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TAZZA GLASS - Mike Grau, Glassblower, Medina, OH. This web portfolio/store required a very high contrast framework; however, to lessen glare, headers and text were cast in tints and shades rather than true hues. The splash page required special attention to pattern/texture, contrast and proximal clarity. The News blog runs on WordPress. The web store runs on OSCommerce - a highly customizable and robust application that features an intuitive administrative backend so that site owners can easily update their own stores without needing to call upon their web developers to execute every change for them. For truly one of a kind gifts or to add to your own collection, I highly recommend TAZZA GLASS.

Peak Pest Control - The template for this site was created by an other web designer. The business owner wanted to keep his template, but had several "Pest Information" pages that contained very cursory information. He was also using a third-party forms processor which charged a recurring flat monthly fee. I researched and compiled detailed pest information specific to the region that his business serves, sourced appropriate images, and recreated his forms on his web host's server, freeing him from dependence on third-party processors.

Marilyn A. Norconk, PhD. - Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Graduate Faculty in the School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University (Ohio). The latest version of this site is rich with photos and graphics yet CSS-driven so that all pages can easily be accessed via text-only-browsers for the purpose of Section508 compliance, vitally important in the University setting.

NEOAVER.org - NorthEastern Ohio American Veterans for Equal Rights - Cleveland / Akron / Canton / Youngstown chapter of AVER. This site is presently under reconstruction as the chapter is rebuilding after a long period of dormancy.

AVER - American Veterans for Equal Rights [formerly GLBVA] - a national Veterans Service Organization. The site template had not changed much at all since 1998 - aqua background with red, white, and black text, so it required a ground-up overhaul. The org. also wanted to add various interactive features, plus an online payment gateway for dues and donations. When I took control of this site in September 2004, I created all new graphics and a basic PHP template so that several dynamic files could be called on all web pages, plus custom contact, donation and membership forms, and then integrated a highly modified phpBB bulletin board. In Spring of 2008, I converted the site to the Joomla!1.5 Content Management System (Section508 compliant) so that officers without any web design experience could generate content as easily as using a word processing program or a rich-text email client, instead of relying on a web developer for each and every update. As of 30 September 2010, complete control of this site will be transferred to AVER's Chief Systems Administrator, who will mainly be in charge of security updates and version upgrades. Do you need a feature rich site that YOU can maintain / update? Ask me about a Joomla! installation!

As a graduate student, I was hired as the webmaster for the Anthropology Dept at KSU -- a very impressive department in its own, and now sister dept. of the Matthew Ferrini Institute for Human Evolutionary Research. The goal in designing this website was to bring it out of 1999 and as far into contemporary web design as possible so that its utility would last for several years, while building the structure in such a manner that [whichever graduate assistant took over after me] would not need to be a pro-web designer to maintain it. It employed both javascript drop-down menus, as well as a full footer site-map to maintain Section508 compliance. This site was completed in December 2003. My complete design was in use until early 2009, setting its lifespan at just over 5-years. In 2010, this site was converted to the standardized Kent State University template.

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