design
My freelance web work. I do very little for external clients anymore. I just don't have the time for it.
Much of what I do on my own time parallels my day job: build backend systems for websites that handle content management, custom groupware systems, or project management. Sometimes, a web page is just a web page, but the stuff I seem to be good at revolves around the little extras that turn web sites into tools, that take sites beyond the brochure, or that add an extra bit of fun. I use editors from time to time, but I generally write the HTML, PHP, and CSS generating these sites from scratch (in BBEdit or Dreamweaver). The data-driven things are usually driven by MySQL. I've also done lots of work in FileMaker Pro. Some of my recent and recent-ish work:
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| AMEA. Arizona Music Educators Association. The last of my active non-family freelance work, AMEA is a complex site filled with lots of back-end management of conference and festival registrations and membership management. | Apocalypso. I'm quite proud of this one. The design is horizontal, with several random elements and some experiments in CSS that paid off nicely. Lots of backend (Apoc members-only) stuff going on behind the scenes that let the band do the page editing and maintenance. | UASteel. The University of Arizona Steel Band program. I applied much of the experience gained writing the Apoc site to this one: members-only backend, calendars, a few CSS experiments just for fun. | South Texas Stomp. This is a blog and gallery site for my brother's musical endeavors. | |||
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| Time Lost Designs. A jewelry-making venture between me and my friend, Kali. | Marj Barlow. My mom: strengths coach, life guru, and all-around awesome lady. | Kaye Barlow. My sister, the brilliant singer. | Anna K. Brown. My other sister, the brilliant organist. |
Since much of the work I've done is so far on the inside of a site, I can't really post an image or link to it all. I've subcontracted as a backend developer for systems like project pipeline management for an architectural firm, online submission of job applications for a game design company, a musical term audio glossary for percussion terms in foreign languages, and coding for an art installation based on user-directed storytelling and randomly-generated CSS. It's all buried inside business intranets, stand-alone installations, or behind passwords, so you'll just have to take my word for it, I suppose.
My non-web freelance life. I seem to do lots of CD covers and liner note work: a couple for bands I'm in, several for a Tucson elementary & middle school steel band program, a couple for a local accordion artist, one for my very own, very talented sister, to name a few. I'll be adding some images of that work in the coming days.