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Rafting and Adventure Travel Site with Reservation Form

By on July 23, 2009 in Adventure Travel, Content Management Systems, Portfolio
Southeastern Expeditions website

Southeastern Expeditions website

This site, for an adventure travel company that runs rafting and eco-tourism trips in North and Central America, features a clean interactive design and extensive search engine optimization, including tailored metatags, hyperlinks, and a backlink referral network. Continue Reading →

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Regional Visioning Plan

By on May 3, 2009 in Content Management Systems, Portfolio
Chattanooga STAND website

Chattanooga STAND website

This site, completed for Chattanooga’s Create Here, in tandem with design firm Widgets & Stone, is for a regional visioning process being conducted around Chattanooga, Tennessee.

  • Tell-a-friend and Volunteer forms
  • Semantic, search engine and handheld browser friendly design
  • Google Analytics to track page views, form submissions, pdf and  file downloads
  • Expression Engine multi-site manager
    • custom fields: staffers can frequently and easily update the content and sidebars
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Non-profit website with Calendar and Slideshows

By on April 24, 2009 in Arts and Nonprofit, Portfolio
Sequatchie Valley Institute website

Sequatchie Valley Institute website

I visited Sequatchie Valley Institute years ago with my children, and made a long-term goal to some day live and work with the folks I met there. We use the web extensively to communicate with our members, the public, and the media.

  • SlideShowPro Director provides an engaging and easily-updated frontpage show, and a gallery of current and past events
  • Event Calendar manages our online calendar
  • Registration forms and contact forms for events and communication, routed to the proper folks
  • MailMan takes care of our e-mail blasts
  • Vanilla forum helps the board of directors sort out our business
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Adventure Travel Website

By on April 4, 2009 in Adventure Travel, Portfolio
Austria Adventure Week website

Austria Adventure Week website

I worked with Bike Tours Direct to create this sub-site to promote their Austria Adventure Week package, a 2-week trip catering to mountain bikers and trail runners. We picked an open source WordPress template and made some minor tweaks to personalize it for the site by replacing a few images and adding navigation tabs.

  • Easy to use WYSIWYG editor allows administrators to quickly make edits, add pages or images, etc.
  • Comment feature for visitors to ask questions and get quick answers
  • SEO — Search Engine Optimization for automated submission to Google, MS Network, and Yahoo; automated SEO-friendly titles, URLs and descriptions
  • Custom contextual navigation system
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Art Competition with Submission Form

By on April 2, 2009 in Arts and Nonprofit, Portfolio
Zero Sum Website

Zero Sum Website

This is a project for Create Here, a Chattanooga think tank nonprofit that connects entrepreneurs and artists with creative communicators to promote sustainable, creative initiatives and showcases. Zero Sum is an exhibit that examines the role of games in contemporary culture and the impact they have on our social experience, psyche, morality and approach to critical thinking.

  • Online forms for artistic submissions
  • Database to collect and organize submissions, including file uploads
  • Search Engine Optimization, sitemaps, Google Analytics to provide info about traffic and visitors
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Content Management Consulting

By on February 25, 2009 in Content Management Systems, Portfolio
AJC Media Solutions website

AJC Media Solutions website

I was contracted to develop the content management system for the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s AJC Media Solutions site.

I took a great design from IQ Interactive, created Joomla 1.5 templates, and structured the site so IQ and AJC staffers could easily add content, including an extensive collection of Flash movies and PDF whitepapers. Continue Reading →

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Chamber of Commerce Website

By on December 1, 2008 in Chambers of Commerce, Portfolio
website for Cleveland, TN Chamber of Commerce

website for Cleveland, TN Chamber of Commerce

This website for Cleveland Tennessee’s Chamber of Commerce features:

  • Community calendar used by many organizations to publicize their events
  • Flash slideshow
  • Dropdown and contextual menu system to make navigation of the site very intuitive for the site’s many business, organization and individual users
  • Detailed contact forms for ordering printed materials

The site is maintained by Chamber staff using the Joomla Content Management System. Several staff members and citizens contribute to the site, which allows a team of editors to review and approve content for news releases, contacts, and calendar items prior to publishing.

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Carpet Manufacturer Website with Extensive Product Galleries

By on May 13, 2008 in Manufacturing, Portfolio
Eligère Carpet and Rugs website

Eligère Carpet and Rugs website

This site was completed in 2006 for a custom floor covering design and manufacturing company in (where else?) Dalton, Georgia.

  • Flash for navigation, audio-visual intro and product galleries
  • Lightbox for zoom-in product close-ups
  • Color correct images and design to match corporate identity
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