Micah’s Portfolio
Company: Fancifull Gift Baskets
Work: XHTML/CSS, JQuery, PHP, SEO, Design
Link: http://fancifullgiftbaskets.com
Built with strict doctype using XHTML and CSS on a 960px grid. I started with this site 4 years ago, widening it from 760px to 960px. Edited custom shopping cart to work more efficiently as it was translated from FoxPro. Cleaned up PHP manually, incorporated and validated XHTML into the shopping cart script from HTML 4. Started adding JQuery to the newest layout for automated slide show and other visual features. Code design and layout influenced by good SEO techniques and practices.
Company: IT Compliance Institute
Work: XHTML/CSS, Javascript, Design
Link: http://www.twolanedesign.com/portfolio-projects/itci/
This year long project was a project I built from scratch. It was a complete redesign from the ground up. For the first time, I used separated stylesheets: reset, type, color, and layout. These stylesheets were linked using @import. This was also my first tastes into javascript libraries. We used a custom written library for the slide show in the middle content, as well as the login at the top right. This project also introduced me to <fieldset>, <legend>, and custom IE only CSS files.
Company: Stop the Thyroid Madness, LLC
Work: Art Direction, Logo Concept, XHTML/CSS, PHP, WordPress, SEO, Design
Link: http://stopthethyroidmadness.com/
Built on top of WordPress, this is a custom theme which I modified almost every element for the STTM site. I integrated two separate custom themes into each other, the most important one being WP Coda theme. This is a highly popular slider show based on Panic’s Coda website. I took the WP Coda theme and added it into the existing theme to build a double feature theme. This is the second site I’ve used with the Coda slider. I’m using a strict doctype for this as well, to keep the code semantic and easy to edit.
Company: Brand Designer by Chris Collins
Work: XHTML5/CSS, JQuery, PHP, SEO, Design
Link: http://www.branddesigner.com
Pure front end web development using PSD file to create brand new drop-down menu and code the site. This is my first purely XHTML5 site built entirely with HTML5 elements. I worked closely with the graphic designer with countless revisions to make a pixel perfect site. JQuery is used to power the drop-down menu and photo gallery slide show used for the portfolio section.
Company: Huntington Pawn Shop
Work: XHTML/CSS, WordPress
Link: http://huntingtonpawn.com/
This site was designed by Chris Collins from BrandDesigner.com. I sliced the PSD file and formatted it into HTML/CSS before laying it out in WordPress.
Company: Renovation Planners
Work: XHTML/CSS, WordPress
Link: http://renplan.com/
This site was also designed by Chris Collins from BrandDesigner.com. I sliced the PSD file and formatted it into HTML/CSS before laying it out in WordPress.