Portfolio
My First Website
This is the first website I ever designed. I keep it in my portfolio as a friendly reminder to myself about how far I've come. For its day it wasn't a bad site. It's all-at-once poorly designed and not that bad. I've yet to find a another piece of my life that so strongly takes me back to the time when I made it.
Creating things is an innate part of being a human being, and when you give something your best it has a way of leaving it's own impression on you. I try to recreat that experience every time I design a site, as design is a deeply personal art form.
Film, Faith, and Justice
Avode Designs was asked to come in at the eleventh hour of the Film, Faith & Justice project to save the development and back end programming. The design isn't mine at all, but it serves as an example should you want me to come in and be a forensic/emergency developer for you. All of the scripting and content is my creation. We can certainly do back-end only programming for you if you have an "in-house" designer already. My hourly rate remains the same, regardless of the project, so you can be confident that I will give you a fair price, even though I wouldn't be designing the entirety of your website.
The Other Journal
Avode Designs was asked to develop the front end for The Other Journal. I created the entire user interface as you see it on this site. I did not do any back end programming for this website, as they had their own "in-house" developer. This is something I can certainly do for you if you want. Many companies have very capable devlopers, but no one who does interfaces well. I can certainly be a interface-only design firm for you, should you choose. My hourly rate remains the same, regardless of the project, so you can be confident that I will give you a fair price, even though I wouldn't be designing the entirety of your website.
Maybe.org
Avode Designs was asked to come in after the initial design work was done on Maybe.org. Even though the "concept" design of this website is not mine, a substantial amount of the design work on this site is mine. I also did all of the back-end programming for this website. This website was initially stranded on an inadequate web-based content management system called "Squarespace". Avode Designs "migrated" the website away from the content management system to allow for a more custom design. If you're stuck on a "cookie-cutter" content managment system and are now realizing that you need a more custom approach, I can help to grab your website, intact, and move it to another location.
Espresso Picolinos
Avode Designs was asked to come in to design, develop, launch, and market Espresso Picolinos from start to finish. The company sought to differentiate their cafe/bakery brand from their restaurant brand by creating a website. Within days, local blogs had picked up on the difference, and the local community is now realizing that the location also has a cafe.
Brand differentiation is a very powerful mechanism for building business. Not everybody may be interested in your umbrella brand, and may be associating it with a particular good or service. Brand differentiation can be very effective mechanism for garnering extra business for a unique good or service that you have, that the a target demographic may not be aware of.
Anne and Andrew's Wedding
What can you say about favors to friends? I put it in my portfolio, because I think it's good design work, especially since it has total congruity with their wedding invitations. I am not in the habit of doing wedding websites though, so, unless you are my friend, don't get any ideas.
Radio Urge
This website (still viewable at radiourge.com) was a project I started with a client who ran into liquidity issues, and so it is unfinished (and will remain so). It is by no means complete. It still needed a great deal of work when I stopped working on it. However, I am still proud of the design, and so I put it on my portfolio as an example of my own design work.
I really want to emphasize this site's non-completion. Most of the features don't work and the back-end programming was not even started yet. Howwever, as I mentioned earlier, the design is a good representation of what I can do. If you are going to view the site with Internet Explorer there will be some bugs.
