Will Bowling Design Portfolio // Made with HTML5, CSS3, jQuery
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My Latest Project
BobCAD-CAM // Website redesign and backend rewrite.
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Progressive Enhancement
Wikipedia Definition - "Progressive enhancement is a strategy for web design that emphasizes accessibility, semantic HTML markup, and external stylesheet and scripting technologies. Progressive enhancement uses web technologies in a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, using any browser or Internet connection, while also providing those with better bandwidth, more advanced browser software or more experience an enhanced version of the page."
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Tables? Why Tables?
Ever since I taught myself HTML circa 1994, I have been using tables. Until NOW! I personally came to the understanding, with the help of a GREAT teacher, that by using CSS to position divs/boxes in the browser window, leaving as much text as possible for the search engines to discover and ridding embedded tables all together, one can achieve a Table-Less design!
This proves VERY important for forwards compatibility. Lets just say that you have a 300 page website that consists of sliced images and endless tables. Lets say that you decide you want to alter the appearance of the paragraph spacing and the fonts throughout the entire site. It would take forever! With Cascading Style Sheets and proper semantics, one could easily change these things with a few lines of code.
Designing with CSS and Why
DOMs and CSS support have come a long way since the beginning of the "Browser Wars." The W3C, WaSP, and major browser creators have endured tireless effort allowing future web designers the freedom of CSS support throughout most new browsers.
This Portfolio will reflect the Growing use of CSS within my work. I want to join the ranks of those before me; Spreading the news of the benefits and forth-comings of using CSS in web design.