Project Sites
Selected Works from My Archives
Overview
To keep my skills sharp and up to date, I often find myself building websites and creating designs not for any client, but merely to experiment and see what new creative means of web design I can come up with.
While few designs reach the web, all of my personal projects have contributed to the growth of my talents.
Orb Portals Studios
2010 Wordpress Portfolio, 12th Version
With the start of 2010, I sought to update my own site and try for something I had never done before. I redesigned my site leaning on an industrial, early 50’s/60’s style. Being a style I have not done before, it took several passes to achieve the right look. Unlike prior projects, this site was created with a much small color palette and very specific effects. Many of the techniques I’ve learned in this version will be carried on to future projects.
The ORB Award
2009 CSS Purist Site
Starting way back in 2007, I wanted to do a web award for Orlando Businesses & Restaurants with outstanding websites. While the idea never caught on, it exists as an example of the simplicity of CSS.
The Back Office
2008 Wordpress Blog
Out of all the wordpress sites I have built, only one, this one, was ever dedicated as a pure blog. Based on the now abandoned BlackMinimalism 2.0 theme, in 2009 I completely re-wrote the theme to support the latest version of wordpress.
While I often ignore it now thanks to facebook and twitter, this site remains a good example of how Wordpress can be bent to my needs.
MySearchr
2003-9 Custom PHP Web Directory
Originally this site was to be a web directory. While it under went many, many changes in 2009 I abandoned the legacy code for it and now the site is being migrated to a new CMS platform.
Waypoint 3/4
2003 Custom PHP Web Directory
Way back when, I made a web directory called OrbPortals. WayPoint 3/4 was born as a prototype for it. Since the Space Empires gaming community had a fair amount, but not alot, of sites I could make a web directory for it as a test bed for OrbPortals’ planned web directory.
IronHorse Shipworks
2008 Wordpress Theme
A modernization of the venerable Hemingway Wordpress Theme, IronHorse Shipworks and Salvage is a fan site I made to host my files and artwork for the Space Empires game, along with some other hard to find goodies.
Yes, I am a nerd. I know.
Currently the site is transitioning to HyperionBase.com.
When you Working with OrbPortalsStudio, you get a superior web site, quality service, and access to my experience. I stand apart from other designers by spending more time on your needs and requirements than the rest, while developing your web site in the same amount of time.
The web sites I create designed to be effective, not ones that merely look pretty. There’s no point to web site if a customer can’t find your contact information. My professional designs focus on effectiveness in helping your business grow online.
