Portfolio
Three distinctive types of websites have been selected to demonstrate the capabilities of Timothy Wu and Masterpiece Studioz. LHChinesepaintings.com represents a dynamic e-commerce data-driven site. CareerEmpowering.com is the ultimate informational and content intensive site with search capabilities. As a visual art site, JMPhotoworks makes excellent use of Flash to meet the needs of the customer.
Lin-Hua Chinese Paintings
www.lhchinesepaintings.com
This site demonstrates the possibilities of e-commerce. It utilizes key technology and provides all the functionality and design aspects necessary to sell products. The site offers strong search engine optimization. The web content is clear and understandable to anyone who wants to find great Chinese art at a reasonable price. It is easy to find just the right painting and quickly complete the transaction. Many sophisticated (but transparent) features, such as ASP.Net MVC and jQuery, are included, adding significantly to the quality of the shopping experience. The site is database driven and the shopping cart integrates with a PayPal account. Through the E-mail Club, visitors can be alerted to new site content and this encourages them to return more often.
Career Management Resources
www.careerempowering.com
This website is the ultimate informational site. It offers the complete text of two books published by the owners, totaling more than 500 pages in their paperback form. These books, along with numerous articles, are completely searchable by key words. The site offers a friendly print capability for the book section that strips out all unnecessary items such as images, navigation, or advertising, leaving only the pertinent content. It is easy to share the content through such sites as Facebook and MySpace, as well as create Favorites. When visitors are interested in purchasing one of the many recommended books, they are immediately taken to Amazon through an affiliation link.
The site is built with a clean, valid (X)HTML and maintains appropriate Web standards, with the principle of progressive enhancement. It is more easily found and more easily used.
JM Photoworks
www.jmphotoworks.com
JMPhotoworks was created entirely using Flash. The owner was looking for something clean but with a touch of uniqueness that Flash can bring. Since Flash can be labor intensive if the site requires constant updates, it was designed so that the text that correlates to the photos in the gallery, the photos themselves, and the buttons, all get their information from a text file or folders on a database. This makes updating the site much easier and an individual can make the changes without asking for a redesign. This also allows for faster download times because the images are being pulled only when asked for.
