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Sometimes individually and sometimes as part of a larger team, these are the sites that have been of mutual benefit to clients and my own experience and talents offered to you, here, today.

Many of the sites listed are still live and available as of this posting (unless other-wise noted) and have been, over the years, handed back to the owners and are under their maintenance. Often, the current coding and graphics are the original, in others, much (and sometimes all) of the presentations have been re-built, but links are included as references. If you have any questions concerning any of the sites listed, please feel free to contact me at your leisure.

The very first web-site I created was as a team-member working for Chemical Bank, Wall Street, New York City. Given nothing more than 2 boxes containing many pages of photo-copied information, 1 box containing "coding" samples and the other, pages of lay-outs and designs, I worked with the others over a period of many months until, at last, we'd built Chemical's first "Intranet". The site was for "in-house" use and contained, for example, a data-base (which I'd created previously) of every employee around the world. It was then expanded to include e-mail and "Community Boards" for every employee in the organisation.

As time progressed and the "Internet" increasingly became more common in general house-holds, the Chemical "Intranet" site was introduced to the general public and included information and access to accounts.

Chemical was the third-largest bank in the United States*.
*See: Chemical Bank - Wikipedia

In the years since 1995, I have had the privilege and delight to have worked on and created many other sites, including the following:

Bosch Appliances North America
Routine maintenance, as a Contract/Consultant provider, included content and graphics modifications. This site is currently being maintained by another maintenance provider.
*CPA Review
Routine maintenance, as a Contract/Consultant provider, included regular content and graphics modifications. The site was primarily "hard-coded" in "NotePad". It was subsequently returned to the owner for further development and maintenance and, as of this posting, there is no current link available to the site.
DominoSugar
Routine maintenance, as a Contract/Consultant provider, included content and graphics modifications. This site is currently being maintained by another maintenance provider.
FantasySportsNet
Routine maintenance included content, coding and graphics modifications.
Humpty Dumpty Institute - United Nations
Routine maintenance included content and graphics modifications.
Content included original graphics and “Flash” content including script. This site is currently being maintained by another maintenance provider.

*Lexent Technologies
Lexent was a telecommunications service provider. Routine maintenance included maintenance of current content and graphics modifications.
*MedE (WebMD)
Several months following launch, WebMD incorporated the “MedE” site into the general “WebMD” site. Routine maintenance included content and graphics modifications.
National Muscular Sclerosis
Routine maintenance included content and graphics modifications.
This site was created by the team at Winstar Communications NYC and as Site-Builder, direct contributions included graphic design, content, coding and Quality Assurance. This site is currently being maintained by another maintenance provider.

St.Charles Hospital and Rehabilitation
Routine maintenance, as a Contract/Consultant provider, included content and graphics modifications. This site is currently being maintained by another maintenance provider.
*Target Construction Research
Routine maintenance included content and graphics modifications. This site was acquired by Winstar Communications as it was built in WYSIWYG format. The site was re-coded using Allaire Homesite and hard-coded in Notepad. * This site is no longer available on-line.
*TransfusionSafety.org for V.I. Technologies
Routine maintenance including current content and graphics modifications.
The “Transfusion Safety” site of V.I. Technologies was created completely by the team at Winstar Communications NYC and included original art, graphics, ASP coding, content and Quality Assurance. This site won an award as noted and was subsequently included in the V.I. Technologies site at the decision of V.I. Technologies. This site is currently being maintained by another maintenance provider.

USCIB.org (United States Council for International Business)
Routine maintenance included content and original graphics modifications.
This site was created completely by the team at Winstar Communications NYC and included original art, design, graphics, ASP, content, “Flash” and Quality Assurance. This site is currently being maintained by another maintenance provider.

*V.I. Technologies
Routine maintenance including current content and graphics modifications. This site is no longer available on-line.

* Denotes a site which is either no longer active or has been extensively re-structured.

• The following sites were created from concept through launch:

Aaronel deRoy Gruber
Participation in this pre-built site included constant, general maintenance and original graphics. Images of the owner’s works were original photography, manipulated, where necessary, using Adobe PhotoShop for inclusion on the site.
BroadwayBeat
The original "Broadway Beat" site was the Internet sister for a New York City cable network news programme dedicated to the theatre, cabaret and other entertainment venues of New York. The programme was created by Mr. Bradshaw Smith and since his death, his archives are now a major faction of the NYU library. (Credit appeared on the site until it was discontinued due to the unexpected and untimely death of the owner.) *The domain: bradwaybeat.com has since been re-purchase, bearing no resemblance to the original.
Indulgence-Lab
All manner of format, text content and graphics were my own original works, created from concept through launch. This site has been transitioned to the owner.
Mr. G's Round Hill Lodge NY
"Mr G's"... Quite the legendary, early 1970's resort in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. This site was built as a memorial and "homage" to the halcyon days of music, dancing and camaraderie shared by all who were fortunate enough to sojourn there. All manner of images are original as well as text content. It's an honour and privilege to have built and to continue maintaining this site which was launched in March 2018.
TennieLeonard
On Ms. Leonard's original site, all manner of format, text content and graphics were my own original works, created from concept through launch including photographs and portraits. This site was transitioned to the owner and is currently being maintained by another maintenance provider, however, much of the photographic works are from the originals, taken by me, for the original site.

• The following sites were acquired for upgrade and maintenance and subsequently returned to the domain owners and are presently being maintained by other providers.

JamiedeRoy
Participation in this pre-built site included constant, general maintenance and original graphics. Today's site is under new maintenance and is a complete re-make by the new web-master.
LornaDallas
Participation in this pre-built site included constant, general maintenance and original graphics. The current site is being maintained by a new we-master, however some of the original graphics are still in use.
Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets
Participation in this pre-built site included constant, general maintenance and original graphics which appeared sporadically through-out the site. The site is currently under the maintenance of a new web-master.
Jewish Appleseed The original Home Page "Flash" presentation on this site was completely original work including the graphics and scripting. The current site is a new format, maintained by a new web-master, apparently the domain has been sold and re-purposed as of this posting.

• The following is a listing of WordPress "blog" sites that I have designed and am currently converting into independent sites.

ADK Champlain.com: NYS Adirondacks Property Maintenance/Management Services.
JKWoodhauler : Northern New England Property Maintenance/Management Services.
Judah Kessler: Fine arts including water-colours, pen-and-ink, charcoal and pencil sketches.
Judah A Kessler: An independent author's blog/site.
Tilden: A pictorial portfolio and history of Fort Tilden, Rockaway NY.

 

 

 

 

 

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