The Haldimand-Norfolk REACH site involved design, execution and education for the contributors on how to use the Joomla platform.

So I found myself being designer, developer and teacher. Nice to be involved in the full spectrum of a project.

The New Orleans Pizza site is a venue for the company to publish product offering and promotions. Patrons can't order anything off the site yet because the infrastructure was just too much of an expense as well as being very difficult to implement over independently owned stores.

The head office has a nice suite of editing tools, though, so they have complete control over the graphics and content.

Lots of custom photography was used and the branding and look links into the feel of the New Orleans brand. I partnered with Red Barn Design on this project and am pretty satisfied with what came out of it.

The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children is a bit of mouthful. This is a project I did with the University of Western Ontario. It involved a lot of content standardizing. I had to make the decision of whether doing it by hand or writing search-and-replace routines to consistently format several hundred articles.

Sometimes I like the way computers can run all night on a problem while I'm blissfully sleeping.

A completely CSS-driven site this project also had to rely on Macromedia's Contribute for content-management.

Not only does it look good, there is lots of clever engineering here.

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UNFORTUNATELY THEY ARE HOSTING IT WITH A COMPANY THAT PUTS ADS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WINDOW.

The Sidemen were two-time winners of a Maple Blues award. But they really needed a marketing programme to really get anywhere. So there was a small compliment of material produced and the web site was one of the pieces. This site, too, won lots of awards

It's all Flash-based to get the feel of the band. And also because there isn't really a lot of information except for the calendar -- and that's database driven. 

The Sidemen have since broke up, unfortunately. But their careers were all advanced.

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This was a pretty cool project. I worked with Tyrone McCarthy to illustrate two different experience paths.

It turned out to be an interesting way to present a thing and allow a user experience within a defined area yet give quite a few paths for exploration. And, on a small budget.

Unfortunately, the school abandoned the maintenance of the site. I still like it, though.

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Mexicasa is based on the Joomla platform and was a lot of fun to do.

The site was delivered as a set of tools and templates so that the Brand Managers could take over and own the content. It was kinda cool to see them take off with the toolset and make the site their own; a model I'm going to promote in the future.

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MIL-SIM-FX is a really interesting company. They innovate, design and manufacture simulated road-side bombs or improvised explosive devices; all the stuff that the military has to contend with on the ground. That means that the troops can run through a course of objectives, be attacked, be critiqued and run it again so that the troops can quickly assess the situation.

Anyway, it's a user-only registered site. So no-one but those qualified can look at the contents, so if you visit, you probably won't get to look at the brilliant catalog of (non-lethal) scary products.

It is, however, completely company-controlled

The Tools for Change site is a comprehensive listing of resources that promote healthy, equal relationships, reviewed and critiqued using a strengths-based model. It was a huge site to put together especially because it had to be entirely machine-readable. No graphics cheating!

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An entirely Flash-based site, this piece is cinematic and toned toward the subject matter. One of my favourites. The pacing is intentional and is, again, a nice award-winner.

One of the two times I can think of that an entirely Flash-based site was really appropriate.
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NUS is an international site that had to be in seven (count 'em) languages. The solution was an elegant language-engine that sets a session-variable. Applied to all elements (even graphics) this became a nifty tool.

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Si-Coat came up with a really cool product that is having global implications. They are saving millions of dollars/pounds/euros/dinars for electrical grids all over the world.

One of the coolest bits of this site is the online application that calculates the area of an electrical system insulators and estimates how much product would be required in a given environment. And I thought I'd never use grade 11 math for anything practical!

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