Will Bowling Design Portfolio // Made with CSS-jQuery-PHP-Blueprint
Welcome to My Portfolio!
How to GROK Web Standards
Many times in my recent quests to find stable employment in Florida, I find mostly companies that are looking for Flash designers, programmers, or just plain web designers. It is hard for me to put myself in one of those categories. It reminds me of an article by Craig Cook Called How to Grok Web Standards. According to his article, to effectively design Web Standards compliant websites, you have to think like a writer, an engineer & an artist.
My Newest Designs exist within this site. This portfolio will help to show my passion of designing/developing with CSS as well as PHP. My ultimate goal when developing is to provide the Client with a highly accessable, low bandwidth website with smaller file sizes and clean code.
Tables? Why Tables?
Ever since I taught myself HTML circa 1994, I have been using tables. Untill 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 acheive a Table-Less design!
This proves VERY important for forwards compatability. 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 benifits and forthcomings of using CSS in web design.
