Brian's Web Design & Development

Natural Living Source

Natural Living Source's website is an example of a custom Wordpress theme implementation. I've been doing quite a few Wordpress sites in the last few weeks, but this one is the only one that required a custom theme. Wordpress is great, because it allows for the site owner to update their own site through a built in content management system. If you're looking for this kind of functionality, give me a call and I might surprise you with how affordable a site like this can be. I can even train you how to use the system.

Valley Wide Power Equipment

Valley Wide Power Equipment is on the other side of the alley from my business location. They sell, service, and get parts for quite a number of brands of power equipment, and it was really easy to find images of the equipment and logos on the manufacturer's websites. Not a big job, but I liked doing it because I think it will help Valley Wide advertise.

Rancho Interior Design

I have to chuckle now that it's all over. I'm a designer (among other things), working for a designer! I think the most interesting thing about this project was that fact, and that while both designers, we do such different work. Cynthia of Rancho Interior Design has awesome talent, and I'm flattered that she allowed me to design her site.

Image Development, Inc.

The typical brochure type website, this website design and development project was for Image Development, Inc., a local business here in Temecula, CA. The highlight of this project was that my shop is located about 1 mile from their location, making communication very simple during the project. Developed using the CodeIgniter framework, this website showcases this client's projects, has 2 web forms, and has an "about us" page.

New Hope Medical Center

New Hope Medical Center hired me to re-design their website, as well as add some back-end functionality for internal use. I really enjoyed working on this project, because it was the first time I got to use my emUnit design template, and it was also the first time I got to implement my procedural authentication system. While not completely finished, I took the liberty of adding the site to my portfolio, because I am still waiting for content from NHMC to complete the site.

GemSmart Diamonds

Some websites just seem to be more interesting to work on, and this website was one of them. I'm not one to wear jewelry, but I think it is very interesting that diamonds can be made from ash and hair. I made this little website for GemSmart Diamonds using an existing template that I modified. Built on the CodeIgniter framework, the site will be easy to maintain and expand.

Temecula Lawn Care

One page website design can be a bit of a challenge, but with the right images and template structure, a simple one page small business website can still look good and achieve its goal. This website was made by using stock images from iStockphoto.com, and the photos only costed about $19.00! Total cost of setting up this simple one page website: $206.46, and that included the images, domain registration, and hosting for one year.

Ramsey's Auto Detailing

Kevin Ramsey of Ramsey's Auto Detailing is a great guy. He works harder than anyone I know, and has been really good to my family. Rich in spirit and kindness, Kevin goes the extra mile, making a living for himself, and giving us great deals on his services. I put this little website page together for him, free of charge, because I felt that I should pay him back a little for his generosity.

Michelli Backgammon

This website was designed and developed for Frank of Michelli Backgammon. Michelli Backgammon is a backgammon board manufacturer, and already had a website that functioned to sell their products, but it really needed a re-design. On top of that, Frank was being seriously overcharged for his hosting and domain. I worked closely with Frank to help him take control of his domain, and we changed his host to Inmotion Hosting. I then designed a template, and customized a shopping and checkout solution that met Frank's needs. This project took 21 days to complete, and Frank was so pleased in the end, he offered to recommend my services to anyone who may be considering my services!

Temecula Valley Sewing Center

This is my family business website, and is what got me in to web design in the first place. The site is the product of countless hours of work, and is hosted on two servers. One server holds the main site and customer email database, and the other server holds the bookstore, the form processer, and a tips and tricks area that has yet to be released. The actual template of this site was never meant to scale as large as the entire site is now, but with only a few exceptions in regards to accessibility, the site is performing so well that changing it now might be a mistake. I've made various holiday themes for the site, so depending on when you visit, it may look different than the preview to the left.

Anna Allen & Associates

This website was created by modifying an existing website template by G. Wolfgang of www.1-2-3-4.info. Having me use an existing template can be a great way for you to save money on your website design. Due to the nature of the content for this site, it wasn't impossible to keep the template structure the way it came from G. Wolfgang, but for many people this template could be a great choice.

The resulting site is fairly simple, but no longer a live site. There was a secure area which held semi-sensitive information about the Chilean land. I had this site up and running in two nights worth of work. All of the site content was given to me in advance, so it was truly a pleasure to work on.

LoanWise LLC

I was restricted to a pretty tight budget for this website. Even still, LoanWise was very happy with the final result, and said that I could use them as a reference any time. Actually, I think you will find that all of my customers are happy with my service, and you may call any of them if you wish to verify that claim.

