This client started a construction business in Richmond, Indiana. She was looking to increase her business presence online and contacted me to design a new website and publish it. She was looking for something simple to inform potential clients what services her business provided, showcase some of her recent projects, and be able to communicate with a website contact form.

I created a design that was professional, yet added a flourish of sophistication that represented her style. Her logo used black lettering on a white background with a teal design. Using this color palette I created a bright design that ultilized the teal accent to great effect in offset image backgrounds, navigation animations, and buttons.

Her site is fully responsive. It features multiple lightbox thumbnail galleries and a custom Google Maps embed that are also responsive. The site also utilizes a contact form that validates in realtime in the browser.

Hogan Water Corporation is a local cooperative water utility that reached out to a have a website built. It was a unique request in that they wanted to have a website designed and published fairly quickly, yet didn't have a complete idea of the final functionality that they wanted for the site. In addition, they requested logo designs and the creation of a business Facebook page that would be tied in with their new site.

I built this site in a modular way allowing flexibility should the client want various features and functionality added down the line. Hogan Water didn't have any specific logo considerations in mind besides the business name they had painted on the window front of their office location. With this as reference I matched up similar fonts and incorporated various shades of blue and imagery that was evocative of water.

I created logos utilizing the color palette I devised for the website and incorporated a water droplet similar to what is seen on their storefront window. I then created black and white variations that could easily be applied to stationary and apparel should they desire.

I carried the design esthetic of the website over when creating their Facebook page.

Aside from the design, I setup a contact to email form on their Home page. It features real time validation and on-page success/error messaging. As part of the immediate post-publication process I added a sitemap and indexed the site with the major search engines.

The owner of PURPOSE Law Firm is an attorney that is starting a new practice. She specializes in estate planning for children and family law issues relating to battered and abused women. She wanted a website design that matched her brand and allowed clients to contact her, view course materials, and make appointments with her online.

This design was created with specific colors and fonts that were chosen by the client. She wanted a design that was professional, yet was a little more inviting than a typical attorney website. Greens and pinks delineated between the two main focuses of her practice, and I utilized a three-circle motif from her logo throughout the design.

Aside from the design I setup realtime validation and error/success messaging from her contact form and email capture form. On the backend I added a sitemap and DNS instructions to validate and index her site with the major search engines.

The owner of Auntie Tam's Boutique reached out to have an online store developed to sell clothing for babies and young children. She was unsure about what direction to go, but had recently had a bad experience with an online developer and wished to deal with someone face-to-face. Once we settled on the Shopify ecommerce platform, she decided on a name for the business and had a logo designed.

I developed this website starting from the Venture theme in Shopify. Using her logo as a starting point, I used various shades of blue, teal, and gray to comprise the palette. I matched the blocky, sans-serif font in "Boutique" to use for main headings, and then paired it with a standard serif font for sub-headings, paragraphs, and body text.

Additional applications were added and site code modifications were made to the theme to add functionality such as: chat assistance, customer product reviews, custom search bar filters, and upsale pop-up modals.

Beyond the design I set up shipping, taxes, notifications, product images & descriptions, pricing, inventory, legal documentation, and custom pages. Essentially all of the general items that are necessary to manage and operate an online store.

The owner of River City Sticks Lacrosse had a previous website designed and managed by a third party, but was unhappy with their level of responsiveness. He also wanted to add some functionality to his site that he was unable to do with his previous arrangement. I stepped in by creating a new design and setting his site up with new a new domain and hosting.

I used a business card as the basis for the new design. I incorporated the blue and gray from the logo into various elements and highlights in the design, giving the site a slick athletic feeling without ever feeling too loud. I contrasted the chunky logo font with an italicized, thin serif in the header. Throughout the site I paired bold serif headers with a simple sans-serif paragraph text. The overall impression is clean and professional.

The Home page features a PHP contact form with javascript validation and error handling. The site also features jQuery lightbox image galleries, and several PayPal "Buy" buttons have been integrated into the Shop page allowing users to purchase products without the site owner needing to handle sensitive personal information.

In addition to the site design I added Google Analytics tracking and provide quarterly reporting on site performance.

My client is an owner of a mowing and landscaping business. His business is only a few years old, and this was his first website. He wanted to stand out from the pack to draw in new customers, and wanted a professional looking design to do that.

This was an interesting design. The client wanted to utilize the three colors found in his company logo. There happened to be three main pages, so I decided to make each page a separate color scheme. This sounds chaotic and haphazard, but the unity of design elements never made the pages feel as of they didn't belong together. If anything, it provided an interesting contrast.

