Development:

This website was developed with an emphasis on usability. My main goal for this website is to get information across to my audience. I wanted to create a portfolio that is accessible by a large audience, versatile, and easy to use. The best way to do this was to prevent high bandwidth media and stick with verstile DHTML. The site's foundation is built on html for quick loading, and javascript for special effects like my drop down menus.

Useability:
Each page can be discovered through my drop down menu. I used the drop down menu as my navigation bar for easy access to whatever information the user is looking for. There are also sub menus that feed into subtopics. The purpose of these rollover drop down menus was to prevent the use of clicking and to make the site much more interactive without eliminating load time.

Future Plans:
My next goal for this portfolio is to create a fully interactive high bandwidth section that shows my pure creativity. I decided that creating a portfolio under Flash would distract the user through interactivity rather than actually getting information about me. The learning process is also a factor. Instead of having my whole site under flash, I would probably create things like my Senior Project or Personal section under flash.