Cornell Sustainable Design Websites
Web Design and Scripting | September 2010 - Present
 Sustainability Research Facility Gallery Page |
 Schoolhouse: South Africa Home Page |
Creating an Extensible Website Suite
After I founded Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD) and we started our first two major projects, The Sustainability Research Facility and Schoolhouse: South Africa, we quickly realized that we were going to need a website overhaul. Prior to CUSD, I had designed the website for Cornell’s 2009 entry into the Solar Decathlon competition along with Dan Strongwater. Since I was leading the evolution of Cornell’s Solar Decathlon team into the new CUSD, it seemed fitting that the new website should showcase both our previous Solar Decathlon projects and any present projects that CUSD would be pursuing.
Wanting to get as many of CUSD’s 150 student members involved as possible, I settled on using a wordpress back-end to power our new website so that members of our team could easily contribute blog posts, photographs, and more. Along with a team of 5 other designers, I built a new wordpress template and back-end from scratch that would be sufficiently adaptable to each of our projects. In the above images you can see how we’ve adapted the theme to drive the websites for two of our major projects. A simple navigation bar at the top of each project website makes navigation to our splash page or our other project sites easy.