Maine Webworks

Maine Webworks isn’t so much one project as it is a collection of Freelance works with John Beatrice.

I worked with John on a number of projects in the late summer of 2008, before heading back to NESCom for my Sophmore year.  Being an RA that Fall, I was unfortunately unable to continue work with John beyond the start of the Semester, but the work we did do together was very successful, and a great experience.

While working with Maine Webworks, I had the pleasure of working on websites for Russell Educational Counseling Services, the Libra Foundation, the Libra Lecture Fund, and author Pat Snyder.

For all of these projects I was supplied with a PSD layout that I was tasked with translating into a working template, either for a flat-file website or Content Management System.

The most straightforward of these projects were the templates for the Libra Future Fund and Foundation.  Both sites had identical semantic structure, with the only difference being their color scheme and a few key graphical elements.  After massaging the CSS for the first template, the second was nearly drag and drop, utilizing a common CSS file for the common layout, and a separate CSS file for the respective color schemes.

The development time for the LFF websites was on the order of only a few hours.

The Russell Educational Counseling Services website provided a number of interesting hurdles to overcome, however the result was a per-pixel match to the supplied PSD.  The first challenge was the curved navigation menu, having a curved navigation surface with transparency and a roll-over effect,