My Work

Custom Kitchens is a locally owned and operated cabinet and kitchen design company. Based out of Franklin, MA this business provides high quality installation of both custom and pre-built cabinets, entertainment centers, counter tops and much more. The site employs a simple color-gradient to produce a soothing image that does not distract the view from the content.

The Samaritans of Cape Cod and The Islands is a volunteer suicide prevention hotline available for residents in the Cape Cod, Massachusetts area. They approached Avenir Solutions with a request for a redesign of their old website, and the task was given to me. The site utilizes a lightweight CSS/XHTML framework. The top banner provides visual enticement on each page while not drawing the viewers attention away from the content of each page.

As a Housefellow at Connecticut College, I was tasked with building and maintaining community within a 77-person residence hall on campus. One of my strengths being web design, I decided to create a web site as a means of information distribution to my residents. The site features an easy to use Content Management System which I will pass on my to successor and possibly distribute to other Housefellows on campus.

The Student Government of Connecticut College approached me to web master their site. I took the liberty upon myself to also redesign the site in CSS/XHTML instead of the clunky table-based layout. I also applied some php-based templates to ease updating certain information for the less web-inclined members of the organization. The site features announcements and digital versions of the Assembly minutes and it's weekly newsletter.

Medicals Network, Inc is a company designed to provide independent medical peer opinions for many uses from insurance to courtroom situations. The company approached Avenir Web Solutions asking for a site make-over. A template was chosen, but it did not provide quite the look the company wanted. I reapproached the design with the template in mind and created my own CSS/XHTML layout, providing a simple but effective layout for MNI's clients.

Kitty Cottage is a cat kennel in Franklin, Massachusetts. The site design features a business card style layout with prominet context-sensitive images located in juxtaposition to the site content. The content of the site scrolls seperately from the rest of the site, allowing the visitor constant access to the menu.

Rockhill Cemetery is a non-denominational, non-profit memorial cemetery located in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Their web needs are simple, and as such their site is very lightweight. Pictures are used to highlight the look of the actual cemetery.

Saster Plumbing approached Avenir with a simple request: they wanted the information on their business card put on the web. This simple business-card website conveys all the information a self-employed plumber would need, but is still marked up in semantic HTML making it friendly to search engines liek Google, Yahoo and MSN. These search tools do not care about flashy graphics or special effects, just the raw information.

Allevato already had a web site they were happy with when the approached Avenir, but it was very difficult to do any significant updates. I converted the table-based layout to a CSS-based design, making the HTML focus more on information and less on styling. The javascript used to drive the hover effects on the images was also cleaned up, making the system more efficient. The end result: a page that looks the same to a human, but is much more machine and search engine friendly.