Based on the overall look of the Hemet Pools website, this website is just static HTML pages. LoanWise stated that their site traffic would not be coming from search engines, so there was not a huge emphasis on SEO. In the end, I just gave them exactly what they wanted.

Thruston & Cervantes, LLP

This was kind of a cool project for me, because it was a variation of my emUnit template. Previously, this template series had never had the rounded corners on the menu bar. I liked it so much I changed my website's template! My website uses a gradient image background for the menu, but even without an image background, I think the menu gives a really clean navigation control.

Raedeker Farms - Online Avocado Sales

This website is a simple 1 page brochure type website to sell avocados online for Raedeker Farms in Fallbrook, CA. It was a pleasure for me to work with Carl on his site. We met twice, and even with the photo editing, I was able to finish his site in 8 hours. Not bad considering the template is a custom 2 column layout. It's not easy designing a site that has no menu, but it came together nicely, and Carl got just what he wanted.

The Old B.W.D. Website

The old "Brian's Web Design" website was more of an experiment than anything else. The text that flows around the laptop computer in the upper box is of moderate complexity, and if you are into checking out source code, I think you will be pleased to see how it was done. Another interesting part of the old site is the message form validation. Originally a full AJAX validated form, I decided to make the script all run client-side so that it would run faster with onKeyUp javascript event handlers. Lastly, the laptop picture itself is a nice photo edited image that I produced in Photoshop. I didn't feel that this old site looked professional, so I made a new one. Everyone likes the new site except my mom. I guess ya can't please everyone!

Hemet Pools

This website was made for Hemet Pools, a full service pool cleaning type company in Hemet, CA. Like the Real Estate Concierge website, this site's original template was purchased elsewhere. The template was also very low quality, and required conversion to a standards based CSS/XHTML design. You will notice that the home page has a Flash animated menu, and this was painstakenly edited to meet the requirements of Hemet Pools. Flash programming and editing isn't exactly my specialty, but I pulled it off, and the site works well! The flash degrades well to alternate content, and the tracking statistics are showing that the site is attracting people who search for the keywords and phrases that were considered critical.

Rick Stier's PIANOLatte

This website was developed and designed for Rick Stier, who is a Christian pianist from Temecula, CA. Working on this site with Rick has shown a perfect example of how having a close designer/customer relationship is essential. Rick had ideas about how he wanted his website to look, and it was only through many emails, phone calls, and personal meetings with Rick that I was able to come up with a website that Rick loved. While Rick had initially requested that I use an existing template, we ended up needing a totally custom template. Rick had full control to tell me exactly what he wanted for his site, and I continue to update his website as needed. Not only was this project a pleasure to work on, but Rick played his gorgeous Steinway piano for me. I will tell you, if you love great piano music, you really should purchase his CD! Rick's piano playing is amazing!

The Word For Asia

Byron Pirolo's "The Word For Asia" website is a brochure type website for his Christian ministry. There really isn't anything all that amazing about the website itself, but I'm honored to have created a website for this ministry. Due the sensitive nature of Byron's ministry, I can't discuss the details here. If you'd like to know more about Byron's special ministry, feel free to contact either him or me, and one of us would be delighted to tell you about it.

IAMsentme Christian Community

I really loved designing and developing this website. The site had a nice directory of Christian businesses, a forum, and a listing of local Christian churches. It was my first attempt at using php with a MySQL database, and an expiramentation with a totally fluid CSS layout. The site is no longer live on the web, but the template was donated to the open source community. If you would like to use this template, simply download the stylesheet, and this page's source code. You're free to use it any way you wish. The only restriction is that you must agree not to use it for an adult website. The IAMsentme.com domain is for sale. If you'd like to purchase the domain, please contact me with your bid.

My 2006 Personal Website

I got the idea for this website template's basic structure from one of the CSS Zen-Garden templates; click here to see it. While basic in complexity, this site actually has some really great content. The home page content is a summary of my notes from an evangelism class, which shares a technique of approaching somebody and sharing my belief in Jesus Christ. There are also two Windows XP tutorials; One tutorial is about changing the start button color and text, and the other tutorial is about installing a custom open folder icon for Windows Explorer. Lastly, there is a page with outdated pictures of my son for you to enjoy.

SheaLicious - Body Butter

This website was made for Anna Allen, owner of SheaLicious, LLC. The template for this site has been designed with accessibility in mind, and incorporates a "sticky footer". Originally developed as an eCommerce site with shopping cart and checkout, Shealicious, LLC has now merged with another company, and left this site up only to allow site visitors to sign up for email newsletters, and redirect visitors to where their shea butter products are now located.