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I have been at this awhile. And because time moves on, particularly on the web, there will be some things that you can't find any more unfortunately. I have put the vestiges up here so that you can see what I'm capable of and marked them as no longer available.

G and G Golf Company

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.

Purcell Mountain Lodge

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.

PMC-Sierra

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.

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.

In one of those strange quirks of fate one of my first Drupal customers was Diana Ng. Better known around Surrey as the Labyrinth Lady, she needed a place to coordinate all the things that she was doing with Labyrinths. So part blog and part bruchure pages she has used the site as a platform to showcase not only her efforts in building a labyrinth in Surrey but to highlight her facilitation skills and other matters.

CCLS Communications

Creating a larger than life impression - the CCLS site incorporates a lot of interesting work sample potential. The quotes module adds an interesting change to the site. Random quotes provide fun visual reminders on the site.

Group Talus Publishing

George... What can I say? If you can work for a publisher you can work for anybody. The action begins on a beautiful clean front page that guides people into his site. One feature to take note of is the detailed request a quote page.

the Laughing Boomer

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.

One of my early sites built with the templating system of Dreamweaver, the Lifeforce site focussed on developing business for the new business. The architecture of the site evolved with the business. Trying to extablish the businesses credentials in a field where there are many fly-by-night operators - the site emphasized the training, insurance, and certification of their employees.

Though this site is not on my hosting, I built it with Drupal through Cpanel and ftp. Used to working on the backbone with shell to move files and compress and uncompress files, it slowed down construction and introduced some interesting challenges. The site development came to me through a system adminstrator/contractor. He supplied me with a psd from a graphic designer that I had worked with before. I worked out the functionality and created the Drupal template from the design.

Bond Industries

A great little manufacturing site with lots of potential to grow. This site started as a crash job for a trade show and then morphed into a larger portfolio and marketings site. This site also taught me a valuable lesson about templates. They are not created equal. "Template Monster" to be specific did not have a Drupal friendly site. I would rather start with a static html  page than repeat that experience.

MorrowMarsh.ca

This simple site was developed initially as a Wordpress site to replace a simple one page domain placeholder. In transferring the design to Drupal we maintained the simple admin interface in the backend. The move positions the site for the future with a much more robust foundation. The simple design is highly optimized for SEO as well as XHTML (Strict) valid. The site was developed in conjunction with Jim Hunter of HBK Communications.