Proudly, I built this fully functional social networking site from the ground up. Built on the Movable-Type platform, this site is a tool for Whirlpool to become a leader in innovation. This was a practice in managing large scale projects, estimating time, and mastering new platforms in a very short amount of time.

I built PeopleDesign.com on the Wordpress blogging platform because Wordpress is a free, extremely well built and super simple to use system that easily doubles as a basic CMS. I would recommend using Wordpress for any small website that needs a CMS as it cuts down on costs everywhere. Along with gaining a great knowledge of Wordpress as a CMS and working with really clean, precise designs, building this website gave me an opportunity to build some great jQuery plugins which I will mention later.

I am loving jQuery as a tool to enhance the user interfaces of websites. I have built multiple plugins, as I mentioned before. One of them MaxImage Image Scaling dynamically resizes images so that it will be as large as possible, relative to the size of the browser. You can try it out at the demo page. Go ahead, resize your browser window and see the image change size. I have also built other plugins for personal use. You can find me using 'FocusMagic', 'SelectReplace', 'MaxGrid', a cookie based accordion, 'Slider' (used for this website), and more. Adding to this library of custom tools has greatly enhanced my ability to build websites efficiently and intelligently.

I am working on organizing a number of other projects right now that will be added shortly. Stay tuned!