March 3rd, 2008
The guys at Moving Box Studios are getting into the lucrative wedding video business and, being the web intern, it was my job to create a site that they could refer potential customers to. I whipped up a simple design and gave it brains with Silk—sort of overkill for a whole two pages, but I wanted to test out some new features and get more development time in. All content is in Textile so it will be easy to maintain.
This is the first site I’ve ever made where I didn’t have to change a single thing after cross-browser testing. It even worked out of the box in IE5!
See it live »
January 26th, 2008
Classmate is a simple courseware application focused on assignment management and scheduling.
I made it for my senior project at Ithaca College with Tenzin Zingshuk, a fellow IC student. I used this project as an excuse to learn Ruby on Rails, and haven't looked back since. It's not entirely done, we didn't get a chance to implement a few core features (such as messaging and class schedules) and didn't do much cross-browser testing (IE users beware). Nevertheless, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out, and someday I might go back and finish things up.
See it live »
January 26th, 2008
Silk is a simple PHP web framework for small to mid-sized sites that don’t need (or want) a database to store content. Site content is parsed directly from files and the directory hierarchy is massaged into a tree-based data structure called the “content tree.” Arbitrary metadata can be attached to any piece of content (using YAML syntax); this can be used to create complex named relationships between files.
Silk has templating features that separate content from design, allowing easy content management and updates. Other features include caching, object-oriented page design, an extensible plugin system, and many different content types by default (PHP, HTML, Textile, plaintext, Flash, images, etc; plus, creating parsers for new content types is as easy as writing a single function and adding a line to the configuration file).
Silk is still in its alpha stage. I generally don’t develop it unless I’m working on a web site that uses it, so I can’t really estimate when it will be “done.” Once I feel it’s ready for general consumption, I’ll post more info here. I’m currently expecting to release Silk under an open license.
January 9th, 2008
I made this site for my mom's horse farm when I was a senior in high school. This was one of the first sites I did after my dark age of web design (frames, tables, DHTML... yikes). I think I came up with a pretty solid design for my first real shot at CSS. The site was originally built entirely with Notepad and MS Paint, though I later went back and photoshopped the graphics to get some decent anti-aliasing. I recently ported this site to Silk to make the update process easier (even though that happens once every blue moon).
See it live »