Web Sites Authored

My own site is a bit generic as I don't know if you are an eCommerce vendor to fortune 500 companies or a crystal healer. So please browse through the sites I have authored (or any others you find on the web) to help find a look that pleases you.

• Pictures & Animations - You will notice the way that I generally border and shadow my pictures, as well as the use of animations to create movement on a web site.
   
• Blogs - I provide a blog mechanism that my customers can include in their sites. With it, the customer can maintain their own articles that they want to provide. Look on Professor Deering's site for an example of his "Occasional Thoughts".
   
• Shopping - I also have my own shopping cart mechanism that I created which can be modified in any way that's needed.

• Andara Gems

  
  • The most complex and involved site I've worked on so far. Fortunately the client is a delight to work with as this is one of those projects that just about tripled in scope once we got started. Numerous issues were addressed including cross browser compatibility, many pictures and picture cleanup, and animations.
  • Spiritual Crystal store front
    
    • There were some complex animations that went into this site. Go to the "Gallery" - "Facets" link to see some nice graphics and animations. The menu mechanism also took a lot to get working on all the main browsers.
    • Lots and lots of picture cleanup.
    • Many animations and fade effects.
    • Lots of time spent on the layout and text.
    • Endless hours and research spent on cross browser compatibility. This shows up generally the same and cleanly on IE, Firefox, and Safari. Numerous seemingly insurmountable hurdles were surmounted before this site was finished.

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• Robin Burton [Artist]

  

  • A delightful artist's site that features just a lot of picture cleanup and layout. When the site was done Robin asked me how many pictures were in the site. She thought around 35 but it was something like 120 (and still growing - you go girl). The pictures took the most time, especially when we changed the background color and all the shadows I put on the pictures no longer worked.

    Check out the front page "map" that allows you to click on the different sections of the site. Of course this is an old browser technique but the picture came together cleanly enough that my mom thought it was an actual photo of a gallery Robin had her work in.

  • Artist's store front
    
    • The complexity of something like this really depends on the number of pictures as cleanup of 100 pictures takes exactly twice as long as 50 would.
    • This site features a front page clickable map that took awhile to create a nice, clean look.
    • Other than that (front page and picture cleanup) this is actually a fairly simple site to emulate.

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  • NHLDEF [Hawaiian organization]

    
    • A non-profit Hawaiian organization that I am also a member of. This site features animations and lots of time spent on the layout and changing picture motif. There was a fair amount of text editing and picture cleanup as well.
    • Political and cultural organization presentation
      
      • Lots of text to deal with as well as the torch animation and cleanup of all the pictures.
      • If I'm given all the text, pictures and layout in an easy to handle format, this site isn't that difficult.

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  • Nicole Kerr [Licensed Nutritionist]
    • The basic site was medium weight, but it took a while to figure out which streaming media format to use for the lotus blossom so that it doesn't take forever to load initially (not the format you'd expect). It took a moderate amount of picture cleanup to do this site but nothing extra fancy.
    • Nutrition services presentation
      • Logo animation, picture cleanup, and shadowing as usual took the most time.

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  • Paul Deering [UH Professor]

    
    
    
    • The basic site was medium weight, but the blog that I created for Paul to add his "Rants" took about a week. This basic mechanism is now available for other sites however, so that will speed things up nicely for anyone else that wants to provide one. The blog system is secure and fully administered by the owner of the site. The owner can enter their own themes, articles within these themes, and can upload an actual file as part of that article (pdf or word format is the most standard).
    • Educational services presentation
      • Logos, picture cleanup and shadowing as usual takes the most time.
      • Adjustments to the blog mechanism if one is wanted will take extra time.

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  • FLIHOME [Financial Organization]

    
    • An international financial organization (now defunct). One of the features I built into this site was an easy way to create duplicate sites, with each member's picture and something about them on their own personalized site.
      • Lots and lots of pictures to layout and cleanup.
      • Many animations as well as the "mouseover - link" mechanism on the front page.
      • There was a lot of text to deal with and arrange in a way that wasn't cluttered and didn't look tedious and boring.
    • Financial Services Presentation
      • Lots of animated gifs
      • Lots of picture cleanup
      • Lots of text and time spent on the layout
      • Streaming Audio
      • As usual, if I'm given the text and pictures beforehand it really helps (though I didn't have that luxury with this site)

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  • Rachel Victoria [Musician]

    
    • This was my first web site and involved numerous technologies that I didn't realize, when I started, that I needed to know:
      • CGI & Perl
      • JavaScript & Java
      • HTML (I thought I only needed to know FrontPage)
      • Animated Gifs
      • CorelPaint, CorelDraw, CorelDream3d (too bad this is no longer available)
      • RealAudio, RealVideo
    • This is a musician's web site that features sound manipulation, graphics and animations.
    • Musician's Web site
      
      • Animations, scrolling lyrics, backgrounds, getting everything to look nice, converting music to RealAudio, takes the most time.
      • If someone wanted lots of custom animations, different lettering effects, it will take more.

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  • Hawaii Shirt Shop [Business]

    
    • A T-Shirt and identity service business for a good friend. The actual site has since been rewritten but was on the web for many years. This site features animations and just lots of picture cleanup and layout. I had a great idea for a product showroom that I wish there was a budget for.
    • T-Shirt printing store front
      • Lots and lots of picture cleanup and shadowing.
      • Lots of time spent on the buttons (though I would make the button panel cleaner the next time around).
      • A fair amount of text and layout.

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  • Epoxy Restoration [Business]

    
    • A masonry and water proofing contractor that features wood and concrete repair, especially termite damage renovation.
    • Renovation Contractor
      • Lots and lots of picture cleanup and shadowing.

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  • Shark Bait Photos [Business]

    
    • A fairly simple site actually that didn't take that much time. A changing picture motif and some picture cleanup took the most time.
    • Souvenier photo store front
      • Picture cleanup and shadowing as usual takes the most time.

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  • Jon Fernandez [This site]

    

    • Me! The original site wasn't that hard. All the typing took the most time but of course you will give me everything all ready to go ;-)

      I have since added some animations which can take up to 1/2 a day or more to do.

    • Programming services presentation
      • Picture cleanup for the changing picture motif took the most time.
      • Other than that it's just copy and paste text and set up the links.