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
Theme Development
Rutgers GradFund
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 Pressbooks OER Network
The University of Georgia Online Learning team had a pilot project for their open educational resources: the Physical Education department had written an open textbook for their courses, and it was the ideal project to see whether Pressbooks would serve their needs. If it went … [Read more...] about University of Georgia Pressbooks OER Network
University of Georgia Online Learning
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
National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
Among the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s long-term federal contracts was a library of information related to road construction work zones. The site was approximately ten years old and was running in an outdated and insecure version of Drupal. TTI’s web team had long … [Read more...] about National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse
Berkeley College of Engineering theme framework and content model
The University of California at Berkeley's College of Engineering had a huge demand for WordPress sites and not enough staff to handle each request individually. Their marketing team asked me to build a theme framework that would offer a few color scheme options in compliance … [Read more...] about Berkeley College of Engineering theme framework and content model
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Search
The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory is a small state agency that provides diagnostic testing services to veterinarians. The website includes a database of available tests, shipping instructions for biological samples, a reference library, an archive of news … [Read more...] about Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Search
3D Symposium
This conference site for IIAD was a delight to work on because the communications team had a design in mind that included a selection of livestock photos they wanted to use for the sidebar background. It was nice to take a break from the minutiae of WordPress APIs and spend a … [Read more...] about 3D Symposium
Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
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
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
