• Joomla! CMS Site
• Created originally as HTML/CSS
• Currently Webmaster: Yes
• http://www.msca.mb.ca/

I originally recreated this site as a CSS/HTML site. I rebuilt it as a Joomla! CMS site in 2011.

The primary reasons for the redesign include the ability for members to register for the yearly conference (SAGE) online, pay membership dues online, and easily archive meeting details. One really nice feature of this site is the Contact area, which uses forms to enable people to contact anyone on the Board of Directors, without their names ever becoming visible.

A new CMS/Joomla! website for a long-time musician friend and collegue Jay Stoller, who runs tours to Ghana where participants learn drumming and dancing from local musicians and dancers.

This site has some neat Joomla! components and plug-ins for video. 

The site is here: African Skies Drum and Dance Tours

• Joomla! CMS Site
• Created originally as HTML/CSS
• Currently Webmaster: Yes
• http://uuwinnipeg.mb.ca/

I originally recreated this site in 1996 (or thereabouts) as a "pure" CSS/HTML site. I rebuilt it as a Joomla! CMS site in 2009.

The primary reasons for the redesign included the ability for church staff and members to manage their own content (Announcements, Calendar items), the archive features, and the contact information features. The new design has been met with great acclaim and support from the church community, and the site continues to grow.

In 2010 I started using a new template, which I modified with random pictures in the header. Some of the features I like with this new template are the ability to resize text, the collapseable menus on the right, and the suckerfish dropdown menus.

Last year I also added streaming audio of the services to the services archive and several photo galleries. More to come.

• Standards-compliant, table-less design
• No javascript or other scripts -- rollover menu works with CSS
• Designed the original site in 2004, with a redesign in 2010
• Currently Webmaster
• Note: this site is archived on my site, however, as she won her elections, is not "live" right now. The site is here: Re-Elect Jenny Gerbasi 2011

Revamped from its 2004 version, a new banner and new interactive features (a Twitter feed, a mailing list sign-up form, PayPal) freshen up the CSS and table-less design of Jenny Gerbasi's campaign site. Check out the scalable pictures (resize your browser window to see it). Also a neat effect achieved through divs and CSS layout (as opposed to tables, ew) is how the small divs with text in them in the banner move and float over the banner background picture when you resize the window.

• Joomla! CMS site
• Built for the Everharts' Passive House Project
• Currently the Webmaster
• http://everhartpassivehouse.net/

Scenario: Sunday afternoon, relaxing, contemplating a week of contract work that lay ahead, until a phone call from my sister and two sentences changed my day: "We're going to be on Oprah on Thursday," and, "How quickly can you build a website for us?" Well, two days as it turns out, and I definitely broke my record. The image galleries were a special challenge, solved by creating the code in Excel with a concatenate query (odd the times you need these skills).

This website features lots of good info on building a passive house, plus image galleries of the process, a slide show (best in IE), downloads and other info, and a cartoon (see the front page) I "made" explaining, I hope, the basics of passive houses.

I think what my sister's family is doing is pretty incredible, and definitely worth a peek.

This is an archive of a site which is still "live" elsewhere on the Web. I keep a copy of sites that I build when someone else takes over the maintenance of the site. I store the site on my personal site as an archive so i have a record of how it appeared when I was done building the site.

• Standards-compliant, CSS-based design
• Currently Webmaster: No
• http://karincarlson.net/inplainview/homepage.shtml

The challenge with this site was to make a clean, easy-to-navigate site to feature artists' works, without using any code. It needed to be functional in very old and somewhat outdated browsers (Netscape 4 or 5 for Macintosh) as well as newer browsers.

The rollover effect in the menu of artists and the galleries for each artist (visit an artist's page to see this element) is achieved purely with CSS.