Web Design Portfolio
At Barlow Enterprises, we pride ourselves on creating web pages that are standards-compliant and cross- browser compatible. This means your pages will be viewable in all web browsers, from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox right down to a basic PDA or cell phone. Many web developers write their pages using Front Page or other tools which generate bloated, slow-loading, and difficult to maintain code which rarely adheres to web standards. We are a highly technical company, so we are able to create the pages at a code level to strip out this unnecessary information. Our pages snap on the screen!
We use external Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple yet powerful mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. for all layout and positioning, and adhere to XHTML (1.0 Strict) XHTML 4 is an SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879, and is widely regarded as the standard publishing language of the World Wide Web. standards for markup. This separation of content and layout allows us to develop pages extremely rapidly and make site-wide design changes smoothly and consistently.
We also use PHP PHP is a widely- used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML for active content and modularization of your pages, which keeps maintenance costs low since menus, headers, and footers are maintained in single (external) files. PHP also allows us access to databases and external data (even on other web sites) and RSS RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. feeds for more active or dynamic content.
This is the most elegant solution for creating and maintaining a web site ever developed. It is backwards-compatible with nearly every browser ever written, and is future-compatible with browsers that haven't been written yet! It is rapid, robust, and highly flexible. We think your information is worth it!
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Barlow Enterprises
I designed my business site to have an extremely clean, functional, minimal, and non- confusing design. The intent was to be precise, professional, and brief. Our services encompass a lot of different areas, so I prefer to let them speak for themselves. The site is also a liquid layout, meaning content adjusts to browser screen widths (resize your browser window to see it shift to fit automatically). Since a portion of my customers may be residential, dial-up speeds were taken into consideration by reducing the number of graphics elements. This site also has the capability to shift to other modes using the styles menu. This is handled through Javascript, managing the DOM, and a cookie to make it persistant. I did this to show the power of using CSS and why they make it so easy to redesign your site.
L. A. Reynolds
This was an amazingly fun site to code, particularly the map on the front page. This business caters to a very high-end crowd, so we used a lot of color and imagery for impact. There's is no javascript involved here, but some of the most advanced CSS tricks on the web. There is only one image used for the map (no preloader necessary for rollovers). I used sprite technology for the rollover effects and css to position the descriptions on hover. Eventually, the links will lead to new pages for each area.
Tour de Mayberry
Tour de Mayberry is a charity ride offered by Hospice (see below) and is hosted in Mount Airy, NC (the granite city, also the birthplace of Andy Griffith and the site of Mayberry from his show). I used granite as a theme, and the sherrif's badge was custom designed to match logos from the t-shirts for the ride. One of the nicest parts of this site was the registration form which is completely server-side validated through custom PHP modules. After the registration is complete, selected information is assembled and the person is redirected to Paypal to pay their entry fee. I used server-side code for validation rather than Javascript to maintain accessibility in the spirit of Hospice.
Hospice of Surry-Yadkin
This was a recoding project based on the current design of their site. We repaired gross errors and consolidated code (menu, header, etc.) to PHP includes and externalized markup to a common CSS file. This allows a more consistent feel to the site and greatly simplified managability and maintenance. The file sizes of many of their pages were reduced by as much as 90%, resulting in much quicker load times and were now consistent across all pages.
Inspired Hair Studio
This is a work in progress for a new site. I have put in a skeletal framework, marked up their services menu and most of the information they want to have displayed (as well as some snapshots I took of their facilities). Since I've separated all of the data from the markup code, updating information (pricing, etc.) is relatively painless, and making changes to the layout occurs site-wide.
Jewel-Me
Here, I worked with a jewelry artist based in England on her startup business. She preferred to have creative control of her site, so I worked with her on code and training to get her site to a layout she was happy with and helping her to develop a coding style that was comfortable for her to maintain her site.