You've reached the portfolio of Benn Meyers. This site outlines some of the code and design I have worked on. The ideas presented here are those I've picked up from my own innovation and other many sources in my experiences doing web design and development.
General:
I first develop on a Mac in Firefox with Firebug and the Web Developers Toolbar enabled. I code everything by hand, but professionally I use Adobe Dreamweaver to assist me.
When I create new pages, script or styles, I have some general guidelines I follow.
Practices followed:
- I use camelCase for my new names
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When I name something, I follow this logic:Fuction_elementName[_color][_width][.extension]
Designs:
These are only some of the designs and websites I've worked on and created, below each is a short description of the site or section of the site.
Professional Projects
Vimo.com Dr Reports - This was a set of template pages I made the flow for, designed and created (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for the Dr. Reports section. You can get to it by going through the Dr. details and asking for a report. It has a lot of functionality built in to it, and though one programmer put it in to AJAX: I removed that method for a better User Experience.
Vimo.com Carrier/Plan Profiles - I can't claim everything was designed by myself, but the bulk of the body content was done by myself. This project, as were many at Vimo, were excellently dynamic pages. A total of 7 pages were created or modified for this project to give the customer profiles on the different Plans and Carriers in their area.
Vimo.com Tips and Advice Center - Much of the design has been upgraded since I first worked on this area of the site, but this small 3 page section provides a wealth of information for the user to explore and learn to trust Vimo for their health needs.
RealtyTrac.com Property Seach Results - The Holy Trinity of web development was done by me: I did the HTML, CSS, and Javascript for this set of pages (member, non-member). These are the types of projects I really enjoy: I helped the designers look at what we have, I talked to the product managers about what we wanted, I negotiated with the programmers on what was feasible, worked with the Marketing team on what was needed in terms of adds and was able to go directly to the designers and programmers to ask questions when I was building the page.
Header - This was one of the more interesting projects I did in a while. RealtyTrac has a .Net aspect to it and the implementation of .Net wrapped all pages in a form. Because you can't have a form within a form, I had to make a header that used only javascript to submit data (I had to recreate a forms behaviors). It was a great exercise in javascript, and allowed me to practice good standards of HTML and CSS. Plus tracking down the 17 different headers was excellent! I also spent time on this project cleaning up some of the calls to outdated resources.
Sidebar (left)- This area was early in my experiences at RealtyTrac, so I'm not as proud of it as some of the parts of the site. The designers handed me a mock and I went at it.
This was a mock for an announcement on RealtyTrac, on which we would promote the new postcard feature. I designed the advertisement and programmed the later HTML requested for the ad.
ForeclosurePulse is a site design I did in January and Febuary of 2006 for RealtyTrac.com. I did the wireframe, design, CSS and HTML for the site working with a coworker to mesh with the backend into RealtyTrac's database system.
Personal Projects
jpMonkey is a website promoting cloth, designed, environmentally friendly grocery bags. I took a pre-made color scheme and logo, and sticking with the design elements laid out in the logo designed and programmed a site promoting the sale of the bags.
The Help Dress You is a website I re-programmed the base HTML and CSS for, then handed it over to the owner of the site. The original design was using tables for its structure, and while this is a browser-friendly method, I converted the HTML into a symantic form.
Platinum Weddings by Kerrie is a site for Kerrie to advertise herself and show demos of her work. I helped her by making several design and logo concepts based on a self designed color scheme, then made the website.
The the Underhill wedding is a website I designed and programmed for Kerrie and Greg to give them an online presence for their beautiful wedding.
CCIndex was a project for a friend of mine who wanted to document all the periodicals and books in his library (10k+), so hired me to make his website for him (design, code and trinity). - the website has continued growing, but I've been in touch with him recently to chat about how I can help out.
Doctor Mohler wanted a web presence, so in 2001 he hired me to create a website. This was the design I came up with. - design on actual website has since changed but some HTML remains.
The Art of Japan was a project done by a team of three - including myself - giving a high level understanding on several of the different forms of japanese art. We got a gold metal in a competition for educational websites. I helped on all aspects of the site: design, content and programming: but focused mainly on the programming aspect.
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