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Web design entails the two most major processes: the creation of the nonfunctional appearance/design and the functional (coded) site. AKA designing and programming.

I listen to your opinions and visions, and create your website using CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery. These days it's best to have a responsive website that fits all screen sizes, instead of a fixed design made up of images like this one.

The Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University had me design an entirely new, responsive website for 2014. The site fits all desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone sizes and was possibly the only Bootstrap website capable of having 5 equal columns back in the day. I did tons of math and reprogramming to achieve a 15-column grid and a design approved of by the school's entire advisory council. The site was replaced in 2021.

The Comer Collection of Photography documents and organizes the enormous collection of Jerry Comer. I decided that the works that would appear on this site should be the main focus, so the design is extremely minimalistic. But to add a high quality feel to the site and give it some motion, there are hover features on a few items.

I created the animated landing page for Faust: A New Translation. The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled the live performances of this play, so this alternative was launched. During the event period, attendees registered for access to the dramaturgical website. Access to the audio was restricted due to contract. After the event period, the site without audio was left online. Note: the dramaturgical website was created by the faculty, staff, and students of the theatre program.

Reunion: The Dallas Review is published annually and promotes the work of talented writers and artists across the globe. This is a Foundation-based website I inherited and reprogrammed. The HTML in some places was inefficient with errors scattered about and the CSS benefitted greatly from tweaking. Like most of the sites in my portfolio, I continue to maintain this site and create new content.

Dragon Ball Figures is a responsive forum that I designed for the DragonBall Z figure collecting community. The site is hosted on ProBoards with their forum software. I heavily modified the code to enable the site to be responsive (and look the way I wanted it to). If you "Request Desktop Site" on your phone, you will receive a reconfigured version of my desktop site design. ProBoards claimed a responsive version wasn't possible, which is why the site serves up their stripped out mobile version by default. However, it just took work.

When I'm not fulfilling my other duties at work, I am focused on my true passion: solving problems and improving processes, layouts, and designs.

In the time since I inherited the A&H site, I've improved our display of information and injected humanity where possible. For example, the faculty bio database went from being a phone directory with resume stats that wouldn't fit on a phone to interesting profiles worth reading on any device.

Tin Lizzie Affair is a website for a local Dallas business that specializes in auto upholstery repair and restoration for European and Japanese car interiors. While the original site design is not mine, the revisions and maintenance to it have been my work for close to a decade now. Just about the only things I haven't ever changed are the design of the site's header and the main container.

Translation Review is a publication by the Center for Translation Studies at UTD that discusses the art, practice and theory of literary translation. I built this site using Foundation as a starting point, so it would be responsive for mobile and desktop users. To assist the printed copies of Translation Review, I created places for people to submit their work, find out about the staff, buy copies of the printed volumes, and display content that doesn't appear in the printed volumes.

The SMU Center for Presidential History contacted me regarding designing, programming, and implementing a new website into Sitecore CMS. The site was called the 14 Points for the 21st Century. It doesn't seem to be online anymore... and it was built entirely in Sitecore... so my backup code files are only snippets of what I'd paste into the CMS. However, I pieced together enough of my unique landing page to show off an incomplete demo. The map was fun to program, but better when it functioned.