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This site looks pretty simple on the surface but sports both a blog and a retail store with shipping built in. Working with a project manager, writer, graphic artist as well as the owners brought this site to the world. Behind the scenes there is also a system to assist with the management of distribution and sales to larger vendors.

It started with a simple "I'm doing this site and I'm having some trouble with the theming and a couple of modules. Can you look at it?" Complicated sophisticated site that moves and pinwheels and is just gorgeous. Half way through the project, the psds for the site showed up. They didn't look very much like what we were working with. Incredibly complex permissions and roles to allow the association to communicate at a very complicated level. A rocky server move and the site went live.

Building this site for the Refrigeration Workers Local 516 took almost a year. it started out as a simple "take this brochure site and make it so we can edit ourselves." As they discovered the power of Drupal they added a job posting board, a calendar, a photo gallery, and a staff directory. The simple template we use for the site is an example of a design expanding to accommodate all the new ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.