Microsoft Front Page

2001 - create twenty new themes for a successor version of Microsoft FrontPage 2002, created color system by which gorgeous color palette are generated programmatically, prior to this the 12,000 CSS properties that make up the 60 existing themes had to be assigned one at a time, update existing themes with new style and class information, six month contract, concept through implementation and debugging

human factors

create design themes with color systems that can be easily edited by end users (users select any programmatically generated color scheme) and all foreground/background colors produced programmatically remain readable, create and specify FrontPage color system by which users can select one color and FrontPage produces an complete and readable foreground/background color scheme

marketing

existing FrontPage 2002 themes are known throughout the world as poorly designed, clunky and out of date, I was hired to put a design system and 20 new themes in place that reverses this perception, Microsoft will make my color assignment system a Software Developers Kit available to third party theme developers upon release of the product

technology

HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuickKeys, RAID, each of the twenty themes consists of 60 graphics, 300 custom css classes and 2000+ Microsoft custom css properties, all themes can be applied to FrontPage web sites and Microsoft Sharepoint Team Service sites.

aeSthetics

subtle graphic treatments and refined ranges of color within a theme's color palette, make graphics and color palettes that are secondary to the user's content, The existing themes are not up to date with design trends or current web design principles. The new themes use more progressive design principles, forms, colors, layouts and trends. Although FrontPage themes do not explicitly contain layout information care is taken in the new themes to influence the layout through the color and shape of the graphic elements. .

about the samples below

most of the template designs are shown below in FrontPage format and in SharePoint Team Services format