CommuniCrafter Web Portfolio

Web Design Features

• CSS coding for styling and fluid layout positioning.
• XHTML-strict.
• Horizontal hover links.
• Enhanced main logo for better web rendering.
  Other graphics creation and editing
  for logos and icons.
• Both image links and text links for sponsors.
• Custom buttons to track quantity and type of ticket sales.
• Writing and editing content.

Web Design Features

• CSS coding for styling and fluid layout positioning.
• XHTML-strict.
• Logo positioning that remains centered, even on smaller screens or pixel-resolutions.
• Wrote custom slogan for branding
  (Maria’s Custom Fashions can make something fitting for you!);
  positioned at top of every page.
• Custom-created logo.
• Graphics-editing and photo-editing,
  (existing photos from long-distance client).
• Image Gallery (Samples page) with flexible user navigation through Javascript-DOM.
  Allows users to click a gallery thumbnail image and view an enlarged photo on the same page; if Javascript blocked, basic image links still work.

Web Design Features

• CSS for styling and fluid layout.
• XHTML-strict.
• Custom banner logo, photographed and edited (shown here). Updated later to a calendar logo (also an original creation), to fit client’s branding change decision, and also produced flyers using the same calendar branding.
• CSS hover links panel embedded into the page design, avoiding an empty column, ‘bacon strip’ look.
• Judicious use of white space on every page, to prevent a gray-page-look that could result from a mostly text-based site.
• Form for registration, using server-side PHP.

Web Design Features

• CSS for styling and fluid layout.
• Updated to XHTML-strict (originally did as HTML 4).
• Custom logo.
• Graphics creation and graphics-editing.
• Digital photos to be posted.
• CSS hover links also display corresponding text descriptions beneath the navigation panel. (Shown here: Phone Orders link shows added information, such as same-day shipping.)

Web Design Features

• CSS for styling and fluid layout.
• Updated to XHTML-strict (originally did as HTML 4).
• Created new logo, per client request, incorporating iconic elements representing Silver Cloud's targeted audiences. (Used digital photos that I took of in-store and outside signage, then clarified, refined, and arranged together with the circular-text graphic that I created.)
• Created some original graphics (seasonal falling-leaves, for example).
• Scanning and graphics-editing products for image galleries and detail pages.
• Photographing occasional product-specials.

Features - Updating

• Expanding image galleries to showcase more products.
• Added JS-DOM expandable-collapsable menu for product categories.
  The related icons also collapse and expand with their associated group.
• Clickable-image thumbnail galleries for each product category, with each image linking to a larger photo with detailed description.
  (Using univerally accessible links instead of popup windows, which can be blocked.)

Web Design Features

• CSS for styling and fluid layout.
• HTML 4.
• Frames-based, to keep all user-interaction on same page (as SEO factor judged insignificant for this section of the site).
• Custom link buttons back to three main areas of the CQLinks site.
• Scrolling right-side section for viewing vendor information. Some vendor listings have links to their websites.
• Non-scrolling category heading on the right, to help the user remember which category he is scrolling.
• Conditional Javascript listbox menus on the left.
  Selectiing a category in the first listbox determines what displays in the second listbox.

Web Design Features

• CSS coding for styling and fluid layout positioning.
• XHTML-strict.
• Custom logo (one of several designs).
• Non-scrolling background.
• Digital photos, in progress.
• Image navigation. Will use either clickable thumbnails (with JS-DOM) or slideshow(s) with PHP. (Depends on scope of inventory.)