a sampling of projects . . .

Boorinakis Harper Ranch — near and dear to my heart, so it's first on the list! A basic Web site with information about the farm, seasonal harvest chart, map, slideshow of images, and plenty of photos.

A Wordpress-based blog, including subscription and search widgets, multiple pages, archives and other nifty odds and ends. I'm not a big fan of template-based sites, but they do have a place, and I'm happy to work with Wordpress when requested.

The Well of Light monthly newsletter / e-magazine — this newsletter is sent out via ConstantContact and also hosted on the Well of Light Web site. I build the newsletters with hand-coded HTML (no templates here!) Articles, podcasts, links, and quite a lot more. All newsletters since November 2009 by jvbhdesign. This is just one example; view them all here.

I re-designed the Haute Trash Web site for easy navigability, organized the site structure, and added Web-optimized images and a slideshow. The site is now maintained by the Haute Trash folks. Clean, clear code and annotation make it simple to update and edit — a priority when designing a site to be tended by its owner, instead of by a web designer. I often work with clients who want to maintain their sites themselves, and my goal is always to make management as streamlined, simple, and intuitive as possible.

Another example of a user-maintained site. The slideshow and "lightbox" (pop-up) galleries link to images in a Flickr set, so updating the images on the site is as simple as dragging photos into or out of the set via Flickr. The client wanted a Web site that could grow over time as she adds pages and sections; the menu is PHP, so it can be changed on every page from one simple file. Lots of annotation in the code providing instructions, notes, etc.

A Web page for a syndicated radio program made up of 22 short audio segments. The page needed to contain playable "preview" audio files and downloadable files in two formats, as well as brief descriptions of the stories, photos and short bios of the presenters, and general information about the program. Oh, and lots of links. An organizational challenge to be sure, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out!

A site layout I built for smc designs — graphic header, CSS, and a nice, neat, simple format to wrap it all up in. Again, easy for someone else to manage — I firmly believe that a well-built Web site should not be an impenetrable snarl of auto-generated, redundant WYSIWYG code and disorganized, nonsensical hierarchy, even if you are going to keep it all to yourself.

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