Gothling website
When gothling.com needed a "facelift", I put in a bid to restructure the entire site with a Content Management System and an entirely new look. Unfortunately, neither myself or the Gothling webmaster had any knowledge or experience with any open-source CMS. Due to the large amount of traffic this site gets, a better plan was needed, and it wouldn't be cheap. It was this project that spurred me into researching the CMS projects out there, and investigating the possibilities. Little did I know, this would become a career obsession! Read more »
Iceolation website
This is a one-time promotional website done for a New Year's Eve event. It was largely a static site, but drew lots of attention (which was the point, I guess). Apart from the actual site design, I also did the artwork for the main image on the home page.
Gargoyle prop and body painting
I was commissioned to build a decorative piece for the Minneapolis Goth Prom, sponsored by gothling.com at the time, and decided to produce a human-sized gargoyle statue. Rather than create a human figure from scratch, I decided to accomplish the granite stone effect with body paint. The wings, tail, hair, and pedestal were constructed and painted separately out of various materials. Read more »
Nordic Guard website
When it comes to projects of this nature, the "Garbage In, Garbage Out" rule definitely applies. Nordic Guard gave me no logo, no branding, no colors, and getting any kind of content from them was like pulling teeth. They didn't want a CMS, and acted like "this whole internet thing is a fad anyway.... It'll blow over". Strangely, they were rather satisfied with this design.
Several real estate websites by Home Marketing Network
After my work on projects at Digital River, I found a job doing web design for a company which catered exclusively to the real estate industry. Each site had a custom front-end, but Home Marketing Network's custom-built CMS made them all function very much the same. Read more »
Nextel iDEN Update website
Similar to my work on the Boost Mobile website, I helped build the interface for Nextel's mobile phone website. Again, I did not do the design, only the implementation.
For checkout testing purposes, I developed a keygen script which acted as a fake user account with a fake phone model and phone number. This handy script worked really nicely, and became a popular gadget in the office. Read more »
Boost Mobile website
Post 9/11, my first corporate web development job was working for Digital River. I really loved this company. They treated me well, utilized all of my talents, and had an amazing corporate culture. My first project there was building the front-end HTML interface for Boost Mobile's website. I cannot take credit for the design, only the implementation. Read more »
Laser Art: Spiritual Battle
The latest in my series of laser-cut art, depicting a spiritual battle. I never did find a large enough piece of material to cut this out of, so I opted to have it printed. At one point, I had this piece printed, cut apart, and mounted in 3 separate frames (left, right, and center). Since this is vector-art, I can easily convert this illustration into a variety of mediums.
GoIQ.net website
After 9/11, times were tough for developers everywhere, and I reluctantly found work building a data-mining "survey" application for a multi-level-marketing scam, trying to sell nutritional supplements. The "company" was just one sales branch of the MLM, run by a smooth-talking jock real estate mortgage broker. Can you feel the eXcItEmEnT!?! Read more »
Insight CMS
My first big web application development project was building a complete Content Management System... from scratch. (At the time, an open-source CMS was unavailable.) I was extremely limited by the host, and the client was unwilling to change hosts, so we were forced to run everything off of a Microsoft Access database file using ASP. There were days where I was literally screaming at my monitor, trying to get this lousy getup to work.
My client was The Rock, a contemporary church, who I also did the web design for. Read more »
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