Matthew Gonzalez is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. His major area of study was in online media focusing on online story telling, Web design and videography. His minor areas of study were in Portuguese and Latin American studies. Upon graduation, he also received a certificate in Latin American studies.
Matt is now working as a front-end developer for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
September 2009 – Present
Just like the weekly newsletter, I am in the process of revamping the existing monthly HTML e-mail newsletter for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine communications office. The newsletter uses ExpressionEngine. The audience for this publication is both internal and external and includes faculty, staff, students, outside researchers and members of the media.
As far as coding, I decided to make the site that houses the newsletter in valid, semantic XHTML and CSS while having a separate page in tables for the actual e-mail. I also reformatted the tables to make it easier to update and a little more cross-browser/cross-email-client friendly.
I took some liberties in cleaning up the design to space out some of the elements in the newsletter and make it more readable, though the overall aesthetic was already in place and was not up for redesign.
I’ve never worked extensively on an e-mail newsletter, but in the processes I was able to make it fully dynamic and took the time to create a standards-based design to make the sight a more search-engine friendly.
September 2009 – Present
I am in the process of revamping an existing HTML e-mail newsletter for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine communications office. The newsletter uses ExpressionEngine. The audience for this publication is mostly internal and includes faculty, staff and students.
As far as coding, I decided to make the site that houses the newsletter in valid, semantic XHTML and CSS while having a separate page in tables for the actual e-mail. I also reformatted the tables to make it easier to update and a little more cross-browser/cross-email-client friendly.
I took some liberties in cleaning up the design to space out some of the elements in the newsletter and make it more readable, though the overall aesthetic was already in place and was not up for redesign.
I’ve never worked extensively on an e-mail newsletter, but in the processes I was able to make it fully dynamic and took the time to create a standards-based design to make the sight a more search-engine friendly.
August 2009 – Present
I am in the process of transforming existing static templates to be used by different departments from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine into easily-deployable ExpressionEngine templates. The processes involved stripping all six templates of their code in order to re-write their XHTML and CSS.
After cleaning up the design by reformatting the code with standards-compliant valid XHTML and CSS, I tweaked the template’s typography and spacing in order to make the site more readable.
As my first major ExpressionEngine project, I’ve made these templates fully dynamic and established a process to create new sites from one install in less than a day. I’ve also had to bear in mind the technical abilities of those who will be populating their department sites.
Visit my portfolio for a longer list of projects.