Projects
About a month after I graduated from The Citadel, I decided to run for The Citadel’s Board of Visitors. This is the governing board of the college, normally reserved for graduates with years of experience. Not letting this deter me, I decided to set up a website to disseminate my thoughts to other alumni. A website, I thought, surely this can’t be too hard… After a few days of gazing at my computer unproductively, I enlisted the help of my best friend, whose web design experience (one college level web design class) easily eclipsed my own. Unsurprisingly, I did not win the election. My first website sulked off into the digital abyss and I continued to be completely ignorant of all things related to web design.
Fast forward to the Fall of 2006. My other best friend and I had batted around the idea of starting a business for a few years and finally set our sights on a decent idea. After months of planning and discussion, we incorporated our business, McDaniel Cleveland Enterprises, LLC, and registered our first domain. We found a piece of software that, allegedly, would guide us through the process of designing our first e-commerce store. Wow, what a surprise we were in for. Not only did the software fail to guide us through the process, we also quickly figured out how un-internet savvy we were. Now, however, we were backed into a corner. We both had to learn very quickly, as we had invested quite a bit of time and money into our new concept.
Since then I have successfully designed and deployed a handful of sites. I am very proud of the e-commerce sites: TheCitadelStore.com and TheAppStateStore.com. In addition, I launched a website to organize my college reunion and helped the class that graduated after us design a very simple site to manage their reunion. After that, I managed the re-design of the DPHW site, including implementing a new e-mail, calendar, and document sharing system using Google Apps. I have also built a few other, smaller sites to test out new programs, designs, and features. I believe I have listed them all, so please click on any of the links below to see a detailed description of each project and a link to each site.
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