Portfolio of Self-created Websites
1998-Now
Spectrum Nexus, created in 1998, focuses on Japanese anime. Spectrum Nexus was the first site I ever made, and has grown into something I'm proud to say is my own. All aspects of the website (design, content, server, SEO optimization, advertisements) are done by myself. The site receives 100k+ unique visitors daily, which
amount to over 4 million page views a day. Spectrum Nexus showcases anime multimedia, reviews, and video. It was my first website that I started as a hobby when I was 13 years old and it's my most successful website to date.
2009-Now
The idea behind Manga Lyght was to create a manga reader on a Facebook application where people could easily share what they read with their friends. Their friends could then read manga themselves without ever having to leave Facebook. After success getting the word out through Facebook, Manga Lyght then became a standalone website to improve the user experience because being a Facebook app slowed things down for users tremendously.
2008-Now
While Spectrum Nexus focuses on mainstream Japanese anime and manga, Animephile focuses on the adult side of anime. Though taboo in America, the adult Japanese anime industry (also known as Hentai) is very mainstream overseas. A funny memory I had while visiting Japan was seeing businessmen in suits at cafes reading adult magazines right in the open!
The reason for the creation of Animephile was I felt there was a need for a Hentai site that wasn't embarassingly amateur like most are online. Though the adult online advertising business isn't as strong as regular online advertising, I have found it to be profitable and am happy with Animephile's success receiving over a million hits a day.
2007
The Weekly Pixel is a site that focuses on technology and gaming entertainment. It's currently not being maintained because of a problem with the old domain name (it was a joint website with a friend but my friend let the domain expire and ultimately we lost interest). Of course we only made it because we thought it would be fun, and it was. It's run on Wordpress and I learned a lot by working with it. In the future I have plans to create another technology-related website and I'll be using Wordpress as the CMS.
Other Sites
The following sites are small quick sites that I built and have not fully developed yet:
Mangamonger, Anime Symposium, Cuppa Joes Coffee
Portfolio of Employed Work
4/09-10/11
At LifeStreet Media, the premiere advertising network on Facebook, I worked as Visual Developer on the Engineering team, and later as the Interaction Designer on the Marketing team. I worked on everything from front end development of websites to working with the latest in CSS3 and HTML5 to start up their mobile advertising network. My primary work consisted of understanding what users responded to best in order to design and develop the best possible ad creatives to display to millions of people each day; Cross-browser compliant HTML/CSS, JQuery, and Flash were all used together to develop the most profitable ads.
2009
I worked with Deanna Studios to help develop the Valicooper website. I used the CMS Joomla to help implement the design and content into the site. I had not worked with Joomla before this project,so it was a good learning experience working with Joomla's various modules that helped make the site more dynamic. I also created mock up designs for the project lead that would later be approved and I would implement them.
2008
DFS Galleria used the CMS Drupal and I helped to maintain the site by adding content which required image editing and CSS styling. I also worked with the graphic designer to create flash videos for the different store location pages.
2008
I worked with SF Ballet's CTO to help make a deadline for their private extranet Trustee's site. I worked with a custom built CMS to add content and I helped design the pages. I also made sure all the functionality was working by contacting their outside server company to tell them about all the things that needed fixes.
Portfolio of Other Sites and Projects
4/09-5/09
Pacifica Pet Care was a project with my friend who is a dog walker. We treated this project as a professional free lance job from the start, and worked together on every aspect of the site. I designed the logo, took almost all the photographs, designed the page, and coded it. I used Wordpress as the CMS so members of Pacifica Pet Care could update the pages and the gallery with ease.
This website was fun to work on because I could visually design it the way I wanted without worrying about limiting factors things like very old browsers, slow connections, and where to place banner ads. We knew the important visitors would be coming from the Bay Area, and chances are they would have a fast connection and a computer that could handle 1024x768 resolution. Best of all, I got to use lots of the pet photos that I've taken over the past year.
2008
This is my sister's wedding website that I had a lot of fun designing because it was the first (and thus far only) project I had with a family member.
My sister gave me a few colors that she liked and gave me lots of freedom to make it how I wanted. I focused the look/feel to be simple and spring-like, and my sister and her fiance liked how it turned out.
2006
Unfortunately the Tim Dang Real Estate Team site never went live as the owner never worked on the content/copy. The center content design was not completed, and so the text formatting is a bit plain.
2005
Right 2 Be is another college project I did with a group. The group wasn't very motivated to do it when they learned I was working at Intel doing web design, so I created it myself and they provided copy. The focus of the site is for a PDA device that aids the health care business. Most pages work except Register, Login, and Search.