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The 7th District Association of Masonic Lodges in Manhattan, NY, is a charitable group that funds children's charities in the greater New York metropolitan area. They previously used Google templates for a basic website; they hired me to provide a more recognizable, appealing and organized presence on the Web as part of a new charitable contribution campaign.

They preferred continuing to use certain Google App faciliies such as Google Docs and Google Calendar, so I integrated them into their new site. XML files with DOM scripting render a page of charitable donations and charities on the fly. They went live 30 June 2010.

I donate spare time to the TapRoot Foundation, which funds deserving non-profits with management, advertising and website projects. One such project was the Basic Website Grant awarded to the Wilmington Community Clinic, in Wilmington, Ca., whch has served its community since 1977. This is their first website, deliverable in April, 2010. TapRoot's Basic Website Grant guidelines: 15 pages maximum, using only CSS and XHTML, with JavaScript usage limited to the menu/navigation system. Embedding third-party software is permitted; this was realized via an embedded Google calendar, contact input form via Google Documents and map/directions via Google Maps.

This website is a team product, the team comprising a graphic designer, a copywriter, a photographer, an advertising manager, a project manager and myself as web developer.

Kurt Heisig has been repairing woodwind and brass musical instruments and teaching musicians how to play them for decades. He's recently moved from Santa Cruz to Monterey, California and is getting his new store in order and hired me to do the same for his web presence. While the overall design and layout was approved as of March, 2010, I'm on hold waiting for Heisig to have a custom font designed.

The client is a jack-of-all-trades, reviving old furniture or building new for his clients, or, he's off finding junk yard matériel for eccentric, artistic constructions. By keeping the website semantic elements separate from stylistic and behavioral ones, the resulting low page-weight and clutter makes it easy for him to upload his own images and to add and modify text in simple HTML elements.

The client is a professional Mandarin teacher who wanted a distinctive website to advertise her tutoring and related services. I created a Flash animation with sound here to make the site distinctive. She also needed a login-protected section (using asp.net membership controls) for students to access assignments and announcements.

The customer for this website design was a political candidate running for city council in a prominent southern California city. (For privacy reasons, identifying information in this sample has been replaced with placeholder images and text.) Using web standards solutions means I can tailor this design to your precise look-and-feel requirement, serving as home base for your successful online campaign. And all in record time.

Tthese pages were written while working on a web development certificate at a local college. A number of (X)HTML, DOM, XML and JavaScript objectives and techniques are shown that one does not ordinarily have the opportunity to exploit.

I've designed and developed my family genealogy website for many years. This is the latest version, using several ASP.NET techniques and controls. Copy writing is ongoing when I have time to continue genealogical research.