magerleagues.com

magerleagues.com is a personal site that I just recently brought back to the web. A few years ago, it was one of my first experiments with blogging, but I never had time to maintain it because I was a freshman in college, and had no time for hypertext. Today, ml.com is a simple site: one photo, one song, everyday. It is starting to get a lot of hits. I think it is one of my best designs.

vtdeltas.com

I built this site for the Delta Delta Delta Sorority at Virginia Tech in the fall of 2006. There were numerous layouts throughout the semester, but I have found one that I like a lot now. I also implemented a Sister's Only section where the girls can create their own profile. The icon to the left shows the Christmas design, but if you want to see the current design, click it.

planetblacksburg.com

This site is my baby. I built a student newspaper from scratch in the fall of 2005. It has over 600 articles now, and 25 videos. Over 1200 images on the site has been through my Photoshop in some shape or form.

We went from having 100 page views last year to over 5000 page views a day now. When I created it, my goal was to get students published, and give them a legitimate hyperlink to give employers. I still put a few hours into it everyday, but I rarely tinker with the design. A fresh content management system is on the way though. The student organization behind Planet Blacksburg is over 30 now, and I am getting ready to hire a graphics designer.

vtkkpsi.org

I built this site for my fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi. It is a national honorary band fraternity, and I have also spent time training the new webmaster on how to maintain the site. This is a very simple design, and it works well for a small organization like KKPsi.

benandlindsay.net

This is a wedding site for my cousin Lindsay Fisher. It is very simple, and only uses a few XHTML pages. I learned how to make a background image lock in place while the user scrolls when I made this site. The wedding is May 5, 2007 :)

lakernoise.com

This is a blog I built for my professor, acclaimed author and sports writer Roland Lazenby. I took a Wordpress theme, and completely disected the CSS. I built new images, and matched all of the colors. It is not my best effort, but the site gets a lot of hits.

groovascape.com

Still a work in progress, groovascape.com is the home page of a local band from Roanoke, Va. The site takes a few seconds to load because of the streaming audio, but it should work perfectly in a cross-browser situation. This site is incomplete because I haven't had much time to work on it.

sasahouston.org

I built this site for Birjeez Ashraf, director of the South Asia Society of America at Houston Community College in Texas. It is a very basic layout, but it's usable and clean.

allisontorres.net

This is a blog I built for a friend at Florida State University. Besides Planet Blacksburg, this site gets the most hits out of any site I have made. This is a Wordpress implementation, but it doesn't look like a normal Wordpress blog. I learned a lot of PHP when I made this site.

sakinawalsh.com

Here is another blog I made for a friend at Florida State. She hasn't updated it in a while, but it was my first Wordpress experiment. I learned a lot about gradients in Photoshop here.

andrewmager.com

I almost forgot about my personal blog. The original design was by Sunaryo Hadi, but I made some adjustments. For instance, I moved all of the navigation into a single column, and I also fixed the main content

biglicku.com

Big Lick U is a project by The Roanoke Times, and they asked me to build them a simple landing page for users to see before the site actually launches. They still haven't implemented it yet, but you can view it by going to: https://andrewmager.com/blu. This is one of my favorite designs. I am really into usability so the little icons in the navigation excite me.

macbloginc.com

Another blog I built for a friend. More Wordpress optimization here.

admin.espn.go.com

I had a summer internship with ESPN.com as a technical producer. I built some backend tools for the graphics department, and I had to make sure they looked nice. Unfortunately, you need a password to view the tools, but I can tell you that I learned a lot about styling tables with CSS, and manipulating the DOM. I learned a great deal about levels and curves in Photoshop from simply watching the Photo Editor manipulate images every day.

wsls.com

During the fall of 2005, I was the Interactive Media Intern at NBC-10 in Roanoke, Va. My main duties included cropping and coloring photos, adding video, and helping publish stories. I learned a lot of Photoshop shortcuts here.

closetelite.com

I have done a lot of work for Sakina Walsh's project Closet Elite. It's a dress rental service, and she has asked me to take her photo shoots and put them on different backgrounds. Honestly, I have spent more time in Photoshop doing jobs for her than any other project I have done. You can view some of the images here, here, and here. The main image on the left here is the most recent advertisement I made for her, and probably the best.

pixelperfect

I watch this videocast every week. It's graphics champ Bert Monroy exploring the amazing capabilities of Photoshop. I learn something every week.

css mastery

I bought this book, and I haven't put it down since. It is written by Andy Budd, and he has the best insight on standards-based CSS design. Probably the best book on web design that I have ever read.

del.icio.us/design

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking utility that I use about ten times a day. Instead of saving your bookmarks in your browser on your local system, you can save them on this site. You can also tag your bookmarks, so I always check out what other people tagged as "design" and "webdesign".

zen of css design

This book breaks down the mastery of semantic web design. I have learned the real importance of seperating content from design in this book. The website is also really cool.