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 companion program various event management programs, specifically Wizards of the Coast's "DCI Reporter" and "Wizards Event Reporter" pieces of software. This program is built with the intended goal of running faster, more efficient tournaments while also greatly reducing paper needs.
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The Reporter project is a scaled project which I am working on which is designed as an event logistics program, allowing the user to run any round-based tournament for any game that the program is able to handle.*
This program is currently in very early stages of development, focusing on programming methods and overall design considerations.
*Any tiebreaking system that is within the system. Current planned tiebreaking systems involve default tiebreakers, point-based tiebreakers, and tiebreakers used in Magic: the Gathering.
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.
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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.
