Websites should be beautiful and easy to use.
I’m obsessed with making them that way.
Welcome.
About Me
I’m a Brooklyn-based web developer with a love of clean code and clear design.
I take pleasure in building websites that are beautiful, functional, and solve problems for my clients. I make use of the latest open-source technology to speed up development and take advantage of what the web can do today.
Please enjoy browsing my recent projects below, and feel free to leave me a message with any questions or comments. If you need a website or web application, I would love to talk with you about your business requirements.
Projects
Pastel Painters of Maine
The Pastel Painters of Maine use their network of active artists to promote pastel painting through education, exhibitions, paint-ins, and other events. They already had a website, but they wanted it to be easier to update themselves. On top of that, the design of the site was starting to look a little dated.
Without starting from scratch, I updated the design (as you can see from the before and after shots, left), making the site easier to read, easier to navigate, and easier to change. Now they can manage content, slideshows, and events without having to learn HTML.
Cadillac Moon Ensemble
CME is a quartet of New York musicians that is building a new body of music for their unique instrumentation. The sound of flute, strings, and percussion is a versatile mix, one that seems to lead composers to vivid imagery, from oceans, to the moon, to the streets of Puerto Rico.
The group made a studio recording in the fall of 2011, and they wanted a platform they could use to promote their activities to audiences, presenters, and other supporters. Their website, which is under ongoing development, will include a blog and integration with social media. Behind the scenes, I’ve also built a tool that allows them to manage their extensive repertoire list in Excel and automatically convert it to the format that appears on the website.
Larchmont Music Academy
LMA is a thriving music school in Westchester County with lessons, classes, and events year-round. They had been making do with a website they had built themselves, but it was time to move on. They needed a place for their students and faculty to get important information, a public website to continue to attract new students, and a backend that would be easy for them to update and maintain.
I built a website that prominently features beautiful photographs of their students and evokes the open, friendly atmosphere of the school. It leads prospective students through all the information they need to get started, and it keeps the next event right on the homepage – updated automatically as events pass. Most importantly, it is built on WordPress to make it easy to add pages and update content.
Curtis Stewart
Curtis Stewart is an amazing, and very busy, violinist. He plays fluently in a lot of different styles, and is constantly starting new projects and ensembles. He needed a website that could reflect all the different facets of his musical personality, and give audience members a way to keep track of everything he is involved with. He also wanted to make sure that visitors to the site could start listening to his recordings as soon as they got there, and continue listening without interruption as they browsed the different pages.
I created a site that treats the page as a vessel that can be filled with different styles. The container starts out empty and gives visitors a chance to fill it as they see fit. The site takes slideshows, audio, and graphics, and arranges them into a balanced, interactive environment that reflects Curtis’s range and creativity.