- Multi-media artist with more than 6 years of experience in ensemble theatre (director, playwright, designer), graphic design, writing, web development, music, film and visual art.
- (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, Javascript
- Django, WordPress, Drupal
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), QuarkXPress, Flash, Dreamweaver
- Knowledge of CSS standards, browser compatibility, and e-mail marketing
- Experience managing marketing campaigns and developing brands
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Mennonite Weekly Review needed a site redesign and a Content Management System that would let them update their constantly-changing news site with a minimum of staff time. Working off their initial design and layout, we built a clean, simple visual look that allows users to find the information they’re looking for easily and quickly. Using the Django web framework, we gave them a web-based admin interface to upload and tag their articles, photos, and one-off pages.
“In addition to being highly skilled with Web production, Carl has the kind
of attention to style and copy preferences that is essential for
publishing newspapers and magazines in any medium. Carl and Eric
interacted with me as colleagues, rather than merely as a client. I
learned a great deal through the process, as well as having the needs of
my publication and our audience met in the Web site.” — Celeste
Kennel-Shank, Mennonite Weekly Review assistant editor
Bethany Christian Schools wanted to increase their web presence with dynamic resources for students, parents, prospectives, faculty and staff. Their needs ranged from practical calendar, news and announcement updates to implementing a new brand with a more open and welcoming site. They needed a solution that was flexible and easy to manage themselves, cheap enough to implement and maintain on a small budget, with easy access to large amounts of content for different constituents and stakeholders.
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Plain and Simple was looking for an overhaul of their old site. We built the new one on Drupal content management system – an open source, powerful and free system – giving them easy-to-manage dynamic content. This includes a gallery of images of their products that can handle bulk imports. We also used Drupal’s search engine friendly features to raise their Google ranking for target keywords.
We updated the design and navigation to focus on the main strengths and beliefs of the company. We worked with a photographer to create images that communicated Plain and Simple’s commitment to personal attention and quality.
Indigenous Issues Forums was looking to break out of the box with a visual, kid-friendly site that evokes the natural world through artwork and movement. We built the site around their beautiful logo (hand-drawn by Jim Yellow Hawk) and created a rich seasonal landscape backdrop, hand-drawn by Aaron. We pushed the boundaries of the web browser by building on the open-source MooTools JavaScript library to create a site that moves like Flash but is web-standards compliant, degrades gracefully in older browsers, and is fully accessible to all web clients. Using the powerful and flexible open-source Django web application framework, we provided IIF with an intuitive administration interface for managing text and photo content.
The Team: Eric
New World Arts is an alternative theatre company in northern Indiana. When they produced Aristophanes’ Lysistrata in 2007 we designed the posters and programs, a run of postcards, and a splash page for their website. We worked with photographer Danny Palmer for images based in the production, and built the series around New World’s “Season Nine” branding.
The Team: Eric
Kids Film Club is a new subscription service which offers a monthly DVD of new films for kids, hand-picked and pre-screened by other parents. They needed a basic email letterhead and template for contacting film festivals, film makers and potential subscribers. Our solution features a custom illustration as the letterhead, and a simple, open and welcoming feel all around. The template includes all the legal anti-spam requirements, and a code structure that keeps the content available and easy to read in every desktop and webmail client available.
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The Team: Eric
MMA is a religious financial services organization, targeting the historic Anabaptist and related churches. The Teleios newsletter is a quarterly newsletter for pastors, with articles related to financial management in congregations. MMA wanted to move from a physical newsletter into email. Email newsletters are cheaper to send, simpler to receive and handle, environmentally friendly and much easier to track. The template is built in code that cleanly keeps all the content in order and easy to read no matter what webmail or desktop email program the recipient uses. The design is a simple adaptation of the Teleios brand that had already been established, adjusted to read well online.
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