erichynds

Welcome to my online development portfolio and blog. I'm Eric Hynds, a 23 year old website developer living outside of Boston, Massachusetts, and I'm passionate about developing functional, standard-compliant, and user-friendly websites.

Development Portfolio

Below is a small subset of work I’ve worked on/completed. More to come soon.

jQuery Projects

  • MultiSelect

    MultiSelect turns an ordinary HTML select control into elegant drop down list of checkboxes, stylable with jQuery UI’s ThemeRoller.

  • Idle Timeout

    An easy way to inform users they are about to be logged out of your application.

  • UI Notify Widget

    An Ubuntu/Growl-like notification widget built on top of the jQuery UI widget factory. Designed to be simple and lightweight while supporting advanced use cases. Uses CSS3 in lieu of images.

  • Slideshow

    A lightweight jQuery slideshow with captions, controls, and linked images/caption support. Fades anything in and out (not just images), and uses RGBA (if exists, falls back to opacity) for the caption bar instead of transparent PNG’s.

  • Related Selects

    Chained, dependent select boxes. This plugin allows you to create any number of select boxes whose options are determined by the selected value of another.

  • Create Event

    Fire event handlers when new elements are inserted into the DOM.

Professional

  • Real Estate Sales & Rentals Administration

    A real estate office asked us to revamp their archaic MS Access sales & rentals program in favor of a new, web-based solution.  Some of the features include rental lease generation, built-in accounting, sales listing PDF generations, lead management, and more.  I came up with a simple interface built on top of jQuery UI’s tab  & dialog widgets, and built the backend using ColdFusion & MySQL.

  • MLS-Navigator

    An IDX broker reciprocity & integrated lead management application designed for personal or office real estate websites. MLS-Navigator delivers more leads and grows businesses through increased sales while blowing the competition out of the water. I built MLS-Navigator as an employee of ClickCapeCod.com using ColdFusion, FuseBox, MySQL, and lots of jQuery.

  • Customer Website Administration

    An internal, modular-extensible CMS for our customers. I was responsible for the design (sans logo), front-end markup, back-end CF programming, and creation of most of the modules (shopping cart, newsletter, content, links, and many others).

  • Cape Cod Dream Homes

    A personal website for a real estate broker on Cape Cod.  See the live version.

  • Nickerson Tree & Landscape

    One of our landscaping clients asked for a simple, clean, and elegant website design. The logo was provided and I did the remaining Photoshop/slice & dice work.

Educational

The following were created for class assignments during my tenure at Champlain College:

  • ProSport Boat Company

    A ‘create a homepage for a fictitious company’ assignment for my "Designing Multimedia for the Web" class. Completed in May of 2006.