and foundations. I am a sitting board member on one such charity and serve as the current webmaster/dedicated designer and developer of another. I strongly believe in the power of simplicity, and typography. In all of my projects I hope to emphasize those two points the greatest, making the most of the least amount of resources. Keeping it simple summarizes my web philosophy in one neat sentence, hopefully you will give me the opportunity to show you just what I mean.
Through my interest in learning more about the web, I stumbled across the very foundations of the internet, HTML and CSS. I taught myself these two languages and went on from there practicing and practicing. Not very long after I wanted to take my web skills to the next level. I started ThinkPoint, my first web business, a few years ago with the goal of helping my clients to better understand the benefits of putting their businesses online or redesigning could do for them.
The success of your business online is my own personal goal. I can offer you my services in helping you build out your online presence. And because I keep my web projects simple and to the point, you can be sure your message will be heard. I'd love to hear your proposal today! Please take a look at my portfolio to see what I can do for you and your business. If you’d like to contact me, please see the contact page.
The Intervention Course website complements a history course focusing on more obscure United States foreign interventions. The idea of the site would be to provide additional material, enabling students to have a more interactive experience rather than just reading plain text in a textbook.
Launch Project
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.
According2us is the pet project of myself and of a classmate. We intended this site or blog, to be the central location for our thoughts on a multitude of things. Including: the world, politics, people, and pretty much anything else. However, like most blogs, the life span of this project was quite short because of a number of reasons, time being the first one.
Launch Project
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 Coffey is experienced, and extensively trained. A psychotherapist with 27 years of providing competent and caring individual, couples and family therapy. She needed me to help her establish an online identity to help promote her services. After evaluating her needs and wants, I worked with Marge to create a clean, to the point website to showcase her business.
Launch Project
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 is a web gallery. But not just any web gallery, I launched this iteration of SBN to showcase the best of the best blogs out there on the internet. I needed a clean, yet interesting design to draw readers to. The design you see here is very newspaper-life, literally interpreting the function of the website.
Launch Project
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 Valentini Katsu is a world traveler. Every world traveler needs somewhere to record the results of their varied, awesome journeys across the planet. And so, I helped Cristiana change her old blog into a more rich user experience filled with pulled in media from Flickr. I also installed a CMS to help her easily update the site without any issues.
Launch Project
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.
ThinkPoint is the name I have used for the numerous incarnations of my online portfolio over the years. I choose this name because it embodied my ideal of the web, thoughtful design but to the point. However, I choose to retire this name when creating this new portfolio because I felt as if its use had run out.
Launch Project
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.
The Children of Kibera Foundation (CoKF) is a charitable and educational foundation working to create opportunities for underprivileged children living in Nairobi’s largest slum – Kibera. The foundation needed a web presence in order to attract more donations to help their cause.
Launch Project
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.
ATCO Mechanical Engineering needed a web presence in order to showcase their abilities and past projects to potential clients. They came to me looking for a simple solution to their needs. After listening to their needs, I came up with a clean, simple, accessible method to help them showcase their abilities and projects.
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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.
Since 1956 Weather Control has been providing its clients with professional, personalized, and reliable services in the field of commercial refrigeration. Weather Control Inc. needed a way to promote its services online. I came up with an incredibly simple, effective way to help spread their business online.
Launch Project
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.
I am available for freelance work pretty much all the time. Please feel free to contact me using this from whenever the need arises. If you want to get a quote for a project, talk business, or even just to become friends, please fill out the form with all the required information. I promise to get back to you as soon as I can, I look forward to your correspondence!
