Mikael C. Fritts

Greetings fellow denizens of the internet! I’m Mikael, a web designer and developer from the United States. I specialize in user interface, user experience, and more!

I am a website designer and developer based in Charlotte, North Carolina. I specialize in user interface and user experience. I am available for full-time, part-time, contract, and freelance work.

I create useable, scalable, and professional websites using standards compliant code as set forth by the W3C, resulting in semantic and SEO friendly XHTML and CSS. When my clients need a site with its own content management system I use either WordPress or the SilveStripe Framework for general ease of use and familiarity. My primary programming language is PHP 5 with a nice MySQL backend.

I primarily hand code my sites and use a wide variety of products from the Adobe family to achieve the desired results. This includes but is not limited to Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash. I use the W3C's validation service to make sure all of my work is clean, semantic, and strict.

I am a firm believer in the Agile approach when it comes to working with my clients. The Agile approach is all about listening to the needs of the client and creating value for the client more quickly. If you would like to know more about the Agile approach, please click here.

Aside from writing markup language and code, I also work with Rich Media. I do every, and anything from video production and editing to sound clean-up and restoration. Interactive Flash development and ad design are something that I also enjoy developing and designing.

I currently live in Charlotte, North Carolina where when I'm not designing or developing, I'm surfing the web, getting my hands dirty in developing for the iPhone, learning Java, and just generally being an all around geek!

• Fail-Safe Destruction

  Totally redesigned and developed the site from a tabled design into STRICT XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1. The client wanted a minimal design approach with a "strong yet non-intrusive" color scheme.

  Technologies used: Pen and paper, Photoshop, JQuery, XHTML, CSS.

  www.fail-safe-destruction.com
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• Black Box Tuning

  Designed and developed the entire site from the ground up, including a custom menu system using JQuery for the base. All code was hand written and 100% compliant. Black Box Tuning is a specialist company that specializes in custom ECU's, Harnesses, and Fabrication for Nissan engines. The site is still waiting on verbiage, but other than that it is 100% ready to go!

  Technologies used: Pen and paper, Photoshop, JQuery, XHTML, CSS.

  www.elektrikcoma.com/bbt
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• New Way Media

  Took a pre-existing design and converted into a WordPress powered CMS. Developed plug-in's for SEO, Custom Menu's, Traffic Monitoring, and YouTube video placement.

  Tools: Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, XHTML, CSS, PHP, Wordpress.

  www.newwaymedia.com
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• Jesse Brown's Outdoors

  Converted their pre-existing design from tables into XHTML & CSS, than created a WordPress theme and developed a custom Content Management System. The backend is 100% original and allows easy replacement of product information, prices, and pictures.

  Tools: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, PHP, Flash, Wordpress.

  www.jessebrown.com/
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• Best Rate Mortgage

  Redesigned previous site layout from tabled layout into an XHTML & CSS design that greatly improving site load times and internet presence. I also added more user functionality and a strong SEO & SEM campaign, including running an extremely targeted Google AdWords campaign.

  Tools: XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, Fireworks, PHP, MySQL, Google AdWords.

  www.bestratemtg.com
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• US Club Poker

  XHTML/CSS verified. This site is currently under development. With this site I am in the process of implementing a custom administration interface as well as a larger content section only available to registered club members. Members will also be able to receive club news, updates and event reminders via automated email and SMS messaging services. This is all being handled using LAMP and is all custom code.

  Tools: Pen and paper, Photoshop, Illustrator, XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL.

  www.usclubpoker.com
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• Fine Furniture Finishing

  XHTML/CSS verified. This site is still under minor development. It is getting a complete overhaul for XHTML/CSS to replace the current table structure and php language as well as improvements for SEO. The site is being built using CSS Framework as well as AJAX, JQuery and built 100% to customer spec. Also provided custom video capture, editing, and encoding as well as a the creation of a custom Flash player.

  Tools: CSS Framework, Premiere, Flash, Photoshop, AJAX, JQuery, XHTML, CSS.

  finefurniturefinishing.com
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• FarmAds

  Implemented, improved, and rolled out a custom classifieds script built upon third party code. I also improved the overall look and feel of the site, changing the color scheme to one much more user friendly, as well as including a “Featured Ads” schema. Also implemented the forums and auto-image uploading/scaling part of this site, this code was developed by a third party and had to be tweaked a lot to get what the user was after. This site uses XHTML, as well as tables and css for the overall look and feel.

