MoonLight Computers

I've three days nearly full time working on all the graphics and layout on this and am quite satisfied on how it turned out. I decided to finish this site before letting it fall out of my list of projects and to play with the use of icons which were taken from OS X Leopard and a few other sources online I will list soon. The DVD cases were from a .PSD I found on DeviantArt and I made the covers using a rocket and moon picture then scaled, distorted, and inserted them into the DVD case to look as if it were real. I was really happy to be able to find all these bits and pieces scattered through the interent and tie them into a design and theme all the software together. Read some of the content, it's great. Does not work so well in IE

You can view the live demo at;
MoonlightComputers.PantherSweat.com

Wooden Myspace

Lately I've been trying to go against the grain and code against someones elses format. Myspace.com is filled with tables and random classes that make styling using CSS a bit of a mystery, especially when it comes to finding where to put the style sheet! I played around using FireBug and had some help from Jeff Finley's code. It's a basic design but quite effective compared to the other layouts you see on Myspace.

You can see a live demo at;
Myspace.com/m0d3s71k3

SupremeVictory.com

This is a simple mockup I made for a new site I'm developing called "SupremeVictory.com", but more on that later. I wanted a warm design with alot of texture pumping behind it. I used a few random brushes such as the infamous wing brushes thanks to Bitbox.com and a few textures found on textureking.com as well. This design probably isn't going to go much further than an idea but was great to work on because it gave me more ideas for my project Moonlight Computers.

Knights Luxury

Knights Luxury is no exception to the many people in Bay City who need a massive facelift on the internet. I'm working at creating a newer design that incorporates more functions as well as design. This is an attempt at make a wide layout that looks like it's from an armory while being minimalistic at the same time. I hate to see a company that offers limo services have such a bad image online.

Great Lakes Web Developers

I spent about two weeks straight on this website last summer (2007). The group was talking about making a new website design compared to their old (and still current) design at glwp.org. I learned tons of stuff from making this. I used Scriptalicious on each of the buttons; from the Sign Up button, the Topics button, and each of the persons Biography in the Meet The Board section. It was also a great chance getting my feet wet with PHP and forms, having so many different types of memberships meaning plenty of options that needed to be distinguished and mailed out specifically. All and all I loved the way this turned out, but the design was rejected! Ouch!

You can view the full version of this site here; glwd.panthersweat.com

FindArdor.com Redesign

This is a mock up for FindArdor.com and its new layout which I was working on heavily to incorporate a PHP/MySQL backbone to help orgainize the articles based on what's new and what's popular. The design was 80% completed (don't want to give away too much yet) but is now haulted due to problems with hosting not allowing some elements of the scripting language to perform many of the new ideas for the site. Thanks 1and1! I spent nearly 2 hours making this design until problems started coming forth as said above.

Panther Sweat Redesign

My addiction for textured backgrounds hit a new level working on this master-piece. There are three textures taken from textureking.com mixed with text along side a couple pictures I took myself. The navigation was placed at the bottom to mix things up a bit. I spent about 3 days working on getting everything balanced from colors to shadows. I learned quite a bit from this piece.

A partial demo exists here;
panthersweat.com/redesignidea2.html

FindArdor.com second design

This was the second most recent idea a friend and I put together for FindArdor.com in hopes to keep a minimal yet elegant design, focusing more on content design. This particular site took a few days to design but the real problem was within the programming behind user authentication. One column layout with a fixed background.

You can view the live demo here;
Prototype 2

Panther's Ustream.tv Webcast

For awhile I had a webcam setup to communicate with my friends at certain times of the day for about a week, until the eerie feeling set in of someone watching you on the computer. Ustream.tv was pretty lenient about letting their users customize their pages so this is what I came up with. A dark pattern in the background of flowers with the popular tentacle banner as the header. Much praise for this design and was made in less than an hour thanks to Ustream bending over for custom designs.

Macintosh Myspace

Making a website from scratch isn't too hard when you're able to do whatever you please on a blank document in Notepad, but coding against a horrible site like Myspace.com to achieve the look you want is a difficult task. The idea was to make a theme that imitates the OS X look complete with working links to add new friends, message people, and so on while using my designs and code against the grain of Myspace. Mission Accomplished.

The Natalie Fight

As luck would have it, I put a days work into this site working on fading corners with repeating patterns along with overlaying PNG's then the band breaks up a week later. Shown here are the multiple pages of the bands site I was working on, complete with ordering information for CD purchases and a section for fliers to be added whenever a new show was announced.

Tan Paper site

Once I started diving into the world of textures, I had to try out paper. So I sat down for a night and made this small site trying to work on both the paper texture and integrating typography in multiple columns.

Rounded Corners + Patterns

Again with the patterns! In an afternoon I was able to efficiently use both patterns and rounded corners into a design I wanted to play around with.

The live version is actually still up;
Pattern/Rounded Corner Test

FindArdor.com original

This is FindArdor.com's first and current design. I've been working on many attempts since, but this has stuck due to problems with hosting and programming. Learning how to program, design a database, write content, and design the site became a bit of a struggle ontop of school work. This is a simple design sliced up in Photoshop and now has a splash page based on a cookie. (If it sees you've been to the site before, it skips the splash page) I worked on this for about 8 hours one very late night and morning back when I was first learning how to make websites.

You can view the live site here;
www.findardor.com

Classical Glass

My father runs a simple stained glass shop in our basement and I thought it would be a nice surprise for him to have on Fathers day. With that in mind I made up this website for him to show off tons of his work he has made since the 80's. It's very basic and mainly used for him to share his work with others as a portfolio. This site took a few hours to make and even more time to figure out how to code since I was both new to JavaScript and still figuring out CSS at the begining of my learning.

A live version of this site still exists and can be found at;
classicalglass.panthersweat.com