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The Ouachita Baptist University home page featured the newly designed logo of the university in a prominent leading into a flash banner integrated into the site’s design promoting the university’s branding campaign encouraging prospective students to “connect” by visiting several sites which require registration to visit and view the interactive and multimedia content. The page also gives users a virtual visit to the campus with a large colorful picture that rotates when the page is reloaded giving visitors a different picture every time they visit the home page. The middle of the page highlights special events, news and sections of the website with text links. On the left column the user will easily find a links to the most visited portions of the website. The bottom of the page contains contact information for the university. In conjuction with the redesign of Ouachita's home page and core site sections, I also redesigned Ouachita's Official athletic website, OBUTigers.com, with a complimentary design. .

LeadByDesign.biz is the promotional website for the book Leading by Design written by Andy Westmoreland, the president of Ouachita Baptist University. The home page of the site features a prominent photograph of the book with a flash movie showcasing testimonials by recognized leaders in education and politics. One unique feature of the site is an online assessment allowing the user to calculate their “Relationship Quotient” that gives insight in how to develop their ability to lead other people. The site also contains a downloadable curriculum for a small group based on the book and a schedule of workshops used to promote the book.


Huber Rental Properties Huber Rental Properties' website showcases over 60 local properties for rent in the Arkadelphia, Ark. area. The site allows users to search for properties by rent, number of bedrooms and number of bathrooms. Huber Rental Properties also encourages all of their renters to communicate with them electronically by using the forms on this site. This site also features a management console that allows Huber Rental Properties to add, edit and delete properties and photographs. The managment console also allows the featured properties and property availability to be quickly changed with a minimum number of mouse clicks.

Arkansas' Independent Colleges & Universities' website is targeted at a diverse audience. The site reaches out to traditional high school seniors looking for a college, potential donors and political supporters. The site features a grid based design that allows for creativity through the structure it provides. An easy-to-use global navigation system appears on the left column of every page allowing one-click access to all of the sites great features. Colorful pictures enliven every page of the site with images of active college students. The header features the AICU logo and name beside a climbing graph which illustrates AICU's tag line— higher education with a personal scale. The site features a college comparison tool which allows users to compare 14 statistics from any of the 11 member schools they choose. Visit Arkansas' Independent Colleges & University's website to learn about Arkansas' independent difference.


The Smiley Technologies website targeting small to medium community banks highlights their services to banks and their suite of banking software The site features a tableless standards compliant design usings semantic html and standards compliant css for design. A dominant photograph of a bank teller's computer with a screenshot of Smiley's banking software and a young child making a deposit exhibits Smiley's committment to community banking. The site includes a google map using created using the google map api.


Ouachita's recent advertising and recruitment campaign encouraged prospective students to visit Ouachita's website and learn how to Connect with Students, Connect with Faculty, Connect with Your Potential and Connect with God. I created companion subsites for each of these themes which highlighted student and faculty video testimonials, video of campus events, chats and career assessments. I also create online ads for this campaign which ran on several national and regional web sites targeting Ouachita's prospective students and their parents.


To catch the attention of a generation that grew up online and with MTV the Tigernet is packed full of information and images serving as Ouachita's student intranet. A dominant horizontal picture draws the students into the site's feature story while the Campus Activities and Recreational Sports web logs gives student a reason to visit the site every day and add their comment to the latest post. Students also post announcements and ads on the TigerClassifieds to get their message out to the student body. A secured control panel allows the Student Services to update their blogs, post announcements and add links without the assistance of technical staff. The Ouachita news and sports stories featured on the site are fed automatically from the news bureau and sports information department news release databases. Ouachita's photography staff can add slide shows of campus activities. Drop by the Tigernet and see what's happening on Ouachita's campus this semester.


In the summer of 2004 Ouachita sent a team to Japan to recruit international students. I produced a multimedia CD-Rom featuring a QuickTime video narrated in Japanese and an admissions packet translated into Japanese. I created the project using Macromedia Director, Macromedia Flash and Adobe Photoshop. I was responsible for compressing the video, creating graphics for the cd contents and packaging, testing the cd on multiple computer platforms and working with the CD duplication service. (May 2004)


In a market space filled with clutter Taylor King & Associates' website sets them apart by focusing on the strengths of their firm: experience in their areas of practice, customer service oriented and honesty with their client. Taylor King & Associates focus exclusively on automobile accident cases and the imagery throughout the site reinforces that with potential clients including the montage on the home page and the different scenes an accident victim may experience across the top of the template. The site features an easy to understand navigation on the left of the page with contact information at the bottom of every page. Although this site uses frames to reach the firm's clients, special steps were taken to ensure search engine capability including noframes content and listing of links of the home page, meta tag optimization on every page and a javascript to redirect visitors back to the main frame set. We also place search engine advertising aimed at over 50 key search phrases to increase the visibility of this website. Visit Taylor King & Associates, Attorney's at Law to discover how honest lawyers can help honest people.


During each annual Memphis in May festival Memphis salutes a different country. In 2000 Memphis saluted India and as part of this tribute The Commercial Appeal where I worked sent a photographer to India for three weeks. He returned with over 200 rolls of film and several hours of audio. I edited down the audio in soundedit and and I put together both of these slide shows in Macromedia Flash.
The Many world of India: An overview of India
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Beauty or Bounty: Bandhadarv Tiger Reserve
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Students at Ouachita can check their grades, course schedules, financial aid, statements, transcripts, housing assignments and chapel credits on info.OBU. This data driven site uses standards compliant html and css for design. It runs off of Ouachita's Student Information System on IBM iSeries AS400. The data was pulled into the pages by the RPG programmers in Ouachita's Computer Services Department and I designed the primary template and cleaned up the programmers HTML. I've also designed several flash infographics to help users understand denser parts of the pages like transcripts. You can visit info.OBU, but you won't be able to login unless you're a student or faculty member at Ouachita.