ArtsCorps Website Redesign and Image Gallery (2002)

This project began as a website redesign for ArtsCorps, a Seattle nonprofit, as part of a collaborative assignment at the Art Institute of Seattle. As the project lead, drawing from my experience working at Go2marine, I implemented a simple site using static HTML and Flash navigation, improving usability and visual clarity. The organization responded positively and later requested additional functionality to more easily manage their photo galleries.

For the gallery update, the goal was a straightforward system that ArtsCorps staff could easily maintain without databases or dynamic server-side code. I designed a simple JavaScript solution that relied solely on structured image naming and a single array:

• -t.jpg thumbnails
• .jpg medium-sized images
• -f.jpg full-resolution images

Example JavaScript array:

var aryImages = [
  "Audience",
  "Costumedperformers",
  "Dancingboys2",
  // etc.
];

A basic loop dynamically generated thumbnails, enabled swapping medium images into view, and provided pop-up links for full-resolution versions. Staff could update the gallery simply by uploading correctly named files and editing this one array.

This simplified, practical implementation was developed concurrently with—and influenced—the data-driven UI specifications for the Sixspeedmedia gallery.