Take a look at these web sites!
Today, a fair amount of my development is spent between the work creating web applications, audiovisual media, and web portals for higher education and creating entertainment publicity portals for artists I know and/or with whom I work. I’m also busy adding the features they requesting which will empower them with more ways to connect and discover their fans.
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Ohio State University: Office of Human Resources Online Magazine - Resources is a quarterly publication of the Office of Human Resources. It informs the faculty and staff of The Ohio State University about changes and updates to HR policies, benefits, payroll, employment, and more. This publication also reports the activities of Work Life, Special Events, the Child Care Program, Organization and Human Resource Consulting, Veterans Affairs and Affirmative Action, and Your Plan for Health. It includes schedules for training in staff development, health and wellness, veterans’ lunches, and a variety of other events around campus. |
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Ohio Sate University: Office of Human Resources Web Site -The mission of the Office of Human Resources is to provide quality human resource services to faculty and staff in support of the university’s teaching, research, and service objectives. |
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Newton's Groove.com - Keith Newton (that's also me), a new artist in contemporary jazz, uses this web site to begin his journey into the music industry. He's in a better position to do this now that the site is armed with XML delivered content (for the most often changed data), streaming audio and video, online sales, and additional back-end tools for maintaining contact with fans all over the world. The music on the site is 100% original, written, encoded, and professionally produced in the Mantiaba studios, and distributed exclusively online. |
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Pete Mills.com - Pete Mills, jazz saxophonist, uses the site built for him to promote his active work as a clinician workshops on improvisation, ensemble skills and practice techniques at colleges and high schools across the country. Mills updates and maintains this site himself, using a simple site structure created for him along with the development tools of his choice while rotating ads (built in Flash) and streaming audio support his endevors on his site. |
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Shucking Bubba.com - Armed with its bizarre name, a solid sound and great stage presence, Shucking Bubba has become a regional mainstay of rock/cover bands. Shucking Bubba uses their web site to keep fans updates about the shows (through a mailing list), videos to show a flair for showmanship, and custom advertisements demonstrate to clients they are as good at corporate functions, private parties, and weddings, as they are being rock stars! |
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Hire Me Alicia Keys.com - The ultimate dream, a gig with Alicia Keys is the goal of this site. Like other music sites, Hire Me Alicia Keys.com features CSS text and appearance, a contact form, and other tools, however, this site also has custom audio, original songs written specifically for the site, and video used in the marketing of a dream. This site also adds scripts to allow others to "share" the site to feed the promotion and spread the word. * Portfolio Examples may also be downloaded as a .pdf file (see below).
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All of the sites above have been built using some (or all) of the following tools and/or skills:
- XML driven content
- streaming audio
- custom video (delivered via Flash Player)
- CSS and JavaScript
- MySQL and PHP driven content
- graphics and animation
- image editing
- content management system