Early Web Projects

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RosannWinn.com

I developed this web site for my sister-in-law, Rosann Winn, who is a folk singer and songwriter. The site promotes her various albums, as well as provides information of interest to her fans, such as musical performances, a biography, and promotional photographs. The site also promotes her music instruction business.

The complete web site is available online.

Michigan Information Technology Summit 2000 Webcast Site

We were asked by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to webcast their second (2000) and third-annual (2001) Michigan IT Summit conference.

Prior to the event, I assembled, configured, and tested the various hardware and software required for the live event. On the day of the event, I directed the on-site team, including a videographer, interviewer, photographer, and web designer on the delivery of live video of the event and on the on-site creation of the conference site. Following the event, I worked with the web designer (Peter Maziak) to modify the site to hold the archived video information. I also handled the live encoding, editing, and compression of the video.

The complete web site is available online.

Digital Cortex

In early 1999, Kurt Besecker, Andy Kurtz, Scott Connell, and myself set out to create a corporate web site for our recently founded company, Digital Cortex.

I collaborated with my partners on the information architecture, look-and-feel, navigation, and content in the site. Kurt Besecker did a majority of the design work with coding support by myself and Andy Kurtz.

The Web site is no longer available.

Comm Tech Lab Web Site

In the fall of 1997, I set out to create a web site for the Communication Technology Lab. The goal of the site was to reflect the identity of the lab while conveying a wide-variety of information. The site had to be easy to navigation, employ minimal graphics for fast downloading of pages, and cator to a wide audience base, including faculty, students, administration, lab members, lab alumni, and potential funders.

I designed the information architecture, look-and-feel, and navigation of the site and did all the HTML coding and back-end server features, such as search and back-end database integration. Carrie Heeter provided a lot of the content in the site.

The site has gone through a number of revisions since this 1997 redesign. I have been involved in all of the redesigns at some level.

Comm Tech Lab Internal Site

Soon after the creation of the publically available Communication Technology Lab site, I decided to create a password-protected internal web site to provide employee information and details on projects under development to help in project and lab management.

I designed the information architecture, look-and-feel, and navigation of the site and did all the HTML coding and back-end server features, such as search and database integration. Carrie Heeter provided a lot of the content in the site.

The Web site is not publically available.

Multimedia Interest Group Site

I founded the Multimedia Interest Group in July 1996 at Michigan State University. The idea behind the MIG was to amass an elite group of multimedia designers, researchers, and enthusiasts together to discuss issues in multimedia design, project management, and multimedia software development.

The web was young at this point, but I created a web site for the group to amass all information related to the group, include the meeting announcements, follow up information, and more. My hope was to evolve the web site into a knowledge base of information on multimedia design and research that others, inside and outside Michigan State University, can use in their journey through this fascinating field of design and study. The site grew substantially over a two year period.

I designed the information architecture, look-and-feel, and navigation of the site and did all the HTML coding and back-end server features, such as search. Matt MacQueen created the site logo. Some of the content in the site was developed by the members of MIG.

While the group is no longer active, the (now stale) Web site remains available.