Website Consulting, Design, Implementation
My sites all look different because my clients are all different.
First thing, we pin down what the site is supposed to do, and who will be the audience.
Next, we plan out the site in detail. And plan how interactions will work. At this point we have a pretty good handle on what the project is, in terms of scope.
Then comes look and feel, colors, fonts, and all that fun stuff.
Then we go ahead and build it, sometimes working with a partner who does the back-end programming.
Ironclad Construction Photography
Photographer Lou Jones, Boston photo legend, is a fearless construction shooter. Lou has ascended to the tops of various construction sites in Boston in places that most of us could never handle.
He needed a website to showcase the extensive documentation he is doing of major contruction at Winthrop Center and Downtown Crossing.
The site also acts as a library where clients with password access can find and download full size image for further use in print and online.
Lou is also writing a series of short photo-bio-essays about construction workers. You can click to these from the home page.
The Indago Group
These folks do deep research into fraud for the legal and investment communities. They are well known in their field, so an extensive site was not needed, just a clean web presence.
So we decided that a one-page website was a good fit. The site uses black and white posterized images to emphasize the quiet profile that Indago tends to keep.
The top menu stays in sight and moves the page up and own using Javascript.
Al Kooper
I heard Al Kooper give a talk at MIT. I was captivated both by his stories and also by how humble he was about it all.
When I checked his website I found it had not been updated since 2007, 11 years ago. I contacted Al and we worked out a suitable arrangement and I started to rebuild his site from scratch.
The result includes a lot of fun stuff for fans of Al Kooper, Bob Dylan, The Blues Project, Blood, Sweat & Tears, SuperSession, Lynyrd Skynyrd, any rock music since 1960.
Uncle Jon's Songs
Here is a site for an old sixties folkie that can't set aside the idea of writing songs. You can listen to, and download, a series of his original songs.
Give it a listen. The guy's music is not half bad, but his website is terrific! The design goal was to create a distinct look that doesn't feel like any of the packaged solutions available.
The Kids We Lose
This is a website for an important documentary film to be released in April of 2018. It tells the story of how behaviorally challenged children – in the U.S. and world-wide – are subjected to treatment that only makes their problems worse and increases their misery. But the film also presents a proven approach for dealing with these children differently and successfully.
Motiv
Motiv is a state-of-the-art approach to market research and we wanted an equally modern website to represent it. We decided upon a single-page site with subtle animations for the images. As you scroll down the page, the images will fade in as you go. (This effect only takes place the first time you view the page.)
Mary Cummings Park
A site in Wordpress for a non-profit group that works to protect and enhance a rare piece of open space inside the Rt 95 beltway near Boston. The site uses a number of Wordpress plugins to create flexible multi-use blogs, galleries, and forms.
Lives in the Balance
This is the primary outreach website for Dr. Ross Greene, the pioneer in the behavior of what came to be called "explosive children." He wrote an influential book by that name. His model for dealing with children is changing the lives of children, parents, and teachers world-wide. Built with Drupal by Redfin Solutions.
This is one of a number of websites I have built for Dr. Greene (more about my work with him.)
New England Velodrome
A dedicated group of cyclists has come together with the goal of creating a world-class year-round cycling center in New England. I worked with them to target their key audiences and place prominent targets for each group on the home page, each of which leads to further targeted content.
MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Co-designed with Director of Communication Emily Hiestand, this site presents the surprising, large and diverse school at MIT, which gathers most of the non-science programs under one very large roof. Learn more about my work with MIT.
Gallery System
The Gallery System website is a full-featured online store, with a complex product structure: there are two main systems within the product family, some products work with one, some with both. We designed an easy-to-use web store which was then implemented in Drupal by our friends at Redfin Solutions.
Essex National Heritage Area
A colorful site for anyone looking for food, lodging, and the myriad things to do on Boston's historic north shore. Makes use of powerful sorting and filtering tools so you can find what you want. Integrated with Google mapping. Built with Drupal by Redfin Solutions.
Krueger Associates Architects
A minimalist site for a Cape Cod architect with a devoted following. The homepage slideshow features quotes from clients including John Stossel and Andre Gregory.
Dr. Ross Greene, Author
Dr. Greene has written a number of extremely influential books about raising "difficult" children. With his latest book "Raising Human Beings", he has extended his audience to all people and parents.
If the site reminds you of writer Edith Pearlman's site, shown lower on this page, that is because we modeled Dr. Greene's closely after Ms. Pearlman's very successful site.
Set by Ruth Neeman
Ruth Neeman designs award-winning sets for professional and community theatre. This responsive site features all of her projects dating back to 1991. It uses a sortable table to allow site visitors to rearrange how the plays are listed.
Drumcircle
A responsive site for a consulting firm that teaches people and organizations to "Become deliberate creative thinkers and become a more creative organization." We wanted a design that suggests the creativity that founder Anne Manning and her colleagues bring forth, but not a site so edgy and challenging that visitors would not know how to navigate.
Jonathan Pond LLC
Jonathan Pond is a well-known figure as a financial advisor on public television. He has also been given a number of important awards for his work, including an Emmy and a Malcolm Forbes Public Awareness Award.
This is one of a number of websites I have built for Jonathan Pond, along with the design of flyers and books. Read more about the range of work I handle for Jonathan Pond.
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
The Diocese includes 185 parishes in eastern Massachusetts, with 68,000 parishioners. The Diocese supports ministries on campuses and in Africa, as well as special programs for urban residents and green initiatives for parishes.
This site was created before mobile phones became the rule so we are working to find the best way to condense its mapping feature down to phone size. Built with Drupal by Redfin Solutions.
Nancy Schön, Sculptor
Nancy Schön is the sculptor who did the famous ducklings in the Boston Public Garden, as well as scores of other public sculptures. The site works as her online gallery, with a special video "jukebox" where you can watch all the videos she had created as part of her Aesop's Fables sculpture series. See what Nancy says about working with me.
The Great American Dollhouse Museum
This is one of those remarkable, unforgettable local treasures that make smaller cities worth visiting. Located in Danville, Kentucky, this museum contains hundreds of dollhouses, all arranged in neighborhoods, populated with little people with fascinating stories. I also did the videos for this site, which you can see sprinkled through the pages. More about my work with the Museum.
Author Edith Pearlman
Award-winning author Edith Pearlman has not been as active lately due to health issues, but the website we created together is a strong model for how an author's site can work, with information on books, reviews, and awards.