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MLIS Capstone: FictionFilters.org

2022 | Industry: Publishing

Full page screenshot of the fictionfilters.org home page showing several recent books with genre and trope tags as well as the dual include/exclude search interface

For my MLIS capstone team project, I built a crowdsourced tagging site for novels. Using a tag wrangling process and dual include/exclude search interface inspired by the Archive of Our Own, we demonstrated how curating user-submitted tags into a detailed controlled … [Read more...] about MLIS Capstone: FictionFilters.org

Rutgers GradFund

2019 | Industry: Education

The School of Graduate Studies Peer Mentoring Fellowship Advising Service maintains a database of funding opportunities for graduate students: scholarships, fellowships, and other awards. The database is maintained in-house and needed to be synced with the public website—which … [Read more...] about Rutgers GradFund

University of Georgia Online Learning

2018 | Industry: Education

The University of Georgia Online Learning team wanted to build a site for their faculty community to share resources and best practices related to online learning. A primary goal of this project was to recreate the design used on the school’s main Drupal site. In addition to … [Read more...] about University of Georgia Online Learning

Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

2014 | Industry: Publishing

Scott's new book, Afterworlds, needed a very different look from his previous WWI-era steampunk trilogy. The change gave me the opportunity to rebuild the site from the ground up--including the mobile first theme, something I'd never done before. The site is now responsive, which … [Read more...] about Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

Justine Larbalestier, 2013

2013 | Industry: Publishing

Justine still loved the 2008 version of her site, but wanted to refresh and update it a little. We decided to keep the background, which had become a signature look for her, and give the main content more contrast. We rethought the navigation entirely and replaced some of the … [Read more...] about Justine Larbalestier, 2013

Cassie Alexander

2012 | Industry: Publishing

Cassie had been using WordPress with free themes for some time when she sold her first novel. As its release date approached, she needed a "more grown-up" look. I took advantage of the striking cover art and worked a little magic so the text of Cassie's blog posts wraps around … [Read more...] about Cassie Alexander

Texas A&M University Writing Center

2007-2011 | Industry: Education

When I was hired in 2007, the Writing Center had a complex site built in Mambo. It that hadn't been updated in a while. Only the director felt comfortable adding anything, and we had forty-odd enthusiastic students who could contribute -- if only they knew how. I updated the to … [Read more...] about Texas A&M University Writing Center

Strategic Research Development

2012 | Industry: Education

The Strategic Research Development group was, like many offices at Texas A&M University, stuck with an old Dreamweaver-based website they didn't know how to maintain. I moved the content into WordPress using the HTML Import plugin, designed them a simple theme (a child theme … [Read more...] about Strategic Research Development

Team Human

2012 | Industry: Publishing

The authors of this collaborative novel wanted a small website, separate from their own, to showcase the new book. To get things up and running quickly and inexpensively, I wrote a WordPress theme based on _s and Bootstrap, with a color scheme based on the book's cover. Since … [Read more...] about Team Human

Cleopatra

2007-2011 | Industry: Education

Cleopatra is the University Writing Center's scheduling system. Students log in to make appointments to get help with their writing. Writing Center consultants see their upcoming appointments (and other assignments), keep notes on what was discussed in each session, and request … [Read more...] about Cleopatra

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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