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State College Area Municipal Band

A new website for my band!
The Band's new website

I was accepted into the State College Area Municipal Band this fall, where I play in the trumpet section. The section has some really outstanding players, so I am learning a great deal and they keep me on my toes.

I developed the page as a kind of 'thank you' to the band.

http://www.statecollegeband.org

Posted on 02/05/12 _________________________________________________________________________________________________

Paleontology Web Hub

Bringing International Paleontologists together online
NeotomaSB.org website

www.neotomadb.org is a webhub for paleontologists all around the world. I built the website using Experssion engine and designed the appearance of it with contributions from people at Center for Environmental Informatics, like Brian Bills, who has powerful intuition about the presentation of complex information.  I did spot illustrations, as well as the Html5, css3 and occasional scripting.

The featured Neotoma Explorer tool can help scientists, hobbiests, and s tudents sort through thousands of data and was built by Mike Anderson and Brian Bills using Adove Flex.

The site is seeing rapidly increasing traffic and is slated to recieve continued NSF funding for the next 4 years.

Posted on 12/07/11 _________________________________________________________________________________________________

India Pavilion

New website for a State College Restaurant
Website of India Pavilion, State College, PA

This site was built  with a lot of design contributions from the business' manager, who had some great ideas coming into the project. It's an example of how beneficial collaboration on projects can be. The site included html5, css3 and some javaScript. indiapavilion.net
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Posted on 12/07/11 _________________________________________________________________________________________________

My new web development portfolio site

Showcasing all my digital efforts
Check out my new Web Portfolio site.

Finally! I took the time to put it under one url. Please check out my new site: BlakesWebLab.com. I develioed the site using HTML5 and css3. I sprinkled in a little javascript.

Posted on 08/10/11 _________________________________________________________________________________________________

MojoMotor

A quick site with a new CMS
A site that I developed in MojoMotor

I use a CMS called Expression Engine regularly. It's quite powerful and can be overkill for many smaller sites.  My mom is a writer and  needed a site to showcase her work that she could edit on her own. The best part of MojoMotor is to edit  content, it's just three steps:

  1. login
  2. click on your text
  3. edit and save.

There are some simple formatting options like headers, lists, links, and block quotes. It's just right for most small sites. I can think of quite so many jobs that I would have developed in MM had I known about it, although I guess it hasn't been around all that long. Check it out here: MojoMotor.

Posted on 08/10/11 _________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Crucible

An Interdisciplinary Web-Hub at Penn State
Modified Screenshot of a mesh by Sashah Chrysler,
a Penn State Student. It's featured on the
homepage of the Crucible.

I am excited about this site. I have a vision of having a cooperative web environment where artists, writers, scientists, engineers etc bring out the best in each other. The Crucible will have a lot of dynamic content, a forum, and feature interdisciplinary activities at Penn State University. I hope to have it all zipped uo and open in the Fall 2011.

http://crucible.psu.edu

Posted on 06/15/11 _________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sculpture Portfolio Site

Goal: A clean dignified portfolio
Portrait of Pastor Julius Rambo,
Sunshine Babtist Church, Kansas City, MO

After toying with larger more informative designs, I opted for a simple web portfolio site. I did add paypal links for some of my sculptures for sale by edition, Seems kind of tacky and I may remove them. Overall, I think this is a successful web portfolio.

http://www.portraitbust.com

Posted on 06/15/11 _________________________________________________________________________________________________

Flash Animation for a Fencing Club

This was my first experiment with ActionScript2 and Adobe Flash

<embed border="1" height="500" src="http://blakesweblab.com/CPFA/fencinghomepage.swf" width="550"></embed>Fencing Animation Link

This project was a lot of fun. Having the blade make somewhat realistic parries was the goal.

Posted on 03/18/11 _________________________________________________________________________________________________