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This is a big, elegant two tone site with lots of text, lovely
photos and extremely clear navigation around its 18 pages. It's also got one page in Dutch.
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This site shows off a large collection of lovely paintings and is
regularly updated. The navigation buttons are particularly
clear, reinforcing the unique banner for each page. |
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I started
building, as opposed to designing,
websites relatively recently. I find it a very enjoyable
blend of
giving people what they want plus a lot of design and technical
elements.
My basic philosophy is to make sites that look
good, have clear
navigation, present the content effectively and are above all
sustainable. They're not the
flashiest sites around but they are easy to amend so as to keep them up
to date. If I were to disappear to an
island in the Pacific anyone with reasonable web skills could pick up
any of my sites and carry on developing it.
My websites all avoid javascript and consist
purely of a css style sheet file
plus html web pages plus images (jpg, gif or png as
appropriate) plus, optionally, pdf
resource documents and
guides. I avoid website
generators that tie you in. And I'm not involved with any
database-dependent sites, eg ones with shopping baskets.
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So
my
sites will run anywhere on the web at minimum cost, even in the free
webspace ISPs
usually give you. Even the 'hotspot' image menu at the top of my home
page is done purely in html. And I make sure all my images
are
from legitimate sources, eg my own or from Wikimedia, so there's no
danger from those 'spiders' looking for copyrighted images.
Above are links to my main creations, shown
running in
different browsers (I always test in Internet Explorer 7/8, Firefox,
Safari, Opera and Google Chrome). They are more or less in recent
sites first order.
I'm told I should include some testimonials.
The sites I've done speak for themselves but here are
a couple: "Many thanks
for the swift and elegant work, as well as all the personal attention
and support." and"a
big thank you for the wonderful job you have done." And
everybody's
surprised how little it costs to get a nice site up and running (and
then keep it up to date).
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