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Web design entails the two most major processes: the creation of the nonfunctional appearance/UX design and the functional (coded) site. AKA designing and programming.

I've created websites numerous ways, but these days I prefer Wordpress with CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery. It's best to have a responsive website that fits all screen sizes, instead of a fixed design made up of images like this one, but I like the BDG site design, so it stays.

As a web developer at UT Dallas since 2015, I not only develop websites, but design and write content. The current School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology site represents my daily work, from design to layout to writing. My design work is most evident on the music legacy page. Regarding my writing, in December 2024 I completed rewriting and redesigning every program and degree page, including all child pages of each degree.

The Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University had me design an entirely new, responsive website for 2014. The site fits all desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone sizes and was possibly the only Bootstrap website capable of having 5 equal columns back then. I did tons of math and reprogramming to achieve a 15-column grid and a design approved of by the school's entire advisory council. The site was replaced in 2021, and I was not involved.

The Comer Collection of Photography documents and organizes the enormous collection of Jerry Comer. I decided that the works that would appear on this site should be the main focus, so the design is extremely minimalistic. But to add a high quality feel to the site and give it some motion, there are hover features on a few items. I continued to maintain this site and create new content until 2024 when it was converted to CampusPress.

I created the animated landing page for Faust: A New Translation. The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled the live performances of this play, so this alternative was launched. During the event period, attendees registered for access to the dramaturgical website. Access to the audio was restricted due to contract. After the event period, the site without audio was left online. Note: the dramaturgical website was created by the faculty, staff, and students of the theatre program.

Reunion: The Dallas Review is published annually and promotes the work of talented writers and artists across the globe. This is a Foundation-based website I inherited and reprogrammed. The HTML in some places was inefficient with errors scattered about and the CSS benefitted greatly from tweaking. I continued to maintain this site and create new content until 2024 when it was converted to CampusPress.

Dragon Ball Figures is a forum that I designed for the DragonBall Z figure collecting community in 2013. The site is hosted on ProBoards with their forum software. I heavily modified the code to enable the site to be responsive (and look the way I wanted it to). If you "Request Desktop Site" on your phone, you will receive my version. The default mobile version is ProBoards' design. ProBoards claimed a responsive version wasn't possible, but it just took time and effort.

Tin Lizzie Affair is a website for a local Dallas business that specializes in auto upholstery repair and restoration for European and Japanese car interiors. While the original site design is not mine, the revisions and maintenance to it have been my work since 2014. Just about the only things I haven't ever changed are the design of the site's header and the main container.

Translation Review is a publication by the Center for Translation Studies at UTD that discusses the art, practice and theory of literary translation. I built this site using Foundation as a starting point. To assist the printed copies of Translation Review, I created places for people to submit their work, find out about the staff, buy copies of the printed volumes, and display content that doesn't appear in the printed volumes. I continued to maintain this site and create new content until 2024 when it was converted to CampusPress.

The SMU Center for Presidential History contacted me regarding designing, programming, and implementing a new website into Sitecore CMS in 2017. The site was called the 14 Points for the 21st Century. The site isn't online anymore, and since it was built entirely in Sitecore, my backup code files are only snippets of what I'd paste into the CMS. However, I pieced together enough of my unique landing page to show off an incomplete demo. The map was fun to program, but better when it functioned.