just some samples

i have been working at designing and creating the web for over 12 years. after over nine years of working with clients on projects of all sizes, here is a small collection of my work. to filter the entries by project type, please select a category below.

reaching out MBA conference – web design

after developing the logo design for the reaching out 2008 LGBT MBA conference, the next step was to create an online presence that would promote, inform and connect people to the 2008 conference in washington DC. the website needed to be professional, and easy to update for the conference organizers. so i programmed the site on wordpress, and gave an online training of how to update, correct, change, and add things to the website… all without having to know anything about web “code.” both i, and my client, are very happy with how this site turned out.

Click for detail:Reaching Out LGBT MBA Conference website - 2008

brian’s bistro spices

this is the tasty part of my job as a freelance designer. i have the wonderful opportunity to work for people who create yummy things, like brian’s bistro spices! this site was my first experience using the e-commerce web hosting, shopify.com, and i highly recommend them! and i also highly recommend briansbistrospices.com, because the spices that i bought the other day smell/taste AMAZING. :-) it’s a rough job i tell ya…

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on3design – website

on3design is a husband-wife photography team. the goal for the website was to basically create a nice simple “canvas” to showcase their photography. their photography is amazing and i wanted all focus to be on their work.

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miltown kings – website design

the miltown kings are a drag king troupe here in milwaukee. their website was very out of date and not very user friendly to update. since most of the “kings” had full time jobs and were not web programmers, they needed a website that could fit around them. also, through getting to know them personally, i learned how much deeper the troupe’s passion was. the drag kings had plenty of fun, but were serious about social justice and raising awareness for a wide variety of causes and organizations. this website includes space for all of those aspects, as well as an easy to use “back end” so that anyone can update the website. i also had the opportunity to be the official photographer for one of their shows. (those photos can be found here.)

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everymoment.org – my blog

i’ve been blogging since 2000. and back in 2000, people thought i was crazy for putting my journal online. maybe that’s true. but i’ve met some amazing people through my blog, and through other people’s blogs… many of whom i consider good friends. my blog started off at blogger.com, then i moved it to tracyapps.org (here) in 2001, then i bought thisroad.org and used that as my ‘travel journal’ blog, and then finally moved to everymoment.org in 2004. my blog has had many different facelifts, and this latest design was created in early 2007.

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metaFour jazz - website

the goal for this site was to have a page that was really simple, not too much information, and have a concert calendar that a “non-web-developer” type person could update and add the upcoming gigs. i designed this site with the whimsical and humorous characteristics of the band members in mind. oh.. and you might recognize that drummer…

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metafour jazz quartet website

southeast construction LLC. - website

southeast construction LLC creates beautiful concrete surfaces. the client had a large catalog of images of their product, and their work was amazing! i wanted this website to really focus on these product images. in this project i developed most of the copy, and re-created their existing logo. i also learned a whole lot about concrete! :-)

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