The Art of Birth and Wellness, located in Las Cruces, is a group of midwives specializing in home births and women’s health care.
My initial involvement was simply to maintain and update the web site. I have completely redesigned the site. One of the new features includes a photo gallery. Soon we will be adding an events calendar, a personal online journal for mothers to use during pregnancy, and a discussion forum.
The Chamizal Festival is held each year at the Chamizal National Memorial. This is a folk festival with singers, songwriters, artisans, and other performers held to honor our Border. The Festival actually has year-round educational events.
My initial involvement was to design and maintain a basic informational web site for the festival in hopes of increasing festival attendance. Sadly, there is to be no festival this year (not due to lack of attendance), but hopefully we’ll be all set for next year!
The Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico is located in Las Cruces. CAASNM is a non-profit organization that works to help families in need of food, clothing, and/or shelter.
My initial interaction with CAASNM was to redesign their web site. The redesign included some Flash elements. I am still currently involved with maintaining and updating the site. Future additions include an events calendar and a photo gallery.
Las Cruces is home to The Border Book Festival, a wonderful organization for writers and readers of books. Each year, The BBF holds a festival with workshops and readings from regional authors.
My first interaction with The BBF was to do a redesign of their web site. Each year, the theme of the Festival changed and the web design had to be updated to reflect that theme. In addition, biographies of the festival artisans had to be updated.
Features of the site included event registration forms and volunteer forms. These forms were php-based. I maintained the site for two years.
Another early project was for the Doña Ana Arts Council located here in Las Cruces. The DAAC has activities all year long, one of the biggest being the Renaissance Crafte Faire. This site has undergone a major renovation to go along with their updated identity.
Features of the newly designed site include an events calendar, forums, password-protected areas for staff to exchange documents and other exciting interactive tools.
This was the original design:
One of the first site’s I designed for someone else was for No Strings Theatre Company. Friends of mine, fellow professors at the university, built a theatre in Las Cruces after they retired. I served on their Board of Directors for a while.
They needed a web site for taking reservations, soliciting volunteers, providing information about auditions, and for displaying reviews of their productions.
Once again, I called upon my friend Beverly at Moon and Back Graphics to help create the graphics for No Strings. I designed the site layout and created all of the forms used on the site. The initial forms were perl/cgi-based and included reservations and volunteers. We have since moved to php-based form processing.
I maintained the web site for quite some time, and eventually turned that over to No Strings. We are gearing up for a major redesign and update of the web site, so keep an eye out. And if you are ever in Las Cruces and want to see quality theatre, you won’t want to miss No Strings Theatre Company at the Black Box Theatre.