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Work

Here’s a bit about what I’ve been up to lately with my work at Cengage, a publishing company with a local office in Belmont, CA. I am part of a group that develops and maintains web sites that provide a diverse set of text book companion recourses and products for instructors and students.

When I first arrived about 3 years ago, the company’s web pages were table-based designs. I’ve helped us move to modern, dynamically driven, modular, CSS-based designs.

Cengage Academic

Created the HTML and CSS for multiple pages that were built by outside vendors, was in charge of creating the comps pulling in existing styles and smashing it all together to come up with a working, flexible and fluid system. Built a working prototype for the landing page through to the product pages (7 pages in all). Ensured cross browser and cross-system compatibility, as well as adherence to the style guide. Also made the code pretty. Did QA on the final product to ensure compliance to the style guide by the vendor.

Cengage School

Did the design work for the tabs, creating the images making them candy-coated and yummy looking. Integrated them with existing images to maintain look and feel across the site.

Site-wide Template for Cengage

I worked with the UI designer to create the site-wide CSS and HTML templates for Cengage. I built the templates, making sure that they were in compliance with the Style Guide, were cross browser and system compatible and used current best practices of Cengage. The resulting pages were applied as a guide to the pages of other business units. In parallel, was part of the team cleaning up and re-writing the Style Guide for Cengage.com. Templates were first developed 2nd half of 2007 as part of the rebranding efforts when Thomson Learning became Cengage Learning (later just Cengage). The rebranding took place in a series of three high pressure, tight deadline redesigns.