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Fourth international yearbook. Not as happy with this one as the one from the year before, but I can't quite put my finger on it. I think the background should have been a different colour. White perhaps, or a darker green.
For the third year in a row, I've made a year in review for the Office of International Services at Brock University. It was originally meant to be a yearbook this year as well, but I by March I was hopelessly behind on the whole project, having to work on it alone, so it was downsized to pictures only. I do, however, consider it the best website I've made for them so far.
This was a much bigger project than the Year in Review from last year. International Services wanted a full-blown digital yearbook with testimonies, stories and lots of pictures. I and a student in visual arts were hired to do this. Crazy colours! Not the best work I've ever put my name to, but I learned a lot about webdesign and CSS that year.
I made this website for free for my friend Deppe Tjandra in late 2005 when he ran for VPFA in the student union election. I don't like what I did with the menu bar, and it's a tad boring.
The first Year in Review I put together in two weeks in the middle April - exam season. As you can see, there's not much Web 2.0 about it. It has a nice Javascript album though.
Another radical departure, completely new colour scheme. I really liked this one.
Approximate time: Summer 2007
Oh noes! We're getting gray and boring again! I like the Photo Album layout/design though.
Approximate time: Spring 2007
New direction again, less contrast, not so glaring. This was a nice website, perhaps not enough colour though.
Approximate time: Spring 2007
Finally I'm getting somewhere. Finally took the step into the Web 2.0 world designwise. Intense colours, big fonts, lots of white(black) space. In the end though, I found it to be too dark and uninteresting and all the orange colours were a bit blaring (I change things when I grow tired of them).
Approximate time: Summer 2006
After I scrapped the leaf-gold-columns-and-banners-galore approach, I went in the complete opposite direction and made something minimalistic, grey and cold. The user interface is somewhat unusual though, meant to exploit the real estate on the screen better, which there is more of horizontally than vertically. People found it to be confusing and the design is just boring.
Approximate time: Fall 2005
This is the end of this line of design - I made countless other concepts that are not included here. It never really worked. I quite like the banner, but I can't really do this sort of design, and I didn't put too much effort into the rest of the site. This was supposed to be just a another stopgap measure, but as it turns out, it became the last version of this design.
Approximate time: Early Fall 2005
My first website after I moved to Canada. I made it in one evening, throwing together some stuff I had drawn and scanned. It's basically just one blog post.
Approximate time: Fall 2004
It's such a long time since I made this. It was almost finished but never published, and is the first in the series of columns-and-banner designs (which turned out to be a giant detour). Moreover, after having made it, I was faced by the question: what to fill it with? Took me a good while to answer that question, it still haunts me.
Approximate time: 2003
What do you do if you have absolutely no idea what to call your website, what theme to use and what sort of content you want to host? You pick an idea and run with it. I desperately needed a logo, something identifiable, and I wanted to make the entire site in Flash. At least the navigation system is interesting.
Approximate time: 2002
This is the oldest preserved website I have. Anything older seems to have been lost. The interface is made in Fireworks and the name is taken from the book series The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. I was a huge fan at the time. Not much to look at today.
Approximate time: around the millennium
This was an early concept for a website about a trip to South America. I'm still hoping to use it, and to blog about my trip to Peru and Equador, but there's so much else that needs to be done right now.
Approximate time: Summer 2006
I saw a lot of websites with polished metal and funky flash effects around this time, and one day on the bus, I came up with this. The big metal panel was supposed to slide back and reveal the page, but I never got that far. The big pulsating sphere is the main menu. Never finished.
Approximate time: 2002
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