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A microsite to promote SAP’s Crystal Solutions product. A PSD was delivered to me by Fjord Interactive and I converted it to a working web site, cutting up the images and coding the HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

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The Skate3 Community site is a new addition to the web site for EA’s Skate3 skateboarding game. With the new addition, gamers can now create a skate team, find skaters for their team, view statistics, and lots more. I was charged with helping the team out with the frontend development and making sure the web site matched the design. Visit the site »

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A Place of Mind is a web site created for the University of British Columbia to aggregate their content from a variety of online sources like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and blogs. The site is configured to pull feeds from these sources and import specially tagged posts. The impressive creative work was produced by Fjord Interactive, who delivered wireframes and a PSD. I was charged with converting the PSD to a working WordPress theme and coding the custom Contribute form and feed importer. Visit the site »

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I got involved with the Pirate Party of Canada simply by participating in the discussion forums early on. I then took on the role of establishing the brand, creating a web site design, and developing a WordPress theme. Visit the site »

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I was contacted through this web site by Ash Conway and quickly started working with him to help shape what has become SmokinApps.com, a web site featuring mobile app reviews and ratings. Although Ash handled the majority of the design work, I helped him refine it, providing feedback to improve the user experience. My primary role however, was to develop a custom WordPress theme and integrate WordPress plugins into the site. Visit the site »

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After about a year in sporadic development, I finally managed to launch a startup called SharURL, enabling people to easily share large files like photos or video. I came up with the concept for SharURL after hearing a friend say they would burn a photo CD to share photos. SharURL was built on a custom PHP/MySQL framework I developed for the project. For more details behind the development of SharURL, see my blog post Developing SharURL: Lessons learned developing a new startup. Visit the site »

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Flippa is an online auction house for buying and selling web sites and domain names. Although Flippa is sort of a startup, it is actually a spinoff of the SitePoint Marketplace. Working directly with SitePoint co-founder Mark Harbottle, I was charged with developing a new brand and designing the interface for the new web application. In 13 days, I produced 32 mockups and refined the user experience for the entire application.

My role in this project was strictly design and user experience. I handed off Photoshop files and a style guide and the SitePoint team handled the rest. Check out the mockups above and compare with the live site.

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The All In Richmond web site was developed for Tourism Richmond to help in their mission of positioning and marketing Richmond, British Columbia as a visitor destination. It was a pleasure to collaborate with Fjord Interactive on another project, who again handed off a excellent design. This time the design proved to be quite a challenge, but I was still able to make all the site’s content fully editable from the WordPress Admin. As always, standards compliant, semantic frontend code was produced. I also coordinated with my former coworkers in Fjord’s IT team to integrate their weather widget that they coded (in PHP) to pull data from Environment Canada. Visit the site »

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Working with Fjord Interactive, I helped develop the web site for Vancouver Digital Week 2009 on behalf of New Media BC. Fjord delivered the design, content, and I handled the rest; developing semantic XHTML, CSS, Javascript, a custom WordPress theme, and custom WordPress plugins. Visit the site »

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This was a complete overhaul of Ronald McDonald House Charities global web site by Fjord Interactive.  From concept, information architecture, copy writing, usability, and design to replacing the CMS and hosting on the backend, this was a big improvement over their previous site.  I was the only frontend developer on this project but also helped two backend developers customize the CMS under a very tight deadline. Visit the site »

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The Government of British Columbia asked Fjord Interactive to develop a web site to showcase their ongoing projects and engage British Columbians to show their pride by posting photos, videos, and stories.  I worked closely with our in-house Flash developer on several Flash integration points.  I developed a custom WordPress theme and a WordPress plugin to handle the uploading of content.  I was the only web developer on this project. Visit the site »

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Vote Swap Canada is a Facebook application that allows Canadians to connect with people across Canada who want to minimize vote splitting and increase the effectiveness of their vote. I developed this application in my spare time. Check out the application »

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MTS Allstream Inc., a large Canadian telecommunications company looked to Fjord Interactive to provide a refresh of their Small Business web site and better showcase their offerings.  Having their own web team in-house, I handled the frontend development and communicated directly with their tech team to ensure smooth integration on their end. Visit the site »

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The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation approached Fjord Interactive to rebuild their static awareness site, giving it more of a community feel. As the only web developer on the project, I was charged with cutting up the comps from the creative team, writing the frontend code into a WordPress template and developing WordPress plugins. Visit the site »

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In this project Fjord Interactive was charged with developing a careers web site for the British Columbia Public School Employer’s Association (BCPSEA).  In this project, I wrote the frontend code and setup templates in Typo3. Visit the site »

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Zenutech is a web hosting company established in 2002 by myself and my personal friend and colleague, Pierre Grandmaison. In this redesign of the Zenutech web site, I treated Pierre as a client, pitching him design comps and sending copy for review. We put a lot of emphasis on information architecture, usability, and design.  After finalizing the design with Pierre, I wrote the frontend code into Smarty templates and customized WordPress to work as a knowledge base. Visit the site »

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The Email Setup Wizard project aimed to make the process of setting an email account in email clients like Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird as painless as possible for Zenutech web hosting customers.  The project was a complete success, decreasing the volume of new customer support calls by approximately 75%.

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Centered on their very marketable domain learntodrive.com, I came up with a fresh new brand for Wheels Driver Training Ltd. (WDT) that provokes a feeling of safety and speaks to their primary demographic: parents.  WDT was ecstatic when I presented the first set of mockups and was elated that they could easily update their course schedule by logging into WordPress. Visit the site »