Web Sites by Duncan Gibbs

A Web Site for a Writer
Currently in development, this Web site is the Internet publication of short stories by the author of "Bloody Bones in the Coal Shed," Floyd Haberkorn.

It features QuickTime audio narration of some of the stories and some great graphics from Floyd's family album. Our idea is to keep the tone similar to Floyd's narrative voice, earthy and warm, while reaching out to loyal fans of Floyd's not-quite-down-to-earth humor and to potential new readers.

Graphic design for Floyd's new audio CD is part of this package as well.

A Meeting of Minds
The UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center hosts this annual retreat for scientists to share information about their research.

Working with the administrators responsible for organizing the three-day event, I designed and developed an online application to support the process of registering participants for the retreat and tracking their information. The 345 Retreat participants registered themselves by creating editable profiles bearing their contact information, professional affiliations, and meal reservations for the retreat. The Web site displayed the names of registered participants, with email links, to facilitate interpersonal networking.

Organizers exported registration information through the Web interface in the form of MS Excel spreadsheet files they could easily work with on their local PCs. A back-end web page also displayed, sorted, and calculated meal reservations for administrative reference.

In addition to the registration process, Retreat participants also submitted poster displays of their research for presentation at the conference. Online users were able to create editable profiles of planned presentations, including descriptive abstracts. Retreat organizers were then able to download those entries, streamed into an RTF file, to print as a program handout for participants at the event.