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LATEST PROJECT: DevTalk.org
DevTalk.org is a community forum dedicated to the web programming and design professionals. With a premium name, they needed a premium layout and that’s exactly what was created. With a beautiful “old school” floppy disk logo over stunning 3D glass, the logo and header really set the design off in a unique color you don’t [...]
Cost Zoom is a budget web hosting provider poised on providing the absolute fastest service possible. To embody this, we used an ultra-fast prototype car and finished it off with the ‘@’ symbol on the hood. Drawing attention to weekly specials, the site is simple yet effective with a jazzy business look flirting on the [...]
Redirs.com brings a fresh professional approach to permanent URL redirection. The site consists of a simple yet professional layout which works well on all computers and connection speeds. The site features the ability to feature advertising across all pages for revenue and a powerful backend for administrator tasks including disabling addresses, disabling advertising, and daily/weekly/monthly [...]
Submit Right was the brain child of Jon Ramirez to provide a no-nonsense approach to website promotion. The site itself is simple and effective with a very extensive back end so that customers can log in and see their submissions and before/after statistics in real time via AJAX.
Submit Right also featured an interactive lice chat [...]
TXT Freely was an idea I came up with in the middle of the night, after my first experience with setting up SMS gateways so that computers could alert people via text message. It features the ability to freely (who would’ve guessed?!) send text messages via a website to a number of wireless providers in [...]
I was involved in the very early stages of a project known as TwoRelate which involved a general survey that the end user takes which gives them a personality “score.” This score is then used to mix/match and pull a special report geared towards their personal traits and habits based on the answers to the [...]
TypeShield is an encryption web application that protects your textual content such as e-mail messages and company documents. The best part about this is that it’s completely platform independent, requiring only a modern web browser with Internet access to encrypt and decrypt content — this makes it very flexible and able to run on all [...]