Emerging Designs

Web Application Development

About me

I am Andrew Christensen and I am Emerging Designs. For over 15 years I've been building websites and web applications. From startups to major corporations, I've built custom, web systems for use in front-facing websites and back-end systems.

I am passionate about two things in my business life. First is the customer. I strive to always meet and exceed the customer's expectation and remain responsive at all times. Second, is the code. I want to always be using the best that technology has to offer. My customers appreciate not being left behind by the explosive growth of internet technologies.

My Skillset

HTML / CSS

I can take designs from original artwork to the completed - hand-coded - final product using HTML and CSS. Sprinkle in a little Javascript and you have a killer interface.

Gone are the days of slicing and dicing designs. If you can't convert the design to HTML and CSS, allowing the CSS to do the heavy lifting, then you probably have an antiquated design.
PHP / MVC

I've worked with the best PHP MVC frameworks from Zend, to CakePHP to CodeIgniter. CakePHP's automagic capabilities and CodeIgniter's flexibilities have allowed me to build awesome applications.

Everyone has an opinion and mine is that Zend is not friendly. It works, but it's over-complicated. CodeIgniter is the best due to it's ease-of-use and rapid development capabilities.
Javascript

I've been working with the best javascript framework every built for several years now and can safely say I'm very good with jQuery and core Javascript. An advanced developer you might even say.

Oh sure there are other JS frameworks out there, but who has time to learn them all? I've worked with PrototypeJS and am looking forward to learning node.js, Backbone.js and other valuable JS platforms.
MySQL DB

MySQL DB is one of the finest database engines available today for regular web usage. I've been working with it since the late 1990's and have always found it to be a strong system.

Many others are capable too, but anything out of Redmond should be avoided and the rest are either very expensive or designed for more narrow usage. I like to stick with the best.

What I Do

Top-notch application coding
Customer-driven implementation
Always stay current on technology
Hand-code all work - no wizards!

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Pixie

Pixie is a web-system for having your digital photos enhanced and corrected.

I built the entire Pixie code base, while design was provided in the form of HTML & CSS. A lot of custom jQuery scripting was used on this project
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Cohn Restaurant Group

I was tasked with coding and implementing the new design for the Cohn Restaurants website into their Wordpress instance.

I also managed their server and presence on the web for 3 years for moving on to other projects.
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PT x DT

This is the website for my personal trainer Dave Trujillo. He's a brilliant trainer and we worked together to get his site implemented.

This site was built on WordPress and is now managed by Dave and his team.
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Green Scene

Green Scene Productions came to me with designs in hand in PSD format and wanted their designs turned into working HTML and also needed the entire application built.

I used the FlowPlayer system for displaying the videos on their site and built the server side of the site using CodeIgniter. There is moderate use of jQuery throughout the site as well.
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phit Hair.Body

This site was one of the more challenging builds because it was provided as PSD layouts and then converted and implemented into the relatively new and incredible ecommerce system called Lemonstand.

It turned out to be an awesome experience as Lemonstand is very versatile and allowed me to do some very cool things.
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Tagit

Tagit is one of the most involved projects I've had in some time. The client came to me with nothing but an idea and a few use case scenarios. I built the entire system from scratch using CodeIgniter MVC and a bunch of jQuery.

I worked closely with the staff at Tagit and have become a part of the core team to bring the site to market.
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Contact Me

41772 Cornwell Place,
Murrieta, CA 92562
(951) 587-7295
andrew@emergingdesigns.com
emergingdesigns.com
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