Shadowness is an art community. Shadowness lets artists express and share their work while teaching and inspiring less-confident users the basics in popular art styles. Shadowness offers the greatest tools to ever-progress on a daily basis and also presents to the potential buyers and sellers an opportunity to mold the most fitting talents for business or personal endeavors. Every member counts, each carry Art within and the power to achieve self-expression. Users can upload their Art and tutorials, start a gallery or blogging-oriented personal site and can create groups that gathers users of the same interests.

Shadowness.com now serves more than 50,000 artists and receives nearly 1 million pageviews a month.

I founded, designed and coded (XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL -- from scratch) this entire project.

XDesigns Studios was established in Montreal. I started this project with associates to bring more visibility for clients who specialize in the entertainment industry. As the Creative CEO, I founded this creative agency and fully designed, coded and animated the Website in Flash. Most of my more visual work including logos, layouts, wallpapers, artworks, flash designs are available there.

TheOtherSide.ca is a creative agency that gathers ideas and talents to collaborate on technology-driven projects. Worked on Logos, Layout, Business Cards, XHTML, CSS, PHP and XML.

Pixilis is a photos/videos sharing community site where users can sell. I founded the project along with Marquis and Eloi when it all started. My position was Project Manager, however I was sharply participating in all of the production, including CSS, AJAX, PHP, API, Design, Branding, Videos, Server and Marketing. Unfortunately, objectives were unrealistic and the whole team left the project. Currently, there is a new team leading the project so please only refer to the Press for references.

Press: Mashable! | Profy

Tutorials 2.0 is a project that focuses on content and that embraces the use of blogging tools. This project has been dugg twice on digg.com and now serves 5,000+ unique visitors a day. The site has also been featured site of the week on Pixel2life, one amongst the biggest tutorials sites. XHTML, CSS, Javascript in Wordpress platform.

Articles: Digg 1, Digg 2

Blog: Blog 1

Appleaday.in is an India-based social networking Website that focuses on medical portfolios, community stories and questions on important health issues. Created the Logos, Website layout, XHTML/CSS. Designed a wireframe of more than 80 pages.

Logos/Icons/Branding Study
User Interface

CampusNetwork is a content-driven collection of communities across the globe. First launched in the summer of 2003 as SEASCommunity.com, CampusNetwork was the first student-run online community dedicated to connecting users on college campuses. CampusNetwork offered its original users a unique forum to exchange ideas, to showcase artistic expression, and to connect with other students. It quickly became an important source of social-interaction for its members -- eventually connecting over 75% of the Columbia undergraduate population.
Splash, Layout, Tutorial and Concepts (1 2 3)

Connected In Style is a collaborative effort that merges OZ, MSN, Gap and Bell's contributions into a campaign that brings awareness of IM and Email on mobile. My work on this project was to build a high-security, languages-support, signup-to-email-driven Website that uses Flash technology, PHP and MySQL. It has a content-management system and traffic reports exported in several formats such as .CSV. This campaign is being advertised on MSN.ca, Gapcanada.com and OZ.com and expects more than 100,000 signups within a month time and receives more than 10 millions visits within that month's time.

A full-blown graphics project for the coolest LAN party organized in New York, New York. Includes XHTML/CSS in Wordpress + Layout, 2 Wallpapers and a LAN Intro page.

Eden3 is a collection of prominent work from acclaimed artists. Eden3 was the stage where Shadowness became an Art community. With little experience in coding and a large interest from the fans, I put up together an ambitious community built from scratch where artists could easily find quality art from professional and experience artists from around the globe. The project was entirely self-started by me in the beginning of 2003 and was done in PHP / MySQL.

Eevox is a highly interactive and graphical experiment using high-end Flash, PHP and MySQL technologies. Eevox served as a launch to the new evolution of Shadowness back in 2004 when it became corporate. Important clients as much as active users were keen to learn more about the world of Shadowness. Over 35 projects were being elaborated at that time. Flash website entirely designed, animated and sound-mixed by me.

Ensnare2 is the birth of Shadowness.com back in 2000. It was created to inspire artists to embrace abstract and surreal techniques in designs. Ensnare2 has been famous -- and still is today -- for its unique wallpapers, graphics and tutorials. Entirely designed, coded by me.

A personal DJing website where users can download mixes, comment on mixes, find out about gigs, and download wallpapers and photos. Design and codes by Meng To. Additions and newer updates by Adam Goldberg.

Designed the Website for an online store established in France. Made wallpapers, logo redesign, promotional graphics and layout.