Heaven and Earth - Handmade Soap and Body Products

I designed this website for a small home based business in the Santa Cruz mountains which sells a wide variety of all natural handmade body products like soaps, body mists, scrubs, lip balms and mineral bath salts.

 

Awareness and Relaxation Training

Redesigned this website to create a more user-friendly interface and to conform to CSS web standards. Also implemented a paypal shopping cart for CD sales and add a macromedia flash audio player. All email addresses are encrypted to thwart email harvesting spam robots.

 

Chase Academy

I designed this website for a private, non-profit school designed specifically to meet the individual needs of students with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

 

Star Clinic Physical Therapy

I recently designed a website and logo for this Physical Therapy Clinic in Mountain View, CA.

 

Wild Coast Qigong

The animated banner (using Macromedia Flash) also functions as the website's menu. An alternative graphical menu is displayed on browsers that do not have Flash installed.

 

Vipassana Santa Cruz

The animated banner of the ringing bell was created using Macromedia Flash. It also doubles as a meditation timer.

 

Coyote Valley RV & Golf Resort

I designed this website for a RV destination which is currently under construction and due to open in early 2007 in San Jose, CA.

 

Frontier Self-Storage

I designed this website for a self-storage facility in Salinas, CA.

 

Vista - Integrated Home Study Learning Collaborative

I designed this website for a home schooling support organization to emphasize their philosophy based around the concept of head, heart and hands. The homepage incorporates an easily&ndashupdated slideshow using DOM that begins playing before all the images are loaded.

 

GizmoLab - Design Intuition®

Redesigned this website (which sells a CAD program for woodworkers) to improve the look and feel and use CSS web standards (still in progress). The website two different skins. The main section was designed to suggest the appearance of carved wood and the help section is a variation suggesting driftwood. (main, help). The size of the content window flows according to the size of the browser window. Using javascript, different CSS files are used to optimize the site for different screen sizes. For larger screens, the text is larger and the menu bar is fixed in position. The fixed menu does not appear in IE because that feature has not implemented in IE6 (hopefully coming in IE7!).

 

Carolyn Bennett, Psy.D. - Mindfulness For Health

This is a website I did for a psychologist in Berkeley, CA who also teaches mindfulness–based stress reduction.

 

Ocean Pods

The swimming copepod in the banner is a GIF animation.

 

Microcosmic Orbit Example from Wild Goose I

This macromedia flash animation is a "work in progress" that illustrates the movement of Qi (Energy) through the body.

 

At this point, I have about 10 years of experience designing websites using CSS, JavaScript and Macromedia Flash. I've become a web–standards devotee after reading Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman (fun to read) and Web Standards Solutions (practical examples) by Dan Cederholm. It took some time to master all the intricacies of CSS, but at this point I'm able to create very cool- looking websites that look great on a wide variety of platforms - even those with limited resolution (like Pocket PCs, cellphones and Palm Pilots). I've done quite a bit of programming and animation using Macromedia Flash in order to add movement and increased functionality to the websites I've designed. Aside from creating a striking and memorable impression, the bottom line in website design needs to revolve around ease of use. I want the site's layout and navigation to be obvious to a first-time visitor, so that they can quickly locate the information are seeking with a minimum of struggle. I think that creates a lasting impression on the user every bit as much as the look and feel of a website.