I worked with a large team of creative services specialists and people across Indiana state govenrment to create and maintain numerous web sites. We strove to maintain a common look and feel across all state websites. This was done to increase usability via standardization and ease maintenance within the Content Management tool. The below sites represent a few of the sites where I had the most direct impact. I focus on designing to the content in order to display it in the simplest, most interesting, and user friendly way possible.
Indiana General Assembly
Highlights:
- Daily Schedule widget developed with jQuery AJAX
- Homepage billboard uses CSS sprites for image rollovers
- Site CSS rewritten to decrease page weight versus other IN.gov websites
- View Indiana Code widget uses jQuery to increase usability
Governor Mitch Daniels
Highlights
- Audio Downloads uses podcast XML as its data source via jQuery AJAX
View screenshot - Indiana state map uses CSS sprites and jQuery to allow for rollover effects for each county
View screenshot | Learn more - Video Downloads custom developed jQuery to display YouTube / WMV videos
View screenshot - 2009 Asia Trade Mission uses blog-inspired style to combine daily updates + media
First Lady Cheri Daniels
http://www.in.gov/gov/firstlady/
Highlights
- Cheri's Chores combines photos, text, and imbedded videos to maintain user interest
View screenshot - IndiCANa food drive uses simple javascript to increase page usability
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Lt Governor Becky Skillman
Highlights
- Scheduling Requests uses jQuery and fieldsets to increase usability
View screenshot - Stay Connected widget provides a place to highlight social media while taking privacy concerns into account. This widget is also used on other IN.gov websites.
