The Games That Weren’t is a project I developed for the 2012 NHL lockout, partially as a joke. As the league began to cancel games, several of the Detroit Red Wings fan bloggers were discussing what they would write about with no hockey. The idea of writing about fake games came up, at which point […]
The logo for the DetroitHockey.Net Fantasy Hockey League’s 20th season was heavily based on the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup Finals logo from the second half of the 1990s. It started with a circle with a ribbon covering the bottom portion. Along the edge of the circle were the words “DetroitHockey.Net Fantasy Hockey League” and […]
The April 2012 updates to DetroitHockey.Net were the culmination of several months of tweaks to the home page and site template intended to make content easier to find for a user who had never been to the site before. The home page was updated to include three featured stories, rather than one. A primary story […]
Modeled after the game show of the same name, my “Press Your Luck” was developed as a way to award prizes to exceptional members of the business unit I was in at TechSmith. Graphics representing each prize could be uploaded into the system, from which a game board would be created. “Whammy” graphics could also […]
Retro Hockey Challenge was a proposed charity event to raise money for Child’s Play charity. It would have been a video game marathon centered around 1990s-era hockey video games. The logo for Retro Hockey Challenge was designed to invoke an “old-time hockey” feel, deliberately older than the video games that would have been played. A […]
For DetroitHockey.Net’s fifteenth season, I designed a logo in the style of something that could be worn as an athletic jersey patch, like you would see a sports team do. I started with a vaguely-triangular shield shape, with an outlining pattern similar to that of the DetroitHockey.Net shield logo. That logo itself was perched at […]
The version of DetroitHockey.Net that launched in November of 2008 was intended to clean up several problems that had started happening on the site in the two years since its last redesign. First and foremost was that the Invision Power Board software was intended to be used with a wider site template, so in the […]
The August 2008 redesign of ClarkRasmussen.com came from frustration with another project. I needed to focus on something else and realized that it was time to rework one of my own sites so I did that. Intentionally, the site design was similar to some of my other sites. The basic structure (banner, horizontal navigation bar, […]
HockeySweaterNumbers.com was my first completely new personal site launch in several years. As such, it should come as no surprise that I borrowed from my existing sites. The color scheme of HSN was based on that of O6 Web Services and the basic site template was similar to DetroitHockey.Net. Completely unique to the new site […]
I made two major design changes to DetroitHockey.Net for the version that launched in October of 2006. The first was to abandon a “fluid” layout in favor of an “elastic” one and the second was to incorporate a horizontal – rather than vertical – navigation bar. The change to an elastic design was because of […]