all things front-end

My time is usually spent providing creative direction for print and web or designing/building interfaces to be implemented by developers or developing strategies for the best approach to a project for the web... or a mix of the three. To be specific: Design, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash animation, audio/video editing for the web, online advertising design and launch. In a nutshell: All things front-end.

familiar environments

I don't bill myself as a programmer by any stretch of the imagination. Primarily because the left side of my brain has maintained only a flicker of activity since I took the SAT. However, I do work well in the following team development environments: PHP, ASP.NET (C#) and JSP. I've also gotten my hands dirty designing for a myriad of existing frameworks and platforms, including: Joomla (& Mambo) ZenCart, Umbraco, Textpattern, Moveable Type, MySpace, Facebook, Podcasts, WordPress, etc, etc. My toolbox is a simple collection of the usual suspects: A pencil, grid paper, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and the venerable Notepad.

the 18 pixel grid

I have somewhat of an obsession with the 18px grid. Maybe because it's loosely tied to the golden ratio? Who can say? In any event, it keeps layouts looking tight and harmonious. Just about all of my work, with a few exceptions, could be snapped to an 18px grid.