Jeffrey Carl Faden

I have worked for Diabetes Health for almost a year. In that time, I have developed a forum, wiki, search engine, help system, Flowplayer-powered video system, and rehauled almost all of the code to use PHP objects instead of associative arrays and common functions.

The site's backend is also hand-coded, including an article submission form, article search and management, imagemap creator, and many other methods of managing the site's content.

The site harnesses many other technologies, including the Mootools JavaScript framework, Zend Framework for its Zend_Gdata module, mod_rewrite for SEO-friendly URLs, the OpenX ads system, and more.

I have also acted as the principal designer, keeping the site's design consistent and appealing.

February 2009

Visit Diabetes Health

Although quite a simple page, I used the Zend Framework to set this portfolio up and populate the database with sections and entries. Contact me if you would like access to the entry submission form, which uses TinyMCE for the description editor, and jQuery UI datepicker to specify a date.

This page also uses jQuery for the animation effects.

February 2009

A site with a simple design for my long-lived comic. I created the entire site, including the navigation system, RSS feed, and AJAX-powered commenting system from scratch. The site also uses a JavaScript calendar and WordPress Audio Player.

November 2008

Visit CAR

I worked with Ian Jones-Quartey and Jim Gisriel to put together the site for their animated series, nockFORCE. Ian gave me the design, and I went to work by putting it together using the Drupal backend. I focused on making it easy for Ian and Jim to post videos, music, blogs, and other content to the site, using many custom Drupal modules along the way.

April 2008

Visit nockFORCE

I worked closely with a designer to turn her work from a series of Illustrator files into a functional website. Each page is dynamically generated by a base PHP file, which includes the appropriate content and sidebar buttons based on flat files.

February 2008

Visit Kennedy Technology Group

This portfolio was entirely programmed in ActionScript 3.0, dynamically loading all entries from an XML file.

The zooming aspect of the portfolio proved to be an interesting experiment in user interface design - an exercise in elegance through simplicity.

June 2007

Visit Portfolio 2007

A series of humorous shorts I did on a bi-weekly basis for the defunct media company UthTV. They're backed up on my site.

July 2006

Visit ProcrastiMATION

This portfolio was programmed in ActionScript 2.0.

In this portfolio I focused on a subdued color scheme versus the previous iteration. I also included a Flash-based MP3 player, which could continue to play while the user navigated the rest of the portfolio.

June 2006

Visit Portfolio 2006

An animation made for a film festival at UC Santa Cruz. I used filmed media, vector tracing, my own music and many voice actors.

May 2006

Visit BUS