My Portfolio

In my senior year of high school, our College English decided to do a website as a community service project. The website was to inform current students and alumni of the events occurring at the Wayne County Schools Career Center, and to persuade future students to attend with interviews with past students. I suggested that we use Wordpress, so that students after us could update the site without knowing a lick of code. After this suggestion, I was tasked with the job of designing the website. Two weeks later and several hours of tinkering with CSS, the design of the blog was done and ready to be posted online. I then had to edit several hundred horse photos into galleries for potential customers to look at

By completing this site, I:

• Refined my web design style by implementing new CSS and PHP skills learned while making eligundry.com
• Gained the ability to design a website from scratch with no input from a client
• Discovered that the red tape of government agencies’ are very hard to cut

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In late 2008, Stacey DeHass contacted me saying that she was interested in making both a professional site and a personal cooking blog. Upon arrival, she presented me with a drawing of what she wanted her site to look like, which I was able to perfectly replicate using HTML and CSS. I also configured her email accounts, blog settings, converted several blog posts from the Word .doc format to Wordpress blog posts, and edited and uploaded the clients television appearances to Vimeo. This job was a learning experience and took me about three months to finish.

By completing this site, I learned:

• That web standards mean nothing to Internet Explorer.
• I developed an undying love of CSS and XHTL.
• That orange juice tastes way better out of a wine glass. That, my friends, is the definition of class.

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This was my first web design job ever. I was asked to update the aging Windy Hill Farm website in the winter of 2007 and continued to update it's numerous web pages until the spring of 2008. During this time, I was also responsible for fixing and updating the clients 5 computers that were bogged down with spyware and viruses. Renovating this site was a very big learning experience for me and I learned many things that I was not taught in school.

When building this site, I learned:

• That my opinion comes second to the clients.
• Page load times play a large part in the user's experience.
• Administering a site sometimes requires you to work until 2 A.M. and then sleep in the clients home.

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