Welcome!

Site Overview

You have arrived at White Stripe Design, the portfolio site of web designer Danielle Closs. This site showcases some of my best and most recent work. You can view my work under the gallery tab, or you can view or print my resume under the resume tab.

05.06.2009

School and life have been keeping me busy; working on a redesign, coming soon!

10.30.2008

I have been busy studying and researching some web design/development concepts, and I am going to be doing a major overhaul on my site because of what I have found. I am working on learning Actionscript 3 better, and also I am reading PHP 6 and MySQL 5, to get up to snuff with that. I have also become extremely interested in social networking, and have been researching and making connections on Twitter, Friendfeed, LinkedIn and other such sites. If you'd like to reach me at these sites, here are my IDs:

I am also working on a C++ class at school, and I have another Java class coming up. Hopefully, with all this learning, I'll have a fancy new site up soon! Stay tuned!

08.28.2008

Here is a quick update, in case you are wondering what I am up to. I have been asked to revamp the Wedding Belle Blues site to include business-to-business features. I am currently working on this site, my current Flash project, and continuing my education. I will update my portfolio when I have completed something of interest, so stay tuned!

08.09.2008

I have some Flash projects in the works. Details on the first one are in the new Flash gallery. I am still working on it, but it will be done shortly. Then on to the next one!

UPDATE: The flower flash file is done. I will post more soon!

01.24.2008

The site is mostly complete, I will be adding a contact form soon.

Also, I have started my Bachelors degree, and I'm halfway through my Database Admin class, and having a blast with Oracle. Currently I am also studying some different methods of creating a CMS, including using XML with PHP.

12.25.2007

I have recently finished my Associate's degree, in August, and will be starting my Bachelors of Web Development in January. I am starting to look for some contract work to add some diversity to my portfolio, skills and experience. In my spare time, I will also be working on some projects of my own, for fun and maybe even profit. We all know in this line of work, the learning is a never ending experience! So, stay tuned to see what new stuff I find to mess with!

Bio

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My name is Danielle Closs, and I am a web designer from Michigan. I have been working with graphics for over 10 years, and with web design technologies for over 5 years. I am interested in and studying back-end web programming and web usability concepts. I am currently a freelance web designer for hire, and am attending Baker College in the Bachelors of Web Development program. I have also completed my Associates of Applied Science in Web Design, also from Baker.