Website Development
In my spare time, I work as a freelance web developer. I've hand-coded and worked on sites for university professors, an academic department, the Arizona Freedom Center, and a brewery. If you are interested in hiring me to build a site for you, please contact me.
Philosophy
My goal in developing websites is to advance the goal of standards compliance — freeing the web from the idiosyncracies of individual browsers. The reason is simple: to build websites that will render properly across multiple devices and browsers and are accessible to all users. Finally, I want to stop the cycle of endlessly supporting old & crummy browsers. How crummy is your browser?
I hand-code all of my sites in valid XHTML and CSS. I look forward to transitioning to HTML5. For those interested, I prefer to write code in Espresso on the Mac. I have also fallen in love with Acorn for all of my image-editing needs.
Portfolio
Below you will find a sample of the websites I have developed and worked on.
Vertigo Brewing
Vertigo Brewing is an independently-owned microbrewery located in Hillsboro, Oregon. As a brand new company, our goal was to produce a professional website to provide potential customers with information about Vertigo's handcrafted ales, as well as to provide a means of contact for local pubs and restaurants.
Today, Vertigo Brewing is experiencing explosive growth and hopes to become one of the Northwest's premier microbreweries.
Vertigo Brewing: Mobile Site
In response to increasing demand for on-the-go browsing, I worked to develop a mobile site for Vertigo Brewing. The goals of a mobile site are, at the same time, liberating and challenging — to simplify your content for the mobile user and optimize it for smaller screens.
Academic: Michael Gill
Michael Gill is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona. Michael wanted a website to provide scholars access to his written publications, as well as to serve as a landing page for students enrolled in his courses.
University Course: Mind, Matter & God
Unsatisfied with our university's online learning managements systems, I developed a website to serve as the first point-of-contact for all students taking Mind, Matter & God — a course that serves over one thousand students every academic year at the University of Arizona.
Access is restricted to enrolled students at this time.
The Arizona Freedom Center
The Arizona Freedom Center's website was originally designed and built by Ian Evans and Nathan Ballantyne. I was brought in to help continue the migration of the site from one managed by a single webmaster to a CMS-driven site easy to edit by a variety of non-technical staffers.
We used Perch to drive the site.