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Whether
you need a rebuild of an existing web site
or need a whole new web presence to impress your friends and
colleagues, I'm your man. With over ten years experience in
the field I develop custom web designs, which can include Flash
interactivity or CSS coolness, at template prices.
To investigate examples of my web
site capabilities, simply click the associated thumbnail
images below. For my rates just
click the "<html>" icon to your left. |
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Patricia
Smith, Wordwoman - Sometimes you
just get lucky, and in this case it means being chosen by a
nationally known poet to build her web site.
Patricia Smith is a four-time winner of the National Poetry
Slam and won both a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and a National
Poetry Series award. Come read more about her, see where she's
going to perform next, even listen to a little poetry |
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Advanced
Energy Solutions - If you want
to slice a big chunk off your home heating and cooling expenses,
come visit Advanced Energy Solutions. They specialize in retrofitting
homes with the latest in energy-saving technology. Visit thir
site and read more about their services. While you're there,
schedule an in-home inspection.
Oh, yeah, I built their web site. Just thought you oughta know. |
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| CitizensChannel.org
- Internet Interactive uses the power
of the medium to bring the voice of the people to the heads
of state...and all kinds of progressive stuff like that there.
The site makes use of several types of navigation, some fancy,
some not, but it's a great place to get your peace on. |
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| Scan
Data Imaging - This was a case
where a business web site, though recently constructed, looked
horribly dated so I was hired to redesign it from the ground
up and make the muddled navigation substantially more usable.
It's one of the few sites I've done that actually required Javascript-type
flyout menus. The assignment was a piece of cake until I discovered
that the pre-existing host was using Front Page extensions instead
of being Unix-based. Trust me, it wasn't pretty, but the
site came out nice. |
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| South
Shore Gunite Pool & Spa, Inc. - The
client came to me with a simple request for a Flash widget to
place on the home page to hopefully convince potential clients
to open their pocket books. He ended up with a whole new web
site because it wasn't the lack of widgets that had failed to
do the job, it was the 5 megabytes of thumbnail images burdening
the home page, among other similar web site-based atrocities.
So now he has a nice, clean, fast-loading, easy-to-use web site
and one dinky sale is all it'll take to recoup his whole investment
in the revision. As this new design won't actually SCARE potential
clients away, like the old one most certainly did, that's money
well spent. |
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| Storm
Publishing - From deep in the
shadows of Seattle's Space Needle comes this new book publisher
and their brand-spanking new web site. Their selection is modest
at the moment but there is more to come. Stop by and sample
their wares (ware, actually) and leave Randy and DJ a note of
encouragement. It is, after all, the cut-throat world of book
publishing and they need all the help they can get. |
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Nite
Lite DVD - This site was completed
literally overnight to get the company online in time for a
massive media campaign. It's a new company, started by a nice
young couple, that markets a "sleep-learning" DVD
aimed at very young children.
In addition to the web site I also created the animation and
designed the art for the DVD and the DVD box cover. Check it
out. |
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| Global
Telemedia, Inc. - The client
wanted his site to feature navigational graphics that emphasized
his product line so I developed a set of "stage light"
rollover buttons. Even though the images are fairly large they
still load quickly and they look great. The site also required
the use of Quicktime samples of some of the films, over 70 in
all, which are displayed in pop-up windows. |
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| Turtle
TV - From the folks who brought you Wishbone
the Dog for PBS
comes a new concept in on-line entertainment, Turtle TV. The
site is all about, well, turtles
and offers movies, games, downloads and Flash diversions for
all ages. I was hired to develop the "Ask
Granny" section of the site. It's a lot of fun, so
give it a peek. (And, ahem, that's ME providing the voice for
old Granny.) |
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Transition
Navigator - I always thought
if you lost your job you simply went out and got another one,
but the job market is evidently more complicated than that nowadays
which is why people need the help of someone who can point them
in the right direction.
Note: The client subsequently shuttered this business and found
gainful employment elsewhere. I now host the site purely to
show off its vestigial style and functionality. |
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The
Fitness Architect - They say
that Michaelangelo's statue of David defines the ideal male
form, but he didn't get that way by accident. Oh no, my friend.
