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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.
Cheating Politicians Software: Adobe PhotoShop Description: I created this graphic for an intro of a slideshow I had to do at MSN.com on Politicians who cheat on their…
I worked on this video project for The Soul of Athens, a multimedia project for Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. The Spring 2008 project was titled, The Pursuit of Wellness in Athens County, which explored both the positive and negative aspects of the subject. I was part of a class where we were Content Producers, which essentially meant we were the team that managed and coordinated all the content for the site, most of which were video projects. We didn’t have much control over the design and mechanics of the site, which fell into the domain of another class at OU. But when it came to the content, we controlled most of it and worked with the technical team to make it work.
I came up with the idea for our final project, so I was the Director and Producer. I did all the research and found all of the subjects for our project. I had three other people on the team. Our documentary was about Dupont leaking a chemical called C8 into the Ohio River in Southeast Ohio.
Publication Design Software: Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign Description: This was an intermediate design class I took at Ohio University. We were given instructions and topics and…
Soul of Athens was a special online project completed during Spring Quarter 2008. I was part of a class that handled the Content Management for the project. I found content from other students and coordinated with the project Team Leaders. I also handled a lot of trouble shooting and training for the project.
Page Design Team Software: Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign Description: I was on the staff of this Photojournalism Workshop in Norfolk, VA, as a Page Designer. At…
I’d been trying to move to the NewsDesk for a while, but they liked me in my position in NewsIT, so I kept getting overlooked. But when a friend was going on maternity leave for 6 months, I got an opportunity to fill in for her. I designed pages in the Nation and World section, Business, Inside A and Metro, including section fronts.
Design, Copyediting, Web Producer Software: CCI, Adobe PhotoShop, Microsoft FrontPage, AOL Rainman, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, QuickTime, HTML Description:I worked as a Page Designer, designing Metro pages, inside A,…
Copy Editor, Page Designer Software: Coyote SII, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress Description: I worked on the Copy Desk as a News Copy Editor, but then…