WEB DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN

Haus of Color

Site to host different booking platforms for stylists at a hair salon

Main Goals

  • Perfectly match the desired 90’s aesthetic of the salon
  • Make each stylist immediately recognizable to clients whether it be by name, face, or what they do

Actions

  • Created multiple design revisions until client responded “It’s perfect, exactly as I envisioned”

Technologies Used

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • CSS
  • Figma
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator

Legacy Recording

Site for artists to connect with a new recording studio

Main Goals

  • Quickly create a simple and professional site to begin developing Legacy’s brand identity
  • Allow artists to initiate contact with us, with as little friction as possible

Actions

  • Implemented a form with a few basic but essential questions so the studio knows what they need to and artists know what sorts of details to mention
  • Used excellently made video content from another creator as the background, hosted off-site to reduce load times

Technologies Used

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • CSS
  • Figma
  • Illustrator (logo design)

Heavy Weather

Simple weather application made with React

Main Goals

  • Practice developing with current React standards, making API calls, and working with JSON data. 
  • Write clean and understandable code that can be easily maintained.

Actions

  • Implemented useState, useEffect, ES6 syntax, reusable components, routing, asynchronous functions, and multiple error handling methods.
  • Used GitHub for version control

Technologies Used

  • React
  • CSS
  • Figma

Commonwealth BBQ

Standard website for a popular restaurant in Wrentham, MA

Main Goals

  • Encourage customers towards online ordering
  • Streamline the process for taking in catering orders

Actions

  • Placed order button prominently on homepage, and at the bottom of other pages to avoid dead ends
  • Created a catering form for taking in preliminary information. Customers are now more informed about the service and staff spends less time on the phone during business hours.

Technologies Used

  • WordPress
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • Designed in Adobe Illustrator

Growing Crickets

Landing page for a fictional organization advocating for education reform, inspired by The Very Quiet Cricket

Main Goals

  • Learn about the process of building a production website, from early design stages to complete development
  • Create a quality user experience on both mobile and desktop layouts

Actions

  • Created my first design documents and target consumer personas. Used Adobe Illustrator for the first time to make wireframes and design.
  • Learned to use browser developer tools for making responsive layouts, as well as how to use Javascript to toggle mobile navigation

Technologies Used

  • HTML/CSS
  • Javascript for mobile navigation
  • Designed in Adobe Illustrator

Tom’s Civic Si

Blog-style site to show the work that I’ve done on my car

Main Goals

  • Practice basic DOM manipulation
  • Create content that is engaging and easily read, presented in a way that is simple but attractive

Actions

  • Wrote some simple functions myself and implemented more complicated code from another developer
  • Opted for a high contrast color scheme

Technologies Used

  • HTML/CSS
  • Javascript
  • Wireframed by hand