I have just finished a new website for a photographer friend of mine that lives in my neighborhood in Mesa. Her name is Stephanie Ortega, and from what I’ve seen, a very talented photographer. Check out her brand new website:
I built the website over the course of two months in my “spare” time. It was a fun project, and Stephanie, with her Photoshop and InDesign skills, made a lot of the designing easy. It’s nice to work with clients who know what a pixel is. The bulk of the project was actually in the administrative parts of the website where she can login and completely edit all of the photos, galleries, and textual content. The front end provided some challenges as well with displaying the galleries and photos in a way that worked smoothly and presented her work. Overall, I think it turned out very well, and it looks really nice.
The website was created using the Kohana PHP5 Framework, or Ko3 as most of its users call it. Kohana is a framework for PHP the follows the MVC architectural pattern. I use the framework to help me develop websites faster and to follow better programming practices and principles. I also used some great JavaScript libraries and scripts including jQuery, jQueryUI, jQuery Tools, InnerFade, and Supersized.
As part of the payment I included a photo shoot for my family. Below are some of my favorites from the pack. Thanks Stephanie for your business and great photos.



