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Onewebsite Solutions Incorporated
Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Mike.
My largest project to date was full spectrum from design of logo to design of business model. This of course included designing and developing web services to facilitate the daily needs of the business, as well as custom plugins for clients. Where required development skills exceeded my own, I designed documentation to present detailed Requests [...]
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Think MEC – Magna Corporation
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
This corporate website again utilizes a WordPress Theme custom developed by me at Onewebsite. The slightly new page design keeps the page from scrolling at the clients request. A flash intro page was designed by me. I managed the outsourcing of the development of that flash project.
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Coodose Social Application
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
Coodose is a work in progress and builds upon social networks and browser plugins. It is a tagging, bookmarking application. I am designing and developing the entire front end and managing the outsourced development of the backend.
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Sask Ideas
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
Another WordPress theme built on the “One” theme by Onewebsite. An intro page is used to introduce the multiple tenants who each had access to the site to create their own pages. Minimal design once again promotes the effective application of logo, masthead and color pallet.
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Checks N Balances
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
Another play on the Onewebsite “One” theme for WordPress. The header has 4 zones to manipulate: Super Nav Bar, Logo Bar, Tagline Bar and Nav Bar. Each layer is over top of a well chosen masthead image. Another example of minimal design but strict attention to often overlooked fundamentals – padding (gutters), balance, and contrast.
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ASAPS Plastic Surgery Association
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
I was the front end developer on this project. I took Photoshop compositions from our designer and produced pixel perfect front end templates that were clean in presentation, light in weight and hand coded. I also developed the front end logic using PHP and partnered with a developer to integrate into the custom functionality. This [...]
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iCare Front End Development
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
My role in the large scale project was to gather requirements, provide UML diagrams, screens and wireframe, develop all front-end code and integrate it into the PHP/MySQL backend. I developed much of the front-end display logic, which vastly improved my PHP skills – although I am still far from a PHP developer, I certainly am [...]
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Morris Interactive
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
This website integrated WordPress with several open source plugins as well as custom developed plugins. The “Intro” page contains a flash object and utilizes the Kimli Flash embed plugin. The custom newsletter plugin is simple and effective. This site also integrates into a online training module hosted on another server. After designing and developing this [...]
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The Master Cleanse SEO and Adsense
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
This website was designed and developed to be revenue producing, content based, and optimized of Google Adsense. I wanted to better understand the requirements for getting a website in the top 10 of Google SERPS, where to place Google Adsense ads for higher click-through, how pivotal valuable content and community are to developing these properties [...]
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Da Vinci Project Fundraiser Poster
Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Mike.
This poster was created for the Da Vinci Project – One of the entries into the $10 million Ansari X Prize – a race to be the first organization that could put a man into space and a return flight within 30 days. The contest was won by SpaceShipOne, and this poster was never used. [...]
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