Website Creation
In addition to my professional career as a Project Manager, I design, create, and maintain websites on both a volunteer and professional basis. I am webmaster for Mosaic Commons and for Cohousing.org.
I began working with websites in static html, first coded by hand and then later using Macromedia's Dreamweaver. These days I work in Drupal, an open source CMS (Content Management System) that allows people to easily edit their own websites without requiring html knowledge.
Please contact me if you would like to discuss a website! My rates are reasonable and negotiable (even more so if you are asking on behalf of a Cohousing group)
The Cohousing Association
Ben Cordes and I built the cohousing.org website, launching the first phase in January 2008. It is the most complex drupal site I have worked on. The goal of the first phase was to take an existing proprietary and unsupported site and to move it onto open source architecture.
Cohousing.org uses CiviCRM on top of drupal to handle event registrations, mailings, and contributions as well as contact management. It was built off the Zen theme, but Ben gets all the theme work credit.
Craig Ragland, Executive Director, wrote about my work on this site:
“Catya is a contractor with the Coho/US leading the charge on the migration of our website onto Drupal and CiviCRM.
Catya is a dream to work with.
She is smart, reliable, responsive, cares about quality and results, and understands how to balance various priorities and to help people be good clients. Many website clients need somebody with Catya's project management skills to help protect them from themselves.” February 3, 2008
The Healing Post
This was a wonderful site to do for barter; I was more than happy to take advantage of the Thai Yoga Massage! I certainly recommend Martin.
This is a fairly simple site built on the foliage theme.
Martin says about my work...
"When I put it out into the ether that I wanted to produce a website, I was expecting something a little better [than what he had] but not much. You've exceeded expectations I didn't know I had. When I spoke with with other web services they weren't particularly responsive to my needs and preferences. They had agendas of their own. Are you looking for other, paying customers?... "
Arisia 2006 & 2008
In 2008 I helped out the webmaster for Arisia by doing the design and setup work on this site. It's based on the Aberdeen theme, with really only color scheme changes.
The first time I worked with a content management system, I designed and build the Arisia 2006 site in Mambo. Let's just say I was glad to move on to Drupal?
Common Hearth
This was the second cohousing site I did, after our own. It has what I think of as all of the essentials for a cohousing group website - public content about the group, plus an events calendar. It also has a members area for group members, including a contact list built in CCK.
Because the site maintainers are not html folks, this site is set up with the TinyMCE editor, a WYSIWYG content editing module for Drupal. (You don't need to know a lot of html to maintain drupal content, but it's nice to be able to center and bold things and the like.)
This site is built on the foliage theme.
Mosaic Commons
My pride and joy, and the most complex site I had built right up until cohousing.org. This site is built on the fancy theme.
Much of the complexity lies in the member's area, which is built using taxonomy access. The site includes an enhanced search function to handle our many file attachments, separate functionality for public and private attachments, embedded google calendars, contact list and food preferences database built in CCK, a site blog, and rather more.
Rachel Mello
This is the first site I worked on that was primarily about the images - check out http://www.rachelmello.com/image/tid/7 as an example. Beautiful stuff!
Believe it or not this site was based on Sloar Flare - obviously Rachel did all the colors :)
Sierra Black
This site is a nice combination of background imagery and writing - I enjoyed working on it and I think it's a great example of a simple top-nav-only site.
It's built on Chameleon, which is one of the core Drupal themes.
Polycat
Polycat and Catya.org are the only two that I designed just for me, without taking anyone else's tastes into account.
When I was looking for a theme for Polycat I fell in love with this one because of the eyes, for two reasons. First, I think Polyamory is best done eyes-wide-open. Second, at the time i was building the site anonymously (long story), and the fact that it was ONLY the eyes, and not MY eyes, felt very much like the right thing.
Other than the theme, it's all text, and designed to be expandable and easily have more added to it. Sadly, this site attracts a TON of spam.
Solutions Family Coaching
I designed this site for a friend of mine who sadly never went into the business or put the site out there. I keep it on this page because I like the design, and the heavy use of photos to illustrate each page.
This site was based on the Bonsai theme.