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| Below, you will find some of my recent website designs. The bulk of these sites are pulled from behind the MCI WorldCom firewall, and placed on the servers belonging to the kind folks at Mindspring. Because of corporate confidentiality issues and limited server space, I have removed some content in several sites. |
In addition, please keep in mind that the sites designed for internal MCI WorldCom use are intended for high bandwidth connections. They are graphically intensive, and can be slow to load when viewed using a slower connection. —Nathan Cross |
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MCI Creative is a small design group within MCI WorldCom. We provide the corporation with design for all sorts of corporate communications. These include both printed and on-line media. This is our current departmental website, which features information about our department, an online portfolio section (which is being updated this week, so there are some holes), and a script to request the opening of a new job. This site is hosted on our local departmental web server. It's a Macintosh G3, running Webstar 3.0. It is graphically intensive, but loads quickly when viewed on a machine attached to our speedy intranet. The site marks our first official use of cascading style sheets, and dynamic html layers. As a department, we had stayed away from these technologies in the past to avoid problems with older browsers.
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Since our merger with WorldCom, there has been a push to localize departmental sites onto one central server. This server is called TeamNet, and I am afraid it marks the end of MCI Creative's involvement in developing other department's web sites. All sites hosted on the TeamNet Servers (Located at WorldCom headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi) must abide by TeamNet's strict appearance guidelines. They emphasize quick loading, minimalistic pages, with lots of white space. This is all fine and good, but it takes the design process out of our hands in most cases. Most sites hosted by TeamNet are designed by TeamNet employees. It seems our days as MCI WorldCom web designers are numbered. I developed this site last month, so that our department would have a presence on the Teamnet servers. We have been asked to move our entire site over to these servers in the next month or so. Some of it has already happened, which is why the above site is missing some sections and content. |
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This is MCI Creative's previous website. At the time, the floating frame technique seemed like a novel idea, but it soon proved to be problematic. We wanted to show larger, higher quality images of our portfolio, and the small screen area provided here didn't really allow for that. The navigation ended up being a little too obscure. For this reason, it was necessary to provide people with the exact URL to get them directly to the logo download section, which the frameset doesn't allow. These issues were addressed in the revised version, which you saw first at the top of the page. |
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This site allows users to read various guidelines intended to help them successfully use the MCI WorldCom logo. MCI has always been a groundbreaker in the use of brands and brand recognition, and it our intention to continue that. The site also has an extensive download section (disabled on this site) which allows users to download the logo in many formats and color combinations. Unfortunately, this site will soon be rolled into the TeamNet site as well. |
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This is an "in-progress" site designed to tout the finer points points of a new service called On-Net. The service is aimed at businesses, and will roll out shortly. For confidentiality purposes, I have posted a disabled version of the home page.
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Every quarter we design a newsletter for Contract Billing Solutions. This is the online version of their newsletter. I do not design the printed newsletter, I just pull graphics from the printable file and create a web version. It is narrow because it appears inside a frame on the overall CBS departmental site, with their main navigation down the left hand side. |
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This site, still under a bit of construction in the demo section, allows for a quick method of distributing MCI WorldCom video clips and still images to television stations around the world. |
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On the now defunct MCI Corporate Website, I designed the template for the Community Partnerships Section. They wanted the site to be fast loading and simple. My solution turned out to be just that. |
