William Bright

William Bright is a web designer specializing website design using XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, Flash actionscript and creative typography.

When not designing websites, he is a photographer, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Contact him for work or questions at: bill[at]williambright.com

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CrackedStore.com

• Client Cracked Entertainment, Inc.
• Date October 2006
• Delivery Design and CSS/XHTML

A freelance client of mine, I was approached to build the storefront to CRACKED Magazine. The site is built upon an OSCommerce backend.

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The Nerve Film Lounge

• Client Nerve Media
• Date August 2006
• Delivery CSS/XHTML with proprietary content-management system.

As Nerve's Design Director, I was presented with the challenge of coming up with this entire new section of Nerve, presenting our readers with film reviews, user feedback, and box office information.

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GydaArber.com

• Client Gyda Arber
• Date July 2006
• Delivery XHTML/CSS

A simple-yet-elegant approach to an actor's resume/portfolio website.

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The Nerve Sex Advice Machine

• Client Nerve Media
• Date June 2006
• Delivery XML/Actionscript Flash Microsite

A microsite promoting Nerve's book Sex Advice From... in conjunction with Chronicle Books, this Flash application presents excerpts from the book. An XML file feeds the data to the Flash, which is parsed, randomized and output to the page.

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iSubwayMaps.com

• Client Personal Project
• Date August 2005
• Delivery CSS/XHTML with Movable Type blog.

A personal project providing free downloadable subway and metro maps for the iPod. Featured by the AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Wired.com and MacWorld.

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Nerve Blogs

• Client Nerve Media
• Date Spring 2006
• Delivery CSS/XHTML with proprietary blog system.

In the first quarter of 2006, Nerve decided to consolidate a standard layout to all of its blogs with the aim of giving them all a sense of branding, while retaining individual identities. The result is the Nerve Blog layout.

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Editorial Design/Typography

• Client Nerve Media
• Date March 2005
• Delivery Flash/Action Script, XML, Photoshop

Typography overlaid onto creative photography serve in place of a more traditional magazine cover, meant to entice the visitor to click to read the article. Examples are shown using an XML/Flash Actionscript driven image cycler developed to dynamically serve graphics to Nerve's homepage.

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Nerve/V2 Records Moby Hotel Promo

• Client Nerve/V2 Records
• Date Summer 2005
• Delivery Photoshop/JPEG

As part of a promotion, V2 Records worked with Nerve to promote Moby's album Hotel. Meant to be all-graphic, this was exclusively done in Photoshop to be output as a graphic (96k) for a webpage.

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The Bicycle Diaries

• Client Nerve
• Date October 2004
• Delivery Flash SWF, Flash Actionscript

An editorial flash gallery for Nerve's Politics Issue written and illustrated by Marcus Hall. Edited by Nerve. The Flash interface is written in Actionscript to allow for real-time transitional effects as triggered by navigation buttons at the top of the page.

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William Bright Photography

• Client Personal Project
• Date Spring 2005
• Delivery CSS/XHTML front end, PHP/MySQL back end

This site uses a custom-built content management system in PHP/MySQL, as well as features a purely CSS/XHTML driven user interface, allowing for me to update my web photography portfolio without the need to edit HTML or FTP files to a server..

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