Archives for accomplishments
How Web Standards Made a Better Site for LP
What started as a simple project with LP to redesign their top-level landing pages quickly grew to encompass their entire site. This brought with it some surprising logistical difficulties, which the Pop Art team overcame through clever use of web standards. The end result is a new look applied across the entire site, with the [...]
November Accomplishments
SelecTrucks Center Sites We launched two new Center Sites in November. Kansas City was a challenging design, with lots of absolute positioning, which caused a few problems when IE7 came out. The client was really excited about the puzzle theme. Birmingham is, I think, one of the best looking designs we've done. The diagonal navigation is [...]
October Accomplishments
SelecTrucks We're nearing the end of the SelecTrucks project, and only launched one site this month: Tampa. I really like the water in the design, with the little diver swimming through. Carrier We did some small projects for Carrier this month, mostly SEM tweaks. The cool part is that we added a media center, which will be going [...]
September Accomplishments
SelecTrucks We launched two sites this month, Detroit and Jacksonville. Detroit is a SWEET design, and one of the ones I was most excited to see go out the door. Jacksonville is also cool, and has a neat suprise in the form of a gator at the bottom of the page. We worked on several other [...]
August Accomplishments
SelecTrucks We launched four SelecTrucks sites this month, and all four feature landscape shots. Denver has a nice big mountain, and lots of wet-floor reflections on their photos. Cleveland has several landmarks in a photomontage, Twin Cities has a great landscape shot at sunset, while Seattle has a very nice cityscape, including the space needle. All [...]
July Accomplishments
SelecTrucks Three SelecTrucks sites launched this month: Las Vegas, Charlotte, and Springfield. Vegas is a funny design, kinda dirty like a worksite, Charlotte is obviously Nascar-themed, and Springfield… Well, let's just say that Springfield is special. Dave, the designer, said that it was something he comped up for fun, and was suprised when the client went [...]
June Accomplishments
SelecTrucks We launched four new sites this month: Grand Rapids, Little Rock, Miami, and Nashville. Miami is a particularly striking design, heavily inspired by old cigar and fruit boxes. We were playing a bit of catch-up this month, but we managed to get back on our feet with a new production process that's resulting in these [...]
May Accomplishments
SelecTrucks In the last month, we launched three more SelecTrucks sites (Chicago, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles), and got one more to Alpha, but at that point we were two-three weeks behind on the project, depending on which estimate you were looking at, and with a major redesign on my desk for Detroit Diesel, it was clear [...]
April Accomplishments
Training I continued my ASP.NET 2.0 training, and have gotten through five chapters in my book, the most recent about theming. Based on this, I gave a presentation to the office titled .NET 101, which just gave a brief overview of what .NET is and isn’t, and an really short demo of how to use Visual [...]
March Accomplishments
For the bulk of last month, I have been working on SelecTrucks sites. After launching Memphis, I started work on Louisville, and then proceeded on to Chicago and then Massachusetts (which I now know how to spell). Louisville has already gone "live" on their domain, and Chicago and Massachusetts are both production-complete, but awaiting final [...]
Airborne Ranger
…and Scott for dropping in like an airborne ranger and getting the job done with a shock and awe assault on all content and formatting inconsistencies. – From a project manager’s email about a site we just finished I like that description! Probably because I just finished watching Band of Brothers, but still…
February Accomplishments
My coworkers have both posted their accomplishments for the month of Febtober, so I'll join the cool kids and try to impress the boss. I got hired at the beginning of the month, and spent my first few weeks getting settled in and finishing up work on Carrier and Bryant, both of which have now gone [...]
