Web Design portfolio

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Online stes

• MidnightDesign HQ: Don't forget the site you're currently looking at... MidnightDesign designed and maintains all aspects of this site, including the extensive CGI/Perl scripts in use in the old Portfolio. and the PHP/mySQL scripts for the new one.
• Multimedia Design Senior Show: One of my final projects for the class was to design the website that promotes it. (This URL may or may not be the final resting place for this website, since UW-Stout has no official website yet for the Multimedia Design major).
• NAMI Waukesha: The Waukesha branch of the NAMI association wanted their own website, and MidnightDesign designed the graphics and layout for them, based on their existing stationairy.
• UW-Stout Applied Science Department: New site in development; just unveiled at the beginning of October. This site is devoted to providing information about one of the smaller majors at the University of Wisconsin Stout. Brooks'main work was to redesign the graphic layout of the site, and give the major its own identity
• Wisconsin Science Olympiad (WSO) Site: After working with the WSO for three years, and pioneering the first online scoring system for them in the history of the WSO, the system continues to grow and evolve into its own website. The 2006 version transitioned the WSO site to a PHP/SQL setup rather than CGI/Flat file databases. And it was still in use for the 2007 competition season.

Offline stes

• BIG DryIce.com: In the spring of 2001, MidnightLightning was invited to join the national web design team calling themselves the DreamTeam. It was a great experience, and we did one website as a team. For this site, we were helping market a new image compression technology entitled DryIce. On this website, I created the Flash and static introductions (as well as tailor-made the script that determines if you have Flash already or not) as well as the appearance of the internal pages. Unfortunately the company marketing DryIce foundered, and the domain has been abandoned.
• herSource.com: Brooks worked as an intern at GE Medical Systems for the past year, and worked with them on several Inter- and Intra-net sites owned by GE. Unfortunately, the Intranet sites are firewalled against public viewing, so you can't see those pages, but herSource.com is one of the public sites that I've been working on, so take a look here. Duties on the team included graphic design, database maintainance (SQL) and ColdFusion coding. I also created several Flash animations to display the site's sponsors, but the whole site has been redone since then, and the designs I worked on are gone.
• Planet Julie: For those of you who watch MTV's the Real World, you'll probably recognize Julie from the New Orleans season. Well Julie is from my hometown, and I'm friends with her and her brothers, so I was more than willing to help her design her website focused on her experiences working on the show. Julie has changed her site's layout several times (firstly enforced my MTV's contract police, which is why my version of her site got disabled), for a while some of the pages I designed lingered on her site, but they have now since been cleaned up. The current 'Version' of the website's look and feel is 11.3. MidnightDesign's work was used in version 1 through 3.
• Wisconsin Science Olympiad (WSO) 2003 and 2004 Site: The first time ever the WSO was judged via an online scoring system, and it was designed by me. The system worked perfectly for gathering and ranking judging data, as well as keeping information about all the contestants. The 2003 version was done as an advanced proof-of-concept (paper voting was used as a backup), but the 2004 version featured many improvements including more features geared toward non-WSO staff (mainly reports for judges, coaches, students, schools showing the information that they would find relevant about the competition and its results). Both versions of the site were taken down late 2004 due to a hacker on the University of Wisconsin - Stout webserver, but look in the Online Sites section for the 2005 version!