My work at PeopleSpace, Inc. is not limited to game development. I have had website development work for clients of all sizes, from a biography and portfolio Web site for poet Dora McQuaid to a full-scale site for the House Armed Services Committee.
My Web site development work ranges from logo design and identity conceptualization to Web site design and HTML layout, from simple database interactivity to full-scale Content Management Systems. My tools of choice are PHP and MySQL for my server programming, and they have served me well, creating sites that have scaled easily from a few hits a day to over 17,000,000 hits a month. Below are a few examples of my work.
In 2007 I released Polloot.com (currently in a limited-exposure beta test phase) to allow anyone to create dynamic Flash-based interactive games, polls, and quizzes for their websites, blogs, and forums.
Polloot.com is fully internationalized and UTF-8 compliant (including the flash content and the user comments), allowing all content to be translated into other languages for a wider market reach. The site utilizes the practice of "embedding" currently in use with YouTube and other video sites to allow users to embed content directly in their websites or social-networking pages.
The site features AJAX page updating utilizing the JQuery Javascript library, XHML/CSS layout, and is maintained using SVN version control. The Flash tools use XML for data transmission from the server. (VISIT POLLOOT!)
In 1998, Netscape released the source code to their popular browser, and started the Mozilla organization to oversee the continued development of the browser in an "Open Source" environment. I created the Web site MozillaZine as a news, advocacy, and community gathering site for Mozilla developers and interested users. This was in the time before prepackaged Content Management Systems made creating such a site a breeze, so I developed the site using a combination of PHP and MySQL. The backend is still running on the same code (with some tweaking), and the site has scaled successfully to over 17 million hits a month, and has successfully survived Slashdotting on numerous occasions.
I have allowed Mozilla supporters around the world to clone the site and translate MozillaZine's content into their native languages. Check out MozillaZine in French, Korean, Japanese, and Spanish! MozillaZine is currently being maintained by Jason Kersey and Alex Bishop. (VISIT MOZILLAZINE)
As I finished my Bachelor's degree at Penn State, I worked for a time for the Penn State Office of University Relations. There I performed many duties, including updating and extending the code to their news website live.psu.edu. I also designed and developed the Penn State Experts Database, an online, searchable listing of Penn State professors, researchers, and instructors. The development was done in PHP and MySQL (with an AJAX-like dynamic updating), with a custom backend for adding and updating listings. The site has many novel features, including dynamically generated, accessible image headings, and the ability to add hi-res photos and video to listings. For the video player (see an example here), I had to roll my own player because the existing Flash component was too bloated. (VISIT EXPERTS DB)
The backend also allows the data entry person to search the live.psu.edu database for articles that mention the person being listed, and any articles found can easily be added to a listing.
I (along with Rich Sisson), designed and developed the House Armed Services Committee website many years ago, and it has only recently been replaced (2007). (VISIT HASC)