Portfolio
Here are some websites I’ve been involved with.
American Forensics Association
When: in progress
What: Design, Programming, Information Architecture. Drupal.
The American Forensics Association is a National non-profit educational association. The clients needed their website contents to be reorganized and put into a CMS. They also needed the site design to be updated.
The site needs to include various features - shopping cart, newsletter, news/blog, possibly a forum, events calendar. Consequently I chose Drupal as a platform. CiviCRM will be integrated with Drupal for constituent relationship management.
Benson Center Forms
When: 2008
What: Forms, advanced validation
Where: Room reservation form, vendor table reservation, Shorty’s reservation, garage reservation, easel reservation, outdoor space reservation
The Benson Center at Wake Forest University handles the reservations for conference rooms, outdoor spaces and other various facilities at Wake Forest. They were looking to move to online forms in order to facilitate reservations. They also wanted automatic processing that would email the appropriate staff with the content of the request.
The forms include extensive validation (both instant feedback and messages on submit), conditional display of form fields, as well as dynamic updating of fields. For example, the room reservation form will show only the appropriate rooms depending on the number of attendees and the room setup required.
The forms went live in October 2008 and included a feedback form that allowed users to send comments after they had used the forms. All comments received were positive.
Jennifer Burg’s Home page
When: February 2008.
What: Some design input, programming.
Busy Dr. Burg needed her home page formatted quickly. Her research being in Digital Media, she wanted to design the look of the website. I consulted with her to help adapt her design to the constraints of the web. I then translated the design into web-ready graphics and implemented the site.
WFU Family Weekend
What: management, database design
Managed project to create a custom shopping cart for Wake Forest’s Family Weekend. Designed DB and gave help on PHP programming. Quality control. Some CSS to integrate look with rest of website.
Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative
Date: Summer 2007, Summer 2008
What: Design, Programming, Wordpress MU blogs, CMS
Address: http://www.bftf.org
BFTF is a summer program that brings together students from dozens of different countries to discuss global issues. They needed a re-design of their website, but also needed an engine that allowed every one of their 90 students, their professors and the program in general to have their own blog. They also desired some form of CMS to maintain other materials on their site.
The best solution was WordPress MU, a multiuser version of WordPress.
As part of my job with BFTF I also trained students to use WordPress and answered minor technical questions.
Villa Nausicaa
When: December 2007
Address: http://www.delphine-masse.com/nausicaa
Platform: Wordpress
My parents needed a place to showcase their house for renting. This is a very quick job that customized an existing WP template.
Automated Course Feedback Survey System
What: PHP, MySQL application
When: Spring 2007
Created a complex system that allows the Department of Biology at WFU to gather end-of-semester feedback on their teaching assistants. The back end allows editing of questions, changing of questions types, etc. The surveys are then generated automatically from the information entered. Results are tallied automatically. This survey system has been used for two semesters, saving ~ 30 man-hours for each semester it has been used.
I will post a testing version shortly.