Klondike Five is a sole proprietorship owned and operated by me, John Parsons. I have over nine years experience building web sites for such companies as Time Inc., Oven Digital, Tiffany & Co., IBM, and New York Public Library.
I am proficient in most of the major web technologies including:
- Rails
- AJAX / Web 2.0
- ASP (classic and .NET)
- JSP and other related Java technologies
- PHP
- ColdFusion MX
- Flash MX
- MySQL and MS SQL Server databases
- CSS
- JavaScript
- XML and XSL
When designing Web sites, I try to find simple and elegant solutions to the problem of presenting information online. The sites I design are meant to be both easy to use and easy to maintain. As much as possible, I try to embrace emerging Web Standards, a set of expert recommendations designed to increase the longevity, accessiblity and usability of Web sites while reducing the cost and complexity of developing and maintaining them.
Here is a partial list of web sites I have worked on:
- Words and Stone: The Art of Christopher Davis
- The Campaign For Reader Privacy
- The New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
- The Story Prize
- Tiffany & Co.
- Tiffany For Business
- US Ergonomics
Among my areas of expertise are:
- Design and illustration
- E-Commerce
- Database-driven sites
- Making content searchable
- Interactive content