Daniel Marino

Portfolio Updates

I’ve been insanely busy since I started my new employment a little over a month ago at Dyn Inc. I don’t like to keep my personal site stagnant too long, so I recently added a couple of new pieces to my portfolio: Steve Koontz Portfolio and The Dynect Platform.

Steve Koontz Portfolio

Steve is a friend of mine and he wanted a portfolio to showcase his work, as well as have a journal for sharing his thoughts with the world. I was happy to help him out with this project. Together we collaborated on the design, and I developed it using a variety of web technologies. It was a lot of fun because Steve basically gave me creative control, and I got to play with a lot of cool jQuery effects.

Steve’s website is also using TextPattern for content management. It was a little bit of a challenge to set up certain aspects of the site, like integrating TXP to manage multiple images (particularly with the jQuery Carousel effect) and Flash video for the portfolio pieces, but it the end it worked out really great. We are both really pleased with how his site turned out.

The Dynect Platform

The Dynect Platform is Dyn Inc’s enterprise service, featuring clients such as Mozilla and 37signals. This was my first major project at my new job, and I am very pleased with the results. Dynect.com needed to be reworked, making it easier to navigate and present information in such a way that it was easy to understand. I redesigned the website and reorganized content, allowing information to flow more naturally. Part of this project also entailed creating a new Multimedia Flash video player. Props to Liz and Kristin, who helped with a lot of the grunt-work on this project.

DynDNS.com Tour

I didn’t add this piece to my portfolio, but thought it was worth mentioning. I recently designed the DynDNS.com Tour. Not too many of our site visitors actually know what we do or why they need our services. We’ve taken a major step forward in creating this short tour. It explains exactly what we do and what the user can do with our services. Props to Jason, who wrote the bulk of the content for this project.