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I've worked on probably dozens (note: original text said "thousands" -- um...I'm good, but not that good...sorry if I made you think I was more productive than I am!) of individual sections in my 4+ years at CourierPostOnline.com. Here are a few of my favorites.

Millionaire Mania

This site was created for a huge, blowout contest that the Marketing Department held in the Autumn of 2003. I wanted it to be different and eyecatching so I turned the usual site gold. The right bar contained the sponsors' logos, which rotated through. Those ads are expired, now, but keep your eye on the side bars...they sparkle!

2003 Commmunity Guide

The Community Guide is a huge annual project. It usually features over 2 dozen stories, slews of photos, and data on every town in our tri-county readership area. It took me about a month to get the section up and running. I rewroted the scripting and redid the database for the town information to make it more attractive and faster-loading.

Scrapbook

I created the initial design for this section in February of 2001. I update it every Thursday. Scrapbook is one of the more popular sections of our site. When we redesigned CourierPostOnline.com, we decided not to change the look and feel of this section, as we felt it was working well as a stand-alone section. What I did was enhance it by adding the search field at the bottom, increasing the width to accomodate a 468 pixel wide banner, and standardize and update the left side navigation. I think the navy blue goes well with the cream background, and it ties it in with the rest of the site. See the wedding bands in the upper left corner? That was created from a scan of my own wedding band. My 'signature' so to speak!

Customer Service Page

In early April, 2003, the Courier-Post launched a new program that allows people to securely subscribe to our paper online (as opposed to the back-a$$ward way it used to be done, and for current subscribers to maintain their account online. I was a member of the implementation team. So in honor of this new, modern way of doing things, I created a customer service info page, with links and answers to our most common reader/subscriber questions.

St@tic

St@tic is our paper's section for teens. Ignore the name -- I had nothing to do with that. (In the online world, static means unchanging and stagnant, the opposite of dynamic.) I designed this section to look different than the rest of the site, while maintaining the same 'mod' (again, not the word I'd use to describe it) look of the print edition.

Bride & Groom 2003

Previously, our online bridal guide consisted of a list of links. When the new edition was printed, I decided to make ours a true guide. I organized the stories into different sections: Planning, Fashion, Jewelry, Honeymoon and Stories. The stories section features AP stories about weddings, and local coverage about interesting weddings. (Allen Iverson's wedding in Voorhees, for example. The art is based on the artwork used in the print edition, with some tweaking for web.

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Millionaire Mania
	This site was created for a huge, blowout contest that the Marketing Department held in the Autumn of 2003. I wanted it to be different and eyecatching so I turned the usual site gold. The right bar contained the sponsors' logos, which rotated through. Those ads are expired, now, but keep your eye on the side bars...they sparkle!
2003 Commmunity Guide
	The Community Guide is a huge annual project. It usually features over 2 dozen stories, slews of photos, and data on every town in our tri-county readership area. It took me about a month to get the section up and running. I rewroted the scripting and redid the database for the town information to make it more attractive and faster-loading.
Scrapbook
	I created the initial design for this section in February of 2001. I update it every Thursday. Scrapbook is one of the more popular sections of our site. When we redesigned CourierPostOnline.com, we decided not to change the look and feel of this section, as we felt it was working well as a stand-alone section. What I did was enhance it by adding the search field at the bottom, increasing the width to accomodate a 468 pixel wide banner, and standardize and update the left side navigation. I think the navy blue goes well with the cream background, and it ties it in with the rest of the site. See the wedding bands in the upper left corner? That was created from a scan of my own wedding band. My 'signature' so to speak!
Customer Service Page
	In early April, 2003, the Courier-Post launched a new program that allows people to securely subscribe to our paper online (as opposed to the back-a$$ward way it used to be done, and for current subscribers to maintain their account online. I was a member of the implementation team. So in honor of this new, modern way of doing things, I created a customer service info page, with links and answers to our most common reader/subscriber questions.
St@tic
	St@tic is our paper's section for teens. Ignore the name -- I had nothing to do with that. (In the online world, static means unchanging and stagnant, the opposite of dynamic.) I designed this section to look different than the rest of the site, while maintaining the same 'mod' (again, not the word I'd use to describe it) look of the print edition.
Bride & Groom 2003
	Previously, our online bridal guide consisted of a list of links. When the new edition was printed, I decided to make ours a true guide. I organized the stories into different sections: Planning, Fashion, Jewelry, Honeymoon and Stories. The stories section features AP stories about weddings, and local coverage about interesting weddings. (Allen Iverson's wedding in Voorhees, for example. The art is based on the artwork used in the print edition, with some tweaking for web.