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As Sparklejet, Matt Jalbert commits passion, integrity and ingenuity to the creation of beautiful and useful
e-communication.
Other Clients
- McKinsey Consulting
- VeriSign
- Charles Schwab
- SunEdison
- Sapias
- Vivacare
Cryptography Research
- Narus
- QS Technologies
- eOne Global
- nCircle
- Subserveo
- Jet Charter Group
- NetInformer
- Lofts Unlimited
- Beutler Corporation
- CashNet
- Just Art Pottery
- Aschbacher & Frager
- Keehn On Art
- Artistic License
- Emerge Records
- The Arts & Crafts Press
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Selected Projects
- California Health Advocates: A non-profit agency central to the dessemination of Medicare information in California, this large project involves:
- Site design and on-going development
- Assistance with social network integration
- E-mail newsletter management & production
- Close attention to legible typography and Section 508 accessibility
- Long-term search engine optimization & carefully crafted SEO-friendly semantic HTML mark-up
- Google Custom Site Search
- The Gamble House: a world-famous historic home in Pasadena, California by architects Greene & Greene. In addition to design and implementation of the website, I handle ongoing site updates, many involving custom-designed event promotions and graphics for ticketed events. I also manage their Facebook presence and HTML e-newsletter.
- Rocket-Hire: complete site design. I worked extensively with the client to clarify the presentation and scope of his services. As usual, I applied modern HTML+CSS and SEO best practices to his site, along with a custom WordPress publishing system and Google’s Custom Site Search.
- WhitMcLeod: site design, e-commerce implementation, and ongoing updates and development.
- McLeod Chairs:
micro-site and sales promotion landing pages, including photography.
- A ‘New and Native’ Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene: museum exhibit traveling to the Huntington Library, Smithsonian, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Complete site design, additional photography of museum objects. For The Gamble House organization.
- Just For You Cafe: site design and on-going development, HTML e-mail newsletter managmement, social network and web marketing, restaurant photography.
- The Craftsman Home:
site design and on-going development, HTML e-mail newsletter managmement, social network and web marketing for this Berkeley retail store selling Craftsman-style home furnishings.
- Urban Bay Properties:
complete new database-driven dynamic website for a fast-growing San Francisco
real estate broker. A complex project that stretched over 4 years. Developed new content areas and interactive functions; designed HTML templates for CraigsList real estate listings.
- Lofts Unlimited: site redesign and search engine optimization.
- The Mescall Group: site design and development for a creative services agency.
- Stasi Martin, Realtor: site design and development for a San Francisco real estate agent.
- San Francisco Human Services Agency: working closely with the site's author (E.G. Communications), I developed the information architecture that clearly organized a huge number of documents; and guided the semantic HTML markup while improving use of CSS.
- Holton Frame-Makers:
large regularly updated site for this maker of hand-crafted frames
and mirrors in Emeryville, California.
- Hamm Glass Studios:
complete new site and photography for a leaded art glass craftsman.
- Rynerson & O’Brien
Architects: portfolio site for an architecture
firm in Oakland, California.
- Gray Brechin, Historical Geographer & Author: complete site redesign, photography.
- Growing Image Landscape: complete site for a Marin County landscaper architect & landscaper.
- Glacier Home: marketing brochure site for a Montana vacation rental home.
- Jonathan Swain: complete website showcase for a San Francisco-based freelance writer/editor.
- The Lew Edwards Group: complete site development for a political communications consultancy: re-branding, re-organization, re-design; as well as updates.
- Peterson Economics:
complete new site for a real estate economics consultancy.
- Bayshore Sanitary District: complete new site development for a government agency.
Notable projects
- Charles Schwab & Co.: developed page designs for a wide variety of nationwide
marketing promotions, including
audio, video, and interactive forums.
Developed mock-ups for a Schwab.com home page redesign; highly optimized designs of top-level pages,
including the home page.
- McKinsey Consulting: developed visual designs and
HTML+CSS for the McKinsey Quarterly publication site.
- eOne Global: developed web user interfaces for a financial
services conglomerate.
- Purchase.com: developed
site designs for a business-to-business commerce site.
- Narus:
complete CSS/XHTML site redesign for this security software company.
- QS Technologies:
complete new site for a health care software developer.
- Beutler Corporation: developed new site architecture
for an HVAC supplier.
- Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc.: site redesign in progress.
- Just Art Pottery: new information architecture; expanded use of CSS and removing HTML tables; applying semantic HTML markup for SEO (search engine optimization), and page load speed improvements.
- CalMedicare.org:
developed entire site for a non-profit agency providing Medicare
information to consumers. Evolved into cahealthadvocates.org (see above).
- Frager Group: Commercial Real Estate Investment Brokerage: complete new site.
- Artistic License:
developed a new site for this guild of home design and remodeling
craftspeople.
- Electric
Bike Network: developed entire site for a marketer
of electric bicycles.
- SurhLuchtel: developed site designs for a
California wine maker.
- WhoWhere? ConnectNow!:
developed site designs for this telephone directory lookup
service.
- MailCity: designed a web-based e-mail service; collaborated
on the user interface design.
- Cryptography Research
Inc.: developed entire site for a cryptography
software company.
- eGain: key member
of the team that designed the user interface to their web-based
e-mail management software; designed corporate website and
banner ads.
- FlightTime.com:
developed site for this online broker of chartered
air flights, including extensive development of their
highly complex air charter booking interface.
Developed and administered user tests. Collaborated extensively with their programmer to improve
the information design and user experience (notably,
this site has been extensively copied by competitors
in the airline charter industry).
- Goodshark.com:
developed site designs and information architecture for this
employment site.
- FamilyWonder.com:
developed site pages for use in conjunction with off-line marketing
campaigns; developed an HTML newsletter template; developed
ad banners.
- The Arts & Crafts Press:
developed entire site for this printer of books and cards.
- Kidflix.com: developed
site designs for an online retailer, including the e-commerce
flow.
- TechWeb / CMP Media: art directed this major online technology news site,
leading a team of five designers and eight producers. Developed a massive network-wide site redesign, moving
over twenty independent sites into a common design template
while rebuilding the back-end delivery system in a new
dynamic publishing system. Collaborated on the development of web-based internal
production tools. Developed and administered user tests.
- Mojam: developed site
designs for this music-related site.
- OnSale: developed site designs for this early online
auction site.
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