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Health Reform Minnesota Site is Live!

2011-11-18T16:37:01Z

The Health Reform Minnesota site is live at http://mn.gov/health-reform/. I coded the css and cooked up the javascript for eight templates the Minnesota folks used in creating the final site running the Tridion content management system implementation. A very nice design and a fun project.

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WebAwards for Two Sites I Themed!

2011-09-18T00:47:00Z

I just got word that two sites I themed for Forum One Communications (Education Sector and The Future of Nursing) have won 2011 WebAwards. Here are the announcements: Education Sector) and The Future of Nursing.

Kudos to the excellent teams I worked with.

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Darfur Dream Team Site Launched

2010-12-08T17:48:00Z

Another new site from Forum One is live. I did all of the front-end css work on this Drupal-powered site.

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Three New Sites to Report

2010-11-15T21:05:00Z

I’ve been at work on a number of sites for Forum One. Here are three recent ones:

I did all front-end css development on these Drupal-powered sites.

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Recent Work

2010-03-16T16:48:00Z

I’ve been a css coding demon over the last months, styling more than fourteen sites for Forum One Communications in Alexandria, VA. Nearly all were built using the Drupal CMS. I was solely responsible for front-end styling. Here’s a list of accessible sites to date, with more to come:

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Trinitytenafly.org is now live!

2009-08-06T13:45:00Z

I’m pleased to announce that www.trinitytenafly.org, a new website for a Lutheran church, is now live. The site was built using the Expression Engine cms and uses jQuery-powered menus and a Flash movie player.

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New Website for a Talented Decorative Artist

2009-07-06T13:41:00Z

I’m pleased to announced that www.wilsonreimers.com, a portfolio site for Wilson Reimers, a talented decorative artist, is now live. I was able to pull the color palette from the artist’s body of work. The portfolio images are displayed using a jQuery viewer called Galleria. A nice and simple site.

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Working with Forum One Communications in Washington, DC

2009-05-12T15:32:00Z

I’ve be doing some work for Forum One Communications in Alexandria, VA (just outside of DC). They craft online strategies to respond to today’s most pressing issues including health, education, environment, and poverty. Looks like interesting work.

It also represents my first toe in the DC web development waters. Why DC you ask? Well, in three weeks, my family and I are pulling up stakes and moving to the area! Exciting times although I wish we could skip the moving process.

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New Flash Movies on the Medallion Retail website

2009-03-09T13:21:00Z

The redesigned Medallion Retail website includes two of my Flash movies. The home page animation was composed in After Effects and then output to Flash as an FLV file. The Showcase animation was programmed in Actionscript 3 and pulls its data from an XML file, saving the client time and money if they need to add or subtract images from the animation. Take a look at http://www.medallionretail.com.

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Two Sites to Announce

2009-01-20T19:15:00Z

I’m pleased to announce the launch of two new church websites that I designed and built: Holy Name of Jesus Parish in New York City (http://www.holynamenyc.org) and the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (http://www.cathedralofstjoseph.org).

Both sites run off Expression Engine content management software, a low-cost CMS package that offers a terrific blend of features and ease-of-use.

I’m delighted to report that both clients are very pleased with the results. Eric Henderson, website administrator at the Cathedral of St. Joseph, wrote the following:

“You did an outstanding job in helping to redefine and invigorate the Cathedral’s website. Your knowledge, professionalism, and creativity was inspiring. Our site is now fresh, dynamic and receiving wonderful compliments from our parish community. You were an absolute pleasure to work and I look forward to the opportunity in the future.”

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Back Wielding the Freelance

2008-03-12T20:14:00Z

After a year helping out the team at Columbia University’s Digital Knowledge Ventures, I’ve decided to wield the freelance once again. I have a number of projects in the works including a youth spirituality community site and a website for another Catholic church in New York. Look for lots of motion graphics work as well. It’s good to be back.

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Manhattanville site is live!

2007-03-01T17:36:00Z

Columbia University has proposed building a new campus over 17 acres of West Harlem in an area called Manhattanville. The university had a pre-existing information website describing the project but it was sorely in need of an overhaul.

Russ built Columbia’s new site from scratch in XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a future-proof combination that works with all modern browsers and offers support for people with visual disability.

Visit the site at: http://neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/

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Why So Quiet?

2007-01-05T19:03:00Z

I’ve been a bit lax about posting recently. The holidays came and went and that ate up a lot of my time. But the real reason for my silence is a new part-time job at Columbia University’s Digital Knowledge Ventures. At DKV I’ll be a site developer working primarily with Drupal and Joomla, two popular open source content management systems. I’ll still be taking on new freelance work but at a more measured pace.

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Malick Contractors is live!

2006-11-10T21:47:00Z

It’s been a busy couple of weeks here. Today, Russ launched a redesigned Malickcontractors.com.

Kudos to Erica Stoll for pushing pixels on this one. Yes, she is Russ’ sister but there’s no nepotism in play here—she’s a pretty sharp designer.

The site features a Flash music player positioned in a frameset (so that the client-requested music doesn’t restart with every new page). Instead of pop-up windows to handle the enlarged thumbnails, Russ used the Lightbox 2 javascript library for a neat image overlay effect. Gotta love the elegant transition effects as you move from image to image.

A fun project overall.

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Medallion Retail is Live!

2006-10-30T20:41:00Z

I just finished two Flash animations and some general HTML edits on MedallionRetail.com. Take a look. The splash page intro is easy to find. The second animation is in the Process section.

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