Getting You On The 'Net

The following are examples of some of the Web sites I've completed. They will give you an idea of the functional and design requirements that I can meet.

Heart of Texas Recumbent Rally

I particularly enjoyed building this site, because I support this biking group and, since I'm doing it voluntarily, I get to make the design decisions myself. I chose a neat CSS design that automatically collapses the columns when re-sized and I created the graphics by changing recumbent bike pictures to interesting "drawings". That was fun! I also figured out some interesting coding that avoided the need for database support by using "registration" emails to send information text strings optimized for import into the staff's management spreadsheet. That could be a useful technique in future sites.

Proscribe

This is a "dynamic" site, since it interacts with a database. This site has password protected sections, and employee applications. The client uses the site and its dynamic capabilities to help work with, monitor, and schedule their growing staff of "scribes". I also created the "banner" graphic used at the top of every page and I found most of the graphics used to enhance the various pages.

Masters Leadership Program of San Antonio

This is one of my most complex sites, partially because it is actually two sites: one for the program and one for an associated Alumni Association. It is also a "dynamic" or database driven site, with password protected sections, event registration and payment, major searches of a multi-table database of events, registrants, students and alumni, web application forms and even dynamic, printable forms used by the organization's Board of Directors. I also built it with lots of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) structural elements. I'm using CSS technologies more and more now, because the W3C folks are touting those as the future of the Web.

San Antonio Educational Assessment & Consulting

A very basic informational site for a small business. I'm pleased the way the design turned out: quite clean and professional. I also coded a simple "hit counter" for the client that doesn't require a database. Again, the site is optimized for client maintenance.

Daughters of Charity of San Antonio

This site is now different, since the organization decided to go with an in-house Web designer who wanted to use a simpler design. However, I keep this design up there to highlight my first "bilingual" site. I enjoyed the process involved in essentially building two sites: one in English and one in Spanish. Since I do not know Spanish, this was only possible with some really active and creative support and guidance from my client. This was a great example of a "collaboration" with my client as team mate.

Master Marine

The customer had some very specific requirements for the "look" of the site. He also wanted "links" to the various manufacturers' sites that required some interesting use of page code "includes" to maintain a visitor's connection to the Master Marine site. Also, like the Down Syndrome site (see below), I made the site easy for the client to maintain with Adobe Contribute.

Military Officers Association - San Antonio & Texas

I built both of these sites, using related design themes and even site structure to highlight their organizational relationship. I also maintain the sites as a free service as part of my commitment as a graduate of the Masters Leadership Program in San Antonio (see below).

Association of the US Army - Alamo Chapter

This is a "legacy" site, where the client asked me to take over maintenance, improvements, and modifications. It's an older design, that uses a lot of "nested" tables to position text and graphics, but it serves their purposes well. I've updated content and added Pay Pal functionality for online event registrations.

Safe Familia

This is one of my "small business" sites. Two ex-firemen have started a business using song and entertainment to pitch fire safety programs to schools and other organizations. This is the only site I've done where clients wanted sound - they have sample songs from their CD.

Down Syndrome Association of San Antonio

This site had heavy database requirements - tracking/managing members, children, events, even T-shirt sales. The database section is password protected, so its only accessible by the DSASA staff. Of note, I worked with the client to make this site very easy to update. I introduced the client to Adobe Contribute (Content Management Software or CMS) and they have become very proficient at site maintenance.

San Antonio Medical Group Management Association

A basic site for a local organization of doctors who want to manage their association and its activities online. I set it up to maximize their ability to maintain and update the site themselves.