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The Laughing Boomer is a site designed to promote the speaking and writing interests of Mahara Sinclaire. Specializing in fun retirement and making sure that the financial expertise is well applied this simple site has a blog and a newsletter signup function.

Once I thought I would be a web writer and while I still do a bit of writing most of my work these days is technical and theme related. My introduction to complex sites came as a writer for Northern Saskatchewan Toursim. I can't be held responsible for the layout or theming of this site as it conformed to standards set by Tourism Saskatchewan. Seven years later though - the writing still stands.

When I heard about the PMC- Sierra work I was intimidated by the sheer size of the project. It wasn't until I went for my "technical interview" with them that I realized I would be part of a team reskinning 2500 pages of website. Working in a largely Unix environment I brought my familiarity and skill with CSS to bear. Moving the site to valid W3C standards, developing a detailed testing plan, as well as doing the housecleaning on major sections of unused site (identifying 3,500 files for deletion) were major achievments while I was working with the team.

As team leader with a WSI partnership first I rebuilt this site 2003. In the fall of 2005 I rebuilt the site - completely. And then in 2007 I built the site again - in Drupal - not substantially changing the site from its look and feel in the custom ASP system from the second rebuild but adding an incredible range of features.

G and G sells golf accessory wholesale. Their website supports an extensive network of sales representatives and catalog sales. The site features an extensive taxonomy of products and brands allowing search as well as a drill down process.