Even though the Big Mac was still just a gleam in the Renaissance
eye he surely had the 14th century version of The Fitness
Architect helping him tighten up them deltoids and making
him a STAR!
Note: This web
site is now being maintained by the owner. Although the basic
structure is intact he has made significant changes on his
own.
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| Synchron
Voice and Video - This is a simple
web site for a complex product. Synchron takes taped depositions
and outputs them as time-stamped, word-by-word transcript that
run with any number of legal presentation programs. And if you
don't have one of those programs available Synchron offers a
FREE presentation tool called The Synchon'izer. If you're a
lawyer looking for an edge in your trial proceedings you ought
to give this site a moment of your time. |
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Squared Productions - This New
York based video
production house needed a slick promotional site to show
off their video skills to potential clients. It ushers the visitor
in to the site using a fast-loading Flash
animation and the internal site uses a password-protected
page to showcase their work to selected visitors. |
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| Barbara
Hospitality Development Services - Larry
Barbara is the man to call if you need a commercial building
erected, but when it came to to build a little presence on the
internet he chose yours truly. |
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Negotiations
Workshops - This company specializes
in helping businesses get the most out of their bargaining dollar
by teaching employees how to successfully negotiate a deal.
Their previous site was an uninspiring concoction of oddly-colored
tables and mismatched text.
Note: The version of the web site you'll be seeing if you click
the image to the left is my original version. The current "live"
version has been altered by the client for his own purposes.
If you would like to compare the two you can see the live site
by clicking here. |
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| Odyssey
Communications Group - For about
six months I did in-house freelance graphic work for the wonderful
folks at Odyssey. Although they specialize in video production
they decided, at the time, to develop a new market by targeting
the business-to-business internet community and asked me to
come up with an effective web site to emphasize their sales
pitch. This is the result. They've since changed the original
design so this version is mirrored from my own web site. |
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| Snugwear
- In late 2000 the Macromedia Company held a contest
to see what kind of e-commerce web sites could be built using
Flash. What motivated me to enter was the stipulation that the
initial download could be no more than 40k in size.That's pretty
danged small, I tell you. There were over 2000 entries and I
didn't win (Darn it!) but come look at the amazing things Flash
can do under restricted circumstances. |
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Why2k
- This web site was built for a client that was using
the oncoming arrival of the year 2000 as a sales tool to ignite
interest in a high-tech convention in Dallas. This was my very
first 100% Flash web site.
Unfortunately for the client, a hurricane on the East Coast
wiped out this company's central business office and the event
was canceled shortly thereafter, making this site possibly the
only true casualty of the so-called "Millennium
Bug". |
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Squared Media (M2)- I had
a friend in the recorded-media business and she was in need
of a snazzy web site to make the hearts of potential clients
beat faster. Since she wasn't doing on-line sales the site was
lightly populated so I decided to emphasize the squeal of this
pig by programming an all-Flash web site. It has a great Flash
opening that segues neatly into the odd navigation the web site
employs.
The company went bust as a result of the year 2000 economic
downturn so but I continue mirror a copy from my own web site. |
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| Great
Expectorations - I have to admit to
being pretty much of a home boy when it comes to travel, but
in the waning days of the last century I and my beloved girlfriend,
Tex, were invited to fly to Paris to celebrate the "real"
millennium with friends. Instead of just sending snapshots to
everyone when I returned I decided to build a fancy-schmancy
Flash web site to showcase my adventures. Give it a try. |
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| Buddywatch
- One of my not-so-secret sins is that I used to be
the co-writer for a minor-league comic strip called "The
Quigmans". As these things sometime happen there was
a nasty falling out between collaborators and blood was spilled,
although only figuratively. This site is a chronicling of the
events as they have unfurled over the past thirteen years.
If you have a morbid curiosity about the comics biz I encourage
you
to stop in for a moment or two. Just don't forget to enter
the
contest while you're there. |
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Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - 2330 Jonesboro - Dallas, TX 75228 - 214-320-2293 |
