Latest Web Project: Scripps College
"Founded by newspaper publisher and philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps in 1926, Scripps is the women's college of The Claremont Colleges. Scripps women lay claim to the best of both worlds: a superb liberal arts education on one of America's most beautiful college campuses as well as the opportunity to take advantage of educational and co-curricular offerings at four coed colleges literally next door to one another. Scripps graduates go on to some of the most prestigious graduate schools in the nation and leadership positions in a wide range of academic fields and endeavors."
I was hired by Scripps College in 2006 to both maintain their existing web site and build a new one. The website's look hadn't changed since 2003 and used an entirely static code design. The result was 17,000 individual pages, many obsolete, broken, or inconsistent with the College's design principles.
Over the next 12 months, I worked with College officials to design a new look that incorporated graphical and stylistic elements sorely needed for a women's college website, and then built it. Fully two-thirds of the site is driven by content management systems or databases, creating a site that is both dynamic and easy to maintain.
Watch the movie here.
Layme Duck likes to dabble with film and video production. We've produced several short films over the years, and have re-edited together other material as exercise. Below is our latest project.
Media: "The Exodus," Excised
"The Exodus" was the seminal two-part episode of Sliders that not only killed Professor Arturo, but the likeability of the other Sliders and the credibility of the show's concept. Members of the Earth Prime forum discussed the possibility of trimming both parts into one regular-length episode: could doing so salvage the episode from its own rotten legacy? Several efforts were produced, with the finished product here being the one developed by Earth Prime.
The combined episode sheds a lot of the friction and nonsense while preserving some sense of dignity for Arturo's demise. The remaining Sliders are no longer at each other's throats, and much of the offending science that permeates the original has been removed. For a more complete list of the changes, click here.