The Giblins' Home Page

I started in web design while working for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Since leaving NASA I have developed seven more significant sites for a variety of uses. I currently do free-lance design and development and will be happy to discuss potential projects. You may reach me at the address at the bottom of this page.
My sites are listed below starting with the most recent. Note that all links to the sites will open in a new window.

	The Vocal Tract Visualization Laboratory - speech.umaryland.edu/index.html This site is part of the University of Maryland's Dental School. Its intended audience is primarily scientists interested in the vocal tract. Its goal is to make images, publications and software concerning vocal tract visualization available. I completed the design in February of 2004. The implementation of the site was completed by two summer students in August 2004.
	The Extramural Programs Division of the National Library of Medicine - www.nlm.nih.gov/ep This is another complete redesign of a 115 page NLM site, completed in December 2003. The Extramural Programs Division of the NLM provides grants and fellowships to organizations and individuals interested in applying computers and telecommunication for improving storage, retrieval, access, and use of biomedical information. Since the site is visited by many people of varied backgrounds interested in NLM grants, the emphasis was on clarity and ease of navigation. Please note that since the launch of the site, it has been incorporated into a broader NLM framework and no longer uses my header design. I provide on-going maintenance and modification of the site.
	The Modern Singer-Songwriter - www.giblins.net/SingerSongwriter This site was developed as enrichment material for a 12 hour study group which I led at The University of Maryland's Legacy College in the Spring of 2002. It includes information about nearly 80 artists and 100 songs, as well my recommendations for essential albums.
	Best of Italy, Best of Buddies - www.giblins.net/Italy I developed this site after a marvelous three week bus tour of Italy in October, 2001. The site contains over 150 photos chosen from 800 taken by me and other members of the tour, which was conducted by ricksteves.com. My site was selected as one of the runners-up in Rick's annual contest for best web site based on one of his tours.
	Beth Torah Congregation - www.bethtorah.ws I created and maintain this site for our family's synagogue in Hyattsvile, MD. It has two goals: marketing our synagogue to prospective members and providing current information to congregants. It went live in September, 2001 and is updated regularly, most recently with an expansion of the Hebrew School pages.
	Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine - sis.nlm.nih.gov I did a complete redesign of this 100+ page NLM site which is focused on information resources and services in toxicology, environmental health, chemistry, HIV/AIDS, and specialized topics in minority health. The challenge here was in designing an information architecture and navigation scheme to accomodate access to a large volume of information. Short pages were also a client priority. Steve Sabia, a very talented graphic designer, worked with me on this project, as well as the NASA site below.
	TOXNET - toxnet.nlm.nih.gov (current version) I was asked to redesign the look and feel of the complex interface to TOXNET, a collection of toxicology databases at the NLM. As before, a very compact design was required. The search interface needed to be consistent from database to database, while still accommodating differences in the nature of the databases. Note that the "as built" version is not fully functional in performing searches.
	Information Systems Center - isc.gsfc.nasa.gov As my initial web site experience I designed and led the implementation of this site in 1999 for my last group at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The design organized information by the technical disciplines in the ISC and by broad topics that cut across the disciplines. Perl and Cold Fusion were used to generate dynamic pages and to allow data updates by content specialists.

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