I’ve had a very busy year, and between the redesign of this site and the actual work I’ve been doing I haven’t had time to update my portfolio.
Here’s a quick list of the things I’ve been working on, in…
A family friend owns a pair of cabins on a gorgeous island in Penobscot Bay. He saw the Elk House website and asked me if I could create something similar for him.
Just a small change would be needed;…
This site layout is a couple of firsts for me. For one, it’s a single-page layout, which wound up not being that big a deal; WordPress sites work off a templating system, and since I like to keep the site…
This is another referral, once again from Ross Nover. Nicholas is a filmmaker in DC, and he wanted a super-clean yet image-heavy site to display his work, talk about his press coverage, and keep a weblog.
Blog…
After a long and harried development process (by which I mean two days with some Old Fashioneds and an inbox full of feature requests) I’ve released an update to the Showtime plugin I wrote for the WVAU.org website.
I…
Man, did it ever take a while to get to this.
RealPolitech is something I’ve been a part of for over 18 months now. The previous site design was based on a draft that Christina, the CEO, put…
Creative Brief: Bring Princeton’s oldest comedy improv troupe out of the ’90s.
In an apparent attempt to corner the Activities Groups from Princeton market, I found myself lucky enough to have the opportunity to work on a website…
Creative Brief: A site with an elegant look and a system to help the property manager handle reservations.
The houses available for rent in Colorado are, by and large, breathtaking. From simple cabins to 15-bedroom chalets, there’s…
Creative Brief: Create a wedding website that looks “f*#@ing rad.”
A friend of mine from high school is getting married next year, and she thought it prudent to invest in more eco-friendly ways of getting people to…
Creative Brief: A website to showcase a feature-length film by Abe Schwartz.
This was an unusually fast job for me, made so because the previous web designers found themselves unable to deliver the product the client needed.…
Creative Brief: Create a WordPress theme from a design done by Peter Durham. Site needs the following:
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Creative Brief: Design and build a portfolio website for a video production and online distribution strategy company.
Getting the production site up and running took a little longer than I predicted due to a late-in-the-game design decision, but I’m much…
List Contributors does exactly what it says; shows a list of your contributing authors and their posts. Uses jQuery to hide/show their biographies. Allows for rich-text descriptions as well as photographs. Integrates seamlessly with the WordPress User database.
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When I started looking for “Save this web page as PDF” solutions, I was underwhelmed. The end result of every service is miserable because, frankly, websites aren’t meant to be saved as PDFs. Their design serves a completely different function;…
The Showtime plugin allows you to easily manage and display a rotating programming schedule. It was originally built for a college radio station, but it could be used for any kind of schedule that repeats weekly.
Showtime takes the…
The most noteworthy of my clientelle is the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation. They’ve been a steady source of work for the last year, and every day in which I do something to improve their web presence is,…
Creative Brief: Convert a Photoshop layout done by Ross Nover into a WordPress theme. Oh, and just a little “thing” that will display what show is currently on the air at our college radio station.
Obviously, the first part is…
OpenFocus (http://openfoc.us) is something I’ve been working on for almost 4 months now (update: read the blog entry). I recently completed a demonstrative animation that shows off the tool, as well as some of the practical applications we think…
In a previous life, I created animations for broadcast commercials. One technique that really intrigued me, and by the looks of its popularity many others, is known as kinetic typography. This is precisely what it sounds like, i.e. moving type.…
Creative Brief: Design and develop an easy-to-use web app that can help people arrange carpools to go vote. This solves a number of problems:
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Creative Brief: A ground-up redesign of the Shere Khan A Cappella website – new navigation, new member features and a fresh design.
The old design; too blog-like for a musical group.
One of…
Creative Brief: Give a visual face-lift to the LINK Live website. Update back-end coding to include new best practices, as well as include some extra functionality the site didn’t originally need.
Creative Brief: A website for the two families of a newly married couple to share stories and photos, but secure in a way that Facebook and Ning can’t be.
My sister recently got married, and I was so appalled at…
Creative Brief: A good friend of my recently became single again, and I was trying to think of ways to cheer him up. So, I created a fictional organization and a website with a backstory, as well as a list of…
Creative Brief: Provide a fresh and innovative look for an established charitable organization to help drive online donations and participations.
It was necessary to create a visual aesthetic that synced up with their current organizational philosophy and structure.
The “wow”…
Creative Brief: Design and code a showcase/client-nabbing website for a consortium of social entrepreneurs. We started with the iconic image of a guy in a crowd holding up a Flip-Cam and went from there.
The sites needs to show off not only…
Creative Brief: Design an information portal site for a local realtor. This website will contain general information about the area as well as a professional blog.
Required a multiple-level CSS dropdown menu to contain the vast multitude of categories and…
Creative Brief: Website for people to interact with a live event – A Gala held on the eve of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. Also direct, provide technical support and produce content for the six hour live webcast.
This site…
Creative Brief: Website showcase for the Princeton University a cappella group Shere Khan.
This site was built with on the Joomla CMS so that the members of the group could update it themselves. Since they’re a musical group, they also…
Creative Brief: Re-brand site so it looks like it belongs to a designer instead of a blogger.
When I first started Out to Lunch, I wanted to do position myself as a one-stop shop for anything creative, from print work…
My name is Carter, and I build websites.
While I absolutely love everything about design, photography, marketing, video production; really anything that can communicate ideas to lots and lots of people - I knew that I had to choose one particular thing to focus on when I started Out to Lunch.
Building websites is really the most exciting thing I could think of. It's just so challenging; there are so many things that can go wrong. I know it seems strange, but when you love doing something, you want an excuse to do it as much as possible.
In every office at which I've had the pleasure of working, one thing has remained consistently true: I do my best work when nobody is distracting me.
The time of day when the office is most likely to be empty? Lunch time.
Also, it's funny.
