The MA TESOL (Master of Arts, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) site for Michigan State University was built to be an online brochure providing information to students enrolled in the program and prospective students not yet enrolled. As the site was an informational site, it had to be built to be very expandable. […]
MSU’s College of Arts & Letters was the first college-level site I worked on as a staff member at University Relations. My work on the site itself was limited to helping troubleshoot the HTML and CSS that was developed by my supervisor. Additionally, I installed the Calendarix calendar software on the site. I was also […]
The August 2003 redesign of DetroitHockey.Net was mostly unnecessary but I did it anyway. I had never really liked the “edgier” design I tried to do in the November 2002 redesign and wanted to go back to a more traditional style for the site. As well, I thought that too many images were used in […]
By August 2003 I had already gotten tired of the original design for ClarkRasmussen.com that was developed in May of that year. I had never really liked the first design but I had yet to come up with a better one, so I worked out this design. There were two drastic changes. The first saw […]
I was working as a student at Michigan State University’s Division of University Relations when the campus-wide project to rebuild MSU’s website occurred. Because University Relations was involved in the redesign, I had the opportunity to work with the designers that built the new site. I did not design the site, nor did I build […]
In September 2002, drwcentral.net became DetroitHockey.Net. DetroitHockey.Net continued to use the same page layout as drwcentral.net. By November of that year, I had decided that DetroitHockey.Net needed a fresh start and its own page design. I used one of my favorite past drwcentral.net designs as a starting point and created a new look for the […]
After drwcentral.net was converted from a static site to a database-driven format, I decided to commemorate the changes with a site-wide redesign. Looking back, I believe this was a horrible idea as the design I was using at the time was one of the better ones I’ve ever put together. I went with a darker […]
The May 2001 redesign of drwcentral.net was intended to brighten the site and decrease the load time for each page. Before this redesign, drwcentral.net used a layout with much darker colors and many more graphics. Load times were too high in relation to the content that was being provided. I developed a layout that used […]
I came across something interesting today, working on a project that is supposed to automatically archive all cards on a Trello board that are in the “Completed” column and are more than two weeks old. This should have been really easy. Use the /1/lists/<list_id>/cards GET request to get all of the cards on the list then […]
Back in March I wrote a little bit about an issue I was having where, at several points along my path to solving it, I should have realized I was doing things wrong. I had another one of those come up and thought it was good to share for a few reasons. A little background… On […]