web design examples

Justice Not War
A site for a coalition of community groups responding to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Public Access Computing Project
A site template for a research project investigating the impact of computers and Internet access in public libraries.

SYSEP (original)
Quest Scholars (revision 1)
Quest Scholars (revision 2)
Examples of a revision to a web site for a high school educational program. The instructions were to reuse existing content, but make it "look more professional". Only the first pages of each site are presented.

BRING Recycling
Web site for one of the nation's oldest recycling nonprofits, jointly developed by a team.

The Budget Builder
This is a complex web site produced for the Seattle Public Schools and Seattle residents to foster budgeting at the local school level. It has been developed over several years (1996-present) by the school district and educational activists interested in providing community access to budgeting data.

Budget Builder Analysis
My doctoral dissertation analyzes the development of the Budget Builder web site (above). I figured that the best way to do that would be to create another web site "behind" the Budget Builder containing both the dissertation and comments on the original site. The site originally generated the annotation pages on the fly from a database. However, the computer which originally hosted the dissertation at the University of Washington has shut down. Therefore, the annotations are currently not working until I find an appropriate server with database capabilities.

Jocelyn Hollander
A site containing class syllabi and other academic information for a university professor.

Anzanga Marimba Ensemble
A simple site with information about the hottest African marimba ensemble around and the music we play!

Raising Our Voices / Asset-Based Community Development
Two sites produced in the early days of the World Wide Web (1994-95) to demonstrate the potential of the web as a medium for providing information not found in traditional media. Due to the sites' age, the page layout is crude and many of the external links no longer work. They are presented here for historical purposes. (Both sites were projects at the University of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs, led by Andrew Gordon. The wonderful graphics were produced by Leonard Rifas.)

Raising Our Voices / Welfare for Real was prepared as a demonstration for the Ford Foundation to introduce them to the Web and the Internet. The content attempted to show how people living on welfare could tell their own stories, as a counterpoint to the myths perpetuated by politicians and mainstream media.

The second site was prepared for the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, again to show the potential of the web. This site was less developed than Welfare for Real, and attempted to demonstrate repurposing of printed material in a web format.