Portfolio
David Calhoun, Web Developer
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Yahoo! Blueprint
July 2009 to Present
HTML/CSS/JS
Maintained the Blueprint platform, implementing new features and changes to the language as requests came in from internal customers (mobile Frontpage, Yahoo Mail, etc.). Also fixed presentation bugs on anything from very old phone browsers with poor browser implementations to new phones with new undocumented bugs (mobile Safari, Android, etc.).
At times this work involved coding in very deprecated standards (font tags, etc), all the way to coding with new JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 elements on the latest mobile browsers.
Created from scratch the sports brackets element for the Blueprint language.
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MySpace (contract work)
April 2010
JavaScript
(not yet public) I took on the lead role for this primarily JavaScript-based project which involved the redesign of MySpace's profile customization. This new implementation is a floating module that allows users to preview their changes instantly (by injecting custom CSS into the page).
This JavaScript was done in jQuery, which rides on top of MySpace's older custom JS architecture.
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MOG (contract work)
January 2009
HTML/CSS/JS
Helped with the redesign of MOG. Primarily worked on HTML/CSS for music playlists, user playlist list pages, and various modules (Playlists Created by Artists, Top Listeners of this Playlist, etc.). Also some JavaScript (jQuery) work for the music search assist input.
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Yahoo! Shine
Fall 2008
CSS
I was in charge of taking picture mockups from UED (user experience design) and converting them into working HTML/CSS wireframes for a user study. They were testing new three-column layouts.
I took the existing HTML/CSS and added the proposed new columns to the HTML Because this was a mockup, much of the CSS was included inline (in the HTML).
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CASSA Website
Fall 2008
CSS - JS
This is my sister's college association website. The page was extremely outdated and each update to the site required the use of FrontPage, which generated an unsightly and unreadable gob of code.
I recommended redesigning the website, and I came up with this simple semantic layout, which my sister is now able to edit using Notepad. Among its features is a JQuery-powered photo gallery using third party JS code with the button interaction heavily modified by me.
The page in its FrontPage form was based on HTML tables (of course) and had extremely bad ranking on search engines. The new semantic-based layout has seen marked improvement in rankings, and presently ranks third in a Google search for "cassa".
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WWI Air Combat.com
2008
CSS - PHP - MySQL
My personal website dedicated to the latest WWI combat flight sim happenings (yes, I know it's a niche market!).
I wanted a bit of a challenge, so I implemented the simple CMS from scratch code, instead of relying on something such as Wordpress. Every new update refreshes the cache, which is a static HTML page held in a special cache directory.
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Megallana.com
September 2007
CSS - JS
I made this site for a friend who was recently graduating from a 3D design school and needed a website to showcase her work.
Her business card had a design with overlapping rectangles, so I tried to emulate that design as much as possible.
It features a gallery that uses Lightbox and a video using JW Player.
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Call Database
Spring 2007
PHP - MySQL - CSS (minimal)
Login name: test, password: test
A project I did for AMK Web. The meat of the project was putting together a simple relational database that tracked incoming calls for a client. There's some minimal CSS here, including an absolutely-positioned div that pops up when you click on "Add Call". This was when I was basically just starting to learn CSS.