  Tools: Pen and paper, CSS, Tables, Flash, Photoshop, PHP.

  www.farmads.ie
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• Butler Springs

  A complete site re-design taking the site from hand coded table design and moving it to the Joomla system for ease of use on the administration backend, as well as converting the code to the much more friendly XHTML/CSS structure. Also provided custom JavaScripting, Flash, and Form work for use within the Joomla CMS.

  Tools: XHTML, CSS, Joomla, Flash, Photoshop.

  www.butlersprings.com
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• NetWinner

  XHTML/CSS design with heavy implements of Flash. Setup the original framework of the site as well as creating Flash banner ads, surveys, and other rich media applications. I have not worked on this site in two years and cannot take responsibility for the game design or newer applications that have been introduced. Most of my rich media work can only be seen when you trigger a prize winning event. I no longer have any input on this project or the site itself.

  Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, XHTML, CSS, OnLocation, Premiere.

  www.netwinner.com
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• Phil Television

  This is a site for a friend, rebooting it and bringing it into today’s world. All of the code is XHTML/CSS, while dealing with the problems of embedded flash content. You can view how the site once looked by clicking here. The site has some harsh language, so be warned.

  Tools: Pen and paper, XHTML, CSS, Flash, Photoshop.

  www.philtv.net
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• Wii Want

  Wii Want is powered by the OSCommerce shopping cart application. I was responsible for adding many community contributions as well as custom coding of various API’s. I also performed database recovery (MySQL) and monitoring. It may not look like much, but hundreds of pages of code were tweaked to make all of the contributions and applications work seamlessly within the site. Feel free to request a code sample

  Tools: XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, PHP, OSCommerce, MySQL, Paypal API, Best Buy API.

  www.wiiwant.com/
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• CellPhone Jammers

  CellPhone Jammers is another OSCommerce shopping cart application for the same client. I was responsible for adding many community contributions as well as custom coding of various API’s. I also performed database recovery (MySQL) and monitoring. It may not look like much, but hundreds of pages of code were tweaked to make all of the contributions and applications work seamlessly within the site. Feel free to request a code sample.

  Tools: XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, PHP, OSCommerce, MySQL, Paypal API, Best Buy API.

  www.cell-phone-jammers.net
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• Carolina Nissans

  Carolina Nissan’s is a regional portal, news, and discussion forum for everything Nissan in North and South Carolina. I helped apply more security and user restraint’s regarding uploading of materials, moving it from a manual approval process, to an automated one. Also reformatted a lot of the CSS to conform to today’s standard and provided database assistance during their upgrade.

  Tools: CSS, PHP, MySQL, IP.Board, Custom Scripting.

  www.carolinanissans.com
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• Accordion - Custom WordPress Theme

  This WordPress theme is even more far out than the last one. Originally I found this design on the six shooter site. It was written in XHTML/CSS/AJAX as a stand-alone sight. I got rather bored one evening and decided to port it over to WordPress. It’s named “Accordion” because, A> that’s the name of the main AJAX script that it uses, and B> I’m totally unoriginal at the moment.

  Tools: XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JQuery, PHP, Fireworks, Wordpress.

  Accordion Custom WordPress Theme
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• EasyGrey - Custom WordPress Theme

  EasyGrey is a custom made template for use with WordPress. It was designed with the potential for a mid to large level music (or anything really) site. It’s extremely easy to update and modify for the non-computer savvy people out there. You need a very LIMITED knowledge of HTML to make this theme work for you. It’s all custom code and strays from your typical WordPress themes.

  Tools: XHTML, CSS, PHP, Photoshop, Wordpress.

  EasyGrey Custom WordPress Theme
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• Snapshot - Custom WordPress Theme

  A theme for online photography portfolios. More copy coming soon.

  Tools: XHTML, CSS, PHP, Photoshop, Wordpress.

  Snapshot Custom WordPress Theme
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• Open Office Icon Set

  This is an icon set for the open office suite that are compatable with any flavour of object docks. The colouring is consistant and they have a small amount of gloss with some shadowing. I guess in current terms you could say they are "Web 2.0", but not as obnixious as others that I've seen.

  Tools:Photoshop

  www.whathappened.com
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• Adobe CS4 Master Suite Icon Set

  Here we have an icon set for the Adobe CS4 Master Suite that can be used with any dock or as desktop icons. They work in Win, Mac, and *nix enviorments. There are three different sets included in the .rar file, the only difference between the three being the colour schemes. The first theme follows the default Abobe colour theme for each product, the second theme is totally black and white, and the third is a take on the Adobe colour scheme but toned down a bit so it doesn't scream as much.

  Tools:Photoshop & Illustrator

  www.whathappened.com
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