Building a quality web site that reflects your goals, commitments and values is a must in today's world of technology. Whether you have a newly formed business or proven company, having your business plan and marketing strategy in a well developed presentation is a key first step in telling your customers that you have a quality product to offer. Even if you want a personal site to tell the world "Hello", what your site looks like and how it performs says allot about the owner of the site.
The philosophy behind the designs:
As a webmaster/designer, I have a responsibility to try and keep "my corner of the web" within certain standards. As a rule of thumb, I will usually choose best practices over design any day. There is nothing more disappointing than searching for something on the web, and finding web sites that are annoying or hard to navigate. On the other hand, a well designed site can keep people coming back to your site again and again.
- Be Fully Functional.
- Viewable in different browsers.
- Viewable in different screen resolutions.
- Markup must be well written and validated.
- Be easy to navigate.
- G Rated for family friendly viewing.
- Not be flashy and annoying.
- No background sound.
- No flashing banners with bright colors.
- Be free of scripts that disable browser functions.
- Be free of anything that may be considered "phishing".
- All designs are tableless layouts.
- All designs use CSS for design structure.
- All designs are classic 2 column or 3 column layouts.
- Websites are coded according to the W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.
- All websites are Priority 1-compliant according to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- Images created or modified for illustrative purposes are .png .gif or .jpg format.
- Every web page contains "keyword" and "description" meta tags. I can offer guidance regarding the selection of metadata terms, but cant be responsible for providing metadata for project websites. SEE page on SEO
- Every web page in a website includes copyright statements.
