Well ... no one can say I don't have experience building photography websites. Believe or not, it's nearly impossible to template these sites for re-use. Photographers are artists and always want their sites to be slightly (or extremely) different from everyone else's. I built Ben Grieme's original site a few years ago using AJAX/PHP/mySQL. This time around I went with flash (actionscript 3) because of the aforementioned bitmap features.
In an effort to learn Actionscript 3.0, I decided to create my own version of solitaire as a facebook application. I think I've wasted more time playing the game than actually developing it. so beware! Not sure it will work outside of facebook, but it's worth a shot.
This is demo-site for a pet project I've been playing around with for a few years. It's a automated internet radio station with a website that gives users the ability to request songs from a library. They can type a dedication message to be read by the voice-synthesized DJ or, if they have a microphone, they can record and upload their own personal dedication. The radio station is completely automated and is based on the IceCast streaming server. I wrote a perl module to select songs from user requests or, if none have been made, based on an algorithm I've been developing for a year or so. Once a user's logged in, they can chat with other users, look at a google map of roughly where other users are located and leave comments about particular songs. For most songs, there's also lyrics available. The station can be streamed using iTunes or using the flash player embedded on the page.
Sometimes I work on a site and I'm not exactly sure what it's for. This was definitely the case with Chip Wass' portfolio site. It was very challenging though. The client didn't want to use flash but wanted a very flash like interface: side scrolling graphics with rollover changes (graphical and sound). So this site was built completely with javascript.
Under the direction of Rowland Holmes, the new typography.com launches! For this project I parsed data from the client's existing Filemaker Pro application into a mySQL database and wrote all of the backend PHP code. This site also includes a 'Test Driver' which gives customers the ability to preview fonts before purchase. It utilizes AJAX for real time feedback.