KEITH HEIBERG ~ Web Work

The Heiberg family coat of arms, painted by a cousin.

“I think there’s a worldwide market for maybe five computers.”
— IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

Web Sites

Here are some of the sites I've developed. A couple of the older ones no longer show my own work, but they'll give you a flavor of what I was doing at the time.

American Financial Printing, Inc.: Back in 1994 I had to convince my manager that if I put the company's brochure online, people would actually look at it. (The company didn't even have email at the time, so I had to set up that too.) The site has expanded quite a bit since then, as you can see.
Boldt.Entertainment: To my surprise, much of the work that I did in the mid-1990s is still there, such as the animated GIFs and overall design.
HealthForums: My coworkers started calling me "Captain JavaScript" for all of the online tools I developed. Later I learned Vignette StoryServer and Java.
Ian Leask: Ian was my fiction teacher in the late 1990s. I designed his AOL pages for maximum speed and compatibility, since many of his students are starving writers with slow connections.
Inc.com: At the height of the dot.com boom I moved to Boston to port this site from Vignette StoryServer to ATG Dynamo. But then the boom went bust, and so did the company.
Somerville Arts Council's "Books of Hope" Program: I scanned and posted book covers, redesigned and updated the site, and helped them convert to PHP.
Simply Haiku: Since August 2005 I've been SH's Webmaster, designing and coding pages with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Sometimes text need to be embedded in Japanese, Chinese, or Cyrillic characters. They have a dedicated and experienced team, and I enjoy working with them. (Here's my SH bio.)

Flash

This semester (Fall 2008) I'm taking four courses at Harvard's Extension School, including a multimedia course. If you'd like to see some of the projects I've done so far, check out my Flash gallery.

Java

At UnitedHealthcare I wrote a database conversion application and various applets and servlets; at Inc.com I developed a search engine as well as various projects to plug into ATG Dynamo. But nothing I can post here, unfortunately.

JavaScript

When I worked for Optum (a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare) in the late 1990s I developed a series of JavaScript quizzes and calculators for their flagship site, HealthForums. Eventually my coworkers started calling me "Captain JavaScript." Unfortunately, I didn't get a superhero cape. But the quizzes were very popular.

I don't think those old tools are still online, so UHC probably won't mind if I share them with you here.

Recently I developed a JavaScript tool to help my fellow poets "sustain a sestina." It keeps track of the complicated end-word pattern for you as you compose your poem. Check it out, and let me know what you think.

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