web development projects
Not that I'm a great developer or anything, but I like what I've made in the year that I've been designing. I don't have much experience past html, though I have coded and implemented a template engine in php. Most of what I do is pretty basic, but it gets the job done.
multisensory research lab
The first website I built (aside from the old homestead websites--but those don't really count) was the site for the lab I work in at Vanderbilt. The previous site didn't look too bad, it was just time for an update. It started with getting new lab member pictures to unify the asthetic of the pictures. It ended up in a basic redesign project with very little building involved. Basically all content was previously in place. Layout was completely developed by me.
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vanderbilt brain institute
The Brain Institute site was the most involved project thus far. The old site looked nothing short of terrible and sorely needed a major overhaul. I'm talking using tabels to not-so-great effect, using them for basic layout (which was virtually nonexistent) and surrounding a snippet of text or an image with a one-cell table. Disgusting. The front page looked like a train wreck of a mid 90's web pages. And this was supposed to be the online presence of a "trans-institutional entity comprising 43 departments, centers, and institutes" at a top-tier research university. A complete rebuild was in order. I started with a completely new design concept. Version 1.0 used spry tabs for each section, putting all the content on one page. This caused load times to skyrocket and thus, I nixed the spry opting for individual basic html pages. For this project, I customized a fairly nice and functional slideshow for the front page. Additionally, for students' profiles, I developed a php template engine that utilize a common template page and allows minimal work in preparing each page.
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vanderbilt reviews neuroscience
The first complete, from scratch website I built. Definitely not as involved as the VBI site was, but it was tedious to say the least. Web site is the only home for a journal of PhD candidate reviews within the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Vanderbilt (which is incidentally run by the VBI). There was a lot of editing involved (as is the case with any collection of text from different authors). Again, the design was developed by me and I got to test my hand at logo design while dealing with Graphics Standards and Logo.
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