September 4, 2018
Victoria Mantzoros is a transformation coach whose business is Inspiration Unleashed Coaching. In winter and spring 2018, I redesigned her website and logo. We began with an initial consultation about how she wanted to grow her business. She relies mostly on Facebook to connect and communicate with clients, so the website is intended to an informational page about past events and what she can offer to potential clients online, in groups, or through individual coaching. Throughout the site, there is a theme of gold, emerald, and purple. We chose these colors together because of how they resonant with Victoria and her clients. I assigned each of the colors to the three aspects of self that become integrated holistically through her coaching: mind, body, and soul. In her original site design, Victoria used an image of several gold, intersecting circles. I used that as inspiration to focus on a simpler, clearer... Read more
September 4, 2018
For Web Applications Programming I (ITC 240) in winter 2018 for my web design certificate at Seattle Central College with Bill Newman I created three web applications with Bootstrap themes and PHP: Widgets Original, Widgets, and Sprockets. Each one completes the requirements to include an authenticated login area with image upload, a MySQL database accessible through PHPMyAdmin, the ability to switch between themes, dynamic content that changes daily, and an authenticated contact form. Widgets Original Widgets Original is the first version of the web application I made, based on assignments in class. Since I wanted to use all components of the original theme’s design instead of stripping it to its core, I dug heavily into the HTML and learned a lot about how to create custom and common PHP files to feature the different sections available to me. By the end of the course, this site became my testing ground... Read more
September 4, 2018
Website Design Fiona McKay Ready has a developing professional and personal coaching and consulting business. She requested a new website design and logo to be able to share her business and practice with others, as well as create a contact area for potential clients. For the site, I modified a basic Bootstrap template and hosted it on my personal server. For the logo, I combined a royalty free image with text for a multipurpose logo to be featured digitally and in print. We began the process with two initial consultations over the phone and in person. Fiona is just beginning her business as a coach and consultant but has been working to develop her voice and information about what she offers to clients. I was able to use the majority of that as text for the site, but it was difficult to pare it down while ensuring I was not... Read more
August 20, 2018
Seayoung Yim is a Seattle playwright and activist. She asked me to digitize her logo and redesign her personal website in summer 2018. Digitizing the Logo Seayoung’s logo is a modernized version of her name in Korean characters, digitized to look like a stamp. As an artistic representation of Seayoung’s name in Korean characters, the stamp incorporates her heritage with a modern sense of style. I used a scanned photo of the printed stamp to design a digital version in Adobe Illustrator. I layered in a texture I found through Spoon Graphics to give it a worn feel. Paired with Seayoung’s full name in text, this logo is the header of her website and featured on every page and the square logo on its own is the favicon. Website Redesign I used the redesign project to complete one of three required internship credits at Seattle Central College for my web... Read more
August 20, 2018
Matt Budd is a local fabricator and engineer whose primary business is creating custom bike frames. Matt was a client for Advanced Web Design (WEB 210), a course that I took in summer 2018 at Seattle Central College for my web design certificate. I designed his buddbikes.com with two other teammates to create a site that was responsive, clean, and professional. For the design project, I was on a team with Shelly Oun and Rattana Neak. Shelly is a web designer and Rattana is a web developer, so after our initial consultation meeting, it became clear that I should take on the project management role in order to adequately distribute all of our talents and resources. Matt requested a new website for his three domains—buddbikes.com, budd.bikes, and bbvvllc.com—to promote his business as well as become a personal portfolio for his engineering work samples. We needed to create the layout, site... Read more
August 20, 2018
In spring 2018, I designed and created a portfolio site for Content Management Systems (WEB 170) for to fulfill the final project requirements for the course. We needed to use HTML5 Blank starter theme and to include navigation, three sidebars, five plugins including a contact form, and a blog page with at least five posts and categories. The structure of the course and the intersection of the assignment with another final project–Mind Your Time App for WEB 202–encouraged me to design my site early on in the quarter. The first thing I did was formulate the color palette and site architecture, keeping the rubric at top of mind. The first few weeks of the quarter were spent creating HTML templates based on screenshots from the instructor, so I pulled components from that design to inspire my own, including the logo and navigation placement, CSS for the block quote on the... Read more
August 20, 2018
MimiSmith Restaurant is a Bootstrap, responsive web application created for Web Authoring III (WEB 130) in Spring 2018, in partnership with Mariam Abdelmohsen. For our final project, we were required to create (on our own or with a partner) a responsive web application in which a user may login through an authenticated form and submit new content via a back-end API that automatically updates on the main page. The suggestion from the instructor Josh Wedekind was to create a website, but Mariam and I were interested in exploring our design skills as well as experimenting with the content and whatever challenges it might bring. We were required to utilize Graph Cool, Sass syntax, and JavaScript, all processed through Grunt (installed via command line) and tracked in a repository on Github. In addition, I included royalty-free images from unsplash.com and menu items pulled from random Google searches for inspiration. We used PHP to dynamically change... Read more
