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Latest Work

Trader Real Estate :: Trader Corporation

Trader Real Estate Project Note: Trader's Real Estate website will go live in 2009

Trader Corporation was known for its auto business. A household name in Canada, they had built a reputation by providing a place for people to sell their cars, boats, and 4-wheelers. However, they wanted to branch into the real estate market, and they needed and robust website to make that happen. As part of a large development team, I took pre-designed Photoshop graphics and built layouts in XHTML and CSS for the developers. A crucial aspect of my role was ensuring the layouts worked in IE 6, IE 7, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, and Safari.

The major caveats with this project--as with most projects of this scope--was creating CSS layouts with malleability. Trader's Real Estate website is built on ASP.NET, and the developers needed a layout that could shift, stretch, and change as the scope changed. Furthermore, as a Canadian company, Trader needed the site's layout to look the same when it was translated to French. My approach was to use CSS techniques like 'sliding doors' for tabs, repeating backgrounds, and floating divs.

Recent work

Ministry for the Environment On a contract as a Web advisor from July '07 to March '08, I built interfaces using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and Drupal

Duck & Cover Music In order to create a new theme for the Duck & Cover blog, I need to work inside Blogger's XML framework. The result boosted traffic by over 20%.

Tertiary Education Commission's Directory on the Web New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commissioned needed to give thier online directory a facelift. I re-skinned the site using XHTML and CSS.

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While not responsible for the design or development of Leaguist, I am promoting it because it's simple, easy to use, and very fun. You should sign up (especially if you live in New Zealand).