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August 2nd 2010 // Work // Permalink

Portfolio: CUNet Website

The new CUnet website is up and running. I worked on the website's planning, wireframing, UI design and finally HTML, CSS and JavaScript coding. For best SEO results we decided to avoid use of Flash and ended up using some jQuery/jQuery plugins to add interactivity to the home page.

Home Page

Marketing Services Page

July 24th 2010 // Work // Permalink

Portfolio: BOLD Nebraska Website

BOLD Nebraska is a "...start-up looking to change the political landscape and to restore political balance in our state...".  It features political news, local events and calls to action.

Once again, I collaborated with Justin Kemerling—who did the graphic design—and asked me to do all the front-end and back-end development.

July 24th 2010 // Work // Permalink

Portfolio: Lincoln Arts Council Website

The new Lincoln Arts Council website is a project I worked on in collaboration with some really talented, highly creative people from Lincoln. The team included Ashley Rolf, David Christiansen, Adam Lohman, Graham Little and Lincoln Arts Council Executive Director, Deb Weber.

I was brought on to the team to help direct the user experience and turn Ashley Rolf's design into a functional website. The website is quite complex in terms of features and wealth of content it's serving. Some of those features include Events Calendar, Art & Art Organization Profiles, Sponsor Widget, Search etc... And all of it managed through a custom built Content Management System.

May 31st 2010 // Work // Permalink

Portfolio: Haydon Art Center Website Redesign

The goal of the Haydon Art Center website redesign was to provide the center with the ability to update and modify site contents on a regular basis, make it easy to navigate for users, represent the organization in a professional, classy manner, allow for future upgrades in terms of content and images, and provide a vehicle for center's artist members to showcase some of their graphic works and link to their individual web sites.

The site was a perfect candidate for Asari's custom built CMS.

I worked on the websites design, HTML/CSS, Javascript and PHP/MySQL.

Here is a Wayback Machine look at the old site.

April 15th 2010 // Work // Permalink

Portfolio: Nelnet Education Loan Servicing micro site

Nelnet Education Loan Servicing micro site is another fun web project I worked on through my job at Nelnet. The site has pretty minimal content, so I placed it all on one page and used jQuery and jQuery Cycle plug-in to navigate it.

The cycle plug-in is pretty flexible. I was able to use it navigate the content using it's "pagination" and "before/next" navigation options. The plug-in is also unobtrusive, so the content is readily available even with JavaScript disabled.

And here is the screen shot:

April 13th 2010 // Work // Permalink

Portfolio: Seniors Foundation Website

Seniors Foundation is a local non-profit organization providing financial support for Lincoln's senior centers. As such their new website needed to be simple, easy to navigate and edit.

Senior Foundation staff was already using Dreamweaver to maintain the old site, so I used as many Dreamweaver features as I could to make it as easy as possible for them to continue to do so. 

One of the requirements was integration of credit card processing, so beside HTML/CSS I worked on some PHP, cURL and SSL. I used Adobe's Spry javascript framework to handle some basic error checking.

March 22nd 2010 // Work // Permalink

Nebraskans for Peace Web Site

In past couple of months Justin Kemerling and I collaborated on a re-design of NebraskansForPeace.org web site. Justin did the design work and I did the front/back-end coding. 

February 7th 2010 // Work // Permalink

Nelnet team won six ADDY awards for Resume Richard!

Last night at the 17th Annual ADDY awards, the Nelnet team won six Gold ADDY awards for ResumeRichard.

And here are the categories:

1. Website, Consumer Flash, Services
2. Micro or Mini Sites
3. Internet Comercials: Sticking Out
4. Internet Comercials: What Makes the Cut
5. Internet Comercials: All About the Presentation
6. Online Campaign

Working on this project was a lot of fun. Go team Nelnet!

January 20th 2010 // Work // Permalink

Nelnet Government Services Website

This is a small website I worked on for one of our internal clients. All functionality, except sending email, is handled on the front-end using jQuery.

Home Page

Services Page

Users can add multiple products/services to the request form.

Request Form

Request form uses cookies to detect and add requested services to the form. From here users can remove services from the list, go back to specific service or submit the request.

You can visit the site at: http://www.nelnetgovernmentservices.com

January 1st 2010 // Work // Permalink

Just got published in HOW!

I am so thrilled that team Nelnet is one of this year's winners of the In-HOWse Design Award. You can see our work in the February 2010 issue of HOW magazine.

I was involved in the interactive side of the campaign.

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