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What is Supercharged?

Supercharged is the personal portfolio and web site of designer Darren Ansley. I currently work as the Senior Designer for whiteboardlabs designing web sites, user interfaces, and custom web applications.

I am originally from southern Louisiana, and a graduate of The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I now live in Houston, Texas, with my wife, son and daughter.

Experience

Over the years I have worked in various areas of design starting out with good old fashioned amberlith, x-acto knives and a stat camera. It wasn't long before I moved onto more sophisticated environments in print, web and multimedia.

The work featured here reflects a simple, clean and well thought out approach I take when designing, regardless of the medium. The projects in the folio section are from the various positions that I have held, including my current one, as well as my freelance projects.

Definitely not work related

I rather like cycling and hiking, but I really prefer mountain biking and backpacking. I also enjoy the many rewards of home-brewing my own beer, and when it's not too bad, sharing it with others.

Underneath the hood

All of the CSS and XHTML has been patiently hand-coded, as well as the simple PHP templates, that are largely based upon an article by Dave Shea. Thanks so much for sharing this concept, of which the coolest part isn't really the templates themselves, but the use of multiple classes on the body tag to totally customize the page.

The folio section is using a modified version of Cody Lindley's Thickbox, that was developed using the lightweight jQuery library.

The blog is the only section of the site utilizing a content management software and is currently running on WordPress. The php templates within the themes have been customized to reflect the layout and simplicity of the rest of the site.