Mike Mollick V4.5

• Simple &stylish
• Professional
• Theme-selection (orange, blue, green)
• XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, &SQL

Design
The design of this was quite simple. It's a very basic and open design. Usability and accessibility are key to this design with its large fonts and simple navigation. This also made it easy to port into almost any color. I opted to make orange, blue, and green the colors to choose from.
Code
This is the first template for my new bloging system. The blogging system itself came from roughly six months of on and off developement. This design however includes some new feats for myself including the theme selector. There were also a number of smaller features throughout the site utilizing hidden menus and ajax like features.

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Mike Mollick V3

• Minimalist
• Clean
• Professional portfolio
• XHTML, CSS, PHP, &SQL

Design
Deciding to write my own blog script for better flexibility I opted to create a design for my portfolio. This was a very simple design. There were no bells or whistles just a very basic looking portfolio that wasn't short on style.
Code
This was my first true experience with XML. As opposed to using a database I turned to a new face called XML. Which at the time was rather intimidating since I had not worked with flat file systems before. Eventually it became quite a learning expierience and very helpful expeirience for me.

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Dimension Studios V2

• Grungy &simple
• Game studio portfolio
• XHTML, CSS, PHP, &SQL

Design
Spawned from a game entitled Counter-Strike:Source this small online based game design studio was in need for a face lift. It started out with a table based layout with a very stiff layout. With a request to keep the design itself monochromatic and to not stray too far from the original design I wasn't given much room to expand. My main focus with this design was mainly to give it a more fluid and flexable layout. Since this was a gaming site I opted to make it look dirty without going overboard with grunge effects. This was done by effectively allowing some of the background to bleed through "wear" marks across the navigation and main content areas.
Code
This site was a coding nightmare. It effectively had an open backend where anyone could type in the directory and access it without needing to enter any credentials. This was my number one priority for this project. Once the major wholes were fixed on the backend I focused on the front end. With much of the original site using mostly HTML and small PHP scripts here and there it created problems with adding and editing content. By the time I had finished working on the front end I had essentially begun re-coding the entire site. Then turning the the backend I incorporated all the changes I made to the front end and created a secure content management system. This in turn make updating and adding content much more efficient and easier.

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Mike Mollick V2

• Simple &sleek
• Minimal layout
• Thin elegant layout
• Wordpress based
• XHTML, CSS, PHP, &SQL

Design
Upon purchasing my new domain I hastely set up a temporary site. Following this I started a new design that took some thought and effort. Keeping with my minimalist mind I opted to have a slender linear layout. I also kept the minimalist color scheme keeping it mostly on a grayscale with few colored elements. This helps bring attention to these elements and makes them really standout. This is still one of my favorite designs I've done just for how sleek and simple it is without it being dull and bland.
Code
Coding this wasn't much of an issue. This being almost purely a wordpress port with a PHP script I had used for my portfolio on my previous domain.

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Mollick Web Design V2

• Simple &clean
• Straight forward user interface
• Wordpress Based
• XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, PHP, &SQL

Design
This was designed for my old domain from which I operated my freelance operations from. It was designed to be catchy without being too busy. I kept it clean and simple without sacrificing style. There were a number of Javascript and Ajax based features of this site including an expanding user menu. This being my first "web 2.0" styled design I also tried to incorporate some of the common "web 2.0" stylings such as stripes and grandients.
Code
This was coded for the wordpress platform. It also included some custom scripting for the portfolio. In the end it was essentially just a wordpress portal with some minor tweaks here and there to get it working.

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Infection

• Fine Point Sharpie
• Adobe Photoshop

This drawing started out with the tracing of one of my guitar picks. Using the same short curved strokes I used in sketching the “Dragon” it slowly developed into a complex design with a lot of dimension to it. Once I was happy with result I scanned it onto my computer and promptly cleaned it up in Photoshop. After messing with some filters and adjusting the colors a bit.
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Summit Racing Prostock Car

• Pencil

Originally a photo taken while at drag strip this drawing was of Greg Anderson’s Prostock car. Rather than making the car look cluttered with all the decals and logos on the real life version I chose to keep the car generic and relatively clean.

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Covered Bridge

• Pencil

Living in Ashtabula County where the only thing were really known for is covered bridges, it wouldn’t be right for me not to have at least one covered bridge in my portfolio. This particular bridge is the Riverdale Road Bridge that spans the Grand River.

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Dragon

• Pencil

What started out as two eyes slowly progressed into this dragon’s head, or in some cases an “Evil Alf”. The use of short curved strokes forms the wrinkles and dimensional shapes of its head.

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Ibanez Love 2

• Pencil

The second of the two drawings of my guitar focuses on the head of the guitar. Shown is the familiar Ibanez RG head stock shape and a hastily replaced High E string being weaved around neighboring tuning posts.

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Ibanez Love

• Pencil

This piece is one of two drawings of my guitar. The guitar body is drawn in this particular piece focusing on the bridge and the bridge positioned humbucker.

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Electirified Poptart

• Sharpie
• Adobe Illustrator

This illustration was requested by friend who attempted to put together a band. He simply gave me the name “Electrified Poptart” and the first thing that came to mind was Frankenstein. That idea stuck with me as I grabbed some paper and a sharpie. Once the sketch was done I scanned it onto my computer and cleaned it up with Illustrator. Then I added some color and was happy with the result as was my friend.

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Cave Entrance

• Pencil

This started out as concept art for a 3D enviroment that may come to existence for Half Life 2. It was my first time drawing comcept type art and drawing cliff like surface. Typically I don't draw landscape and enviroments so it was a bit of a challenge for me.

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Cave Door

• Pencil

This again started out as concept art for the ssame Half Life 2 enviroment. This was to be an inner seal to a bunker within the landscape. I had some difficulty once again with the rock faces and trying to keep the perspective of being in a cave.

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