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Kawita Kandpal


My dear friend Kawita is a local Detroit poet and she wanted a website to showcase her writing and herself.

I designed the site around Wordpress with a custom template so she could easily edit things herself, as well as making it easier for me to administer.

Her first book, Folding A River is published by Marick Press and is available for purchase there.

InsideOut Literary Arts Project



The website for InsideOut Detroit needed a fresh look and a fresh approach.

There were two fundamental problems to address: how often and how easily the content of the site could be updated. I wanted to make it so the site could feasible be updated by other people at the organization (not just me.)

Using PHP and the mySQL database structure that is the backbone of PHPBB, I designed the site to be approachable, updatable and highly dynamic. New masthead banners load every 60 seconds. Content is updated as soon as an article is submitted to the database and sorted intelligently for the public. In all, the website is a quiet content powerhouse, delivering information to the public quickly and efficiently, while still maintaining a modern and useable visual aesthetic.

You may notice that this site looks fairly similar - well, that's because for the time being I appropriated the code that I wrote to use here. Many CMS systems exist, but I found that PHPBB was a good solution and not so difficult to latch onto. However, I do like drupal and I'm looking into it.

A Poem A Day!



A Poem a Day was designed to showcase students' poetry throughout the month of April. Using PHP and MySQL, the site automatically populated each day at midnight in a calendar, allow a new poem to be viewed. Using PHPBB, the site allowed users to register and vote for the "Reader's Choice Awards".

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Marick Press


Local publisher Marick Press approached me to redesign their website. I was asked to make the logo more prominent use specific colors. In particular the site needed another look at navigation and organization.

The site was all hand coded, while Dreamweaver has its place it wasn't necessary for a site like this.

ACDFA 2002



Website designed for the American American College Dance Festival Association in 2002.

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Conversation : Interrogative



Designed as a personal project as a seamless narrative - both in the sense that the navigation is circular and that the flow itself is driven by a story.

The lack of CSS and heavy reliance on tables is archiac, but I still enjoy this website from a design standpoint.

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Seclusion



A collection of personal writings that center around the idea of isolation and being alone. Throughout the presentation, single lines fade in and out, and focus in put upon specific words and elements as the works progress.

Though the coding is a little archaic, it illustrates the power of just HTML and Javascript - there are no plugins being used and the code will work in a browser as old as NS 4.0 and as new as IE 6.

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Passtime


I am a big fan of the Art of Doing Nothing, though I am not very good a practicing it. So, I designed this as a personal project to play with the idea of doing nothing, even if the act of creating the site was very much doing something This was done when contraints were higher on browsers, so there's no CSS, a heavy reliance on tables and dithered graphics that I wouldn't necessarily use now.

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