Dr. Jonathon Isham
Instructional Designer | Teacher | Musician
Web Design
the new look and feel allowed for filtering and sorting by multiple criteria, more information organized in a graphic fashion, and online registration. Online transcripts are slated for version 2.0
The Old look and feel was based on an Excel spreadsheet upload and was text based.
the new look and feel allowed for filtering and sorting by multiple criteria, more information organized in a graphic fashion, and online registration. Online transcripts are slated for version 2.0
Court Education Redsign
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Court education used to advertise their available courses through a text-based, static upload of an Excel document. Courses that occurred in the past were still on the website. Browsers could sort the list by course title, date or type.
The new design, created in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and raw HTML/CSS (Notepad), presents visitors with a graphic representation of the upcoming courses, filters automatically by date (so no old courses show up) and allows users to filter by date range, type of delivery method, target court level or target audience.
Currently, the design is being retro-fitted to run on top of Sharepoint 2010 using Sharepojnt Designer 2010 in anticipation of a 'go live' date in mid-march.
All graphics, layout, and color palettes were designed and created by me.
New Song Community Church
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​​The old design used their website as an online brochure, providing static information about the church and any change in content (for upcoming events) was done manually...directly on the page.
The new site used a Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. The new site provided the church with a way to input events into a back-end database and have the website pull those dynamically onto the page at a date and time that the church decided. It also had a place (behind a logion screen) where volunteers could check their scheduled times and date in a personalized calendar.
My role on the team was to assist in the creation of the HTML to replicate the designs developed (by a graphic designer) in Photoshop. I also wrote much of the PHP that drove the site's dynamic content.
Creswell School District
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At the turn of the millennium, I was teaching in the Creswell School district and was contracted to redevelop the district website. The main objective was to put the school announcements online for parents to see. The high school did announcements daily, while the middle school and elementary school had weekly newsletters. They also wanted a cleaner interface so parents could find information about classes and teachers easier.
Designed and built with raw HTML, tables, frames, and javascript, I was able to get the website to find the correct announcement file (saved in a word doc on a shared server) based on either the current date or from the date picker that was provided in the sidebar. I generated classroom-level pages and provided instruction to all classroom teachers on how to develop the page and where to store the files.
Teacher Resources for Effective Education (TREE)
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As a master's project at Portland State University, a colleague and I designed and developed a web catalog on websites for educators. We researched education websites and cataloged them according to target grade level, subject matter, and content. All content was developed using notepad in raw HTML utilizing tables for layout. It also sported a lovely wood grain background and a tree motif everywhere. Trust me, it was cool back in the day...
Before abandoning the website due to both my colleague and I gaining full-time teaching jobs, the website had over 3,000 links to online education resources.
