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Web Design Experience
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Lock-N-Key is the brand name of a chain of self-storage facilities owned by Hendry Investments of San Antonio, Texas. They operate over 20 locations in Texas, Ohio, Kansas, and Florida. They'd paid to have a site created, only to find the site had problems and did not work with Netscape. Scripts on the site presented cross-browser problems, and much of the existing HTML was riddled with non-standard formatting. I replaced all the scripts with others that were cross-browser compatible, corrected poorly composed style sheets, and brought the entire site size down from 70 MB to less than 20 MB while streamlining overall performance.
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HAZCO Environmental Services, Ltd. is the largest waste management and hazardous waste response firm in western Canada, with offices in all four western provinces and a headquarters in Calgary, Alberta. They approached me to update their site and became interested in a full renovation. The newly designed site features intuitive navigation, crisp graphics, updated information, and avoided the previous version's use of cliche items such as background images and oversized, image-mapped graphics. We continue to work together on a regular basis to create new content and update existing information.
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Inception Technologies, Inc. is a VAR in the optical storage industry. I worked for Inception Technologies for a year, developing graphics and content and all-around webmastering. Many of the graphics and the site structure I developed are still in place.
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Stepping Stones is a support group founded in 1990 by the late Christine Raimondi Wentworth for adult survivors of bone marrow transplants. I naturally took an interest in the group and volunteered to make them a site of their own. After securing outside funding from a non-profit organization the site was launched, and I continue as its webmaster. Content is provided in the form of semi-annual newsletters created by two of the members, general announcements, and information culled from my own passing research on topics of interest. Other resources include an online cookbook, reading room (with links to buy at Amazon.com) and a chat room. The previous incarnation of the site, www.stepstone.net, was sold to a firm in Norway for US$12,000.
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