ABOUT MY DESIGNS
All good design comes from proper planning. Knowing a project’s constraints leads to efficient, cost effective, feasible, and sustainable designs. Using a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t just inefficient, its detrimental. We’ll start by analyzing your project needs and coming up with a few of the best options for what needs to be done.
Most clients want to maximize their website’s ROI (return on investment) and lower their maintenance costs. I specialize in content-management-systems which allow clients to update a website’s content on their own using methods as simple as typing a document or uploading a photo.
I’m most familiar with WordPress, but have worked with dozens of content management systems, including developing a proprietary and custom in-house CMS with a large internet company. If you’re looking for an e-commerce system, I recommend Magento. It’s robust feature set can’t be beaten. That said, there are literally hundreds of content management systems out there, and each has its own raison d’etre.
ABOUT ME
I grew up in Santa Barbara, CA. I graduated from California Polytechnic State University with a degree in design, and I decided to stay in San Luis Obispo. As a person with an eye for details, the design profession seemed like a perfect match from an early age. I love to create and I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.
I have over 15 years experience working on websites, from the early days of table-based design to the more recent trends of ajax, jquery, css3, html5, flash, and mobile websites.
I enjoy discussing modern design trends, learning new techniques, and figuring out how things are built and work. Reading design and technology news on a daily basis is an important part of my life. Design is everywhere, from the computer in front of you to the car you drive and the clothes you wear. Someone, somewhere, designed and created those things.
If I had to pick a few of my favorite things other than a computer, they would be:
- The Beach
- The Mountains
- Frisbees
- Bicycles
- Cars
- Nerf
- Legos
- Video Games
- Jazz
- Opera
- Electronica
- CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black)
ABOUT THIS WEBSITE
This website was created by hand using WordPress. It is as minimalist and to the point as possible. Only the necessary functions are loaded at any given time. Feature creep is easy and minimalism is harder than it seems.