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fraternalrelief.org

Posted Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 at 9:21 pm
fraternalrelief.org

The staff at the office asked me if there was anything we could do online to better facilite Hurricane Katrina relief efforts for Lambda Chi Alpha members.

After a quick stand-up meeting, I decided to build a wiki for all fraternal organzations: www.fraternalrelief.org.

If you like the skin I built for this MediaWiki, I simply made some improvements to my FraternityManuals.com skin.

Feel free to download this new fraternityrelief.org skin anytime.

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cfea.org redesign

Posted Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 at 2:18 pm
cfea.org.2005.redesign

On Sunday morning, I managed to crank out a redesign of CFEA’s website, an association that I serve as a volunteer and board member. Their old site, archived here, was also my creation but became too large to manage.

This new site is powered by WordPress, a great open-source blog/CMS. Though I’d like to give the site a custom template/theme, I only had time to modify the default Kubrick theme. This same theme powers my site, Third Goal, Expedition Hope, and other sites I’ve built.

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Third Goal Wiki (wiki.thirdgoal.com)

Posted Friday, April 15th, 2005 at 2:36 pm

thirdgoalwiki I’m pleased to announce the launch of Third Goal Wiki, an enterprise established for the sole purpose of “Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of all Americans,” the Third Goal of Peace Corps.

We would like to share this wiki with current and former Peace Corps volunteers that have stories to share, ideas to exchange and thoughts to explore that will help ThirdGoal.com promote the ideal of cultural exchange.

What’s the difference?

ThirdGoal.com is a blog (an online journal) while wiki.ThirdGoal.com is, well, a wiki (a community developed project). Both rely on you, the user, to create, edit, and share content.

If you are a current or former Peace Corps volunteer, you are invited to participate in both.

Shameless Tag Line

Third Goal (blog or wiki) - helping Peace Corps volunteers share their stories.

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Summary of Connecticut Web and Graphic Work

Posted Sunday, April 10th, 2005 at 11:22 pm

From April 2003 to April 2004 I had the pleasure of working for a wonderful and fast-paced web development shop in Norwalk, Connecticut, called Gourad Media Group. Though my duties were diverse; I did have a chance to design several websites, logos, printed pieces, and animated gifs. Here are a few highlights.

Websites

MyZiva.net

myziva.netI enjoyed working on MyZiva.net, a nursing-home comparison site. It make extensive use of CSS. In this screen shot, the bar graphs are all dynamically drawn via CSS and PHP.

MyZiva.net

myziva.infoMyZiva.info was a similar site, but focused on news. Originally I used orange and a bright green.

CareHotline.net

carehotline.netCareHotline is a free and anonymous compliance hotline for reporting suspected fraud and abuse to a nursing facility’s Compliance Officer.

Tingis Magazine

tingismagazine.comTingis Magazine is a US-based Moroccan-American magazine. I built its supporting website, which is mostly used to process subscriptions.

Shems

shems.infoThis quarterly magazine celebrates, highlights, and trumpets good times and shared accomplishments of Arab Americans.

Fairfielder.com

fairfielder.comFairfielder.com is a community site for residents of Fairfield county. My boss’ wife came up with the great slogan “Love they county.” Brilliant.

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Launched fraternitymanuals.com

Posted Friday, April 8th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
fraternitymanuals.com

Yesterday Lambda Chi Alpha publicly announced the launching of fraternitymanuals.com, a wiki-based website I built for all fraternal organizations.

I built the site using MediaWiki, the open source software that powers Wikipedia, among others. Though WikiMedia is a very powerful piece of software, I found it much more difficult to work with as a designer than say WordPress, a blogging tool.

MediaWiki made some effort to permit designers to create new skins, but didn’t really separate content, design, and function. I had such a hard time trying to figure out how to create a new skin from scratch that I just gave up and modified the default Monobook skin.

Feel free to download my modified Monobook skin, shown here.

Once MediaWiki fully separates the PHP, XHTML, and CSS; I think designers are going to eat it up. Such a format would have certainly made my work on fraternitymanuals.com much easier.

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