Recent My Work

  • Load YUI-CSS from the Google Ajax Library

    If you thought you had to load YUI-CSS from Yahoo!’s CND it’s also possible to load files from Google Ajax Library. Keeping the number of domains to a minimum give you a small performance boost.

  • Custom Rounded CSS Corners with Alpha

    Creating rounded corners boxes proves a fairly difficult challenge. While there are numerous elegant solutions to this problem for the purposes of the design proposed for ACS.org Release 2, none of these solutions was ideal.
    Both spiffy corners and nifty corners are great solutions.  However, I needed to consider what might happen when user added alot [...]

  • User testing from a designers perspective

    A couple of weeks back we took our latest website site design to the annual conference which my employers host. This is a pretty well attended event which takes place over three days. I was told that 14,000 people came to the event this year. A healthy number by my standards and a great opportunity [...]

  • Hello World!

    Hello and welcome to my site, which represents highlights from my past 10 years of work as a graphic designer and art director. During my time in the industry, I’ve been fortunate to work as a designer and developer for – and with – some great people.

  • ACS Release 2 designs approved

    Working with the creative professionals at the American Chemical Society has been a pleasure. Recently the ACS embarked on a new branding campaign developed by Gyro International. I am pleased to have had the opportunity to develop the web initiative. On the right I’ve posted a conceptual mock-up developed for the ACS.org home page.

  • Sample Websites

    The following URL’s represent a few samples of my work. I will make more samples available as time permits. If you are prompted for a password and would like to see more please feel free to contact me and I will arrange for a private viewing.

    ACS Network: http://www.acs.org/network
    Solana Business Forum: http://www.solanabusinessforum.com
    Sacred Spaces Inc: http://www.sacredspacesinc.com
    The Virtual [...]

  • ACS Communities website launched

    The  ACS Communities website just launched. This project brings a community based toolset to the ACS Network website based on the Jive Clearspace platform.  I’m really happy to have been the lead designer on this project as the community memberships now grows past 16,000 members.
    A special thanks goes to BJ Ball for helping me with [...]

  • ACS Strategic Plan 2009 website launched

    The ACS Strategic Plan 2009 Website has launched and can be viewed at strategy.acs.org
    Joanna Lit from my team did a beautiful job on the design and provided proved a very
    quick learner to boot as she assumed responsibility for about half of the AS3 coding.
    In addition to art direction, I took a personal hand in [...]