building sites that are a joy to browse
the best sites balance the content with the presentation. Content is the most important thing for a successful website and yet we know you have to capture the attention of the users so they can appreciate the content.
technical build
- developing, testing and implementing simple, useable, and attractive interfaces that account for speed, file size, and accessibility.
- coding valid semantic markup with SEO in mind.
- Client side web technologies: HTML, CSS; HTML for structured content and CSS for layout and presentation.
- Server side web technologies: PHP and MySQL.
- interacting with the objects in HTML thru the Document Object Model (DOM)
- providing enhanced user interfaces and dynamic websites with a little JavaScript
- working with organized data: XML
- using the preferred open source stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP)
- obsessed with the ongoing process of continuous refinement and validation.
modular code
a best practice is to create functions and elegant blocks of code that are suitably modular and reusable, rather than re-writing large amounts of code over and over. By editing one of these independent submodules, you can easily update your entire site since that one submodule affects many modules, and the modules make up your site.
web standards
the site you are viewing is coded in strict compliance to web standards. the code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. complying to the standards ensures interoperability with browsers and forward compatibility.
please follow the link in the footer "this site is valid XHTML 1.0" and you will see that every page was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This means that the resource in question identified itself as "XHTML 1.0 Strict" and that we successfully performed a formal validation.
