Nathan Koch

Selected Work

  1. WagWorld

    http://wagworld.com/
     WagWorld

    WagWorld was the first large scale Ajax-driven application I've worked on. The amount of front-end functionality, from using the Google Maps API to Ajax form-validation and submission handling, was staggering.

    Because I had my hands full coding the JavaScript (using jQuery / jQuery UI), I led a team of three HTML/CSS coders who covered the majority of the buildout for the site. My time was split between managing my team and writing the behavioral code for the app.

    I also enjoyed more creative freedom on this project than most others at Arc, which included being involved in the creative stage to contribute to interaction design.

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  2. Amana Color

    http://amanacolor.com/
     Amana Color home

    Amana Color was a fun project- a heavily interactive two page microsite that I finished in one week. It had a mix of drag and drop functionality leveraging jQuery UI, some complex DOM manipulation, and a Web 2.0-ish feel.

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  3. SMF Studio

    http://smfstudio.com/
     SMF Studio

    I coded the SMF studio for a freelance client front-to-back, working off of some design sketches. The site is powered by CodeIgniter / PHP5 / MySQL 5. This was my first foray into coding a dynamic, database driven website, and working with CodeIgniter helped keep my code in order and to abstract some of the complex form handling in the admin tool.

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  4. Fancy Feast

    http://fancyfeast.com/
     Fancy Feast

    Fancy feast was an interesting challenge because of the amount of dynamic text in Helvetica Neue. We elected for a sIFR solution that worked quite smoothly on all the product detail pages. The "Add to List" functionality was also a chance to do some Ajax interactivity, and there is other JS functionality peppered throughout the site - tooltips, etc.

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  5. Friskies Blog

    http://friskies.com/blog/
     Friskies Blog

    The Friskies Blog was an easy build thanks to a straightforward design style and no Ajax functionality.

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  6. Healthful Life

    http://healthfullife.com/
     Healthful Life Home

    Healthful Life was my first large project at Arc. Initially a brochure site, it did have some interactivity courtesy of the Prototype JavaScript framework. Also my first introduction to working with the .NET platform.

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