Below are some samples of my website designs from my first rough sites in 1994 to more professional jobs ending in 2004.
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KentuckianaSurgeons.com is essentially 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 was a site devoted to Doug Lucas, a professional dancer. This website saw more creative graphic design on my part, plus new functionality in a pop-up window in the gallery that cycled through numbered photographs allowing for ease of additional photos. |
 | This was a website for a charming international cuisine cafe in downtown Louisville. Because many people were not immediately familiar with foods offered at Cafe Kilimanjaro, this site provided more descriptions so consumers could have an idea of what to expect when they visit. The Cafe also provided weekend nightly dance clubs which were 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 were also frequent updates and new content planned for the future, which required a flexible website structure. |
 | Africa in Sight was launched in September of 2001. The biggest step forward for this site was the use of
databases, php, and more javascript. It collected data on perceptions of Africa, relayed general information on various countries, as well as recent news links. It was the biggest site I had done at that point. It was also the first of my sites to attempt to reach as wide an audience as possible. |
 | The Littleteapot.org site was long in
development. It 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 was my first attempt at using includes to simplify site maintainence. |
 | mcass.co.uk was 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. |
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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 regarded as evil. |
 | 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 Website This was one continuous page that scrolled (and scrolled and scrolled...) |