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DVS's Web Work
contact: penei -at- penei.org
Welcome to my web page exhibiting my work in web site design. This page organizes and describes some of the web sites I have created, to demonstrate a range of styles and techniques.
I am not a professional web site designer. This is only a hobby and a way to earn some extra money now and then. I do not know Perl script, nor can I make a web page that interacts dynamically with a database, nor can I create a site that securely processes financial transactions. However, my rates are also less expensive than a true professional's. Therefore, if your project's requirements are typically simple I might be the ideal person...
My services are also attractive because my HTML is thoroughly commented. I have written some quick lessons in HTML that will allow anyone for whom I make a web site to easily maintain and update the work.
Science labs at the University of Rochester are excellent opportunities for me. I can do all they need web-wise. And I am handy with my digital camera, so the lab staff does not need to have pictures prepared for me!
Look here to see how making a web site for your lab takes almost no work on your behalf.
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Hayes Lab
Jeff Hayes wanted a fancy site that loaded quickly but had lots of extras. He also wanted to maintain his site with maxmial ease, so there is no Javascript or CSS despite the fancy presentation. He likes how his site reflects his personality.
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Phizicky Lab
Eric Phizicky wanted a web site that looked nice but was exceedingly quick loading. His site has a few fancy tricks, but is mostly simple yet tasteful. He liked a blocky style in which the borders were made by setting table cells of fixed widths to have complimenting background colors.
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Grayhack Lab
Beth Grayhack is Eric Phizicky's wife. Their labs are in adjacent rooms, and they and their lab members work together extensively. Beth wanted her lab's web site to structurally resemble the Phizicky lab's site. But she wanted a prettier, less blocky look. She also thought menu mouse-overs were cool.
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Bernhard Lab
Bill Bernhard's lab site is of a very different style. He likes fancier backgrounds, a welcome slideshow, many mouseovers, and blocks of text formatted upon the simulation of pages of paper.
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Maines Lab
Prof. Mahin wanted both a lab site and a site for registration of a conference she is helping organize. Her site was the most work, and in one draft even involved form mail and PayPal commerce.
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Song's Korean Food
This is one of my favorite restaurants in Rochester. It is tiny and nice. The cheerful couple that runs it are wonderful hosts who never let me leave without a free sample of the day's special item.
The menu is small but has sufficient variety; its prices notably inexpensive and the quality is consistently impeccable.
One day I wondered what nice thing I could do for the Songs besides leaving big tips. "I know," I thought, "I'll offer to make them a web site. It might help them with business, and won't take more than a few hours." When I learned that Korean New Years was that week it was clear that destiny had spoken.
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lossreserving.com
My father has his own actuarial consulting practice. He wanted a simple web site, and liked my less expensive rates.
During a few hours on the phone I taught him HTML, using both lessons I had designed and resources on the internet. He appreciated having pages sufficiently commented that he can maintan them himself even though he was just starting to learn HTML.
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DVS Games
I am not actually trying to sell board games, despite appearances. I have no great urge to do things with cardstock all day long. My game design site is primarily intended to show off my inventions to game publishing companies to pique their interest.
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Society of Demure Beserkers
A high-school-aged friend from temple named Hannah wanted to organize a rival club to the Desk Pirates, a group of showy boys. She talked with her friends and they decided upon a Viking theme. But The Desk Pirates had a web site, and so the new rivals must also have one! I was asked to do the favor.
"Do you have a name?" I asked. They didn't. Neither did they have anything else besides the Viking idea. "Wait a minute," I protested. "You want to me create, without any guidance, a Viking-themed web site for a clique of high school girls? That is the most surreal thing I've ever heard of! Sure. Give me a week."
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HTML Choices Adventure
During the Summer of 2001 I worked as a nanny for a young boy who was quite artistic and liked computer stuff. I designed this simple HTML Choices Adventure to demonstrate to him what he could easily do with his talents.
I only include it here because I like my watercolor artwork. This page's background is also from my watercoloring. It looks nice and allows me to make backgrounds without using other people's clip art.
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