Portfolio

David Calhoun, Web Developer

• 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).

  Versions of the page: 1, 2, 3

• 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 The page was extremely outdated and each update to the site required the use of FrontPage, which generated an unsightly and unreadable gob of code.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".

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.