Designed and developed the University of Manitoba Society of Automotive Engineers website. I started with a few simple paper sketches, choose the sketch I liked best. Then it was off to creating a website layout in Photoshop. Next step was to take the layout and slice it into different pictures to be used in a Joomola -- an open source Content Management System -- template. Since this was my first Joomla template, there was a learning process to it. I took an existing template and heavily modified it -- using CSS and HTML -- to fit our needs. I also tested quite a few Joomla extensions that I thought might be useful to us. Finally, after reorganizing the website a little the new design was launched.

A few weeks later, after receiving some excellent videos of all the cars rotating 360º, I created a simple Flash animation you can now see on the front page of the website. This gave me a chance to work with both Flash and ActionScript, which I rarely get a chance to work with.

One of my favorite Joomla extensions is Phoca Gallery -- a gallery extension we use to display and mange image galleries. But like everything else, it is not perfect, therefore when we needed some custom behavior for the site I modified it to act the way we want. In the process I also found and fix a bug in the menu module. I posted the fix on the Phoca forums in the hope it will make it into the future releases.

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