Just wondering. Because they do. Uncanny. Here’s Indeed. Here’s SimplyHired. Click around both sites. Indeed goes the way of Google on the home page. SimplyHired shows a little more.
Beyond that, though, the search results, the menus, the layout of items on the page, they all look like they were designed by the same person. Hmmm.
The Activity Report Form (aka The ARF) is an internal activity tracking application that I created for the librarians of the Health Sciences Library. The librarians need to see statistics, reports, and trends on the types of activities they engage in and the groups they interact with. The previous solution used a web based form from a third party provider that we customized. After capturing the data I was required to import the data into Excel each month and fiddle with the input and output to make it look the right way. Ugh!
Loveoirs is our family blog, a place to keep the Love memoirs. Love-oirs. Loveoirs. See? I redesign the site fairly often. At least once a year, I think. (I use “fairly often” liberally, especially considering this site has been redesigned 5 times in the last year.) It’s a chance for me to practice graphic design in a personal way, a way that reflects our family.
The MyHealth Toolkit on HealthLinks was created to address the needs of a growing number of users coming to HealthLinks looking for personal health information, a topic that HealthLinks wasn’t originally designed to cover. The requirements called for a simple, clean web site with a new style that would be easy to use on a variety of screens, including a touch-screen kiosk in the lobby of the Health Sciences Library. Like HealthLinks, the MyHealth Toolkit is a mini-portal to external content, so the point is to get users there as quickly as possible without distractions.
Sam Lai, Lai Real Estate, Ltd.
Sam is a friend of mine who needed a web site for his real estate appraisal business in Seattle. We met several times to discuss style and requirements of the site. In addition to listing his services and rates, Sam wanted an online appraisal request form that would allow customers to submit requests directly from his site.
Calvary Chapel is a Christian church in Seattle, Washington. The old web site was built with static HTML, font tags, and JavaScript rollovers on the navigation images. It desperately needed a design face lift. As a member of the church, I originally volunteered my services to the staff to clean up invalid HTML and help with broken links and content updates. Shortly after work began I sat down with the senior pastor and proposed creating a small team to investigate redesigning the site from the ground up.
The New Books List on HealthLinks was my first experience using Perl to solve a real problem. In 2005 the Health Sciences Library wanted to have a simple way of listing the newest health sciences books from the web catalog on the HealthLinks web site. They also wanted to use the list of titles generated from Innovative’s Millennium product rather than have to type in the titles by hand.
Every so often the librarians at the HSL need to create a longer tutorial that goes beyond the typical How-To page. These tutorials usually end up replacing in-person class visits that have become too cumbersome and for which having permanent content available any time would be beneficial for the students.
HealthLinks is the portal to the Health Sciences Libraries at UW. (For more information, see my write-up of HealthLinks.) Before the redesign of HealthLinks, the How-To pages didn’t have a consistent look and feel. My boss asked me to design a new template that could accommodate help/how-to pages of various topics and lengths. The template also had to look different from the usual pages on HealthLinks while still showing that it was part of the larger site.
HealthLinks is the portal to the Health Sciences Libraries at UW. In 2002 it was decided that HealthLinks needed an update to its look and feel and a reorganization of its content to better serve our users. We also wanted to move from static HTML to a database-driven site with reusable content.
Harry Love is a husband and father living in Longmont, Colorado. He is the curator and janitor of Jetrecord: The Online Logbook for Pilots.
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