about dave

David Taylor starting building web sites while attending the University of Calgary during the dawn of the internet back in 1994. Now with burning fish design as his full-time business, he has gained a great variety of experience that allows him to adapt to the needs of a wide variety of projects.

Dave loves designing in Photoshop and builds his web sites using (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, DOM JavaScript and a strong belief in the fundamental importance of web standards. His range of experience stretches from being a team member on projects for large clients such as Hyatt hotels and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to designing, coding, and maintaining websites for small start-up businesses.

Whatever your need, it's worth getting in touch with dave to discuss the solutions burning fish web design provides!

burning fish design & development projects

Below are examples of some of the web sites I have helped create. The clients range from some independent startups to massive hotels chains. Regionally, these clients are all over North America: Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna, the Okanagan, Vancouver, Richmond, the Shuswap, Drayton Valley, Las Vegas, Chicago. A mix of freelancing and contracting myself to other web firms, my role in each project is outlined underneath each web site screen shot.

Corbis Images — Portfolio

A behind the scenes look of the some incredible photo collections at Corbis, I did all the HTML, Javascript, and CSS work for this showcase.
View Portfolio at Corbis Images

Meet Albert, GreenLight Rights

"You know Einstein. Now meet Albert." is a micro site to show some of the lesser known facts of the personal side of Albert Einstein. Besides doing the full PHP, JS and CSS for this project, I also worked collaboratively on the fine-tuning of the design.
View Meet Albert web site

Rampton Rockworks Ltd. Landscape Construction

Salmon Arm retaining wall, paving stone driveway company

A very successful young hardscaping (landscape construction) business based out Salmon Arm, BC, Rampton Rockworks decided they needed an online presence where they could show off the great variety of custom stone work that they do. Completely designed and developed by burning fish design using colours and strong lines suggestive of stone work, Rampton Rockworks now has a striking place to present their work.
View Rampton Rockworks web site

Alberta Solar Showcase / Hail A Hybrid

burning fish did 100% of the development work for the web sites for two different Climate Change Central projects: the Hail A Hybrid program and the Alberta Solar Showcase. The HTML web sites were built from artistic flats done in Flash.
View Alberta Solar Showcase site

Wild Goose Winery

Wild Goose needed an updated look for their web site which would allow them to properly show off their award-winning wines. Working with New Media Syndicate, I handled building out the site's templates and incorporating them into the Joomla CMS, as well the majority of the web site's initial development.
View Wild Goose Vineyards web site

Hyatt Pure Spas

I worked on the CSS layout and, in tandem with an Applications Developer, the functionality for the Hyatt Pure Spas. As the offerings are different for each hotel's spa and with this unique HTML content being driven by a database whose content is populated by the individual hotels, there were many layout and formatting challenges to ensure that each of the individual spas' sites showed the truly unique character.

With due credit given to the designers at Critical Mass who worked on this project, the result is absolutely stunning! View the Scottsdale Hyatt Pure web site

Dr. Terry To, Doctor of Podiatric Medicine

Looking to expand his practice, Dr. To, D.P.M, wanted a professional logo and web presence. Dr. To specializes in reconstructive foot/ankle repair, so I created a logo emphasizing a foot and ankle in a strong healthy flex. The web site needed to support this healthy energy so the design is rich in calm blues and greens that suggest activity in the outdoors. Dr. To also needed some new business cards, which I designed keeping his brand continuous through all his advertising mediums.

Brockton Prepatory School

Working with New Media Syndicate, I did the initial development for this site, building the design out into a flexible template that could then be put into a Content Management System.
View Brockton Prep web site

Fly Fishing Heaven

Fly Fishing Heaven was looking for a fresh look along with a new logo design for their site. Using a crisp nature/outdoors colour palette I designed and developed both the new logo and the web site.

Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

My responsibilities for the various Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority web sites was to make any requested CSS/HTML changes and to build out from Photoshop files new functioning standards-compliant pages and marketing emails.
View LVCVA web site
View VisitLasVegas.com web site
View Laughlin, Nevada web site
View Mesquite, Nevada web site

Ride to the Rock – a Rotary charity fund raiser

Hosting the first annual Ride to the Rock fund raiser for great charities like Shelterbox, the Kelowna Capri Rotary club needed an attractive web site where participants and sponsors could find information about the motorcycle ride and dinner. They also wanted a simple by striking logo for this annual event. The logo design, web site design, and all development were done by burning fish design.

FeedBeads Nursing Necklaces

FeedBeads is a startup company that creates handmade nursing necklaces and they needed their primary storefront to be on the web. Designed, developed, and currently maintained by burning fish design, this entrepreneurial business is already enjoying great success. After the initial launch in summer 2007 they are currently receiving orders from all over the world.

david a taylor's web design and development portfolio