web design

The best way we can showcase our designs is to show you a few, explaining a little bit about the process. As we do this, you'll begin to see that the customer's objectives dictate the design approach we take.

Design Showcase

InSite MediaCom required a complex redesign with specific objectives. Because InSite's old design was somewhat lackluster, we decided that a "splash of flash" with some edgy audio on the opening page would be o.k.--after all this is a billboard ADVERTISING company. We stayed with their original dark background colors and logo.

InSite requested that we build an interface that would allow them to geographically plot their billboard locations on a map, with the plot points linking to detailed information about each board.

We created a database template of board data, and a secure web interface for InSite personnel to add or update board info. We then combined Ammap software with the Google API for InSite to create dynamic maps. The map plot points entered into the web interface write to an XML file intermediary to the Google API. Certain record fields are previewed in the generated info box, which links back to the complete data record. Finally, within the record display is a link to a Google hybrid image of the coordinate pairs at maximum zoom.

This was our most complex project to date, and it exemplifies a high degree of integration between complex programming with valid design elements.

The North Florida Cosmetolgy Institute website has evolved over the years and exists today as it's 2009 redesign. This customer also utilized our first customized online testing application for continuing education and licensing renewal (cerenew.com).

Regulatory changes over the years rendered the online continuing education (CE) testing, licensing and renewal system obsolete, but the core website remains, in its current form, as a testament to the longevity of customer satisfaction at mywebmarket.com. With over 8 years of continuous service, we continually update the course catalog, as well as the web pages which reflect updated course offerings and financial aid options.

This website also provides an excellent example of the type of basic website which can be created, hosted and launched for under $900 turn-key.

At the risk of shamelessly highlighting a personal hobby site, the Bottle Den really does merit inclusion here, as it has undergone several redesigns, including the current one, which employs a static CSS background, image "bleeding" and a self adjusting I-Frame height script.
While you wouldn't think that high-technology is useful in producing an antique bottle website, this site does in fact use some fairly advanced concepts.
I use a centered pop-window script to open thumbnail images into high-def size, as well as a CSS-based slideshow script from Project VII to render over 500 images of rare bottles by category. The site features a database of over 2000 known pre-civil war soda and beer bottles which I have compiled over a period of 35 years.
The database pages are themed to match, and framed into, the site's main content area and the I-Frame script analyzes the height of any given database query output page and adjusts the height of the parent frame to match.

This site was a labor of love for many years, and was one of the first sites to bring an active database of searchable collectibles to the web. The site has enjoyed top rankings for a Google search on "old bottles for sale" and I have sold several thousand dollars worth of antique bottles from the site over the last eight years.

The Florida Developers website was another re-design project, taking an old front page created website, and redesigning it to comply with current web standards.

We modified the customers old photos to match the web template's graduated image blocks with much success. This is actually a customer who had been with us for over 9 years of hosting, but made a brief departure from our original web design. Then the new designer's PHP based system was hacked, and they returned to us to re-establish their online identity, under a new, expedited design. Within one week we had this new website up and running, and (because it was a long time hosting client) at a price that would probably make the site owner blush if we admitted it here.

We're glad to have Florida Developers back as a design client, with a corporate web presence not subject to be taken down by amateur PHP hackers.

For the most part, we design web sites using html and CSS. This website (mywebmarket.com) is constructed using only html and CSS.

We occasionally use FLASH or dynamic HTML, but no longer create or support full blown FLASH websites.

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The C-Word. Compatibility
Back in the good old days, there was "the internet", which you viewed using "the browser". Things were simpler back then because everything "web" was relatively new, and compatible.

Today, the number one issue for a web developer is compatibility.

There are multiple operating systems, multiple browsers, multiple platforms, dozens of versions of them, as well as hundreds of versions of software designed to compensate for, integrate with, or be compatible with everything else.

Something that "looks great" and "works well" with everything out there is becoming more and more challenging every day, and this is why web standards are forever changing, older systems are deprecating and newer systems are replacing them.

We stay on top of the changes to make sure that your online presence looks professional, functions flawlessly, and is compatible with the latest web authoring software.