Ken Simons: Current web projects

Original site designs

• www.peacemagazine.org Peace Magazine [online sampler for an established print magazine, with extensive online archives and index]
• ChildLife.ca [formerly TheEarlyChildhoodYears.ca: professional development site for ECE consultant]
• PoetryPEI.com [community outreach site for Prince Edward Island's poet laureate].
• metta.spencer.name [retired academic's personal site, linking to several book and project sites:]
  • twoaspirinsandacomedy.com [promotional site with sample chapter and offprints for the book Two Aspirins and a Comedy (Boulder: Paradigm, 2006)
  • RussianPeaceandDemocracy.com [comprehensive a/v and text archive site for the book The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy (Lanham, VA: Lexington Books, 2010)]
  • Vital Discussions about Human Security [mini-site for advertising and archiving a Toronto lecture series]
• saintstephens.ca [official site for a downtown Toronto church. Fully smartphone-aware]
• www.maggiehelwig.com [professional site for my wife, a literary author]
• www.davidhelwig.com [professional site for my father-in-law, a literary author]
• shirleyandderek.ca [site for activist couple]
• davidwurfel.ca [academic site for South-East Asia specialist, with 50 years' worth of archives]
• democracynow.ca [campaigning site for newly-launched organization]
• Science for Peace [Conversion of archived files to Textpattern; redesigned from bottom up for accessibility; greatly expanded archival material]
• zeronuclearweapons.com [site for a public conference; now populated with extensive audio and video clips, background papers, and archival material in general]
• Canadian Sanctuary Network [campaigning site with a range of downloadable resources and inline video]
• Toronto Urban Native Ministry [smart, lightweight one-page starter site]
• The Nightingale Society [smartphone-aware; done in Wordpress to allow for mailing list integration]

Playschools

• pcpcontario.org Parent Co-operative Preschool Corporation
  [organization's resource and info site with mini-pages for member schools; see some individual school sites above. Now redesigned as a mobile-aware and standards-compliant site in Textpattern.]
  • Baylawn Co-Operative Preschool, Scarborough
  • Blackstock Cooperative Nursery School
  • Dentonia Park Co-operative Nursery School, Toronto
  • East Oshawa Co-operative Preschool
  • Elmvale Cooperative Nursery School
  • King City Nursery School
  • Markham Co-Operative Preschool
  • McMurrich Cooperative Playschool, Toronto
  • Petit Pearson Childcare Centre, Toronto
  • St. Andrew's Co-Op Playschool, Markham
  • Unionville Co-op Nursery School
  • Village of Brooklin Co-Operative Playschool

Book-length single-file site

A scan of a rare print copy of Thirty-One Hours: The Grindstone Island Experiment (Grindstone Press/Canadian Friends Service Committee, 1966) can now be browsed or printed from civilresistance.info/grindstone. An epub edition is also available. This book is frequently quoted in texts and bibliographies related to nonviolent social defence, but until now has not been available online.

Adaptive redesigns

These sites were all originally designed by others, but I am now either the webmaster or consultant designer. In addition to cleaning up the pages and making them easier to update, I have also adapted them for access by disabled users and/or people with older or non-standard browsers.

• The Children's Garden, Pembroke, ON
• Homemade Tales, Renfrew County, ON
• Huron Playschool Co-Operative, Toronto
• The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
• Manor Road Co-operative Nursery, Toronto
• Hiroshima Day Coalition. Rationalized and made smartphone-aware.