Web Design Portfolio The following are web site projects I have been responsible for during my career. They are sorted in order of completion with projects currently in progress being listed first. Select a project below to view details and screen captures.   National-Louis University GET IT AT NLU Campaign The GET IT AT NLU campaign is a step to re-introduce the Chicago area to NLU and its academic offerings. The campaign is a "face-to-face" effort to demonstrate the availability of education options as NLU seeks to serve the underserved in Chicago. The campaign is comprised of 15 and 30 second tv commercials, radio spots and print ads. This web site serves as a continuation of those ads, offering continuations of the conversations between faculty and students that were highlighted in the original tv, radio and prints ads. The campaign has proven to be highly effective. view project details National-Louis University Proyecto Comunidad The Proyecto Comunidad web site was designed as a communication device in a larger outreach effort to Latinos in the Chicago-land area. Proyecto Comunidad is a multi-tiered effort on behalf of NLU to offer more higher education opportunities to Latinos who otherwise would not have such opportunities in reaching their higher education goals and dreams. The web site contains information regarding the overall goals of the initiative, what the challanges are to such an initiative, and the numerous ways NLU is reaching out to the Latino community. view project details National-Louis University Virtual Open House The "vOH" web site at NLU offers prospective students information on programs and also the opportunity to register for online open houses that are offered using Centra Web Conferencing. The web site spotlights one program per week and also prfiles a student success story pertaining to the spotlight program. view project details National-Louis University Early Childhood Credential The Early Childhood Credential capture page was designed to meet the needs of practicing Early Childhood teachers and administrators seeking Illinois State certification. This certification preparation program is unique in that NLU is among a select group of colleges and universities in Illinois that are recognized as entitled institutions for the Illinois Infant-Toddler Credential and the Illinois Director Credential. view project details National-Louis University Practitioner Research Forum The Practitioner Research Forum is an annual event hosted by National-Louis University that gathers K-12 teachers and administrators and offers group discussion on research projects and research findings. 2008 marks the eighth year of the event and this will be the first year that the event has a legitimate web presence. This also serves more or less as the icebreaker for the larger Center for Practitioner Research web presence that will soon follow. view project details National-Louis University Office of Information Technology 2.0 This web site was designed to replace a static information-based web site detailing technology support at National-Louis University. Included in the new design is a completely new navigation model based on frequently asked questions. From the homepage, users will select a technology topic which expands into answers to commonly asked questions, how-to documents as well as training opportunities. This web site is based entirely on an enterprise content management suite and is integrated with several status indicator web sites, web2.0 technologies (such as blogs, wikis, etc) and much more. view project details National-Louis University Center for Positive Aging The Center for Positive Aging at National-Louis University is a donation-funded center that works to educate retired persons through research and advocacy in methods for life fullfillment during retirement. This web site is a design of the new "CPA" web site and will serve the audience of donors and participants in the Center's activities. view project details National-Louis University Center for Professional Development The Center for Professional Development at National-Louis University offers continuing education and graduate-level credits for the renewal of Illinois board issued certifications and credentials. This web site is a design of the new "CPD" web site that will server workshop and seminar participants. view project details National-Louis University Center for Teaching through Children's Books The Center for Teaching through Children's Books web site provides a web presence for the recently launched Center focused on Teaching through Children's Books. The Center offers high-profile events and readings with the most highly respected Children's authors. The web site was designed to help establish the Center in the community as well as to provide a key communication device in advertising upcoming events and exhibits. view project details National-Louis University College of Management & Business Programs These screen captures are a couple of splash pages created to spotlight business programs at NLU. They were/are used in printed materials to help create prospective student leads and to garner exposure to these degree completion programs in business publications. view project details National-Louis University Center for Continuing Education The Center for Continuing Education web site offers both NLU students and the public at large the opportunity to attend special NLU events, workshops, seminars and conferences. Some of these courses yield NLU credit while others are certificate bearing. This web site was built within the CommonSpot Content Management system and allows users trained content providers within the Office of the Provost to enter event details directly into the system. CommonSpot custom elements then populate templates on the web as well as interfacing with other systems such as payment processing, student records, etc. view project details National-Louis University Portal User Interface The portal interface project was planned over five years while implementing a series of complex enterprise web applications and web services. The ultimate goal was to implement a common look and feel across each of these web services and to channelize content within the NLU portal. As you will see by the screen captures provided, each application and web service retains its own identity while maintaining a common look and feel across all templates. This approach provides a much more unified user experience and broadcasts the NLU brand and messaging across all channels of NLU web systems. view project details National-Louis University NLU Web Site The second redesign of the NLU web site in as many years, this version of the web site offered not only a new look, but also expanded on the customer service areas of the web site. New functionality included a Web Site Gloassary - providing definitions and explanations of NLU-specific jargon and acronyms, a Web Site Help area - which provided browser and internet connection recommendations. The most significant upgrade to the web site was made when a new navigation model was implemented. The previous version of the web site utilized a topical