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Skills and Services

  • Website design and development using primarily Wordpress and Drupal.
  • Website management.
  • HTML, XML, CSS, PhotoShop, video editing and production, PHP and SQL.
  • Flash and Javascript development.

Background

WasteFarmers.com: Designed and developed in Wordpress for the TEN|10 Group. The first non-news site from America's Fish. The website was part of an effort to redesign and rebrand the company just as it expanded. The company was still represented to the public online by a website with little definition and explanation about their services.

FMGEngineering.com: Designed and developed in Wordpress. A redesign of the website for FMG Engineering, a civil engineering firm in Rapid City, South Dakota. The project was a quick turnaround for the company that was still represented by a basic, do-it-yourself website and needed a new image before a series of important conferences. Like the others, it is designed in Wordpress to allow the company to manage its content going forward with minimal outside help.

MSCenterGuild.org: Designed and developed in Wordpress for the TEN|10 Group. The Rocky Mountain MS Center Guild is a small but loyal group that supports the Rocky Mountain MS Center. They wanted their own home on the web to connect with each other and to help expand their membership. The website includes some basic eCommerce functions to handle the Guild's membership, donations and event management.

Inner-VisionDesign.com: Designed and developed in Wordpress for the TEN|10 Group. Part of a rebranding effort by Evergreen, Colo.-based interior designer Dawn Huckaby, who had been working under her name for some time and was seeking to create an independent brand. The design of the site reflects her two specialities — color development and space planning — and her background in architecture, which has given her an affinity of the handdrawn aspects of her craft. Blue lines for borders and images of her finished work converted to blue line drawings reflect this.

KitchenworksColorado.com: Designed and developed in Wordpress for the TEN|10 Group. The first website for a local Denver kitchen and bath design company that has been in operation for nearly 20 years but needed an online presence to better connect with potential customers.

WeberSocialImpact.com: Designed and developed in Wordpress for the TEN|10 Group. The website was originally designed and launched on DomahidyWeber.com as the home for a consulting partnership helping nonprofits and social entrepreneurs. A technicality forced the partners to split their company into separate entities shortly after they launched. This is one half, the home of Megan Weber, an attorney who also works with Mountain2Mountain. The website includes a company blog to extend the reach and help create definition in a hard-to-define market.

AmericasFish.com: Designed and developed in Drupal. An archive version of the original Wordpress design is available here. The website began in the final days of the Rocky Mountain News as I, like many of my colleagues, began to contemplate the next step. I knew only that I wanted to continue to write, needed a home to collect my clips and a place to work and experiment with web design. The website was recently converted to Drupal, partly as a self-training experience in Drupal but also for a laboratory for extended Drupal design.

InsideTheRockies.com: Designed and developed in Wordpress. A website devoted to the coverage of the Colorado Rockies baseball team created in partnership with Tracy Ringolsby and Jack Etkin, former colleagues from the Rocky Mountain News. The website is home to a loyal following of Rockies fans who engage in an unusually civil discussion on a daily basis.

Mountain2Mountain.org: Designed and art directed for TEN|10 Group in partnership with Elevated Third, developed in Drupal by Elevated Third. This was a complete rebranding project for Mountain2Mountain, a nonprofit devoted to helping empower women and girls in Afghanistan. America's Fish designed the first mockups for the TEN|10 Group then worked in partnership with Elevated Third to finish the design as they began development in Drupal. The current website is the first phase of a planned expansion of the group's reach and online presence.

IWantMyRocky.com: Designed and developed in Wordpress. In December 2008 about a week after Scripps announced it was trying to sell the Rocky Mountain News, a group of Rocky staffers met at the Denver Press Club to decide if there was anything we could do to stop what seemed like (and indeed was) the inevitable. The result of that was this website, which was intended to be a final scream into the void as well as a place to launch whatever we decided to launch, if anything. Kim Humphreys, who organized the original meeting, took over the site as a non-profit in the summer of 2009 to, perhaps ironically, further raise awareness of print journalism’s plight.

JohnForJournalism.com: Designed and developed in Wordpress: John Ensslin was a former co-worker at the Rocky Mountain News and the last of the primary founders of I Want My Rocky still actively working as a journalist. He is now the courts reporter for the Colorado Springs Gazette and launched this little site to support his candidacy for an office with the Society of Professional Journalists.

Other Projects

RockyMountainIndependent.com: The site was designed by Kyle Lynch, a newspaper web designer who joined our cause when he heard Kevin Flynn and me on Colorado Public Radio, announcing our intention to launch a news site called INDenverTimes (the site still exists, but the group of Rocky staff who launched the site left a month later when funding didn’t come through). The Rocky Mountain Independent was edited by myself, Cindy House and John Moore during a three-month experimental run the summer of 2009. This site is an archive of that work.

DrewLitton.com: Drew’s site was one of the first I launched to give him a place to keep drawing while he navigated a brutal job market. He has managed to carry a large chunk of his devoted audience from the Rocky to his personal site. He has since taken control of the site and redesigned.

ColoradoSoccerNow.com: George Tanner, like so many of my Rocky colleagues, just wanted to continue writing after the Rocky closed. About a month after the newspaper closed, he launched this site devoted to the coverage of soccer in Colorado. He eventually took over management of the site and later donated the site to Metro State in Denver when he took a job in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Inside-Lane.com: Kevin Flynn, the Rocky’s transportation writer, launched this site in the summer of 2009 as a placeholder to continue reporting on transportation issues in the state as he continued to explore funding for a larger news site around the same topic. Kevin recently took a job and put the site on hold as he looks for someone to take it over.

RockyMountainNews.com: Who knows how much longer this site will be active? I took over the sports section in May 2008 and redesigned the section from the inside out, emphasizing the blogs, photo galleries, videos and statistics that had been to that point more or less hidden on the website.

Flash Trivia Games: Shortly before I returned to the Rocky, I designed the framework for a series of trivia games I eventually launched a couple months after joining the newspaper. The archive is still (at least, for now) active here. I reworked the games slightly and wrote a new batch for the Rocky Mountain Independent, which can be found here.