The site was custom designed and developed around the latest Bootstrap 4 framework to make it responsive on all devices. A contact form that sends to email was created with PHP and validated with Javascript.

My client is a producer of legal videos to used during the discovery and trial phases of court cases. Her previous website was non-responsive, outdated, and in need of an update. She was looking to attract more attention with a professional, contemporary design that could be optimally viewed on any screen size.

I used her company logo to decide on font selection and color palette, and decided to keep with the dark theme that was incorporated into her original website design. I used the bright yellow found in the text of her logo as a hover state on menus and buttons, as well as to highlight certain bits of text.

The site was custom designed and developed around the latest Bootstrap 4 framework to make it responsive on all devices. A contact form that sends to email was created with PHP and validated with Javascript.

My client for this project is a creator by nature. She makes a large variety of uniques crafts, holiday decorations, and floral designs. She had a template site previously, but she wanted to be able to sell her products online. She also wanted a little more flexibility with the design, so a custom design was the solution.

I used her company logo as a basis for the color palette. Deep maroon and cream complimented each other, and the slight variations of these two colors make up the majority of color in the site. The asthetic of her products are country rustic, and this palette exudes the warm charm that her products give off.

The font selection was similarly derived from here business logo. I chose a chunky serif font for headings, and a sans-serif font of various weights for navigation, buttons, and paragraph text. For the main header text I added any italic variation of the chunky header font that immediately draws the eye to the main call to action.

The site was custom designed and developed around the latest Bootstrap 4 framework to make it responsive on all devices.

Since the owner didn't have a large number of products and to cut costs, I decided to forego the traditional shopping cart system in favor of utilizing PayPal "Buy" buttons. This had the benefit of reducing complexity, plus the owner did not have to directly handle personal contact information from her customers.

Jennifer Baker is a friend from my earlier school and the inspiration behind iInspire, LLC, a business dedicated to making fashionable medical devices that hide and secure J-P cup drain tubes that are placed post-op after mastectomy and other invasive surgeries. After going through breast cancer and a subsequent mastectomy surgery, Jennifer and her husband were inspired to design something that could make performing daily activities and going out in public with these tubes attached, less cumbersome and embarrasing. She initially got in touch with me to discuss website management with an emphasis on SEO, and in particular, developing a strategy for getting the website ranked higher using specific keyword searches. This relationship evolved into a general reorganization of the site and a minor redesign focused on cleaning up some aspects of the site to make it appear more professional, while keeping to the initial design asthetic. This redesign would eventually include a separate contract to add additional pages to allow customers to purchase products directly from the site, as opposed to being redirected to iInspire's Etsy site.

I initially set up a Google Analytics account for the website, and took ownership of the Webmaster Tools account. I had moved the site to a hosting service under the client's control, so I also needed to reconfigure the dns records to send and receive website email through their Microsoft Office 365 account. I then had to configure their Office account to receive mail through their website contact form without flagging it as spam. I then began reorganizing the site by combining certain sections and moving them to the main page, and eliminating other pages all together. After that, I began looking at changing certain fonts, formatting, and images to make the website appear more professional and cohesive. Different pages had separate ways of formatting similar elements, and I wanted to create a more unified look throughout the site. Some images looked rather pixelated on larger screens, so where images were utilized as full-width backgrounds, I sought out larger images that could be easily sized down without image degradation. Finally, I updated the sitemap and reindexed the updated version of the website. The final product was definitely in keeping with the original design, just slimmed-down and given a little polish. I had moved the site to a different hosting service, so I needed to update dns record.

The website was already utilizing a Bootstrap framework, so designing additional pages was a fairly straightforward process. The iInspire product line centers around six products, but I only needed to design two page layouts. I created a "Products" page that listed each product on offer, and then an individual "Product Item" page that contained more detailed information, additional images, social sharing icons, and a Paypal "Buy Now" button that I created separately for each product. In all, seven new pages were created. Additionally, for the individual product pages, I wrote a small function in Javascript that would replace the current main image, with whichever smaller thumbnail you clicked on. Other than the that, I kept the same colors and fonts as was used in the original site design, resulting in a seamless user experience. You wouldn't otherwise know that you were looking at a pages that were designed at a later point, by a different developer.

On the SEO side, I started removing dead links and adding missing alt attributes to images. I went over the keyword phrases that were being used and started developing a strategy for organically developing content on the pages that more closely reflected those search terms. I then started utilizing analytics data as a secondary source of information to see where traffic was coming in from and what they were viewing.

I met Nate through a friend on Facebook in August 2017, but we didn't actually begin designs for the site until around November. He had a template website set up that he could make changes to, but he was looking for something more. Nate was transitioning his business to full time, and we wanted a more professional looking design for his website to help distinguish himself. He also wanted to make his site more functional and marketable.

