Design Portfolio
Please keep in mind that I also have a regular daytime job.
So if there are any serious shortcomings in my designs, I will lay the blame squarely
on that easy excuse.
And if you think such a statement is not very professional, that's OK, my clients
are my friends and I hope they generally have a good sense of humour.
- WEBADO.net - This site
After having originally relied on a Joomla/Mambo CMS for this site, with assorted problems, I finally redid it all in a manner which actually allows me more flexibility to add different content to it.
- RapSohD
This is how it all started, early in 2002. The first site designed and hosted by what later became WEBADO.
RapSohD is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of higher education by rewarding teens with talents in the performing arts.
- Melina's Music
The personal web site of a very talented young Canadian singer, songwriter and pianist Melina Soochan, who is also Miss RapSohD Talented Teen 2001.
Music, videos and photos complement the biography of this young artist.
- Booking Melina Soochan EPK
A small bilingual website to act as a booking EPK.
- Nancy Heartmusic
The personal website of a very talented Texas musician.
Music, poetry and photos accompany Nancy's fascinating biography.
- Songwriters Chat
Room
This started as a little web site to collect information appearing in a very popular songwriters forum, and to provide an actual chat room for the forum members. Informal song contests and information related to web publishing tools and venues for musicians. This site is in dire need of a redesign, but the clientele it's serving has all but disappeared once the original forum was closed, so there doesn't seem to be much point in redoing it.
- WEBADO - Simple Web Stuff
Finally a site of my own! After taking care of everybody, it was high-time to get my own niche on the web. Best described as an eclectic site, a bit of everything, a ranting blog, a poetry blog, a forum, and a test area for the latest ideas I get in web design.
- AnySite Widget News
Sample web site, used for testing various design techniques.
- CrownSil
A site dedicated to R&D in physical chemistry. This site is still under construction.
- Ligue
des as de hockey St-Léonard
The official site for this local hockey league is a meeting place for the members of the league, as well as an online depository for the game and player stats of the league.
- Tomis Plomberie Inc
A Montreal plumbing company.
Site Make Overs
- CANICS
I undertook an extensive make-over of the website of this Canadian company, supplier and sourcing provider of electronic components, for two main reasons: to correct a number of coding errors that had built up over time as the site was being maintained, and to add a database driven section, in order to eliminate thousands of static pages, to better control content, layout and code validation. The original layout was preserved entirely and standardized across all pages, including the new dynamic ones. At the same time I also did some basic on-site optimization, to help with search engine indexing.
- Lorraine Klaasen
This site was not originally designed by me, but I have revised the technical details of that design somewhat to incorporate some newer techniques since I am also hosting of the site. The original design of the site, the look and feel as it were, have been preserved throughout as they are most appropriate. The full design credit has to go to KUKU.
- The McKeown
Hypnotherapy Clinic
This site dedicated to a hypnotherapy clinic in St Albans, UK, conceived by the owner Steve McKeown himself, had a very pleasant visual presentation, but needed some technical improvements in order to allow proper indexing. Thus I rebuilt it using modern design and coding techniques.
- PJ Soaps
This site showcasing a hobby turned home business for artistic theme soap manufacturing, was originally designed by its owner, but I have revised it, cleaned up the code and incorporated some newer techniques such a css and SSI, while striving to provide the owner/webmaster with page templates that can be easily used and adapted to further expansion. The original design of the site, color scheme and general layout have been preserved throughout as they are most appropriate.
- Olives Giovanni
This site is typical of a small business whose owner, Giovanni, decided a web presence is desirable to showcase Giovanni's famous olives, prepared in the traditional Sicilian style. Here I revised, optimized graphics and improved the code, while preserving the original look.
- Stylish Noggins
Here is a site that was created to fill a need in the community, providing hats, scarves and other head coverings to victims of alopecia, or any condition that results in hair loss, often associated with cancer chemotherapy treatments, as well as a support group, offering social activities aiming at enhancing public awareness.
My contribution to this extraordinary site was to help clean up the code and provide some basic on-page optimization of contents and navigation.
- Total Folorida - Cheap
Florida Holidays
My contribution to this website was to recommend and help with the consolidation of several similarly themed websites, help standardize the url structure and try to tie up some other loose ends in an effort to boost this site's performance. Optimization is an on-going process that needs to be handled on several fronts, and this is an example of just one aspect.
- Creation
Rachelle Bonbonnieres, Favors and Mementos for Weddings and Other Occasions
This still evolving website for a busy home business in the Montreal area was in need of a redesign and an infusion of fresh content, after having been neglected and finally abandonned by a succession of webmasters.
