John Akin, Jr. - Front-End Web Developer, Web Publishing and Presentation Design Consulting, Web Design and Project Management, Multimedia, Print Design

John H. Akin, Jr. - Front End Web Developer

Web Development - Large ScaleWeb - Small Scale Presentations / Training Newsletters / Templates Web Ads Print Design

As a front-end developer, not all of my projects are really approprate for my own portfolio, since my role has often been to code and implement designs created by other designers. I've listed projects in this section which I both designed and coded.

The following sites represented Line56 Media's primary publications. Line56 was a business technology trade publishing startup whose sites attracted up to 100,000 unique users per month while they were actively publishing from 2000-2007.

I was responsible for the interface design, information architecture, graphics, HTML coding (including layout and CSS), JavaScript and ASP / VBScript with the help of developers. I also worked with developers to create the underlying back-end content management system.

E-Business news/information site - online from 2000-2007,
published over 5000 news articles

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Example Article
Subscription Form
(note that the form is disabled and just posts the data as a query string to itself)

CRM news/information - including online version of CRM Magazine

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DestinationCRM and CRM Magazine are still published, but are now owned by CRM Media, a division of Information Today, Inc. I developed the ASP/HTML CMS templates that were in use from 2002 to Q1 2008 (screenshots above).

Knowledge Management news/information -
incl. online archive for Knowledge Management Magazine,
published from 1998-2002

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Enterprise Portals News/information -
including online archive for Portals Magazine,
published from 2002-2004

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Additional Line56 Media site examples:
Line56Live! San Francisco 2001 (E-Business conference site screenshot GIF)	Line56Live! New York 2001 (E-Business conference site screenshot GIF)	Line56 magazine/E-Business Journal subscription site (Trade journal subscription site screenshot GIF)