Designs that I work with strive for simplicity and to remove ambiguity. Sites are designed to be easy to update, while maintaining their capabilities on the front-end. I do not sacrifice functionality and ease-of-use for flashy sites, and strive for everything I make to be easily usable by those that want to use the sites I produce.
RTools is a suite of utilities and tools designed to augment tools found in software used to run gaming events. RTools' primary goal is to provide organizers with the means to disseminate tournament information to players more quickly, more efficently, and with reduced need for printing out large amounts of paper each tournament.
This project is in full release, and is in it's third major release cycle.
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This project, in it's early stages, will be designed with the intent of increasing a Japanese student's understanding of the language incrementally, focusing on learning through a large database of knowledge, while focusing the knowledge on the learning of kanji.
This project is designed mostly to be a personal test. I feel that the way I would learn Japanese beyond a beginning level is not fulfilled through personal study, and this project is an attempt to take methods in which I have found I learn efficiently in, and apply them to language training.
This project is in two parts: there is a large amount of initial parsing and database work required, and the program to handle this is in development. The interface and structure of the main program is still in design, as features and workflow are still being finalized.
There are two groups which I have worked on major projects for.
The Tolarian Academy is a gaming club based at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. The site provides information about club meetings, members, and upcoming events.
The Tolarian Academy website was designed in strict HTML to adhere to the strict requirements of UWEC club websites.
Images below are examples of previous designs from 2007, 2008, and 2009, respectively.
[ Current Website ]
Linden LAN (Now Russell Labs Administrative Services) is a group of IT staff serving (at various times during the times I was on staff) the departments of Plant Pathology, Entomology, Nutritional Sciences, Wildlife Ecology, and Forestry.
The Linden LAN website is designed as a modular PHP/MySQL site with custom blog software for front page changes. The website also introduced a javascript-based system which could be used throughout the network as a email-masking system.
The Plant Pathology website is designed using PHP, with small amounts of Javascript and JQuery work added. The redesign was primarily done to condense the large number of revisions and updates the site has had, with original code for the site dating back to 1991.
Images below are examples of revised designs for the Linden LAN website and Plant Pathology homepage.
[ Linden LAN Website ] [ Plant Pathology Website ]
The "bjx.net" websites have been in existence in some form since 1999, and has been a bed for application of my personal desires for websites. In prior incarnations, there have been experiments from CMS design (2009s), fully-external modification capabilities (2008) and up to full PHP development of an application (2009f).
Images below are examples of designs from 2006, 2008, 2009/spring, and 2009/fall.
