Caroline Adderson
Award-winning author
Caroline Adderson is a local author who writes books for kids and adults. The includes a full listing of her books, information on her school visits, and an ongoing Reading Log. The site is built on the Wordpress CMS.
gruman.me
URL shortener
gruman.me is a vanity URL shortener I made as a learning experiment.
The SHAWC Project
Photography project
The SHAWC Project is a series of photos I took of friends being Sad, Happy, Angry, Worried, and Confused. The site was made to learn public image uploading and manipulation.
Fix CSS
Web application
Fix CSS is a web app that "fixes" css by file upload, or copy and paste. I built this to help speed up the process when taking over someone else's site. HTML5 browsers only.
Fathom Five Photography
Photographer
Fathom Five Photography is a local photographer serving Vancouver, Victoria and the Gulf Islands. The site is built on a custom Ruby on Rails/MySQL CMS.
Print work: business cards.
Margery Fee
Professor of English
Margery Fee is a professor at The University of British Columbia and the editor of Canadian Literature. She needed a website that allowed for easy updates and displayed a number of open access articles as PDFs. The site is built on the Wordpress CMS.
Canadian Studies UBC
University of British Columbia
Canadian Studies UBC is a program offered at The University of British Columbia. It allows you to select from approximately 100 courses in the area of Canadian Studies—from Political Science to Anthropology to Film to Women's Studies—taught by more than 50 professors from departments throughout the Faculty of Arts.
The International 3-Day Novel Contest
A notorious literary marathon
The International 3-Day Novel Contest is a grueling literary marathon. Every Labour Day weekend for more than 30 years, writers around the world have written, edited, and completed novels in 72 hours. The site is built on the Wordpress CMS, and features Twitter and Flickr integration.
Print work: brochures, posters, and postcards.
Rachelle Delaney
Award-winning children's author
Rachelle Delaney is a local children's author who just published her first book, The Ship of Lost Souls. The site for information about classroom/library visits and a teachers' guide. The site is built on the Wordpress CMS.
Brick Books
Canadian poetry publisher
Brick Books is a small literary press based in London, ON. The press was started in 1975 by Stan Dragland and Don McKay, and publishes some of Canada's best poetry. The site is built on the Wordpress CMS, and features a custom book catalogue and administration system.
Canadian Literature
A quarterly of criticism and review
Canadian Literature is the oldest journal to focus on the field of Canadian literature. Since 1959, with founding editor George Woodcock, Canadian Literature has published articles, poetry, and book reviews from most of Canada's best writers and academics. The site is built on a custom PHP/MySQL CMS which features a searchable and browsable online index, an advertising statistics suite, a sitewide login system, and a backend administration system to govern all the site's content.
Print work: business cards, ads for journals/magazines/newspapers, poetry book prototype, annual index, and brochures.
BC Studies
A British Columbian quarterly
BC Studies is a history journal from The University of British Columbia. Established in 1969, BC Studies is dedicated to the exploration of British Columbia's cultural, economic, and political life; past and present. The site is built on a custom PHP/MySQL CMS, and features a searchable/browsable online index, mp3 streaming, and a full-featured administration system.
Excuse Rolodex
Web application
Inspired by Seinfeld, the Excuse Rolodex is a user-generated content site full of excuses. Visitors can submit their own excuses and participate in the Most Liked list. The site is built with PHP/MySQL and Ajax, and features an administrative backend.
Matthew Gruman
Personal website
My personal site. Formerly a blog, I use matthewgruman.com to collect various personal projects. The site is built on the Wordpress CMS, and features custom sidebar widgets.
Arts One
University of British Columbia
Arts One is an innovative approach to your first year in the Faculty of Arts at The University of British Columbia. This program offers you two groups from which to choose, each led by a dynamic team of instructors from a variety of academic disciplines. The site is built on a custom Ruby on Rails/MySQL CMS, and features sitewide login for both students and administrators.
Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
Canadian dictionary project
The DCHP is a collection of "Canadianisms" (i.e. "Canuck" and "double-double"). I designed the online collection component for the second edition, which features an entry system, historical data collection, and a full statistics suite. The site was built on a custom PHP/MySQL/DOM CMS, and featured secure login for both students and administrators through UBC's CWL.
