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Below you will find several examples of the websites that I've both worked on and created. Most of these are in or around Louisville so they might look familiar to you. All of the custom websites that I've created have been built from scratch, instead of relying on prebuilt templates. This is a small sampling of the work I've either been completely responsible for or have had a hand in, there are several other websites that I work on as contract for other firms.

English Emprise

I worked on several projects and tasks during my stay at English Emprise, projects ranging from routine e-commerce maintenance to data collection. You can see a couple examples of work I was involved with in the images below.

RE/MAX Properties East

This is a Louisville based company that I developed for on adaily basis for about a year. During my stay I saw several web projects through all the way from concept to roll out. This is the website that I have gathered the majority of my SEO knowledge and experience from. I regularly work with the linking strategy and content strategy to help keep the website in the top 5 results of the top 3 search engines for the majority of our targeted Louisville Real Estate search terms.

Below are some samples of both large and very small projects that I've taken on and finished. By visiting the link above you will see plenty examples of my work in a live setting. I didn't design the entire website but I have had a hand in both day to day maintenance (adding Realtor information, modifying forms as needed, etc) and extensive new features that have been added to the site.

	Louisville New Home Showcase This is an interactive Google Map that I developed to help people find new Subdivisions throughout the Louisville Area.		Cost of Living Calculator This is a "cost of living" calculator that I developed to help out of town people who are thinking about moving to Louisville.
	LouisvilleMojo.com Mo'Homes Advertisement/Portal This is a portal page that I developed when we joined on with LouisvilleMojo as a local sponsor. The portal page has been effective in that not only does it generate an average of about 3,000 page views a month but it has also brought users deep into our own site through the integrated home search function and real estate information services. Several successful leads have been brought to the office from this page.
	Louisville online Relocation Kit I designed this online Louisville relocation kit to replace the printed relocation kit that was previously used to send prospective out of state buyers. The kit was designed to closely resemble the print version both in information offered and the visual design.		RE/MAX Properties East Bulletin Board This is a PERL based bulletin board that I implemented to help keep the office in touch.
			Christmas Party Invitation / RSVP This is a quick invitation & RSVP page that I made for the 2005 office party.

Eric Hayden Motors

Eric Hayden Motors contacted me regarding a need for a website that could showcase all of the automotive services they offer. Their request was simple, they wanted a website design that would not only draw in new customers but would be simple to update as well. I instantly recommended that the updating be done with Macromedia Contribute 3 and that if they approved then I could build the website around that idea. They approved and I got to work.

They were very easy to work with as they had pretty easy demands. They wanted each page to have their basic contact information on it (address, phone number), they wanted to keep the logo tied in with their current identity and they wanted the design of the website to have a fun feel to it. You can click on the picture to see what I delivered to them! They now have a fully functional website that is updated regularly by them using Macromedia Contribute 3.

Barbour Manor

Back in 2000 the Louisville neighborhood of Barbour Manor was ahead of the game by having a website. The website served its purpose for a few years but started to show its age around 2004. When the site was moved from a Microsoft IIS server to an Apache server the webmaster saw the need to update it from the older ASP pages to newer code and design that is more user friendly and more widely accepted. This is where Fleur-Design stepped in. We studied the older site design and decided to cut out some of the menus and sections that the older site had relied on. This created a more streamlined website that is much more easily updated and much easier to read through. Heck, we even took some new photographs for the new homepage!

Inkstained Studio

A very talented Louisville artist by the name of Krista Burden contacted me about building a website to serve as an ongoing portfolio of her work. Her requests were simple, "Give me a website that will be easy to update and can allow visitors to contact me". What she ended up with was a website that utilized frames, for the ease of adding thumbnail images without having to worry about tables, and used an open source contact form that allowed took visitor's information and emailed it to her.

One neat aspect of this site is that it is 100% Krista as far as the graphics and design go. Since her day job is graphic design I had her create images of how she wanted her website to look. I took these images, sliced them up a little bit, and added the code to make it all work.

5haggy.com

This was my original website design that I used as a portfolio. Some of the key features were dropdown menus, rollovers, thumbnail images that opened in new windows that automatically detected the size of the image and adjusted correspondingly.

Visitors had the choice to view an HTML version of my resume or download a copy of it.

Pollen Ventures

This was the second website that I worked on during my internship with Hatch Creative. I was responsible for populating the website using content that the client had given us in MS Word .Doc form. I was also responsible for various graphics and minor code changes. This site is still awaiting for the customer's approval before it launches.

Perdido Dunes

The owners of a beachfront condo came to me with the request to build a website that would be used to inform potential renter's on the different aspects of the condominium. They gave me a cd full of photos and a small chart containing rental rates and told me to go to work.

The finished product featured all of their pictures, a cleaned up version of their rental rates and a ton of information that I researched and included on the website to help entice their potential customers. After the website was launched they came back to me requesting help with getting it listed on various search engines. I helped them with this free of charge.

New Albany Deanery Youth Ministries

During my internship with Hatch Creative I was assigned
to help with the transferring and cleaning up of content from the old version of this website to the new version of the site. This included both going into ArticleServer and pulling from the content from there as well as copying directly from the site and a MS Word document and pasting it into the new site. The only problem with this is that neither method would duplicate the content correctly. This meant that I had to spend hours cleaning up and reorganizing pages upon pages of text and images.

When all was said and done the client had a much more modern website with their content organized and presented in a much more structured manner. Thankfully they are now using Macromedia Contribute (as opposed to ArticleServer) to update their site daily.

2nd Quarter Website project @ ITT-Tech

This was a mock web site developed as part of my 2nd quarter web design class at ITT-Tech in Louisville. This project was basically meant to help us learn the proper structuring of a web site as well as the in's and out's of Macromedia Dreamweaver. The project involved researching a possible audience, developing a site selling a product or service for said audience and then selling the site to the said audience through a 5 minute presentation. This project netted me a project grade of 96%.

LouisvilleStreets.com Ultimate Street Car Challenge

This was a site that I had to design and launch on a very short deadline to showcase an automotive competition sponsored by LouisvilleStreets.com. The work needed to complete this site included taking the pictures shown on the site, recording and editing the video.

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