Online Portfolio
I've been crafting web experiences for over 13 years. Below you will find the beginnings of a catalog of my work. If you have questions about a specific project or are looking for something similar for your own site, please let me know!
2010 - Current
stormyfrog studios, llc
The Cupcake Tower
Updated Product Catalog
Due to an explosion of growth and a variety of new products, I created a new page layout for the product catalog.
Ken Davis
Upcoming Event Emails
As part of the new promotion website, I created a back-end interface allowing internal staff to schedule upcoming event emails to the client's list (via the MailChimp API) with just a few clicks—saving hours of time and reducing the opportunity for errors.
Ken Davis
Event Promotion Website
A spin-off of my original idea for Laugh Your Way, this much improved promotion site features a convenient collection of downloadable materials and pages to generate your own Press Release and email templates.
Dynamic Communicators Workshops
New WordPress blog
With a commitment to producing regular content about the speaking profession, a WordPress blog was added in to the website we recently redesigned. As part of this, we also integrated an automated email newsletter whenever new content is posted.
Michael Hyatt
Free e-Book Promotion
With the improved email newsletters in place, we launched a free e-book promotion designed to build the client's email list. This included a site-wide banner sliding up from the bottom of the page, integration in the email signup process, and custom landing pages for visitors to retrieve their ebook reward.
Michael Hyatt
Weekly Email Digest
As part of the migration from FeedBlitz to MailChimp, the opportunity arose to create a second, less frequent email on Saturday mornings recapping the posts of the week. This gave interested parties an opportunity to keep up with the blog in a more time-manageable format.
Michael Hyatt
Daily Email Newsletter
With the new email signup integration, we migrated the current daily email about new blog posts from a plain FeedBlitz email to a custom-branded MailChimp RSS-to-Email campaign. This involved creating a customized WordPress RSS feed to make specific content available to MailChimp.
Michael Hyatt
Email Newsletter Signup
This major project included integrating the on-site signup process with the local database and synchronizing the list with MailChimp via a combination of their API and their WebHooks feature.
New Hope Academy
Online Race Registration
I developed a completely custom online registration process for a fundraising marathon. This included the entire public-facing signup process, secure credit card processing integration with Authorize.net via their AIM and CIM APIs, and an administrative interface with over a dozen downloadable reports. This new system saved client hundreds of hours of labor!
New Hope Academy
Website Template Mods
Customized a WordPress template to meet the objectives and budget restrictions of an informational site to accompany a fundraising marathon. Template by Elegant Themes.
Ken Davis
Facebook Promo: Free CD
Created a landing tab with FBML on Facebook with promo offer to encourage people to "like" client. Once a fan (or already), you were shown a different version of the page including a link to download a free CD in MP3 format. Tab design by Kimberly Vlies.
The Cupcake Tower
Spare Parts Page
As our Cupcake Towers grew more popular, soon people started asking to upgrade their current tower to a larger size, and order spare parts if something broke.
Golden State Fire
Facebook Welcome Tab
The client was looking for a welcome tab to showcase their branding and convey the benefits of becoming a fan. I put together a design featuring their requested content and created a welcome tab for their Facebook page out of it.
Communicators Summit
Website Redesign
This new website broke the Communicator Summit conference off to its own site, away from the Dynamic Communicators Workshops. They are different conferences and deserved their own sites. Design by Kimberly Vlies.
Dynamic Communicators Workshops
Website Redesign
This was a much needed redesign for a conference that takes place twice a year, often with a couple hundred attendees. Design by Kimberly Vlies.
Michael Hyatt
New "Fat" Footer
After seeing a "fat footer" design I had done on another website, Mr. Hyatt requested I do something similar for his site. I integrated a smaller version of the Friends Around the Web project we recently completed to give exposure to the blogs he enjoys reading.
Michael Hyatt
Friends Around the Web
One big page of links for a blogroll doesn't tend to drive much traffic to the friends you're looking to feature. To make the page more interesting, I wrote a custom WordPress plugin to check for an RSS feed on each site, and continually update the page with the most recent posts from each blog.
