Development
I have had an off and on relationship with coding since I wrote my first lines of Basic in elementary school. I immediately found it interesting and wanted to explore what was possible but schools in rural Maine lacked resources and many people of experience to learn from. I would occasionally dabble with it, one time with a couple of friends in my freshman year we worked on a few programs to solve mathematical problems, but being more visually focused, I lost interest in this flavor of programming. In 1998 I bought one of the first generation iMacs (Bondi blue) and taught myself HTML, unfortunately I did not have any real projects to work on (and I did not like the syntax at the time) I moved on to other interests.
While studying photography, part of the curriculum was to build your own website with Adobe GoLive, cementing my interest in web design and development. Since 2002, I have occasionally designed and built websites for both myself and colleagues, primarily for artists or art related projects and ventures. I made several attempts to use CMS (primarity WordPress) based development tools over the years, but found them clunky and difficult to shape the way I wanted to create websites the way I could make them statically with Adobe products and tweaks to the code.
In 2015 my focus shifted to a more professional and deeper level of web development by learning front end languages, techniques and implementations. I was an early adopter of Gatsby and Styled-Components and love developing in the Jamstack.
Now I currently work as a Senior Web Developer at Brown University in Providence, RI.
I contribute to an open source project Greenwood, a static site genrator for Web Components.
Small Selection of Projects
Adam Holtzman
Online art portfolio site, new design and build completed every 12 to 18 months (this site)
2002 - ongoing
Made with React, Gatsby, CSS Grid & Styled-Components
David Gremp
Website for the fine art photographer David Gremp
2017 - 2020
Made with React, Gatsby, CSS Grid & Styled-Components
Jamstack Demo
An introductory site for use of the Jamstack with examples on data sourcing with Drupal and delpoyment on Cloudflare Workers.
2020 - ongoing
Made with React, Gatsby, Styled-Components, Drupal & Cloudflare
Alibi Fine Art
Legacy website for a now closed Art Gallery
2010 - 2017
Made with React, React-Router & Styled-Components
Common Loon
Website for the band Common Loon
2017 - ongoing
Made with React, React-Router, CSS Grid & Styled-Components
2054 Press
Website for small art and photography book publisher, three major design iterations, occasional content updates.
2010 - 2016
Made with Adobe Muse
(photographs)
Website for small art photography periodical, two primary design iterations and content updates.
2004 - 2008
Made with Adobe GoLive
Reproductions Gallery
Online fine art photography gallery selling open edition prints at entry level pricing, five design and build iterations & contect updates as needed.
2005 - 2008
Made with Adobe GoLive