Interactive Web Portfolio
Richard Kingston has designed and developed websites for over ten years. He learned a lot at the Art Institute of Dallas and the University of Central Oklahoma, and graduated from both colleges with honors for Bachelor's Degrees in Interactive Web Design, Graphic Arts and Theatre Design. He did an internship with the CW33/KDAF in Dallas which helped prepare him for his first career at Belo Corp./Gannett doing support with 38 local television stations nationwide.
Richard communicated and worked with numerous third-party vendors, site managers, clients and coworkers to complete projects on time. He also created mock-ups and system documentation to trained co-workers, new employees and site managers on various systems and programs. This continued with his Lead Designer position at First Web Marketing and continued into Norwex as Junior Programmer. Richard continues to learn and grow with each job, and looks forward to new challenges in the future.
Skills
- HTML5
- CSS
- SASS
- Javascript
- JQuery
- PHP
- MySQL
- GIT
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Dreamweaver
- Premier Pro
- Salesforce
- Pardot Email Builder
- CMS Platforms
- WordPress
- Google Docs
- Slack
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Logo Design
- Photo Editing
- Page Layout
- Wireframes
- Mockups
- Storyboarding
- Documentation
- SEO
- 508 Compliancy
- Accessibility Standards
- Writes Clean Code
- Problem Solver
- Creative Thinker
- Team Player
- Team Builder
- Leadership
- Self Motivated
- Drawing
- Painting
Norwex
Working for Norwex, Richard was able to increase his programming skills and knowledge while working on their main B2C site, as well as their training and charitable giving sites. He also built WordPress plugins and other systems to better help coworker workflows and consultants access product information.
SIG.org
Sourcing Industry Group (SIG) contracted Richard for three months to redesign and set up email templates for their promotional and marketing campaigns. He designed them in Illustrator and Photoshop then built them out with the Salesforce Pardot Email Builder.
First Web Marketing
With the shift to First Web Marketing, an SEO firm based in Ft. Worth, Richard became the lead designer doing not only website designs, but logos, postcards, brochures and web graphics. He is a team player, great communicater, has a positive attitude and strives to stay on top of new industry trends.
Logos
Richard took classes in school for graphic design, but it wasn't until his position at First Web Marketing, that he got hands-on experience creating logos for clients. Below are examples of final logo designs. View all here.
Belo/Tegna
Belo Corp. was acquired by Tegna in 2013 and Richard was kept on during the process. In a corporate environment, Richard got a great handle on the steps of design. He created wireframes, used branding color pallets to create mockups and made revisions to design and layouts throughout the approval process.
Awards
Richard Kingston worked with a great team at Belo Corp. Two different projects done with KENS5, San Antonio were nominated for Lone Star Emmy Awards. The team won the first year he was involved in 2011 under the category for Interactivity. The second year, they got received a nomination for their work.
