Below are some samples of my web site designs from current projects and professional designs to my first attempts in 1994. Links have been disabled for pages or sites no longer working.
Latest Projects: Site for bikehell.com (local bike shop)
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KentuckianaSurgeons.com is yet another professional site, and many think my best to date! I loved making the collage and my skills in my usage of PHP as a navigational tool are confirmed with this site. I love designing architecture with PHP in mind! It is basically a brochure site but it had to look trustworthy, professional yet not distant all at the same time. I also particularly like the stylized heartbeat. |
 | Doug Lucas.com is a site devoted to Doug Lucas, a professional dancer. More and more artists are using the web as an additional medium through which to display their art. This website sees more creative graphic design on my part, plus new functionality in a pop-up window in the gallery that cycles through numbered photographs allowing for ease of additional photos. |
 | Cafe Kilimanjaro is the site for this charming international cuisine cafe in downtown Louisville. Because many people do not know what these foods are off-hand, this site provides more descriptions so consumers can have an idea of what's on offer before they venture down to the cafe. The Cafe also provides weekend nightly dance clubs which are detailed in an events calendar. This site was challenging because of the photographs (which I took myself) and having to incorporate a previously branded product (the cafe and its logo). There are also constant updates and new content to be added in the future. |
 | www.AfricaInSight.org
was launched in September of 2001. The biggest step forward for this site is the use of
databases, php, and more javascript. It is the biggest site I've done to date. It is also the first of my sites to attempt to reach as wide an audience as possible. |
 | This littleteapot.org site was long in
development. This also utilized tables but incorporated Henri's idea of stretching to try to fit as many screens as possible. This point marks my idealist change from trying to restrict the user to stay within my designs to designing to fit any user interface and still maintain the integrity of the site. Furthermore it is my first attempts at includes to simplify site maintainence. |
 | mcass.co.uk is a site I built
but played no active part in the graphic design, for an urban regeneration
consultancy. Henri and I did play a major role in the design in that we
advised on the feasibility of what the graphic designers proposed. I did,
however, do all the information architecture, HTML work, and some graphics
work including cutting images apart. The current site has changed significantly from the original design. |
 | http://wedding.yandell.org(external) - Our Online Wedding Album which utilized my first attempts at CSS. |
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This was playing around with an idea for an
online literary magazine. Here's my first attempts at javascript and I learned frames, which I have since learned to have reservations about. |
 | First Decent Page - And I get into graphics. |
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Third Try - Slowly getting the idea graphic design wise but exactly the same information architecture. |
 | Second Idea - I've no idea why I thought this was a good idea. Fortunately at this rewrite I'd figured out that too much scrolling was a bad thing. |
 | First Ever Page This was one continuous page that scrolled (and scrolled and scrolled...) |
So there is my history and philosophy of web design. Currently I am also working on a design for my father's company, as well as considering putting some artwork for sale on the web. I also do contracting HTML work. If you think there's something that I could do for you, then please contact me: carrie at yandell.org.