The Official Website of Amanda Theiler

Web Design

These are some of the websites I have designed in the past few years. A few of the websites are standards compliant, such as this website and the ACBU website. Others were built in Flash, and some of the older ones were built using WYSIWYG editors. Some of the sites are available for full viewing by clicking on the screenshots. All websites will open in new windows.

If you are interested in having me design a website for you in either flash or HTML/XHTML, please let me know! Right now I am charging very low rates, or none at all, depending on the size of the project and what it is for. I am especially interested in designing entertainment websites, such as those for bands, record labels, recording studios, films, clothing companies, etc. I am also hoping to do more designing for other professional companies in the future as well. If you have any questions or would like to contact me, please send me an email at amandaATamandano2.com (be sure to replace AT with @) and I will get back to you within three days.

Skills

Adobe Dreamweaver

HTML/XHTML

CSS

Minimal JavaScript

Adobe Flash

Portfolio

July/August 2008 // Bradley's ACBU Fall Semester 2008

This was the website redesign for Bradley's Activities Council for Fall 2008 to promote on-campus entertainment. The navigation showing the different areas of the website sticking out of the red, circular "ACBU" logo was made in Adobe Flash. The rest of the website was made using standards compliant HTML and CSS, and Abode Photoshop was used for photo editing and resizing.

April 2008 // Paramodal Technologies

This was made in my Web Design class (MM365) at school for a ficticious company called Paramodal Technologies. We all had to use the same business name and come up with products for transportation that does not yet exist. I chose to keep mine as realistic as possible and used solar cars for my products. The site was built using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript forms.

February 2008 // CSS Zen Garden Re-Design

This webpage was an assignment for my webdesign class in February 2008. We had to make a redesign for the CSS Zen Garden which uses the same HTML document to create many different designs using CSS rules. Using the HTML, we had to style it to look like one of our favorite websites using only CSS (we could not change the regular HTML that we were given). For the design of my project I chose to style it like TreeHugger.com. I redesigned the photos from their website to say "CSS Zen Garden" and used the same fonts and text sizes.

January 2008 // Bradley's ACBU Spring Semester 2008

This website was a redesign I did for Bradley University's Activities Council. It is completely standards compliant and was coded with XHTML and CSS. All of the graphics were made using Photoshop. For this look, I wanted to stick with Bradley's colors of red and white, and I wanted it to have a clean and simple look that would still look appealing to students and would look very modern. To achieve this, I decided to use clusters of circles for the decoration of the site since ACBU's logo is shaped in a circle. I also wanted to be able to let users know what page they were on, so I made the photos on the left of the page which would tell users where they were at.

January 2008 // Old Portfolio Website

This was my old online portfolio. Most of the content is the same as it is here, but the design was much simpler. It was made using XHTML and CSS, all standards compliant, and entirely hand coded.

August 2007 // Bradley University Senate

This website was made for Bradley University's Student Senate in the summer of 2007. It was build entirely in Flash. For the colors, I went with red and white, which are Bradley's official colors, as well as black. I wanted the site to have a professional sort of feel to it since Senate is seen as a very professional organization, but I also wanted it to be fun for students to look at. To achieve this balance between professional, yet youthful and fun, I made the site kind of dark looking and added a few fun fonts. To offset this, and to keep it from getting too MTV looking, I used a regular font for all of the text and used images from Bradley's own website which looked very professional.

May 2007 // Darfur Relief Week

For our final project in MM213: Introduction to Flash Authoring, we had to make a full Flash website that integrated video and audio into it and that was based on an issue we felt strongly about. At the time, I was just beginning to build a website for Bradley University's Darfur Relief Week and my professor agreed that if I could meet all of the guidelines for the project that I could use it for my final. For the overall design, I decided to use red, black, and white since red and white are Bradley's official colors. The menu to the left of the page is a rolldown menu that has more options when you mouse over them. The first page shown here was a standard design for most of the text-intensive pages. These are loaded externally from simple text documents. The next photo is of the Photos page which displayed all of the photos we had taken throughout Relief Week of the various events we had going on. The entire photos area was a seperate Flash file which was loaded when the user went to the page. The last photo is of the Videos page which had clips from throughout the week at various events. All of these videos were shot and edited by me in Final Cut Pro.

August 2006 // Bradley's ACBU Fall Semester 2006

This website was made for Bradley University's Activities Council. Since the site is used by students to find out about what entertainment is coming to campus, I wanted it to be very fun and flashy looking. For the home page I came up with the idea of making it look like a brick wall with graffiti on it for the navigation. The next photo is of the page for Coffeehouse performances. For this, I used a photo of a table with coffee for the background and put all of the information about the artists inside the table.

December 2004 // A Girl Called Untouchable Official Website

This was designed in December 2004 to display writings and music. I really wanted the site to be fun, bright, and kind of loud. The idea for the main page, which is the top photo on the right, was based off of a photo I had taken of Times Square several years earlier. I changed the billboards and storefronts to show the various places users could navigate to on the site. The last photo, which shows a book shelf, was for the poetry page. The names of the book titles have been changed to the names of poems available to read.