Online Portfolio of Michael Wach

Charity Pictures is a local Phoenix nonprofit organization “designed to improve the quality of life for civilization”. Charity Pictures also severely needed a website makeover. This is a project I’ve been plotting and doodling ideas for over a year since they were originally going to have me do it. There were tons of ideas for designs. We needed something that looked cool and related to motion pictures.

The original idea was to have an entire desk with interactive props sitting on top of it. Each prop, such as a camera, or a reel of film, would take you to a gallery related to that medium when you clicked on it. The challenge was taking a real photo of a charity pictures desk and cutting out each prop in a way that could later be programmed interactive. If you’ve visited the Read More...

Now that my semester is over, I have a lot more free time to work on all of those long lost projects. I’m basically finished with my website for now, besides going back and uploading older content. So the next project is my dad’s website.

For those of you that don’t know, Wach Gallery is the name of my father’s business. He buys and sells “Fine 19th Century, 20th Century & Contemporary Photography”. Last year I built him a custom tailored PHP and MySQL content management system. Since then, I’ve learned a lot of new things. Now, I plan to take this intermediate site to professional.

The front end mainly Read More...