Robert Higgason is a Houston area appellate lawyer who wished to have a calm, elegant website to which he could direct his prospective clients. Relying on architectural motifs, Mr. Higgason’s site serves as a way for him to publicize his activities and cases, as well as to showcase his voluminous legal writings.

A fully-interactive ecommerce site, Varsity Boot Company’s site allows the visitor to customize a pair of boots with their college logo, Greek affiliation, their name, leather selection, and many other options. All customization takes place in real-time with the use of AJAX and jQuery to create an easy-to-use and attractive customer experience. Options are updated [...]

Another part of the FireFlie project, Searchlight gives musicians the ability to input a set of criteria (in an almost eHarmony way) for other musicians based on their location, dedication to forming a musical group, instruments, proficiency and other categories–and to then search the FireFlie database for like-minded cohorts with which to perform. There’s nothing [...]

The FireFlie project is an ongoing effort to assist musicians, fans, and venues to link up with one another. Bands and musicians can easily set up their areas inside FireFlie, post their recordings, efforts, and members (with the now de riguer automatic connections to Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook), fans can browse groups and performing venues [...]

Sam Burtis, a noted and oft-recorded trombonist, tubist, composer, and arranger, has his own site, SamBurtis.com, on which he shares his decades of insight into the art and craft of playing brass instruments. In addition to his musical activities, Sam is an author of several books on the art of brass playing. He wanted a [...]

In addition to his personal blog, Mr. Burtis also expressed interest in a full-featured, easily managed web forum. The design, built on the industry-leading Simple Machines Forum software, incorporates a number of custom plugins and enhancements, as well as a completely original theme with rotating header images of Sam’s beloved New York City. The site [...]

Early in 2007 I created a family of sites, all being .info domains beginning with moreabout… in their names. The charge was to create sites which were similar in design and operation but which could be infinitely expanded to include many different topics. The outcome is the More About family. These sites have sophisticated data [...]

The HyperLibrary is a simple application, really–it allows participating music organizations to have any number of logins to the system which allow their music library to be entered, edited, and maintained. Full-text search is available, program notes, difficulty, style, ensemble type, and other information can be attached to each piece. Library numbers are automatically assigned. [...]

Good Stuff is another “family of sites” project. Still in development and design, it will serve as a clearinghouse for live music in a given metropolitan area. The project has started small, covering Houston, Galveston, and Beaumont TX, but after the alpha and beta periods are over, it will expand to cover a set of [...]

The GearBase Project is an elegant solution to an age-old problem: If you were forced to identify, specifically, “stuff” you had in your home, your studio, your rehearsal space–could you do it? Still have those ownership records handy? Know the serial numbers to your Kurzweil or your Marshall amp or your horn? No, I didn’t [...]