These are a few of my recent Web 2.0 projects. They combine community, content richness, social media and commerce.

MillionaireCorner.com

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SpectremAdvisor.com

XMediaServices.com

MendedLittleHeartsChicago.com

These are a few of my Web 1.0 projects

FashionFair.com

Fashion Fair Cosmetics is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Surprisingly, the basic structure and design of this site hasn't changed in 10 years.  That might be due to the "light and open" design which I favored at the time, and which is still in vogue (Luck or a good prediction of web trends? You be the judge!). Otherwise it's a pretty basic site in function. The most memorable part of this development was the opportunity to work with a team led by Linda Johnson Rice, Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing, and to meet her father. The esteemed entrepreneur John H. Johnson, of Ebony and Jet fame.

ASDANet.org

I was key consultant on a late 90's v.1 of this site for American Student Dental Association (ASDA).  With its students pushing social media and collaboration, it has come a long way since then: with much more content and interaction in place. This site was one of the first into which we built an member extranet.

AppetizersAndInc.com

I was key consultant / architect on this website for Appetizers And, Inc.  A Chicago food manufacturer, you now know as Black Tie.  It surprisingly hasn't seen significant change in 10 years!  That might be due to the "light and open" design which is still in vogue.  It has a neat appetizer builder, and always makes me hungry when I look at it. Architecting the site was fun because they toured my team around the plant and we had samples. Nice folks!

PerformanceLiner.com

This site done for www.PerformanceLiner.com has changed significantly since I was key consultant / architect, with an elegant user design sacrificed in favor of sheer content volume, and a rather bizarre glitchy interface without benefit of SEO. I will concede that most sewer engineers probably prefer content over elegance.

However, there is still a Adobe Shockwave animation on it that may give you an idea of it's former design interface glory. Click on the logo above and look for an animation under Lateral /T-Liner. You'll have to download a browser plugin for Shockwave (which was state of the art at that time), but it's worth it for the nostalgia of looking at a superior design tool in action.

ArthurAndersen.com

Prior to the demise of the once great accounting house, Arthur Andersen, I worked in their Professional Standards Group, where I helped build and maintain an online service called Research Manager, an online subscription database of 30,000+ financial standards documents from FASB, SEC, AICPA, and IASB.  It was one of the first of it's kind and remains "the largest and most comprehensive online database of analytical accounting and auditing guidance."

While I was a mere "Content Expert" and not involved in the architecture of the product, this experience demonstrated, hands on, the true business power and earning potential of internet publishing.  Though it was built on a Lotus Notes platform, this was an early and effective CMS(Content Management System), and quite portable to the web, as well as CD libraries.