From the beginning I wanted a brighter look, so I went with a white navbar and white lettering when using colored backgrounds. I used the company logo to come up with a color palette of various shades of green, yellow, gray, and white. Except for the company name, I opted for a simple, sans-serif font with varying weights to distinguish navigation, heading, or paragraph text. Nate had a number of imagesfrom his various client projects, so I incorporated those into the design, including a gallery of before-and-after landscaping projects. I designed a full-page header with a large call to action in the center and buttons to direct the user to desired locations. I used a sticky navigation bar to minimize necessary scrolling, and created various ways to funnel the user to the contact form to call about or sign up for service.

The site utilizes the Bootstrap 3 framework, so it is responsive. This was a big thing that Nate's original site was lacking. A jQuery Colorbox plugin was used to create the lightbox image gallery

I met Jenny McAdams, owner of Affordable Tax Services, through a previous client. She is trying to transition her tax preparer/accounting service from part-time to full-time. The main reason that she was considering a website was to take advantage of an online scheduling software package she had purchased. The desired result would be less time on the phone scheduling appointments, since clients could do it themselves.

Jenny didn't have specific logo style or font, but she did like a specific shade of green. I corporated this into the Company name, and thinking about the color green as synonymous with money, I made the color pallate varying shades of green. I then used a couple serifed fonts to give the site a more classy, professional feeling. I designed the site with a large, centerd call-to-action in the header. Buttons allowed for click navigation to scheduling or service information, all to funnel users into using Jenny's services.

The site is built with the Bootstrap 3 framework, making it responsive. The scheduling software is rendered with a script in iframe. The software is responsively styled, as well, so this allowed for a seemless integration into the site. Jenny's business is in a rural location, so I utilized a Google Maps API and added a Fancy Maps style to match the color scheme. Contact form validation and email routing were performed with a combination of JavaScript and PHP.

In late-2016, members of the River View Cemetery Association sought me out to develop a web presence that would raise awareness for the cemetery that was in their care. They wished to showcase this Victorian-era cemetery as not just as a final resting place, but as a scenic public space for all to enjoy.

I used a logo for the cemetery to derive the color palette and font usage. I also incorporated several images taken of the cemetery at different times of the year and used them as backgrounds to various sections of the site. The site itself was made responsive by utilizing the Bootstrap 3 framework. JQuery plugins were used for scrolling animations, form validation, and to create a Colorbox lightbox gallery altered for this project to make it responsive. A simple PHP script was used to route the web form to a specified email address.

The Technology Officer at Southeastern Career Center (SCC) was aware of the work I did with the City of Aurora, and initially contacted me to answer a technical query about a website redesign that she had recently started. From that initial contact, I ended up taking over the project and building a new website for them. The original website was a content management system that created by an outside design company. The school had a number of issues with the site, such as: poor UI design, inadequate functionality, unengaging visual appeal, and broken links throughout the site.

The Career Center already had a logo. They were happy with the design, but they were looking to switch the colors (green and gold), to something that wasn't associated with the colors of any of their member schools. The school settled on maroon and gray, and I used this as the basis for the color palette of the site. I used solid colors and tiled patterns for backgrounds. Images of school staff and classrooms, school logos, and custom designed images were used throughout the website when creating content.

This site was made responsive with the Bootstrap 3 framework. JQuery plugins were used for scrolling animations (CSS3 was used for other simple animations), form validation, and a slideshow on the Home page. A PHP script was used to route the web contact form to an email address.

The Aurora Farmers Fair is an annual festival held every year around the end of September, and is one of the oldest festivals in Indiana. The fair is located in a neighboring town, so enjoying the food and entertainment at the "Fair" was something of an annual ritual in my youth. Those fond memories are why I was more than happy to take on this project.

The website is owned by the Aurora Lions Club, who is also responsible for organizing and managing the Farmers Fair each year. The website itself, however, was a CMS that was managed by a third party. The Lions wanted more direct control of their site, and they wanted a custom design. The result was a web site that could easily be updated with little instruction, and was built from scratch.

The Farmers Fair website is not responsive, built with HTML5, CSS3, a PHP FormMail email routing script, and a number of jQuery plugins. These plugins include scroll-to-top animations, modal pop-up boxes, and lightbox galleries. The original design had a million links, tons of white space, and a background image that was too small and pixelated to fill the page. It was jarring to view. My first task was to simplify the navigation by combining links or collecting them into fly-outs from a parent link. I also focused the most pertinent information on the main page. I also used a background image that looks natural and fills the space regardless of the screen it is viewed on. No jarring cutoffs!

