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  • Putt’n it back together.

    I decided I’d reclaim everything I posted anywhere else online by getting them back onto this site manually. Somewhere along the line I started posting more to third party sites than my own. I think I’m going to change that habit. I’ll publish it all here so I have an archive. I stopped posting to third party sites about two years ago now and I haven’t published anything here in several years either.

  • Pennebaker Hegedus Films

    D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus are academy award winning documentary filmmakers. I was lucky to have the opportunity to build them a new website.

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    I had also previously built them a website for their film The Kings of Pastry. I really enjoyed working on this one because I had access to a lot of their original film footage. And these are things I really enjoy like David Bowie and Bob Dylan. One particular image of Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire had a particular amount of significance to me because I had an argument with my high school art teacher over it. She had used a projector to trace the image onto a canvas to draw I had asked her if it was really art if she was just reproducing someone else’s image. Needless to say, that teacher and I didn’t get along. She turned me off from art for years and I’m sure she’d be interested to know I have the original image provided by the original filmmaker. The thing D.A. Pennebaker said to me when we first got started was that he really liked the icon of Fats Waller I used as my social media profiles. It’s a small world out there and I had original gotten referred to them through a relative of theirs in Aiken who’m I met because I was down there working on a site for the World Bicycle Polo association. Anyway, they were very easy to work with and were graciously accommodating to my recommendations.

    I built the entire site using WordPress. It features a good amount of custom post and data types to allow granular control for over each page and film. Here’s a screenshot of the Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars page where you can see the multiple data fields. I even created some data fields to individualize and control the styling and color theme of each individual film page.

    You can take a look at http://phfilms.com

  • Sturgill Simpson

    Yeah, this fella has it going on. He released a new album last month that’s sure to gain some listeners.

  • National Dropout Prevention Network

    The National Dropout Prevention Network is part of the department of Health, Human Services, and Education at Clemson University.

    The website is built in Drupal and integrates National Dropout Prevention Resources database. I inherited an early version and worked on it while employed by Clemson University. The resources database contains the largest network of Dropout Prevention resources in the country. I integrated a radio webcast from Clemson Media Productions, created e-newsletter system, added an e-commerce system, and built an separate e-learning platform for delivering research to educators around the world using Drupal.

  • Engage

    The International Journal of Research and Practice on Student Engagement at Clemson University.


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    I built this website using WordPress while employed by Clemson University. Educators love their acronyms. The site allow department staff to easily copy and paste content into the website within the existing print production workflow. The site is a great way to modernize traditional peer reviewed academic journals. The goal is to garner more attention and submissions by being online. Aside from the custom theme and the multiple author features, there is very little custom work or plugins which means it should be sustainable for many years to come. I designed the theme to match the existing print publication.

  • Education Next

    Education Next is the publication of the Harvard University Kennedy School Program on Education Policy and Governance.

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    I worked with Use All Five Inc. out of Venice Beach California to build this website. It is built on top of WordPress and uses BuddyPress for social features. The most challenging part of the build was bringing in all of the existing publications data from a proprietary CMS. The funniest part of this project is when I had to stay up almost all the way through the night working because I had made a breaking change to the site the day before they were having a press conference to announce the new website. The project took me a several months to build and I’m proud of the advanced features and layout. The designs I was given were relatively complex and involved a lot of custom CSS. There was also a lot of custom PHP to make the staggered queries for the magazine style layout, the multi author workflow, and the social aspects.

    Part of the challenge in this project was instructing everyone how to use the site. I made template keys for how each section of the content is controlled. You can click on this image to take a closer look.

    I’ve been saying to folks that it’s about the only way I’d ever be given access to Harvard because it certainly wasn’t from my academic achievements.

  • Kings of Pasty

    I recently built a website for the upcoming release of the film Kings of Pastry. Having spent a number of years in the culinary and wine world, I really appreciated the film. It’s a real life look at how hardcore French culinary programs really are. The site is compact and simple and tries to stay with the design ethos of the film. Take a look at http://kingsofpastry.com

  • Harvard Skywalkers at Praha

  • Oneiric

    /ōˈnīrik/ – adj. Of or relating to dreams or dreaming

  • Facebook Phone Numbers

    David Windham that little button on the right that keeps asking me update my “overall protection” by entering my mobile number is just a sales pitch… they’ll sell it, especially if this bill passes.

    http://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr3035-112/show