Carleton Engineering Carleton University's Faculty of Engineering and Design wanted a site that would be attractive to prospective students. The goal was to develop a web site that was not only visually appealing but also easy to navigate and informative in a concise way, and that gave potential students a feel for what the engineering program was like in real life. One of the features we implemented in this site was to interview professors from the various engineering departments to ask them "What makes Engineering at Carleton special?" Then we featured clips from those interviews in each of the departmental sections. Lots of pictures of the campus and students made the site feel more human, a vast improvement over the text-and-links predecessor.

C.U.O.C. The Carleton University Outdoors Club website was developed in 99 in order to inform students of the Club's activities and membership details. The site was meant to provide a welcoming face to students and to raise the level of interest in the club. With the launch of the web site, the club membership jumped from 30 to nearly 200, as more and more people visited the site and signed up to join the club online. The site features an activity compass which drew a lot of positive feedback. Following the principle of minimizing visual clutter, the site has a clean and professional appearance.

E-T-A This mockup was one I developed while working for a student-operated Internet design company. This mockup started a personal trend towards the "clean look". I still like it a lot. In the end, they had already worked out a deal with their advertising agency to do the site, and never used it. Apparently the mockups got shown to the president of the company and everybody got all excited, though. So that was nice to hear.

De Ridder This used to pop up when you visited my web site. After spending a summer designing 'clean', 'professional' and 'well organized' web sites I really wanted to try something different, or even confusing. The result was a splash page that is visually interesting. It was hard to navigate, though. This page was taken off-line because I'm now trying to make the various articles and info on my site absolutely as easy to find as possible. Once I get links to all the articles on the main page, I might play around with another 'out there' design.

The Mountaineering Journals This collection of text-only mountaineering reports needed an appealing front-end to draw the user in. The design is simple but beautiful. The choice of climbing terms for menu items is questionable, and could be a point of confusion for first-time visitors. A partial solution was to add informative messages in the status bar. Because the design is so simple, users will quickly figure out their way around this site. Even though only 9 graphics were used in the site design, there's a certain cohesion to the whole thing... this design continues to draw positive feedback on both the look and the content.

JavaScript Games Here are a couple of games in JavaScript. One is a simple sliding puzzle like the ones you played with as a kid. I wrote the code so that it would be easy to re-use. And as a matter of fact, I actually found somebody else who used it on their site, and was kind enough to give me the credit for it! The other game available here is a modification of the popular Tamagotchi that you can find various places on the net. This is one of the places where Tamagotchi lives! You can create your own pet... the main thing I added to the existing code was "persistence". Your pet will remember it's condition between visits. And if you neglect your pet too long, it will die.