Overall, the new design incorporates new maps and a lot more information. Simplified navigation makes the site easier to use and quicker to find what you are looking for. The amount of content has been increased to the point where the website is able to function as a true one-stop nexus, and for those who still have questions, correspondence has been even easier.

I was approached by the Aurora Lions Club around August 2014, to redesign their website and the website for the Aurora Farmers Fair. It was probably over a year, however, before we really sat down and began figuring out what was needed. In both cases, I took poorly designed websites run by a third party, increased their functionality and ease of use, and gave the owners a higher degree of control over the updating and maintenance of their sites.

The official colors of the Aurora Lions Club are gold and purple, so I incorporated them as accents to a color palette that was mainly varying shades of tan and brown. The Lions Club is an international organization and their logo is easily identifiable, so I turned their logo into a tiled background for the website. I placed all news items on the Home page and removed a lot of the blank space. I also simplified navigation by combining or eliminating categories and organizing them into a flyout, dropdown menu.

The site is non-responsive and made with HTML5 & CSS3. JQuery lightbox photo galleries and modal contact form plugins were also used. A PHP FormMail script was used to route contact form information to an email address.

I started working with the City of Aurora by creating a few extra pages for their website, which was run through the Main Street Aurora organization. This quickly turned into a complete site redesign. To date, I have oversaw the design and implementation of three major redesigns to the City website. I also currently manage the day-to-day updates and maintenance of the website in a remote capacity.

The initial redesign was more of a structural change than visual. I moved the site from a tables-based set of disjointed pages, to a uniformly-designed site based on HTML4, CSS2, and jQuery elements. The finished product approximated the initial design look, while adding extra pages and functionality. Simple UI additions such as hover links and dropdown menus made navigation of the site easier and more intuitive.

The second redesign was started in June 2014, and was completed that November. This redesign kept the same design structure and format (with the addition of HTML5 & CSS3 elements), but instituted a new color palette, fonts, and art. I redesigned several pages, and added a few new ones. In this iteration I also made use of jQuery modals to make a pop-up contact form for the website, and a PHP FormMail script to route the form content to email.

As of 2015, the City of Aurora formally took over site control from Main Street Aurora. A new business focus led to a third redesign of the site. The visual style and format of the website remained unchanged, but a ton of new pages and content were added, reflecting the new direction the website was taking. News and information were still at the forefront of the site, but there was a wealth of new information about the City available to businesses or families that were thinking about relocating.

This was one of my earlier projects, but it is one that I am proud of. I made this website, free of charge, as a way of giving back to Ivy Tech Community College. The school had given me a number of opportunities to use the skills in a professional capacity, so when my academic advisor asked if I might be interested, I was glad to oblige.

The initial request was to move the website domain name to a new hosting service that the school had control over, and to use a few design elements from a previous, unfinished Home page as the basis for the look of a new website.

This website is non-responsive, created with HTML4 & CSS3 with some jQuery elements such as picture sliders and lightbox photo galleries. I also incorporated a CAPTCHA system to guard against spam bots on the contact form. I also redesigned the school logo, and created digital copies for them.

This project started out as a simple landing page that would be used as a portal to several online catalogs and an online store that the business owner set up. The initial ecommerce platform used was Zen Cart, but after several months we switched to OpenCart, which was responsive and a little more modern in design.

OpenCart is a free shopping cart system that utilizes Bootstrap 3 and PHP connected to a MySQL database, plus various jQuery plugins to create image carousels, sliders, and UI animations. All management of the site is handled in a backend Admin interface.

I handled the initial setup and installation of the site as well as setting up a custom responsive skin for the site. From there I added all of the products, information, and images, plus some custom navigation links to direct users to the other online catalogs that the business had. On the backend I setup SSL certificates, payment gateways, SEO, and installation of modules that handled UPS delivery cost estimation for customers.

360 Ink is the name for the online presence of BMBA Signs & Apparel, so while setting up the online store, I also designed the logo for the business. I also set up an Amazon Seller Central store for BMBA, as well.

I was contacted by this client for a very common issue. They had a website that was being managed by a third party, but the design was old and the information wasn't being kept up to their liking. They wished to move their domain name to a new hosting company that they had more control over, and they wanted a new site built. It ended up being easier and cheaper to get a new domain name, and once the website was built, I tutored several people on how to make simple changes on their own.

The website is not responsive. It is standard HTML5 and CSS3 with some jQuery lightbox plugin for a photo gallery. A PHP FormMail script is used to route contact form information to an email address. I used Photoshop to create the new logo.