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WestStar Bank

WestStar Bank was a bank founded by E.B. Chester and mostly served the western slope of Colorado. We only had one branch in the Front Range (Denver) and all the rest were in various mountain towns serving the various communities there. As a small bank, it offered a myriad of some pretty advanced services and the team I was on supported our branches and customers.

I served as both a member of the electronic banking department and webmaster. The bank didn't change sites very often (compared to Datastream Systems, Inc.) and I only was able to create two public-facing web sites. WestStar Bank was eventually acquired by U.S. Bank, Inc.,

Expect Action Site

The company worked with Hill & Company to create a new branding and look for our bank. The Expect Action site was a big part of this rollout. This was one of the first sites I built that purely relied on DIV tags for all layouts. In addition to building the site - I also updated our internal systems to make sure it generated paperwork that followed the same look and feel.

WestStar Bank Intranet

This was the the Intranet site I was working on about the time we were acquired. The look and feel followed the Hill & Company branding from our Expect Action branding. This was to be a one-stop-shop for any resource our employees needed for tracking forms, loan application, HR documents, etc. It was also designed to be editable by designated employees. This site was also my first big foray into ASP.Net and C# coding.

WestStar Bank

This site was created a short time after I started the position. It was likely the last "table abuse" site I ever created. The biggest advancements with this site over what existed when I started was that it didn't use graphics to show text (I'm a big proponent for using text to show text!) and featured a simple login form on the personal banking and business banking home pages for customers to log into our online banking system.