Spring has sprung, and I’m proud to announce the launch of the new design for Pixelluxe.com. I’ve been looking at that same one-page format for almost two years now and I definitely welcome the change.
Friendship Retirement Community offers a wide range of managed care and rehab services, and they were responsible for the biggest project I’ve done to date. This site had it all, along with one of the tightest production schedules I had ever seen. When I got the brief from the agency, the client was expecting a finished site in 4 days. Obviously that didn’t happen, but we delivered a site that they could at least interact with and used their feedback to complete the project.
I think it’s safe to say that the hardest project to get right is your own. I’ve got such exacting standards and would be embarrassed to point any potential clients to a site I didn’t love. I’m glad to say I finally have one. Brad Soroka did an amazing job putting this design together. I was able to incorporate some fun effects without sacrificing usability, search engine rankings, load times, or browser compatibility.
Oh, the Heritage Foundation. This was a very interesting project from a cutup and code perspective. I’ll keep my opinions to myself about how I feel about them on a moral level.
The site for NMAETC was a very challenging project from a navigation perspective. They have as many as four levels of navigation at times and we needed a way to get users to all of that content.
The HCR (Healthcare Contract Resources) Companies site was the first time I really got to play with the Expression Engine CMS. From start to finish, this project was built to be deployed in that environment.
I helped on this project for Click & Pledge during the planning and early production phases. While Flash is definitely the star of the show, I got to use some creative code to get them everything they were looking for.
The International Masonry Institute site was my first project with a DC-based agency for whom I did several sites.
The Roanoke Arts Festival is an annual music and arts event in my humble hometown of Roanoke, VA. For their first annual event, I worked with the designer, the ticketing company, and the city to make sure the project was a success.
For a time during 2007 and 2008 I served as Online Communications chairperson for AD2 Roanoke. AD2 is a branch of The Advertising Federation, a networking group for folks in advertising. AD2’s focus is on the younger professionals in the market (32 and under). During my time on the board, I decided the site’s code could use an overhaul.
Stanly Regional Medical Center in North Carolina wanted a site to help them recruit medical professionals to their area. The agency designed a microsite with benefits for moving to the area and ways to collect and manage recruitment information.
This site was prepared for an agency that maintains their own proprietary content management system. The cutup was similar to most I do, with special attention paid to the way they hook in to various elements of their software to allow their clients to maintain their pages themselves.
This was my very first cutup project. It surprised me at the time to learn that people would pay this kind of money for something I considered a hobby. The site was for Colosseum Condo, a sports hotel in Blacksburg, VA. It was a super clean layout that only needed the most basic CSS, along with a fairly simple calendar engine.