Katiesexton.com is undergoing some visual and structural changes. Check back in several months for the scoop. For now, please enjoy the existing links “as is”. This may change eventually.
If you are dying to get your hands on more Katie Sexton goodness, please check out issue 2 of Lingua, edited personally by me with great features from all over the states and abroad. This issue is percolating every day so there will always be new stuff for science fiction lovers.
F Stop Mag, a photography interview-based online magazine, needed some user support to create a more full-fledged site. I was hired to do the magazine reskin (not my design), add user comments to posts, add basic javascript in some places (pop ups, show/hide comments, validation), put up ads, and add a section for users to upload 1 or more images along with a description of the shot and a title. There was also a CMS portion for approving the photos, and for adding the thumbnail to the homepage sidebar.
Homepage including sidebar thumbnails.
Article page with comments.
Community Home Page
Photo detail page including flag functionality.
This project involved some data manipulation for a flash front end, including a custom content management system to publish or moderate user submissions of dedications to The Wire show.
This contest site for Johson & Johnson’s involved creating a complex web application for the submission and management of stories based on a set calendar of topics and set to run 12 weeks.
I was the developer for the following rich internet application, which involved creating a post card based on ‘what happened that night’.
This project involved a custom content management system for approving emails, send to friend, deep link functionality, as well as image and flash asset uploads.
Sometimes you make a design you really like, and the project falls apart, or the client backs out … these are a few of my favorites in the last year that didn’t quite “make the cut”.
Design for a music/culture oriented blog–based on “The New Yorker” with a more hip feel
I’ve worked with Scott in the past and so was psyched when he asked me to redo his site, all in Wordpress, so that he could maintain it himself.
I started off by doing a few minimal, black/white drafts, but Scott decided he wanted to play it close to his previous design, with a nicer logo for his name, and some simplification of the major pages.
For this new blog, posingaspros I needed to put together a great header, and minimalist theme.
Recently I was contacted by Atom of Atomseco.com to do a miniature redesign of the site, on the cheap and quick.
Happy to oblige, I whipped up a simple vectorized version of the old “white on black with a border” logo, cleaned up the header area, and made the links in the nav and elsewhere a little more palatable and friendly.
Atom liked the design so much, she decided to get new business cards to match.
This year I have completed (and started) a lot of advanced programming work as 7one8 design’s current house programmer.
As they keep me busy, I rarely update on these projects! It’s high time to mark a few odds and ends of the back-end work I’ve been doing for this AMAZING design firm.
This site features all the advanced features you could want, and more.
Advanced CSS for layout, customized look for each section, front page excerpts and scrolling RSS news ticker .. the works!
I can’t wait for this baby to fully launch!
Egginabox.com is a newly-conceived charity dedicated to recycling the ubiquitous unused chinese takeout rice, and making meals for those who would otherwise go hungry–simply by adding an egg.
Since the two sisters were used to using wordpress.com to get the word out–I migrated them to a hosted version, and designed a theme complete with:
egg-in-a-box logo,
expandable navigation,
special recipe card design where appropriate,
AND advanced front page excerpt magic.
Take a look at the other page designs: (more…)
Play4Life is a charity located out of New York, with upcoming programs in California, devoted to helping kids create a healthy lifestyle through eating well, and most importantly–play!
Tanya, the brains behind Play4Life, wanted to come up with an easy-to-update content management system so that the site would never be outdated. This is a very pro-active charity!
I came up with a Wordpress solution including customized photo software, a flash intro and header with great photos from their recent events.
There’s also a bit of illustration thrown in for good measure on the intro page.
FEATURES:
Customized Wordpress as a CMS for pictures and text. Expandable navigation in case of changing programs.
Flash intro and header with pictures of healthy foods and some of the events.
Donate button via paypal.
Contact forms
MORE SNAPSHOTS:
Recently I completed a content management system and online store for Nossa Design.
FEATURES
PHP photo rotator on the homepage
Mailforms for contact and mailing list
Custom Store modifications, including 3 images uploaded automatically to provide detail
CMS for all site sections such as News, Press, etc. capable of handling photos and basic media
MORE SCREENSHOTS:
This is a programming/theming job I did recently for Sophist Productions.
You might have to see it to believe it, but all content is fully editable (excepting the beautiful flash navigation, which I cannot claim any kind of credit for at all 
A simple job for simple requirements: pimp the OS war machine.
Nothing spectacular to see here, some flickr-wordpress integration, and making a nice theme & cms significantly nicer, though I will leave the credit to the big boys at their page.
Music Industry Online required quite the site: store, CMS, bulletin board, news ticker, basically the whole whammy.
Like the other sites I’ve done for 7one8 all programming including CSS etc is by me.
You might wonder why I would post this screenshot of an already discarded, semi-custom theme?
Because I really, really liked the look of it. And isn’t that the point of this design game, anyway?
The One Story redesign focused on making a popular, well-worn website more usable. Instead of having to click on a parent-level category to see the interior navigation options, I decided to use drop down menus; the site sections were reorganized for maximum impact on the pages most valued by OS as well.
Following One Story’s clean and simple aesthetic, I aimed to mimize the art to sidebar elements and a few images of the One Story issue itself. In a perfect world, my excerpts from different site sections (recent issue on non-homepage, blog excerpts, events,) would be helping to unclutter the sidebar, but a designer can’t get everything she wants…
Rockmelon required a total blog overhaul: banner, CSS, and even a one-line drawing (my daily warm up this summer) thrown into the mix.
