Coffee-Walk Studios

Christine & Charlie

Charles — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:17:37 +0000

Project Name: Christine & Charlie
Project Year: 2011
Project Description: This is a site I made for relatives and guests of my wedding to my darling fiancee!
Work Description: This site uses an ElegantThemes base which I then modified to fit my needs. Local photographer Amanda Finley took a lot of these lovely photos which I then photoshopped to fit the site (color changes, edited out people who walked into the scene, removed dark eye circles, etc…). I also designed the “heart and glasses” logo in the header.

Scott Swanson Photography

Charles — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:48:08 +0000

Project Name: Scott Swanson Photography
Project Year: 2010
Project Description: Scott Swanson, a local photographer was some amazing talent, needed a website done that showcased his amazing work.
Work Description: I created the design and implemented it into a single page website using jQuery instead of Flash to ensure it was viewable on iOS products. The site has since been altered to include more text and pages to better their SEO.

Mid-America Web CMS

Charles — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:58:27 +0000

Project Name: Mid-America Web CMS
Project Year: 2007-Present
Project Description: While working at Mid-America Web I developed an in house CMS written in C#. It currently has hundreds of users, including tons government organizations, real estate, eCommerce sites, lawyers, gyms, construction companies and artists. It is one of the easiest to use and flexible CMS products in the market.
Work Description: I handled all aspects of the creation of the CMS, including the interface, the database, the stored procedures, the business objects, the web services, and created tools to help the our company maintain all the instances of the CMS deployed on their servers.

Features of the CMS:

WYSIWYG Page Editor

With tinymce’s “What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get” page editor you will have the editing power and capability to make small changes, like a misspelling, to larger ones, like all the text on a webpage.

File Manager

With our File Manager’s drag-and-drop feature, you can upload your own photos, documents, HTML code, Flash, or any other content directly to your website. Have a folder full of files? Not a problem for the File Manager. Enjoy the same file management freedom you have on your own PC.

Revision History System

Made a mistake while editing a page? Our revision system will the last 10 previous versions of pages edited on your site, allowing you to recover or review previous edits of each page. It’s like having an undo button for your website.

Items and Categories

Whether you are selling products or displaying your organization’s employees in a nicely browsable fashion, our category and item system can accommodate your needs. Add items to your site, organize them into categories and then let people view them, request more information, or even buy them online.

Contacts Manager

Build and maintain your own Contacts Directory with names, emails, and phone numbers. The Contacts Directory is also integrated to work with the Newsletter features to make email campaigns very easy.

Newsletter Manager

Compose and send out newsletters to contacts and subscribers, keeping them in the loop and saving you time and money. You can even insert each contacts personal information into the newsletters to personalize each email sent.

Event Calendars

Need to display when and where certain events are happening? You can manage multiple event calendars and make sure everyone knows when important dates are coming up or when the next committee meeting is.

Search Optimization and URL Rewriting

You can manage the keywords, meta-description and page titles for all items, categories and pages on your site, helping people find your site when they search online. We also offer url-rewriting to change querystring laden URLs into search-engine friendly paths, mkaing your site even easier to find online.

Image Galleries

Upload your images and organize them into albums in minutes. You can add titles and descriptions to each image as well.

Section Layouts

With our section layouts feature you can alter how nearly anything on your site is displayed. Display your company’s information any way you like.

Admin Rights and Sealed pages

You can add as many Administrators for your site as you like, and even put them into groups with certain permissions and rights. Also you can choose to lock out certain pages on your site from the general public and require a username and password to prevent unwanted viewing.

High School Sports Center

Charles — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:03:04 +0000

Project Name: High School Sports Center
Project Year: 2010-Present
Project Description: High School Sports Center was created to present high school sports news, scores, stats and information about different schools. It features a fully custom built CMS for adding all information on the site, plus allows for the uploading of images and videos.
Work Description: Designed Brand Identity and Logo Designed Site Look and UI Elements Created DataBase and Data Objects Wrote Entire System in C#

High School Sports Center is a project that started in 2010 and has continues to be developed over time. It was designed to be a one stop shop for all information related to high school sports, including coach and student profiles, game schedules and stats, articles about games, schools, and players, and much, much more.

The whole heart of the application is the extensive admin panel, which allows the users of the site to change nearly all the content on the site. It also splits off into separate admin panels for the different types of users, like students, coaches, and journalists.

It was an long project with many hours, but it was a lot of fun to architect and implement something as complex and involved as this project. It’s a testament to my ability to work on all aspects of a web application, as I did the branding, the majority of the design, the jQuery, the AJAX, the web services, the database, the stored procedures, and all of the coding.

A Blog is Born

Charles — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:17:34 +0000

This is a new blog I’m starting to serve as my online portfolio and also to showcase things I am currently working on and other experiments in programming and design. More will come soon, but right now this is just getting started.