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Unity in Christ is an umbrella group that serves as a way for the Berkeley Christian fellowships to communicate and work together. Most of my work with them has been design related, as they already have existing programmers on their board.

The first thing I was asked to do for them was to produce a replacement for their existing signup sheet. What they had at the time had been made for a particular event but was not sufficiently flexible for upcoming events. My implementation stored all data in flat files which were portable and allowed for multiple event signup forms to be online at once, and encrypted signup information. I wrote it in PHP, using the Savant template engine, with a custom written plugin that emulated the Formation form-generating API. (which I have made available)

Later in the year, a large inter-fellowship event needed a web presence (for publicity reasons). I was put in touch with the artist, who had done most of his work on paper, and had approximately two days to convert it into a web design and put together the HTML. Taste and See’s design was originally designed for a higher-resolution medium, so I moved around elements in order to allow for website navigation and sidebars, which are less prevalent in print media. Over the summer I was then asked to redesign the actual Unity in Christ. The design was also influenced by print media, in this case, my Bible.