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Corina McDonald hearts the web.
In my past life, I worked in social change, managing a crisis line. I built an Access database for the program in 1996, & a love affair was begun. I designed & built several small-scale databases before learning webcraft in 2006.
These days, I work primarily as a web developer. I love handcoding html & css, utilizing javascript libraries such as Jquery, & creating dynamic sites with php/mysql. I excel at middle-tier work, including customizing Joomla! & Wordpress templates, due to my background in database design & work in both front- & backend coding.
I'm interested in user experience & info architecture, in making sites that are intuitively navigable, logically conceived, & user-friendly. I work in Dreamweaver but eschew its generated code. I'm a bit of a snob that way. I use Photoshop to do light photo editing & optimization.
You can contact me via email: corina.y.mcdonald (AT) gmail.com or check out my profile on LinkedIn
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Anna B. Designs
2009 | Brooklyn-Based Designer
This project required me to design, develop, and maintain a new site for Brooklyn-based designer who specializes in home decor. It was coded in HTML with a single CSS stylesheet and heavy use of the Jquery library.
We chose to go with a one-page design that utilizes a fade-in effect on a Jquery gallery to display product photos on the main page. The gallery includes a lightwindow function to show groupings of photos as albums, and to include some details about the product. This allows a prospective client to find all the information they might need quickly and easily on the front page.
We used CSS and the Jquery library to style modal windows for the narrative portions, primarily about the designer and her work.
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Christina in Croatia
2009 | Croatian Summer
Design, develop, and maintain new site for student spending the summer in Croatia. Movement styled by local scroll.
Coded in HTML, single CSS stylesheet, Jquery library.
Includes ZenPhoto gallery and WordPress blog plugins.
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Kidney Research Institute
2009 | A collaboration between Northwest Kidney Centers and UW Medicine
Develop a new website based on their graphic artist's conception.
Coded in HTML and CSS with a Joomla! backend, it utilizes several customized templates to format the different page types with a default CSS to retain the consistent look-and-feel across the site.
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Washington Oral Health Foundation
2009 | Washington State Dental Health Education for Kids
I was brought in on this project to revise a site created in PHP/MySQL. It was revamped to reflect the options presented on the video screen of a kiosk, requiring us to greatly reduce the top-level directory and find creative ways to display a large variety of information in a touch-screen friendly, space-saving format.
To this end, I rebuilt the database and worked with the existing code to simplify the end result. I redesigned and replaced all page-heading photos, and implemented the mootools multi-level accordion shown in thie screenshot. This allowed us to display former subdirectories as "newspaper folds" with content visible when the accordion section was selected.
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Grassroots - Support for Growing Families
2006 | California Non-Profit
Design, develop, and maintain new site for California-based non-profit agency.
Coded in PHP with some light MySQL and a single CSS stylesheet, this site utilizes the mootools library for the rounded-corners effect.
The Grassroots logo is incorporated in the sidebar, and includes some animation of a glowing effect, created in Photoshop.
It also utilizes a color-based breadcrumb trail and repeated navigation at the bottom for ease of use. A google calendar is embedded in the events section.
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CityBridge Foundation
2011 | DC Education Non-Profit
Develop front-end code for refreshed design for CityBrige Foundation, a pro-bono client of Navigation Arts.
CityBridge Foundation works to build and sustain a great system of schools in the nation’s capitol.
NavigationArts redesigned CityBridge Foundation’s website to reflect the non-profit’s brand identity online, enhance the user experience, and better serve the organization’s evolving mission statement.