Resume :: Richard Silence

PHP, CSS Template site

This website is for the owners of an Antique shop in Eugene, OR that holds live Auctions.
They needed a site that could be updated quickly with a link structure that now spans over
100 pages. Updating this site takes less than 4hrs and includes editing about 50-100
pictures and adding about 5 pages. This includes working with the client to create
categories and prepping the auction to be ready to switch that auction over to the
Archives section as soon as it is finished.

The original design of this site took 2 days. I did the initial design in Photoshop
CS1 and converted it into a website that consisted of 11 pages in about 8hrs. I have
since streamlined the PHP so that I have one file for the header, one for the footer
and one for the archive links regardless of the directory.

ASP.NET, CSS, JavaScript and embedded flash audio player

A Voice in the Desert was a live radio show in 2003 and is now going to be a podcast/blog
oriented website. I have been converting the original shows from tapes, which have been
degrading, into digital format. I have been using Audacity to clean out noise from the
studio and Sony Music Studio to equalize the mix due to distortion from the tapes wearing
out. There is now a SQL based membership that will have profiles and a backside
administration panel. The membership is also going to include a front side shopping
cart that will tie into the membership database and be linked between a MySQL DB and
an MSSQL DB. Another section of this site includes a WordPress Blog with a custom
template and built in podcast functionality, as well as the ability for the ‘host’ to
post videos from YouTube, Google, Meta Cafe and many others.

HTML + CSS with PHP, Perl CommerceCGI Shopping Cart

Larsen’s Candies was one of my first clients. I started working on their site by revamping the layout
and making it more user-friendly and fixing some major issues with their 100+ product flat file database.
I redid the PHP templates for the shopping cart to match the redone HTML files and integrated the same
style-sheet to reduce download time. Larsen’s was using AOL dial-up at the time and needed faster
loading pages to keep up. I ended up trimming the total site size to 1/3 the original size helping it
to load in less than half the time. A couple years into the project I revamped the code again to
be XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant; this had a measurable effect on search engine traffic and the
cleaner code made it easier to have cross browser compatibility.