Michael Hyatt
Booking Request Form
I designed a form for a CEO interested in doing more speaking engagements to collect the information his booking agent required. It was a lot of information, but by making use of columns and groupings, the form looks less intimidating. The form's collected data is integrated in to their Salesforce pipeline.
Ken Davis
Online Store Redesign
The client had been running an online store using osCommerce for years. The software is getting pretty dated and has some major security issues, so we decided it was time for a new platform and a new design. We migrated everything to BigCommerce's hosted store, and I revamped all of the product images and the look/feel of the store to blend with the recent website redesign.
Ken Davis
Website / Blog Redesign
My client had been working with another firm for over a year to get a new website created with his blog converted from Typepad to WordPress and integrated in with his website. He gave up and I took over what they had done and made it work so we could go live.
The Cupcake Tower
New Website / Online Store
Working with a startup e-commerce company, I crafted an image and style to sell their products online. I put together this website and online store, and started managing a marketing budget for PPC ads. Previously they had been selling a few towers a month on etsy, we now sell over 500 towers a month, and are still growing.
Tri-County Gymnastics
New Website / Blog
I developed a custom WordPress theme for a local gymnastics business to help them stand out from the competition. Design by Kimberly Vlies.
2008 - 2010
Laugh Your Way, America!
The Manly Man Conference
New Website for Year 3
This was a completely new website for the third year of our men's conference.
Butt-Kicking Woman Conference
Site Takeover Promotion
To promote the release of a new DVD product, I designed a "site takeover" for the header area of our primary website.
Butt-Kicking Woman Conference
New Website
This all-new website was designed with my direction by our graphic designer, and built by me for our first-ever women's conference. Design by Heidi Funk.
Mark Gungor Radio Show
New Site Design
I designed this new look for our radio show, but the updated website never came to fruition.
The Manly Man Conference
New Website for Year 2
I designed and developed this new website with an old newspaper feel to match the World War 2 theme of our second men's conference.
Love, Marriage & Stinking Thinking
YouTube Series
Due to our popularity on YouTube, we were invited to join their new series area with our Love, Marriage & Stinking Thinking show.
Love, Marriage & Stinking Thinking
Interstitial Ad
Looking to capture sales from a larger portion of our TV audience, I created this special interstitial ad, only seen by visitors using the URL displayed on air.
Love, Marriage & Stinking Thinking
New Design for Season 2
Season 2 of our TV show changed co-hosts, moved to a new city, and brought with it a completely new set and color palette.
LYWevents.com
Event Promotion Site
I created this site to reduce support requests for logos, product images, photos, and even email campaigns for venues to send.
Sex, Dating & Relating
New Product Minisite
We launched a new spin-off product aimed at the teen market. To promote it, I created a minisite within our main website offering specific content for teens, and a free discussion starters PDF to build an email list.
Love, Marriage & Stinking Thinking
Free Episode Promo
With a lackluster response to the on-air TV series, I put together a promotion for our email list to watch an episode free on our website and provide feedback. I put together a custom Flash video player that tracked how much of the show people watched before leaving.
Love, Marriage & Stinking Thinking
New Website
In early 2009 we launched a nationwide television show. I developed this website to tie-in to the show, offering previews of the next episode's content, and giving us an opportunity to sell our merchandise.
Laugh Your Way, America!
Centralized Assets Page
Logos and proper colors are a common need for all companies, especially ones that have others promoting their services for them. To eliminate the need for me to send out marketing materials, I put together an "assets page" for others to give out that offered most of the materials people would request.
Laugh Your Way, America!
Email Newsletter: New Design
Armed with initial data from the first newsletter design, I revamped the newsletter to feature the content that was being reported as popular and introduced a few new ideas to test, including a regular poll in the footer. The polls served to increase our engagement scores by boosting our click-through rates.
Laugh Your Way, America!
YouTube Channel Design
Cleaned up channel design for YouTube to add consistent branding.
Laugh Your Way, America!
Email Newsletter
Four months in, I launched the first version of our semi-monthly email newsletter. This project included integrating the newsletter signup process with MailChimp via their API.
