A note about these projects: Even though most of these projects are both dated and perhaps not the most impressive to look at, I’m happy to share them here as a roadmap of my professional development. The best is always yet to come.
Yelp.com
Dates Involved: October 2009 – Present
I’ve been working here for over a year now, and it’s awesome. It’s exhilarating to know that the work I do is having an impact (hopefully positive) on 41 million unique visitors a month (as of Dec 2010). It’s also an honor to work with so many incredible engineers.
Personal News Network – pnn.com
Dates Involved: June 2006 – Jan 2009
PNN was my first professional web gig. Originally hired to squash ie6 bugs, I since coded almost all of the front-end xhtml/css and made a good deal of design decisions. Unfortunately, the site is now slowly growing cob webs.
PNN’s functionality follows the general format of ‘drag and drop – build your own website’ and offers a whole boat ton of themes for your PNN page (I designed a handful of these).
My PNN page: hyro.pnn.com.
Extension Media – eecatalog.com
Dates Involved: August 2009 – October 2009
EECatalog was the largest project I worked on for Extension Media. Starting with WordPress Multi-user as a base for this new site, and an old custom CMS containing approximately 10,000 items of legacy content and tons of functionality to duplicate in WordPress, I hacked away for months in a jungle of PHP and MySQL to produce the end result seen here.
California Voices – californiavoices.org
Dates Involved: Winter 2008
A joint GIIP and CMC initiative, CA voices is a rails powered video sharing site to preserve unique cultural stories. I did the design and xhtml/css template for this site.
Center for MultiCultural Cooperation – cmcweb.org
Dates Involved: Spring 2007
Similar story to CA Voices, except that CMC is a joomla powered site. I made the initial CMC design with a few others, and then produced the joomla template.
North Bay Entertainment – northbayentertainment.com
Dates Involved: Winter 2005 – Present
This was the first professional contract I worked on. When I started working with NBE, it was a table-based, static-html site. I produced a CMS for it (my first!), and replaced all the table markup with semantic HTML and CSS.
Note: This site has recently been discontinued. I’m (kinda) sad to see it go.