While my forté keeps me busy with type design, I have been known to tackle frequent web design jobs. I do enjoy a bit of code wrangling. It must appeal to the Lego® maniac buried within my soul. This list is a smattering of past projects, some of which can still be found alive on the World Wide Web.

Regarding my skills, I write XHTML with CSS (quite often compliantly), PHP with MySQL, and a bit of Javascript. I shun WYSIWYG HTML editors and you should too. I prefer the hands on approach to coding which affects my design sensibility – all that form follows function jazz. I am not a decorator. I aim to make clean, usable, economical websites.

Contact me if you like what you see and want some for yourself, or if you need your current website improved to meet current web standards. I can handle every aspect of the job, from securing domain names and hosting and SSL certificates to custom content management development and custom e-commerce and shopping cart applications. My rates and services are scalable to work within most budgets. I apparently have a soft-spot for Chicago based artists, small business owners, and creative entrepreneurs.

TypeTrust

www.typetrust.com
TypeTrust is the digital font boutique I formed with Neil Summerour in 2005. I wrote most of the CSS, developed parts of the font previewing functions, and fine-tuned the shopping cart and customer account pages.

Arlo Graphic Design

www.arlo-tm.com
Ryan Halvorsen over at Arlo Graphic Design needed to update the Arlo site. We collaborated on the structure and finer points of the navigation while Ryan provided the amazing content and populated the MySQL database himself.

Itzy Ritzy

www.itzyritzy.com
This was the first major collaboration with Ryan Halvorsen over at Arlo Graphic Design. Arlo designed the site and I coded it in PHP and MySQL. It's maintained with an extensive content management system and receives orders via the custom shopping cart system, all built from scratch.

Susan Smith Trees

www.susansmithtrees.com
Susie is yet another satisfied virtual resident keeping her online portfolio website rent-free on my web server. She may not be the most computer-savvy of my clients, but she knew what she wanted in a website. I was happy to not only build and maintain her website, but I think I've also convinced her to switch to a Mac.

BettyAnn Mocek

www.bettyannmocek.com
BettyAnn approached me to design her website after seeing the work I did for other Chicago artists. She wanted something similarly simple and clean, but she also wanted to share her advocacy and administrative work which would require an expanded About section. Building upon the content manager I had initially created for Nicole Gordon's website, I expanded it to accommodate all of BettyAnn's accomplishments as well as a photo album.

Ginny Krueger

www.ginnykrueger.com
Ginny had a 4 year old website and an MIA webmaster. It was clearly time for an update, so she came to me for help. I provided my standard portfolio design with the basic content manager. I helped her upload the images and she updated the text information and voila... new website.

Anne Taft

www.annetaft.com
Anne is yet another Chicago artist for whom I provided web presence. She didn't require anything fancy, and I launched her site in record time working from code I had written for my other artist portfolio websites.

Nick Bridge

www.nickbridge.com
Nick was interested in adding more flexibility and control to his pre-existing online portfolio, so I expanded upon all the CMS apps that I've written over the last year and gave him a clean redesign with robust tools for sorting and categorizing his images.

Elizabeth Scott

www.elizabethwrites.com
Elizabeth contacted me looking for something similar to what I did for fellow YA author/idol John Green. She just wanted the simplicity to be simpler and the color to be less brown. I couldn't refuse. I love simple, and blue is my third favorite color.

Nicole Gordon

www.nicolegordon.com
Nicole emailed me requesting my website services just as I attained SQL enlightenment. I built her an intuitive CMS by which she uploaded her content, and I built this simple design around her complex and colorful work.

Judith Mullen

www.judithmullen.com
Judith shares studio space with Nicole, and it wasn't long before word reached her that Nicole had a website. Judith's CMS is the same. I simply pared down the front-end to a white-cube aesthetic and she uploaded the content.

Nova Art Fair

www.novaartfair.com
In 2005 and 2006, I designed and coded the website for Nova Art Fair, a hotel show of international galleries held in Chicago. I managed a continual stream of content as well as images and info received from over 100 exhibitors and individual artists. For the 2006 version I built a browser-based content management system for the fair's staff to update the site directly.

John Green

www.sparksflyup.com
This was my first major foray into Blogger implementation. John is able to update a few of the sections himself via Blogger. I designed and coded everything using extensive PHP and CSS.
UPDATE: Looks like John has expanded his site to talk about his next book, An Abundance of Katherines, and the Hollywood adaptation of his first novel, Looking for Alaska. I'm happy he kept my original design.

New York photographer Hayley Harrison

www.hayleyharrison.com
I built Hayley a dynamic Flash website consisting of multiple movies for each section and image portfolio. The result is a simple and maintainable showcase of some tasty and exotic photography. I've since dumped Flash in a happy embrace of open source software. Don't ask me to design a Flash website unless you're very wealthy.

Blümgarten

www.blumgarten.com
The busy folks at Blümgarten are my longtime easycome easygo clients. The fun part of this site is the Javascript dropdown navigation. I basically taught myself what I know of layers and hidden CSS elements working on this job.

Jessica Labatte

www.jessicalabatte.com
Jessica is a fellow School of the Art Institute graduate. She asked me to build a website just like my own at the time, so I basically adapted my own website's design to Jessica's content and threw in some more dynamic PHP and tighter CSS for a variety of subnavs. This site was my first Blogger guinea pig too.