Web 2011 @ Penn State
This year Penn State’s Web Conference needed a boost when it came to their information architecture, strategy, and design to better align the web site and other online resources with the overall conference experience. I worked closely with two team members to develop the information architecture, strategy, and site design. I implemented the final look-and-feel using a modification of the Zen theme for Drupal
Hayes Large Architects
I worked with Hayes Large Architects, LLP to move them away from an outdated, Cold Fusion web site with an administrative interface and Flash intro, to a clean, semantic, editable XHTML/CSS web site. The result is an up-to-date site that is clean and modern and puts their portfolio, people, and mission right into focus.
The Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy
The Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy is a program of Penn State’s Office of Undergraduate Education that facilitates public scholarship through its support and administration of the Intercollege Minor in Civic and Community Engagement, the Public Scholarship Associates, Public Scholarship Course Development Grants, Public Scholarship Seminars, and other initiatives, publications, and programs.
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The Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
The Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (IGC) is dedicated to fostering the highest quality education and research in cosmology, general relativity, gravitational wave astronomy, particle astrophysics, quantum gravity and string theory, focusing on the highest energy phenomena and fundamental issues in the Science of the Cosmos. The Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos wanted to update their Web pages both visually and technically, so that its centers could have common templates and be easy to update by staff members with knowledge of HTML.
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University Bulletin
The University Bulletin, which is comprised of the Bluebook and the Whitebook, is the official bulletin of The Pennsylvania State University. The Bluebook is the Undergraduate Degree Programs Bulletin and the Whitebook is the Graduate Degree Programs Bulletin. Penn State is no longer printing paper copies of the University Bulletin and this Web site serves as the up-to-date resource for course information and degree programs. The front-end uses XHTML templates and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the back-end is Adobe ColdFusion. My role concentrated solely on the front-end and a fellow team member entirely created the back-end functionality.
My Role
- Visual Design
- XHTML Templates
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Static Content Organization
Cynthia Nixon Art
Cynthia Nixon is a contemporary American artist whose mixed-media work combines figurative painting, gold leaf and embroidery. She was looking for an easy-to-use Web site that focused on her work and allowed individuals to explore her mixed media work and find out more about her. Cynthia and I worked together to develop the information architecture of the site, navigational elements that helps a user locate themselves within the site, and it’s trim layout. The site is developed with straight forward XHTML and CSS.
My Role
- Visual Design
- XHTML Templates
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Static Content Organization
- Image Optimization
Penn State Portal
The Penn State Portal is a personalized view of University and internet resources. Similar to My Netscape or My Yahoo!, the Penn State Portal lets you collect all of your favorite content in one place. You decide what you want to see and how you want to see it by editing the customizable web page channels and channel content. I was asked to develop headers and color schemes for users to personalize their experience. Two concepts were created to support a Penn State theme and one that fit with the personalized experience of community and information. The honeycomb theme was developed to mirror the community aspect and the efficient use of space that the honeycomb design achieves.
The headers shown here are just a few examples of many that users can choose from in the options panel.
My Role
- Concepts
- Visual Design
- Graphic Resources