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So what is WordCamp? WordCamp is kind of like a local mini convention. But it’s put on by local WordPress users to help other users. Since I have come so far in one year with WordPress, I decided to volunteer to present. I have been a newspaper designer for more than 16 years, so I thought I would take a designer topic and discuss that. So my session is about fonts.
I designed this site while working for SiteInsight. It was a WordPress site, so I customized the theme that the client choose and designed the logo, avatar and favicon for them. I used JavaScript and PHP to setup the interactivity. As with most of my sites, I design it and set it up and then I release it to the client and no longer have anything to do with the site. After I did a majority of the setup and organization, I handed off the site to SiteInsight to finish up.
I designed this business card for a friend. It was two-sided and I was able to use just blue and white, so it was cheaper as a two-color job. I also did his resume.
I worked on the Design Desk at The Columbus Dispatch on a one-year contract during their redesign. I designed features pages, inside news, the TV tab, the Business section and the Metro section. After the contract ended, I returned about 6 months later for another 6-month stint.
I designed this site while working for SiteInsight. It was a WordPress site, so I customized the theme that the client choose and designed the logo, avatar and favicon for them. I used JavaScript and PHP to setup the interactivity. As with most of my sites, I design it and set it up and then I release it to the client and no longer have anything to do with the site. After I did a majority of the setup and organization for this site, I handed off the site to SiteInsight to finish up.
This site was built for a woman who was starting her own business. She wanted to build her online business brand to get public speaking jobs in her industry. She is a specialist in snow removal, as she used to work for ODOT. The WordPress site features a calendar, social media integration, testimonials and customized graphics, login and dashboard. I used JavaScript to setup the form, as well. I no longer have anything to do with the site because she hired an assistant to manage it, so the design is now their own.
Design, set up and manage weekly Lucky Brand Jeans HTML-email marketing campaign. Take client-provided PSDs and slice them up to transfer and code for Exact Target Email Marketing tool for scheduling and management. Also manage a variety of other misc. digital projects for company, as well as design and prepare graphics and 2 web sites for their iPhone/Android App the company was test marketing, called SmartPing.com.
This is a site for a documentary movie on a neighborhood in Eastern Columbus. It was part of a series for the Columbus 200th anniversary and the main parts of the series ran on PBS locally. The site launched in 2013. This was one of my first sites. We used a WordPress theme and I customized everything to fit into the site and changed the code to make it work for our needs. I used JavaScript and PHP to setup the interactivity. As with most of my sites, I design it and set it up and then I release it to the client and no longer have anything to do with the site.
I briefly did some work for a startup in Columbus called Brand Thunder. They design customized browsers. I remember I used to download and install browser themes (or skins as we called them back then) in 1999-’00. It’s an interesting business model. The Bing search engine is built into the browser. Right now they design for Internet Explorer, Firefox and soon Chrome. I’m mostly doing generic browsers and anything else little that they need done.
Here are a few links to info I have used in my panel discussion participation at the Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference at Western Washington University on July 18, 2009.