E3Feed is a website I conceived and developed myself using a design provided by a graphic artist. E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is the biggest news event in the video gaming industry, and is where about 70% of the year's news comes from. Coverage of this event is always a circus, with every game-related news outlet dumping out hundreds of stories per day from the expo floor.

E3Feed was designed to remedy that. It is an automatic news aggregation and filtering system that pulls all the news content from dozens of top gaming websites, filters out the E3-related stories, and parses them into an easily sortable and searchable interface. Stories are analyzed to determine trending subjects automatically, story pages are analyzed to automatically find and display a relevant image or video for each story.

Also of interest is the RSS feed builder, which allows users to customize their own RSS feeds with search terms and using only the sources they want.

E3Feed makes heavy usage of Ajax techniques via jQuery and a lot of homespun Javascript.

Currently in development is a site that parses all video game news. Sort of a Google News for gaming.

Contains: xHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (jQuery).
Design: John Godfrey
Code: All me.

The Electroids Co. is a small business I run. You can read more about that at this article about me on HowStuffWorks or this article in The Oakland Press. The website I made myself from a provided design layout. The shopping cart, inventory, checkout, and order tracking system are entirely made from scratch by myself.

The intention with the design and navigational flow is to help explain the somewhat atypical concept of DIY electronic kits. Rather than treating it just like a store with product links that would confuse unfamiliar visitors, it acts as an informational brochure with a retail component.

Contains: xHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, very light Javascript.
Design: John Godfrey
Code: All me.

GameBump is a gaming news blog I created. An entirely custom blogging platform was used, with a focus on maximum ease-of-use for the writing staff who were fed up with their previous website's overly complicated control panel.

The system uses a tag-based categorization ontology to automatically determine related stories and images for new posts without requiring editors to find them manually.

I also created a Javascript-based photo gallery system for video game screenshots that allows for quick bulk uploading or sideloading of images by allowing zip archives containing multiple images to be uploaded, extracted, and entered into the database automatically.

Contains: xHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript.
Design: John Godfrey
Code: All me.