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About Me

Hi my name is Greg Russell and I'm a web developer.

My focus in web development revolves around compatibility, ease of use, and standards compliance. For instance, how many times have you been locked out of a website because of your choice of browser or operating system? This should never happen. Not only does it have to work in all major browsers, but it should look the same, or at least look as close as possible (sometimes even in Internet Explorer 6). This is what I do. Actually, that's not all that I do. I can also build you a website from scratch, from an existing site that uses antiquated technologies, or even from a Photoshop file. Do you already have a designer? Great! I can implement their visual style to fit in with the modern web world. I use only the finest open source software in constructing websites, including PHP, MySQL, Apache, Ubuntu, and more.

When I'm not hacking away at a project or reading up on documentation I can be found enjoying art, music, food, camping, or any of the many pleasures of the city of Seattle where I've resided since moving from Ohio in 2007.

If you have any questions or want a quote for a project visit my contact page or email me at grgrssll@gmail.com

portfolio
 
  • The Tibetan Nuns Project
  • Lincoln Leopard Films
  • Austin Beaver
  • Gardner Global
  • Pacific Crest School
  • Remarks
  • Joykinn
  • Occasions
  • OSU Chabad
  • Mashcard
  • Calendar

The Tibetan Nuns Project

This non-profit's website combines an elegant simplistic design with a powerful custom CMS. It is written in PHP using Zend Framework, MySQL, jQuery, xHTML, and CSS. Features include Ajax forms, e-comerce with a custom shopping cart, sitewide search, and full administration capabilities.

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Lincoln Leopard Films

Lincoln Leopard Films is a side project of the boss at LT-Creative. This site is written in PHP using Zend Framework, MySQL, jQuery, xHTML, and CSS developed from a Photoshop .psd file. Features include snazzy jQuery visuals, HD video playback, mp3 streaming and a nifty database schema for easy updating.

designed by lt-creative

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Austin Beaver

Seattle's best wedding DJ wanted a site that looked like a magazine, which was excellently pulled of by the designers at lt-creative. I wrote the code for the site in PHP using Zend Framework, MySQL, jQuery, xHTML, and CSS developed from a Photoshop .psd file. Features include Ajax pages and forms, Blog with RSS content aggregation, interactive map, and a full featured custom CMS.

designed by lt-creative

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Gardner Global

This site is a rather basic brochure type site with a stunning design by LT-Creative. It is written in PHP, jQuery, xHTML and CSS developed from a Photoshop .psd file.

designed by lt-creative

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Pacific Crest School

A great website for a great school, designed by Blank Space on the Wordpress platform. My contributions include CSS styling, browser compatibility, and customizing the events manager plugin for wordpress.

designed by blank space

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Remarks

This playful company's website was designed by Blank Space on the Wordpress platform. My contributions include CSS styling, jQuery scripting, browser compatibility and writting a custom script to upload a CSV list of their store locations to the Store Locator wordpress plugin.

designed by blank space

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Joykinn

This new social networking site was developed by LT-Creative for their clients. I was added on to aid in the site deployment and continually as a maintenance developer doing bug fixes and feature requests. I did these tasks by navigating the large code base and editing the necessary PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, and Smarty Templates.

designed by lt-creative

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Occasions

I updated this site from LT-Creative to use moderm web technologies. The main issue that I resolved was to ensure uninterupted music playback while navigating the different pages. Normally this type of problem is solved with a flash based site, however I accomplished it with only PHP, jQuery, HTML and CSS. Other work done on the site was for browser/os compatibility.

designed by lt-creative

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OSU Chabad

One of the earilier sites I worked on, the OSU Chabad site, designed by Blank Space, features a custom CMS, image gallery, and Google Calendar integration. I wrote the site in PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS.

designed by blank space

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Mashcard

Mashcard ( Mashup + Flashcard = Mashcard) is one of my current side projects that I work on in my spare time. It is still in an very early beta and nowhere near feature complete, but is shaping up to be a cool learning tool. The goal of the site is to provide a place to make and use sets of flashcards for learning various topics. It currenly only has one full set of the 50 US states. It is written in PHP using Zend Framework, MySQL, jQuery, xHTML, and CSS. Features include user registration and authentication, sitewide search, sortable lists, and keyboard shortcuts. Feel free to give it a test by clicking the link below which will take you to the only set currently uploaded, but remember this is still in the early beta stages.

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PHP Calendar & Javacript Clock

This is a simple Calendar I wrote using Object Oriented PHP complete with methods for styling the display and setting the starting month/year. My goal was to mimic the Gnome Calendar applet in use on the Gnome Desktop Environment in Linux. Here it is paired with a simple javascript date and time clock. Check back soon for the availability of the source code, free for download and use.

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services

Services

  • Website Design and Development
  • Database design and administration
  • Custom CMS & Ecommerce Solutions
  • Photoshop to xHTML / CSS
  • Wordpress plugin & theme customization
  • xHTML / CSS Validation
  • 100% CSS layouts
  • Javascript / JQuery / Ajax
  • Cross browser / OS compatability and site rendering
  • Streaming Audio & Video
  • Site upgrades, maintenance, deployment, server transfers
  • Apache / PHP / MySQL configuration
  • Google Analytics & SEO

Skills

  • PHP • Zend Framework • Wordpress
  • Javascript • jQuery • Ajax
  • MySQL
  • xHTML
  • CSS
  • Linux
  • Apache
  • SVN
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Microsoft Office/Google Docs

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