Overview
The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor is a local chapter of Rotary International, which works with the community on a number of projects fostering quality of life, cooperation, and understanding. Wishing to update their online presence as well as member features, the Club has commissioned me to redesign the visual interface as well as migrate it to the open-source, content management platform, Drupal.
Project Goals
- Design a contemporary and standards-based visual interface that represents the vision and identity of the Rotary Club.
- Restructure the navigation and organization of the website to be more accessible and friendly.
- Migrate to the Drupal platform for better content management and to support distributed responsibilities among members.
- Allow for the weekly newsletter, The Harpoon, to be easily assembled using website content.
Status
The redesign of the website is currently in production and is expected to be launched later this year.
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Overview
Jenn Harp is a SAG actress based in Los Angeles, California. I worked with Jenn in 2006 to produce a website promoting her work as an actress as well as providing online access to her résumé and headshots for casting directors and talent agencies. The website also allows Jenn the opportunity to share news and events through a personalized blog.
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Apr. 2006 to Present |
www.kayadayspa.com
Overview
Kaya Day Spa, located in Chicago’s West Loop, is a full-service day spa offering unique and luxurious treatments. I have worked with Kaya both on the maintenance of their website as well as the production of email campaigns. The campaigns are designed to promote new services, upcoming events, and new arrivals to their boutique. Each campaign is customized to the promotion and coinciding event, holiday, or season. Subscriptions to the campaigns have steadily increased since they began in 2006 and click-through rates have consistently proven to be higher than average.
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Overview
Over the past two summers I have worked at the Archives of Michigan on a few different projects. One of which, the Untitled Prison Project, warrants it’s own entry.
Additionally, I have worked to digitize portions of the Doug Elbinger photographic collection. Elbinger has photographed politicians, artists, musicians, and events in the state of Michigan for nearly four decades. Currently, selections of his work are scheduled to be featured in an exhibit on Michigan politics, which is set to coincide with the 2008 Presidential elections. In managing this collection, I produced digital contact sheets, high resolution scans and derivatives of selected works, applied metadata, and created a naming convention and management scheme.
Lastly, I customized the design interface of the Archives digital collections website. The website is built on the CONTENTdm content management system platform, which is largely PHP and database driven. In order to provide a more unique experience as well as represent the personality and value of the Archives, I created an interface that incorporated aspects of the Archives collection while maintaining the infrastructure and functionality provided by CONTENTdm.
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