Web Development Portfolio

The Shops at Highland Village

The Shops at Highland Village is an upscale shopping center in Texas. They needed an fresh website that would allow administrators to not only upload content, but also update calendar events, retailer listings, job postings, and store sales. Wordpress was chosen as a base CMS, and custom plugins were created to the client’s specs for the calendar, directory, sales, and jobs databases. This combination allowed us to cost-efficiently develop a powerful and flexible solution. Flash and jQuery animations keep the site lively, all while maintaining standards-compliant XHTML for accessibility. Design by Brianne Leymaster

Davis Chamber

The Davis Chamber of commerce is a local membership organization dedicated to promoting and supporting local businesses. This website utilizes completely object-oriented PHP, with a classes such as SEO friendly URLS, members, calendar events, ads, and a singleton class for Database access. There is also clear Model-View-Controller design pattern encapsulating the class files from the environment variables, and working through the logic before sending everything to the valid XHTML & CSS files. Throw in a secure shopping cart and an admin CMS for good measure, and you good to go!

Liz Applegate

Liz Applegate is a nationally renowned expert on nutrition and fitness. She has consulted olympic athletes, professional sports teams, and now teaches nutrition at UC Davis. This simple brochure site was created to give her more of an online presence. Design by Rashael Parker.

HSP Painting

HSP Painting is a very successful, family-owned painting company based in Reno, Nevada, but operating anywhere from California to Utah. They needed a new website to accompany their new logo, branding, and identity. This site’s flyout menus are coded with unobtrusive Javascript, with the help of Prototype and Scriptaculous. Design by Rashael Parker.

Audrey Acosta Designs

Audrey Acosta Designs creates clothing that is both beautiful and eco-friendly. She makes clothes that look good, and are good for the environment. Design by Rashael Parker.

Good Life Garden

The mission of the UC Davis Good Life Garden is to expose people to both good food and good health. For this site, navigation rollovers are handled completely with CSS and moving image “sprites” which results in fewer images to load, and cleaner markup with less code. URLs are written using only slashes to separate query variables making them more user and SEO friendly. A “Front-Controller” design pattern was used to avoid code repetition, and allow for easy site expansion. Finally, a secure administrative area allows the client to update the database-driven crops list with an easy-to use interface. Design by Brianne Leymaster.

Cannery Park

Cannery Park is a proposed master-planned community in Davis, CA. The website features some CSS trickery to make the images bleed off the left of the screen during resizing. Features a database driven supporter list with a full administration backend. Design by Brianne Leymaster.

Dtown, Davis 2008

This year’s DTown is similar to last years, but with a fresh look. Although it’s a small site, it is now database driven to make ad organization a snap. Don’t tell anyone, but it only looks like 6 pages; it’s really just one with some Apache mod_rewrite URL voodoo. Design by Rashael Parker.

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Scotts Valley Target

The website for a proposed Target retail store in Scotts Valley, CA. It contains an online petition with a back-end management system, while supporting W3C’s “strict” XHTML standards for accessiblity and longevity. Design by Rashael Parker.

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UCDavis History Project

The UC Davis History Project is a very successful program for making history lessons challenging and exiting for students. The site has a full-featured content management system for several of the database-driven pages, built from the ground up to meet the client’s needs. Design by Brianne Leymaster.

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Butch's Board Shop

Butch’s Board Shop is a local board shop offering Skate, Wake, and Snow products. Their website features videos, a blog, and several image galleries, which keeps the whole thing fresh and interactive. Design by Rashael Parker.

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DTown, Davis

DTown is a guide for where to eat, shop, play, and more in Downtown Davis. Valid XHTML and CSS was used for layout and rollovers in lieu of tables and javascript. Design by Rashael Parker.

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Easton Painting

Easton Painting offers the highest quality painting services in the Sacramento Area. A CSS-heavy layout with emphasis on accessibility was implemented. Design by Rashael Parker.

About Me
- Welcome to my website. I'm a full-time web developer in Northern California. I do everything from CSS to PHP to server administration, and I love what I do. I'm currently developing several Buddypress/Wordpress plugins, as I think it is a great CMS platform. Feel free to drop me a line: peter@code-zen.net
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I'm not a big fan of how gvim displays tab names by default, I think the path abbreviations look cluttered. Use the option "set gtl=%t gtt=%F" to display only file names on the tabs, and make the full path visible when you mouse over them.

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