Let's talk about websites. I tend to work on websites that get stuck behind firewalls so, even though I point you to the live sites, you won't see much beyond a demo or two. What can I say? I tend to build content sites and the owners want money before you can see it. I'll give you a quick look here though.
I had a wonderful four months as a contractor for accessIndiana working on the Indiana State portal. I was responsible for updating a few agencies' sites and got to do the CSS and XHTML for a couple of launches.
The Division of Information Technology site is valid CSS and XHTML except for the Flash logo. I coded from a mockup by James Rupely and used Project VII menus for the sub menus.
I got to build the Governor's Health Challenge site from the ground up using an agency supplied Word doc as a guide for architecture.
This site is for a non-profit Audio Theatre company, Minds-Ear.org which produces shows in many different genres. The Dante Experience is an extremely funny take on hell by a group of Gen-Xers. The client has modified the site, but the launch version is here.
A site that just started production in December, Indianapolis Metal Spinning is a company that specializes in spinning and deep draw forming of metals running from aluminum to gold. The site should be up in mid 2003.
An in production site, Mid-States Engineering is a CATV and Telephony services start-up based in Indianapolis. They'll be at Mid-StatesEngineering.com in mid 2003. The cap below still has greeked text in it and is just one of a few mockups to date.
My first baby steps into web design was for a local band, now defunct. The site was really due for a redesign. I did it in Front Page of all things. You can definitely tell.
From there my next 20 or so thousand pages were for an online elementary school for the Agency for Instructional Technology. AIT sold it and my password stopped working. The lessons I worked on are classified as low-bandwidth and are for grades K through 5.
So, AIT and I did another school for someone else. This one was conceived three years after the first and is very cool. I did however have to deliver 20 lessons a week. Plenty of work for a three-person team. Strangely enough the school my daughter attends uses the K12 curriculum as part of their educational theory. Small world.
How about one I didn't get but love? Here it is. Sure would have rocked. We were going to build a custom Flash application that would allow you to custom build a shoe. We did build a proof of concept but the CEO went to Korea and, as far as I know, never came out.
Now how about one I got, but is now gone to Yesterland? Nice Realtor site. Search or browse for a property. Top ten placement on the major engines. Fast loading. Very hard to type URL that really helped those engine rankings.
One more fun one. This one is still live. A companion site for a children's television show. I was part of a group effort on this one. Navigation and overall look of the first couple levels were mine.
That's about all I can talk about in mixed company. Just keep in mind that the online schools were 20,000 or so pages. They ended up in databases, but we built each page in Dreamweaver first. That was a busy two years.