The Congregational Church of West Medford, Boston
This community had lost its entire website after a change in leadership some years back. So I liaised with the pastor, staff, and leadership of the church to create an entirely new site that would allow prospective members to learn more about the church.
My work on this project included securing a new domain name, setting up new email addresses, formulating a strategic plan for the website, developing the information architecture, generating designs, and finally, coding and populating the site.
Elizabeth Pacheco & Jennifer Horton's Wedding, Boston
The couple, whose families live in New England, Miami, and Peru, wanted wedding guests to learn about Rockport and all it had to offer and get a flavor of the wedding weekend ahead of time — a website was the perfect answer!
Simmons College, Boston
I consider myself extremely blessed to have been able to work with the folk at the Simmons College web office for a little over a year, 2007-2008. Amazing team with an amazing website, if you hadn't already noticed. Here are a few of the key projects I did while at Simmons:
I liaised with the various departments on strategizing and implementing three major interactive elements: Online Housing Application (featured here), Off-campus Housing Listing, and Online Cafeteria Lunch Orders. All of these projects had a marked impact on users, making the website more valuable and pertinent.
I took the existing "Simmons Success" stories, converted the design to css layout and popped it into a Thickbox.
I designed an album that highlights the construction progress on campus. Also created the button icon to launch the album.
Hope Church, Boston
I worked as content manager and designer for Hope for 3 years, beginning in 2005 shortly after a redesign by another designer. While I kept to that look and its table layout, I made extensive updates to the information architecture / navigation as the site grew, added features such as photo albums, server side inserts for page footer and banner pictures, logo icon in the browser address bar, appropriately formatted photographs for the web, enhanced search engine optimization, improved accessibility and usability, and began shifting to implement more css. Here are a couple of examples:
As part of an expansion to include new features like online giving, I redesigned the layout of the pages associated with the topmost navigation.
At the same time I did a complete overhaul of the information architecture of the website to improve the user experience and added a sitemap and search feature.
Navigation changes included using an "active" state in the main drop down navigation so users knew which section of the site they were in and better implementation of the secondary navigation.
This online newsletter is not something I'd recommend - I'm glad that the Church decided to swap to another format. All it proves is that I can do tables and that they make cumbersome code (shout-out for css layout!)
e-Marketing, Hope Church, Boston
I developed a suite of stationery, keeping to the predefined brand, that the church uses for mass emailings in Constant Contact.
This screenshot - for which I also took the photograph - is the template for the Autumn Events emails.
This is another Constant Contact template, in this instance, for letters from the Pastors / office. The photograph, again, by yours truly!
