My Web Development Portfolio
This is a list of most of the websites I have worked on since becoming interested in web development. Unless otherwise noted, I did all the coding of all aspects of the sites.
Professional websites
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Nathan McMurry Thomas Fund, Inc
Informational website about this non-profit organization. All pages are static. The website's only purpose is to serve as an online version of the fund's brochure. This version of the website is still in use and can be seen at NathanThomasFund.org.
August 2007Screenshots
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ORC Gear Room
This was the first website I was hired to build; and let me tell you, it was a learning experience. Its purpose was to handle the checking in and out of gear rentals from Colorado College's outdoor club. The website primarily monitored gear and user rental history, but also kept track of how much renter's owed and the condition of the gear. It was written in PHP and MySQL.
Spring 2005Screenshots
Useful websites
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OpenIDExplained.com
I collaborated with my friend Omer Bar-or for this informational website about the OpenID framework. It is aimed at people unfamiliar with OpenID. Our goal for the website was to present this information as simply as possible, and to seem as inviting as possible. All text is static and there is a PHP backend for the list of providers. This version of the website is still in use at OpenIDExplained.com.
September 2007Screenshots
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Online Organizer
This was my first attempt at a website meant to be used by the general public. It had two sections, a links page and a to-do page– both of which were unique in their own right. It was written in PHP and MySQL.
The links page served as a way to easily access one's most commonly used links, and had a Quicksilver-like search for finding them. It was not meant as a replacement for social bookmarking sites. The to-do page was a way to keep track of actions that one wanted to do on a regular basis, allowing you to mark them when done and say how often you wanted them completed. It was able to handle text messages for marking actions as completed.
Right when I had it in working form I decided to commence a clean up of the code base that was interrupted by a decision to port it to rails. It is still in private beta.
Fall 2006Screenshots
Personal websites
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thescruffypirate.org Redesign and Rewrite
I am very proud of this layout. Designing this layout (and working on the rewrite of the code base) made me decide to start down the path towards a career in web development. Most of the development for this version was spent on learning unobtrusive Javascript (for a feature that hasn't been made public, yet). It is still available online at thescruffypirate.org.
Summer 2007Screenshots
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thescruffypirate.org Redesign
For this redesign I threw out everything that wasn't needed. Everything was paired down. I wanted it to be as simple as possible. I also think this is the last time I will ever use a serifed font for thescruffypirate.org. I really begin to loathe that font.
Fall 2006Screenshots
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thescruffypirate.org Redesign and Rewrite
This is my favorite layout that I have written for thescruffypirate.org. However, I eventually decided the text was hard to read so I moved on. It was also my first website using Ruby on Rails.
Fall 2005 and Summer 2006 (school got in the way!)Screenshot
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thescruffypirate.org Redesign
This was an experiment in photoshop and an attempt at trying something new. I would mark this as the beginning of my career as a confident graphic designer.
Spring 2005Screenshot
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thescruffypirate.org Redesign and Rewrite
Though, this was not the first version of my personal website, it is the oldest version for which I have a screenshot. This is one of my favorite layouts for my website (I have written over 20); I am very proud of its structure, flow and ease of use. This was written in PHP and MySQL.
Fall 2004Screenshot