navigation model, which was replaced with a audience-based navigation model, allowing users one-click access to their most desired content. view project details National-Louis University NLU Web Site The first major redesign made to the NLU web site in its existance, this version of the web site was the first template-based system utilizing Content Management at NLU. This project involved not only designing and developing a set of templates to use within the Content Management framework, but also invloved transferring 3,000 web pages and 500 uploaded documents. Wildly successful, this version of the site was later replaced with a new design due to a change in branding efforts as well a desire to utilize audience-based navigation. view project details National-Louis University eCampus - Support for Online Programs This project started out as several different web sites. First, a faculty support site was created (cool.nl.edu) to help faculty teaching online and then came a support site for the web conferencing applications used at NLU (centrasupport.nl.edu). Third, a web site was developed for students involved with online programs and courses at NLU (webct.nl.edu). After the University completed its NCA Accreditation review and assessment, all three sites were consolidated into one new site, eCampus. This site offers many useful technology support features for faculty, staff and students involved with online programs and courses at NLU. The eCampus site was launched with great praise from the University community, its faculty and students. view project details National-Louis University Information Technology Services and IT Project Status Reporting The Office of Information Technology web site serves as a starting point for all University Community IT topics. The OIT web site offers indexed help and assistance documentation, FAQs, training calendar and registration, downloads of OIT supported applications, quick access to the Help Desk and much more. The IT Projects Status Reporting site offers detailed updates on approved projects and activities dealing with technology at NLU. This web site utilizes the content management system in that it allows OIT staff access to update project data sheets which then populate a set of templates on the web. view project details National-Louis University NL-YOU Micro Site The NL-YOU micro site was first developed by an outside agency with the purpose of highlighting NLU's open houses. I was asked to redesign this splash page when the marketing department became unhappy with its results. The redesign of this splash page included design elements from phase 2 of the NLU web site, matching content to keyword phrases, as well as a dynamic system for displaying open house dates. Results were excellent, even more so than initially expected. Statistics revealed that after the redesign, monthly unique page impressions increased from 4,800 to 8,300, indicating that our optimization techniques yielded higher visit totals. Median visit times increased from 0:32 all the way to 3:40, indicating that our visitors were actually engaging the page by obsorbing the content and remaining on the page for a considerably longer period of time. view project details National-Louis University Academic Support Web Sites Over the course of my five-plus years at NLU, numerous smaller scale web sites have popped up on the radar. Many of these sites were placed online temporarily until the content management system was in place. Included in these smaller projects was developing unique user interfaces for each project while maintaining consistency with all other NLU sites while streamlining content for simple migration to the content management system. view project details Benedictine University Academic Support Web Sites During a short period of time while working for SunGard I was asked to fill in on a few smaller web projects at Benedictine University. The IT department needed a new web site as well as the Advising Department. About a year after completing both of these projects, both sites were moved into the new web content management system at Benedictine. A few other miscellaneous projects were also completed, such as the BenULive System (ERP web access) web site, a web application for BenU's online MBA program, a splash page for an advanced certificate program, and the Jurica Nature Museum web site (which was never completed). view project details ONE, Inc. ONE's i-factory The i-factory was a consolidation of web services into an iPlanet portal implementation. ONE's knowledge Management system, Project Management system, ERP online applications, client services application, SFA and internal applicatons were all available via the i-factory portal. The intention behind the design of the i-factory was to develop a brand and package the system for reselling as a B2B supply chain web service. view project details ONE, Inc. ONE Corporate Site The second rendition of the ONE web site was simply a portal implementation of the first design. This included converting static html pages into template-based portal channels. A column was added to the right-side of the design to accomodate news and events feeds from the i-factory portal. view project details ONE, Inc. ONE Corporate Site When ONE, Inc. was launched as a company, a temporary splash page occupied it's space on the web. ONE was comprised of 13 acquisitions, each with a unique business identity. This project involved consolidating the contents (services and client profiles) of thirteen business unit web sites. This was to be completed while establishing ONE’s initial internet identity. view project details RedE Boutique, Inc. RedE Boutique Web Site RedE Boutique is a contemporary fashion boutique in Chicago's western suburbs. When moving to the web, RedE wanted to maintain the personal touch and attention to detail customers receive when visiting. The design was required to reflect this. Store inventory changes rapidly, so a custom application was developed to allow the store employees access to update items quickly in the online catalog. Several other dynamic sections were also created such as a sale items section and a web site administrative portal. view project details Tim Wallace Snow Plow Supply Tim Wallace Snow Plow Supply Web Site The Tim Wallace Snow Plow Supply web site was a project I completed with an ASP.net developer. I designed and coded the web templates that were then imported into an eCommerce package we purchased for this project. The months leading into winter were always very busy for Tim. On average each season, 10-12 plows were sold out of the showroom. The first month the web site was live, they sold 37 plows online in addition to a large increase in parts sales. Tim Wallace received a 400% ROI in the first month the site was live. view project details Wise Investment Builders Wise Investment Builders Web Site One of the first major projects I completed, the Wise Investment Builders site was a brochureware web site featuring the designs and available propertiesof this custom home builder. The site was built to interface with other local real estate web sites and portals. view project details