Portfolio

This is my portfolio of work.

CIUSPress

CIUS (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies) publishes and sells Ukrainian Studies literature. For CIUS we heavily modified the OSCommerce ecommerce system to fit their needs. The site’s front end is powered by the proprietary KMI OSCommerce Coldfsuion API (CFOScom) which I created from scratch. I also designed the site, and a special caching system, speeding [...]

CatherineVarga

Catherine Varga.com also uses OSCommerce and CFOScom. On top of a modern and calming design we had to account for ROI and paid special attention to call to action areas, reviewing her analytics on a recurring basis and modifying accordingly.

UrbanPreacher

Urban Preacher was looking for a retro, but clean feel to their site. They also required an easy means to manage tour / show dates, a blog, videos and slideshow. I solved those with WordPress and the events manager plugin. I designed a WordPress theme for them to match the rest of their site. The [...]

EcoAvenues

Created for a friend’s project on strategies for intensification and densification: a comparison of Toronto’s avenues and Vancouver’s EcoDensity Charter. They needed a stylish presentation of their information, as well as a forum on which people could discuss their results.

RedheadProductions

This is the result of a complete redesign for the client. We started from scratch with the goals of embeded video and Search Engine Optimization. For easy maintainability and scalability, the video play with menu is in a custom cfm tag that accepts an optional video to auto play. For the video we compressed the [...]

DonaldMackenziePhoto

A simple site to showcase the client’s professional photography. The portfolio galleries are simple unordered lists made functional with jQuery.

StefaniaHurko

A simple site to show the client’s poetry and allow feedback and contact. The only challenge being that exact formatting of each poem must be maintained, and all the poetry was in cyrillic.

CounterpointChorale

The task for this project was to modernize the design. I was tasked with completely overhauling the code, to bring the site up to speed with today’s standards. In modernizing the site, we expanded the site to take advantage of more modern, larger browsers. For the menu we used Adobe Spry. Which allows for simple [...]

KootaOoma

With Koota Ooma I implemented what’s called a ‘perma link’ system. Which is to say we made the urls more human readable. This accomplished 2 things. Firstly if you know the name of the book you want, it’s a simple matter of going to www.kootaooma.com/my_book_name. More importantly the effect of permalinks on Koota Ooma’s search [...]

RomanHurko

For Roman Hurko we were tasked with designing a full ecommerce suite. For his menu I created a custom Actionsript component. Completely and easily styleable. Over the years, adding or changing menu items has been easy and quick. The site also called for an mp3 player for previewing his music. It also had to interact [...]