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Warren Mendonsa, a buddy, was releasing a new album and was giving it away for free on the intertubes. He wanted a really simple promotional simple website and forum for his fans. I used the obvious colors in the band name, kept everything nice and big, and created a mood that fit the music.

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Dec 15, 2009Launched version 2 of the site to coincide with the release of the 2nd album. Warren needed more control of the site to manage and moderate updates, comments, add show dates etc. WordPress handles the CMS and I completely stripped down and adapted the Capricorn Theme by Shaibanii. The music pages are run on bandcamp and I integrated his Twitter feed. I hope to eventually bring back the integrated music player from the old site.

Apr 20, 2007This is the version 1 site done completely in Flash with a very raw PHP interface handling the backend and a Simple Machines forum. All the artwork was courtesy his girlfriend.

Dorian’s a pretty talented indie musician friend. I created a strong identity and logo for him; then used them to redesign his old website based around his music.

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Jun 23, 2008The site finally outgrew its humble Flash beginnings. This was part of a complete redesign and an attempt to move it to a more manageable Drupal CMS and HTML based site so Dorian could update all the content himself. Unfortunately we decided to shelve it before it was completed. I hope to work with him again someday to realize this design or any other that may happen.

Jan 31, 2006Tweaked the layout and expanded it to accommodate more content.

Sep 13, 2005This is the first redesign and was done completely in Flash with PHP, MySQL, and XML running in the back to help manage the content.

This was the first HTML website I ever worked on and was born out of a class group project. My friend Lawrence Kwong and I created the website, identity, and stationery for this non-profit organization. They run a men’s support group in prisons for both the prisoners, and ex-cons leaving the system and trying to re-adjust to society. The biggest challenge was to deal with the dark subject matter yet keep an elegant feel to the various pieces. We collaborated on all the design and I concentrated on the Flash introduction and HTML coding for the website.

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Dec 11, 2005For this next version I took over all the site design and moved it completely to CSS and HTML with some PHP thrown in so that I only needed to update the dynamic sections and could leave the static sections to themselves. I kept the Flash intro as instructed. The main benefit was easier maintenance of the content and layout for both the client and myself.

May 17, 2003This is first version of the site done in collaboration with Larry. We were discovering web design at the time so it was done with HTML, Tables, Photoshop, and a little bit of Flash for the intro. We were heavily influenced by print design techniques at the time.

Here lies a personal pet project. My good buddy Jin Kato and I recorded and produced a podcast called 101 Web Design Show; agreed, not the greatest name. We tackled topics that we came across in our projects and looked at methods and solutions from a light-hearted just-starting-out-in-web-design point of view; along with all the mistakes and experimentation that happens. All credit for the design goes to Jin. For v2.0 I spiffied it up for easier maintenance; streamlined, and organized the various files we were using; unified the design; and added the message board. The most controversial decision we made was creating the site in Flash and we took a lot of flack for it. Our reason? At the time we were both quite proficient in Flash and were able to quickly put together all the functionality we needed while writing, recording, editing, and producing the show. We’re on an indefinate hiatus right now and fingers crossed, we’ll find the time to continue.

Updates

Feb 10, 2006Site is live.