Web & Graphic Design
I build web sites using XHTML & CSS for a variety of clients including artists, new urbanists, wizards, oil companies, film makers, and non-government organizations. Below you will find some of the advantages of my design style as well as samples of my work. If you are a small business wanting an online presence, or a company looking to outsource, feel free to contact me for a quote.
Advantages Of Good Design
Building web sites using XHTML & CSS has many advantages including:
Cleaner Code: All extraneous or ambiguous elements are eliminated, so pages are smaller, load faster, and render correctly.
Interoperability and Accessibility: XHTML is currently readable by the greatest number of browsers, devices and assistive technologies like screen readers. Accessibility is quickly becoming a legal issue.
Search Engine Friendly: XHTML produces pages that search engine spiders find easy to understand. There are no presentational elements or bloated code to confuse the spiders, so they'll crawl everything that matters and rank you accordingly.
Design Consistency: With CSS, the same style elements can be applied to every page of a site. From the first page forward, your visitors will be presented with a consistent design scheme, building their comfort level and effectively promoting your brand.
Easy Maintenance: Changes to CSS web page designs are simple. Instead of having to go back and alter every single page of your site, with CSS only the relevant style sheets have to be updated, saving you hours of work and limiting the introduction of possible errors.
Portfolio
RabbitView
RabbitView is a professional production studio which specializes in video for the real estate market. PHP and MySQL are used to create the dynamic functionality required. I also created a custom built real-time, credit card processing, e-commerce application which is connected to the RabbitView database which allows real-time dynamic content updates as purchases are made online.
Palomar Gas
Palomar Gas Transmission is a proposed interstate natural gas pipeline in the Western United States. Simple CSS layout. Easy to update and maintain.
Pediatric Obesity Clinic
This site was built with accessibility, good code quality, search engine friendliness and low file size in mind.
Thickstache
Thickstache, a place for writers. Built using PHP with a MySQL database back-end, this site is styled with CSS.
Atlin
The design is simple and clean. The amount of code is very small, and the layout is very basic. No visual effects, no advanced features, just a very simple layout.