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Client: Next Salon
www.mynextsalon.com
Goal: Create a site that captured the true personality of the salon, while also drastically increasing its search engine presence.
Client: Next Salon
This site came together well and was fun to make because they had a ton of photography to work with. By having all the material that was used in the salon and in other mediums readily available it was easy to find design inspiration. It started with the idea for the backgrounds being different on each page and exploded from there.
Client: Julie Jaeger
Goal: Get a start-up business up and running and make the transition for the stylist and clients as smooth as possible. Also allow the client to update her site whenever possible and as easily as possible.
Client: Julie Jaeger
They say never do work for friends or family. However, when you sleep next to that person every night, it can become unavoidable. This gave me some great practice with working with Wordpress and was a relatively low-stress chance to do so. It has some rough spots still needing cleaned up but came together rather nicely.
Client: Burton Asset Management
Goal: Using the art assets provided to me, build a site that helped build the company's web presence.
Thoughts: Considering my original website was made in Flash, this was the first site I made with HTML and CSS. It's no longer up and if it were I would redo it for free because the code was bad, but it is how I got my feet wet and I made it while working with great people. I'm proud of this site as my starting point that got me to where I am today.
Client: Brilliant Smiles
Goal: Give an eBay business a legitimate feeling website to boost buyer confidence and overall sales.
Thoughts: This is one of the earlier sites I built and was the first single page site I'd ever tackled. I think it did the job well enough, the biggest thing holding the site back was probably the ".homestead" in the url.
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Template Design
It's always nice to do a photoshop layout now and then to keep up on my skills or tryout new brushes or whatever.
Template Design
Designing for interactive elements. The top box would change slides when the bars are clicked on.
Template Design
Thought it would be fun to create a background that extended beyond the width of the content. I liked it enough to use it for my site for a while.
Template Design
Breaking up a single image into different sections seemed fun at the time. The execution could probably have been better.
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A brief history...
This site has gone through a ton of changes (this current version is the second redesign of 2010) and it seems fun to me to see the progress the site (and I) have made since its creation in 2008.
5.0
This current design is my first major attempt at breaking out of a more traditional layout with multiple pages in one (Home, about, contact) and however you would describe the portfolio page. I am hopeful that this current design, having different designs throughout the site, will inspire me to just tweek what I have for a long while rather than rebuilding it again any time soon.
4.0
This was the first redesign of my site since working full time as a web designer. It was the first time that I had an understanding of web standards and optimization. It was a solid design but I changed it because I felt it lacked the originality that I wanted to show as a designer. I also used to refer to this design as 3.1 because it was a design I had before my job but I used code that I learned after starting work. The fact that I had learned more design techniques was also a reason for moving on, though I did employ some of those ideas in the design when I built it, so maybe it was 3.2.
3.0
This site was unfortunate. Not the worst design ever but the code is up there. The web designer job I had at the time tought me some pretty bad techniques so this version called upon the almighty power of tables and the images were not optimized properly. It was my first time trying out a blog, and though I have moved onto a different one I took the time to transfer some of the entries over since I thought they were alright. At least not all of the work on that site was a total loss!
2.0
I basically had no idea what I was doing, though I did use div's rather than tables so in a way it was actually coded better then the version after it. At least until you look at the code and see all the inline styling, yeah... my bad. This was also the last version I made where I didn't plan on the page adjusting in length. This was to be more of a strict portfolio site rather than something where I shared information and had updated content.
1.0
The first version of www.stevenjaeger.com in all her glory! You can't tell from the screenshot but this bad boy was pure Flash, and there was no alternate content if you couldn't use Flash. Luckily I got out of that before it ever got me in trouble, though with a site like that, I guess I already was in trouble. I made this while I was still in school and had no legitimate HTML training and had never heard of CSS. I think it's pretty fun to laugh at.
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Sneak Preview
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The house interior is a project that I started a while ago in Blender 3D with the intent of using it as a stage for animations. The statue is something I started working on a couple years ago in 3DS Max, though I haven't resumed work on him I did resurrect him for the photo shoot which I used to practice depth of field in Blender. Constantly seeing him does inspire me to finish what I started, he makes a pretty good model.
Snare Drum
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3DS Max / Photoshop
Polys - 6,327
Tris - 11,704
Park Scene
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These are screenshots of assets from a short film that can be found in the video section. Due to hardware limitations the grass could not be rendered in the video, but you can see how pretty it was supposed to be in these pictures. Everything was made in 3DS Max and Photoshop
Guitar Amp
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3DS Max / Photoshop
Polys - 159
Tris - 316
Client: Julie Jaeger
Goal: Create a site that captured the true personality of the salon.
Client: Julie Jaeger
Goal: Create a site that captured the true personality of the salon.
