Web Work

I have been in web design for over a dozen years now. I have worked in several different aspects of coding, designing, and strategizing for countless web sites, working for funky artists as well as for large organizations:

  • as the one responsible for the web presence for several facets of a multi million dollar corporation (The American Skiing Company), designing and maintaining the main corporate website as well as being the primary designer/webmaster for its flagship resort, Killington, for a number of years. Additionally I was designer and webmaster for The Canyons resort web site, the designer for the Grand Summit Resort site, and various other projects for the company and resorts.
  • I have worked for a couple of colleges: On various projects for different departments and grad schools at Dartmouth College, including work for the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck Business School, research departments, and the Hopkins Center. I also have worked on a template for the main site of Colby Sawyer College, and implemented an online store for them.
  • I have worked for several non-profits designing their sites, maintaining them, and training in-house staff to take over the maintenance. These sites include The Vermont Institute of Natural Science, The Vermont Crafts Council, The Upper Valley Land Trust, The Monadnock Conservancy, and others.
  • Of course I've helped many individuals realize their print and web-based design goals – from small business owners to artists and crafts-people.
I've enjoyed working in all these capacities.

I can be flexible. I like to listen to a client's needs, and also think about what the the people who will use the client's site will want and need from it. I love to work elbow-to-elbow with a client to refine designs and craft solutions.

I'm very comfortable with all modern web tools and situations, from Content Management Systems to hand-coded pages. I use Dreamweaver and text editors for html and CSS work. Photoshop is one of my greatest strengths; I use it extensively for design as well as polishing content. I have continued to push the envelope in CSS coding for the last several years. I also employ Adobe's Illustrator and Corel's Painter from time to time, and I know how to create interactive Flash pieces, with years of experience in that.

Skills include and extend beyond:

  • Design – effectively and efficiently closing in on a custom look for a project. I work in Photoshop and Illustrator first, to quickly sketch ideas and let creative ideas flow. Then I work on the next part:
  • Standards Based Web Layout – using modern techniques of web coding to assure the maximum in cross-browser compatibility, forward compatibility, Search Engine Optimization, and accessibility. (Of course I have so many pages on line that there is a lot of legacy code, including on many parts of this site!)
  • Content Management Systems: I have actually developed a database-to-web-page system that I still use for the Vermont Crafts Council and for my own photgraphs. This helps me create pages quickly from complex sets of data. I've also used the Pivot content management system quite a lot, having designed for it and worked as webmaster for sites using it. I am also working with Drupal.
  • CSS layout and modification: Cascading Style Sheets are a deep and powerful tool in modern web design. I like to use CSS so that sites can be updated and changed easily, as well as maximizing standards compliance.
  • Legacy Code: Having worked at this since before there were any graphical design applications, I'm comfortable working with tables and other rats-nest style code. I can work on your legacy site without quivering and moaning at all.