Example Sites
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Shell Plumbing | ShellPlumbing.com
Shell Plumbing asked how they could best showcase their established plumbing contracting business in a neat, simple fashion.
Design Features:
- When a user hovers over the photo icon beside a listed project, a smaller version of the photo pops up.
- Simple, clean design.
- Pure-CSS site without the use of tables (table-less design).
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Lake Gaston Volunteer Fire Department | LakeGastonFire.com
As this growing volunteer fire department continued to expand its service, the Lake Gaston VFD desired a strong web presence to aid in keeping the community involved and informed while further helping to recruit members.
Design Features:
- Compartmentally designed using a modular style that segments the site into easily readable parts.
- Pure-CSS site without the use of tables (table-less design).
- Interactive photo gallery, offering the ability to upload multiple photos at a time into an album, add captions, add and delete content, etc.
- Paypal integration to allow visitors to make donations or purchase tickets to special events.
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C & K Embroidery | Ckemb.com
C & K Custom Embroidery and Sports Apparel, Inc. in South Hill asked WinternetWeb to redesign their former web site.
Design Features:
- Theme embraces bold colors and imagery in the same way a embroidery and design business should.
- Site features artwork and graphics designed for area businesses and organizations with links to samples.
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Brian's Steakhouse | BriansSteakHouse.com
Brian's Steakhouse desired to offer their customers a convenient access to their menu by placing their breakfast, lunch, dinner, appetizers, wine and dessert menus online.
Design Features:
- Menu is sub-categorized so that viewers can isolate and print just one particular menu. By design, this makes it possible for a lunch menu, for example, to be passed around the office so that an ordering decision can more easily be made.
- Staff at the restaurant can log in and change the daily special at any time.
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Farrar Farm Supply | FarrarFarmSupply.com
Farrar Farm Supply needed a web site to expand their market, allowing their products to be purchased and shipped across the country.
Design Features:
- Hint of three-dimensional appearance with the horse image reaching down into the page to feed.
- A series of photos to demonstrate product use.
- Simple, welcoming theme.
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Joseph Taylor Law | JosephTaylorLaw.com
Joseph E. Taylor, Jr., attorney at law, desired a web presence to showcase his legal services.
Design Features:
- Simple, minimalistic design to aid in readability.
- Conservative, framed layout that diversely fits any screen resolution.
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Park View Marching Dragons | PVHSmarchingdragons.com
The Park View Marching Dragons and Band Boosters requested to have a site that would keep everyone up to date on upcoming events and enable photos and information to be posted.
Design Features:
- Dragon theme, supporting the school mascot: dragon scales texture along the border and the fire-breathing dragon topping the page.
- A log in feature and blog to allow the band director and band boosters to make immediate changes and updates.
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Freeman Auto Parts | FreemanAutoParts.com
For added exposure, Freeman Auto Parts needed a web site that would allow prospective customers to browse their vehicles online.
Design Features:
- Vehicles are randomly selected from the database to display on the home page, keeping the site fresh and new each time it is visited.
- Customers can filter their search for a particular vehicle depending on make, model, year, etc.
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Example item display page
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Bracey Mercantile | BraceyMercantile.com
Bracey Mercantile's web site is designed so that store items can easily be listed and made viewable online.
Design Features:
- Store owners can log in to add or edit their listings through uploading photos and inserting relevant information.
- Site viewers can easily email items to people who might find interest in them.
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A little background on becoming a web designer...
My experience as a computer programmer started about 15 years ago when I first dabbled with BASIC on an IBM PS/2 computer. (Remember that glorified paperweight?) I progressed to QuickBasic, Pascal, Visual Basic, and C++ before stepping into web design. While the transition into HTML started as a hobby, I noted the potential and influence web design had on our future. Dot-coms began to crop up on television commercials and on product labels; thus, the Internet was ever more becoming a household word. Today, the majority of people nearly rely on the Internet, email, and search engines for everyday tasks and purchasing decisions.
Today, my programming background has become essential in allowing me to create complex, database-driven web sites using the same industry standard languages and coding seen today in sites like Facebook, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. I also craft each web site by hand using code instead of software programs like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. While programs like those mentioned do make available a number of tools and functions to design web pages, in my personal opinion, they do not offer me the flexibility required to design a web site from the ground up. Having this ultimate control requires me to start completely from scratch, facing a single pulsing cursor on a blank page. But I love it.
With respect to formal training, I have a Masters of Science degree in technical communication from NC State University and a Bachelors of Arts degree in English from Virginia Tech.
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