Laugh Your Way, America!
Search Engine Rankings
With the new laughyourway.com I began targeting generic keywords to build search engine rankings. Within a year, we went from only ranking for branded phrases to holding the top spot for generic phrases including "marriage seminars."
Laugh Your Way
Custom flash video player
Developed custom branded video player in Flash based on toob player that I used across most of our company sites.
Laugh Your Way, America!
New Website with Blog
My first major project was completed amidst the holiday promotion season, less than three months after starting the job. This was a brand new site replacing a simplistic flash site with little content.
Mark Gungor
twitter background
I designed a custom twitter background to promote various company links and add a branded feel to the account.
Mark Gungor
Facebook Public Profile
Drove public profile to over 20,000 fans with email promotions, on-site integrations, and exclusive giveaways including a free Christmas CD only for Facebook fans.
Laugh Your Way Marriage DVDs
Google AdWords Campaigns
I was responsible for managing our entire online advertising budget. Over the course of my two years at LYW, I ran PPC campaigns yielding a ROI in excess of 600%.
2005 - 2008
Envano, Inc.
Miller Electric
Diversion Minisite
Praxair, Inc.
Online Quotation App
Hobart Welders
Dealer Locator System
Hobart Welders
Google Mini Integration
Hobart Welders
Custom Printable Products Pages
Hobart Welders
Website Redesign
Miller Electric
Multi-Package Product Selector
Miller Electric
SmartSelector™
Miller Electric
Roadster Minisite
Miller Electric
Flickr Sync Tool
Miller Electric
Industrial Results section
Miller Electric
Where to Buy
Miller Electric
Service Trucks
Miller Electric
Suitcase Minisite
Miller Electric
X-TREME Minisite
Bernard Welders
New Homepage
Crosse & Blackwell
Email newsletter template
Inacom Information Systems
Promotional Email
Hobart Brothers
Where to Buy
Hobart Brothers
Product Search
Hobart Brothers
Custom WordPress site
David Van Lanen
Artwork Photography
Foxborough Court
Custom WordPress site
Green Bay Choirs
Custom WordPress site
ITW Cooling Systems
Homepage rewrite
Marsh Electronics
New website
Envano
Tell a Friend service
Hobart Welders
Ultimate Adventure blogger template
Pacon
Where to Buy
2000 - 2005
Independent / Personal Projects
ablib.com
Online Home Library
I built an online catalog to help my family keep track of our media collections. To facilitate easy entry, I integrated the site with Amazon Web Services using SOAP/WSDL. We are able to add new products by simply entering the UPC code, and the site gets all the product details and photos directly from Amazon.
DiningFolio.com
Restaurant/Bar Directory
Tired of hearing complaints about the lack of places to dine / go out in Green Bay, I partnered up with a friend and created an online guide to restaurants and bars in the Green Bay area. I did all the development work including an administrative interface to manage our database of details.
Midwest Gallery
CMS for Realtors
I like real estate, and photography, but never had much interest in actually being a realtor. As a result, I partnered up with a friend and developed a custom CMS for realtors to help give them "nice looking" websites to help sell the homes they listed.
Worldwide Motorworks, Inc.
Photoblog software concept
In an effort to increase exposure on the web, I developed a photoblog platform on a subdomain for our car dealership, and published photos of the cars we had in inventory on a daily basis.
Worldwide Motorworks, Inc.
eBay Motors Sales Reports
If we're going to sell cars online, we need to buy them first, right? In an effort to maximize profits, I created a VB.net app to scrape eBay, collecting closed auction data, and later rewrote it in PHP taking advantage of the new official API from eBay. After compiling all the raw data in a MySQL database, I processed the cars by VIN and eBay data to categorize them for comparing against dealer auction values and determine what we should pay for our cars.
Worldwide Motorworks, Inc.
Website Redesign
I co-founded a car dealership with a friend in 2002. The plan was to sell cars on eBay Motors (mind you it was quite new at the time), but a nice looking website adds credibility and offers additional avenues for sales, so I built one.