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DesignCanopy.com
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- Horizontal: to position them horizontally across the browser, or
- Vertical: to align them vertically.
- Reset: to position the pages back to the way you see them now,
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Intro
This site started in 2008 as an experiment to make a website like a desktop experience. It is meant to showcase projects, but moreso to demonstrate some of the creative potential and innovative presentation that results. The designs mentality is simple, appealing and functional. This is an ever changing and evolving medium that allows designers and developers throughout the world to express their passion, creativity and technical ability. Design Canopy is a manifestation of that.
Collaborating with many talented peers and incorporating their skillsets means the ability to offer a wide array of solutions to any print, website, marketing, social or app desire you may have. Please feel free to contact Design Canopy for more information.
S I T E S
Projects/ Works in Progress
All sites since 2011 are built with HTML5 and the most current available CSS and JavaScript techniques. Below is just a short list of works. In addition, I have many drupal and WordPress implementations. I have also done design and setup in Shopify, Prostores and BigCommerce ecommerce solutions. A very brief description accompanies each thumbnail. For more information, contact me via the email information provided on the lower left part of the screen.
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Created and online business card for this new home concierge service. Developed a brand, created their icon, logo and designed a simple, yet elegant solution for their current need. Incorporated their icon into their parent company logo to maintain brand familiarity but create a unique instance for the new sister brand.
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Developed a custom WordPress theme, implemented it, created several custom content types and wrote the JavaScript and methods for pulling that information and creating the slides. The app (built by Appsurdity) launched in beta on Feb 8th, 2013. This site was built using responsive CSS for multiple display sizes and orientations, to remove the necessity, redundancy and additional workload of having a separate mobile site.
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This was a fun branding project, got to take the name and come up with logo, colors and other branding materials. I also designed and executed business cards. They can be seen by visiting the facebook page, using the icon at the bottom left of the screen. Created a custom prototype object to handle the sparkles being dynamically placed, timed and sized throughout the page.
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Responsible for creating a custom solution for the clients requirements using WordPress as the CMS. This is an HTML5/CSS3 site leveraging some WP plugins and a lot of jQuery. We are very proud of this as a represenation of the flexibility and extendibility of WordPress.
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I was brought on to support an aggressive timeline for site redesign and led the way being assigned the task of turning designs into templates ready for implementation. I was responsible for a major part of HTML5/CSS and supported with some JavaScript, jQuery and custom jQuery plugins. Participated in daily meetings and input on efficient ways to execute tasks.
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Site design and theme implementation and BigCommerce store setup. Assisted client with online business decisions and trained them on the system.
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Responsible for creating a custom WordPress theme off of design flats with a seamless Shopify theme to handle the ecommerce side.
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TBC Corporation - March 2010 thru May 2011
Worked in house for over a year on TBC Brands sites including Tire Kingdom, Big O Tires, NTB and Merchants Tire. In addition, I created several ads, template changes, design implementations and was a major part of the ground-up wholesale inventory system for Big O Tires.
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Complete design and implementation of a mobile site that offers information on flavors, history, social network links and a contact form for information. The graphic design was in collaboration with Abela Design.
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Another site using HTML5 and some key features are the menu layout, random resizing backgrounds and the print stylesheet that offers location, hours and menu from anywhere a visitor attempts to print.
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An HTML5 site using some new techniques in displaying reviews, a video slideshow, easter eggs, dynamic layout.
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Alpha Organics - BigCommerce/Shopify implementation
This is a supplement wholesale site for health care professionals. It was implemented into Shopify e-commerce solution first, then transfered to BigCommerce due to Shopify limitation with customer accounts.
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My first full HTML5 site using the HTML5 Boilerplate. Converted blogger XML feed to parse via PHP vs classic ASP in the prior site.
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Built with OO ActionScript 3 in Flexbuilder. It was an exercise for me in ActionScript development without Flash, all motion, colors and shapes were created using methods inside classes. The HTML is strictly for SEO.
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Wrytr - MVC Framework, CodeIgniter
Design, template, CodeIgniter framework, JS, MySQL, CSS and XHTML was a project I completed in July of 2010. The is a site designed to inspire creativity and writing challenges.
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Design, template, Drupal implementation, JS, CSS and XHTML was a project I completed in August of 2010. Andrea Thomas works with a multitude of suppliers and has various products for clients in the hospitality, corporate, residential or retails sectors..
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Namaste Advice - Wordpress setup, development, theming.
This started as a custom design for a person starting a business involving reconnecting with a greater self. It was later turned into a theme for a WordPress site used as a CMS solution.
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Goes above and beyond to provide a line of supplements that offer un-manipulated natural goodness. This site is information for their in store product.
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Learn 2 Grow - Homepage simplification/content delivery
Hired to create a more professional and web 2.0 design/layout for Learn2Grow.com. The idea was to simplify the homepage options, but still provide all the options they had put into wireframes. The site has a lot of content and provides great indexing for SEO, but has a lot of white space and is compartmentalized to reduce bloating.
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Design and template completed in April of 2008. The end of the intro calls a JavaScript function to turn the HTML layer to visible. At the end of the intro, it calls a function to remove the object. The transition is seamless.
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This website has been an ongoing work in progress. It is a deep site that offers a multitude of information to visitors from hotel industry executives to students. Driven by multiple database, a custom CMS and custom built e-mailing system, they are able to keep visitors and subscribers in the know.
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A passion project. I love mom and pop restaurants and this is my way of compiling them. It is being built with the Code Igniter framework
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The Broward County Chamber of Commerce design was a proposed overhaul of what they had at the time. It uses jQuery for the dropdown directory at the top of the page and was to be populated using their CMS to offer a news style homepage. It was never implemented.
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Designed to replace the company's current site, but has not been implemented at this time. The graphic design was in collaboration with Abela Design.
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A branding project for a professional friend of mine. To carry more of a presence we created this site to present his skills and services under a brand to leave more of an impression.
