hough I struggle with, among other things, a rapid pace of technological change very difficult to keep apace with when one's primary focus is on teaching and research rather than on web page design, I love putting together web pages.

Inspired in part by Dr. Michael Palmquist, a professor of English at Colorado State University who had a keen interest in the ways in which computer and web technology could be harnessed to help students become better writers, I began teaching myself the basics of HTML in the fall of 1996. Since then, I have constructed many web sites. Below is a list of sites that I have worked on or designed. I have recently updated my web skills considerably to keep pace with Web 2.0, having taught myself -- with initially quite a bit of effort -- how to use the open source content management system (CMS) Joomla!

General Web Sites Worked On

• The Writing Center at Colorado State University (1997-98)
  http://writing.colostate.edu/comp/

General Web Sites Designed

• SolarChargedDriving.Com
  http://solarchargeddriving.com
• Colorado State University Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures site (fall of 1997; site has since been updated and redesigned by someone else)
  http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/FLL/
  
• E122, College Composition class web site, University of Northern Colorado (1999) - Old screen shot (site no longer online)
  
• The Denali Ensemble web site (summer of 2000)
  http://www.denaliensemble.org
  
• Global and Internationa Media web site, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder (spring of 2005)
  http://www.colorado.edu/journalism/globalmedia/
  

Award Winning Web Sites Designed

The following web sites earned awards in the AEJMC "Best of the Web Design Competition" in 2003 and 2004 respectively:

• Journalism 1001: Contemporary Mass Media Class Web Site, University of Colorado at Boulder - Old screen shot (site no longer online)
  
• Media, Culture and Meaning Research Team Site, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder
  http://www.colorado.edu/journalism/mcm/ (site is still online, but no longer active)
  

Certificate in Web Design
I have also worked (on my own time and money) to gain a certificate in web design through University of Colorado Continuing Education. Here is the list of classes I took:

• Introduction to HTML
• Intermediate HTML
• Advanced HTML 4.0
• Design Techniques for Web Sites
• Adobe Photoshop, I & II
• Introduction to Javascript
• Introduction to Motion Graphics Using Flash MX
• Dreamweaver MX
• Capstone Web Site Design Project

Ultimately, producing and designing web pages is a personally rewarding pursuit for me. It has also, as I've noted above, given me some interesting practical insight into the complex dialectic between producer control (or lack thereof) and consumer creative capacity. I reflect more on this below:

• web design and the dialectic between productive intent and creative consumption (PDF)

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