Watchmen 33
Summer 2008 — www.watchmen33.com launched on May 26, 2008. This was my first freelance job. This first installment is a fairly basic site, so it was only a two-week project. The logo and layout work had been cut out for me before the project began, so I could focus on coding it into a standards compliant website and building a simple Content Management System (CMS), so that my client could easily change the content of the pages, their quantity, their order, and the pictures though a simple web interface. Everything is coded in PHP, and it uses a very simple flat-file database that I developed. I chose flat files because they are able to store tags more easily than XML, it allows me to create backups every time the client makes a change, and it makes the whole application portable without any hassle of database configuration. I'm very satisfied with this outcome, and I expect follow-on work to add an ecommerce solution to sell the book, The Extinction of Evolution, and another follow on to set up a custom blog/newsletter. 
www.elliv.com
Spring 2008 — www.elliv.com launched on April 4, 2008. Elliv is the biggest event on Cedarville's campus, an end of the year party celebrating the year's accomplishments with an award show and live acts. The site is built on the same custom php framework as sgaville.com built on Mac OS X Leopard and Coda. Elliv's logo, created by David Sizemore, was really important for me to hold prominent and unadulterated throughout the site. So I took the logo, cut it into pieces and used javascript to slide the buildings up and down as you move over them. This project taught me a lot about fighting with color models. Dave's always thinking about printing and his mind works in CMYK, but I'm a web developer; I see in RGB, so we had some struggles through that, but the site works and looks great on all major browsers (IE 7, Firefox 2, Safari 3, and Opera 9, and Camino 1.5). I got the chance to put some of my own artwork in on the categories page, where I came up with all the little logos. I'll conclude with huge props to Stephanie Small, who's in charge of this whole event, wrote most of my pages, and hunted down the data.
sgaville.com
Winter 2008 — sgaville.com launched on January 11, 2008. I was hired onto SGA (the student government assocation) as the web director the previous semester. This site is built using a framework style that I've been developing. The whole site is in PHP using XML datastores. This is my first website developed on the mac, using a fantastic program called Coda. My responsibilities involved writing all of the code (PHP, XHTML, JavaScript, and CSS), and working with the other officers to obtain the data. David Sizemore, the PR Director, made all of the images for me. He's an excellent graphic designer. This is the biggest and most enjoyable project that I've ever worked on. I also got the opportunity to present the website in front of the 3,000-member student body of Cedarville in SGA chapel.
Tau Delta Kappa Organization
Fall 2006 — I constructed this website for Tau Delta Kappa, the honors organization at Cedarville University. I did all of the design, and worked closely with the president of the organization on the content. The site is built using PHP to produce standards compliant XHTML. The graphics were made using Adobe Photoshop Elements and Xara Extreme. I redesigned and reorganized this website in Fall of 2007, and moved the data into XML files so that the site could be maintained by a non-technical administrator. Click the image to visit the website.
Mark Miller Campaign
Spring 2007 — I constructed this web-brochure (a web brochure is a small informational website) for my friend, Mark Miller, to help him in his race for Junior Class Chaplain. I worked with him on the design to take photographs and organize the look and feel of his posters. Regrettably, he lost the race, and the page is no longer live. Click on the image to see a screen shot of the home page.
Choose Chiu Campaign
Fall 2007 — I designed and built this small webrochure for my sister, Emily, who is running for Freshman Class Secretary. We walked around campus and I took phographs of her, and then I use PHP to randomly select one of the photos for each page. The color scheme is black for classy and serious with light pink and blue, her favorite colors, for high contrast against the black background.
