DrieStone Design
The Portfolio of Jonathan Sweet
With some help from one of Connecticut’s top marketing firms we bring the hub of Hartford’s artistic community into the 21st century.
When the Hartford Stage needed someone to redesign their aged web site, ForeSite answered the call. I designed a new look for their site, before ForeSite had even presented a bid for work. In the end, ForeSite lost the bid for the design work, but were kept onboard for the heavy lifting.
We teamed with the highly creative Adams & Knight to develop the new site. Adams & Knight were responsible for the design of the web site and the team at ForeSite did everything else. We built a variety of systems that allowed the staff at The Hartford Stage to easily modify content (the content of the entire site can be changed easily, most of it from the web-based tool that we built).
My primary responsibility was to act as the bridge between Adams & Knight’s design and ForeSite’s development. Most of this work was turning a design (built in Quark) into a proper web based template that matched the vision of the designer at Adams & Knight but didn’t resort to hacking and tables to make it work.
Responsibilities
ForeSite’s main responsibility was the “heavy lifting”, we had no control over graphic design and very little latitude for “coloring outside of the lines”. We just had to “make it work”.
I was responsible for the layout of the site and a significant amount of the PHP/mySQL work.