Meet The Design "Team"
It's a group effort
All web designs are a collaboration. Besides myself I have my own team of "consultants".
Bob aka Bzerob
SITE DESIGNER
As a casual designer I stay busy on my down time. It is a perpetual learning task. As I work on the projects I gather experience in a wide variety of design facets. So in turn the projects evolve as I learn.
My Design "Consultants"
The Support Team Members
Scarecrow
SR OPS CONSULTANT
Closely monitors all mouse and keyboard activities while holding down the monitor
Penelope
JR OPS CONSULTANT
Consultant-In-Training. Part of the development staff. Specializes in spot checks and mouse tracking
The Captain
CREATIVITY DIRECTOR
Assists in clearing any "creative block". After a few " consultations" it always make sense !
From Design to Reality
It's not magic, it's code!
Once you settle on the look and feel of the site writing the code is the next task. Getting the code right and validated to the ever evolving standards is a constant job. And when you throw in the twists and turns of the ever expanding list of browser engines and online devices you have your work cut out for you. The goal is that it plays nicely in most browsers and allows the sites to scale nicely on all devices especially the smaller devices such as tablets and phones which now make up an ever expanding share of devices.
Code Editor
MS Visual Studio Code / code.visualstudio.com - Code editing redefined - Edit and debug apps on any OS - Built-in Git support - 4000+ extensions - Free and open-source
CSS Framework
Bass CSS - basscss.com - Lightning fast modular CSS with no side effects./ Ace CSS / github.com/basscss/ace - Full-featured Bass CSS package withh addons for use in larger web apps.
Scripting Framework
JS - JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, animate images, and pretty much everything else. (Okay, not everything, but it is amazing what you can achieve with a few lines of JavaScript code.)
jQuery / jquery.com - is an open-source cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It is the most popular JavaScript library in use today.
Fonts
Bebas Neue - dafont.com/bebas-neue.font - BEBAS NEUE is a sans serif font family based on the original Bebas Neue free font by Ryoichi Tsunekawa. It has grown in popularity and become something like the "Helvetica of the free fonts".
Roboto - dafont.com/roboto.font - ROBOTO has a dual nature. It has a mechanical skeleton and the forms are largely geometric. At the same time, the font features friendly and open curves. While some grotesks distort their letterforms to force a rigid rhythm, Roboto doesn’t compromise, allowing letters to be settled into their natural width. This makes for a more natural reading rhythm more commonly found in humanist and serif types.
Roadway Regular - dafont.com/roadway.font - ROADWAY is based on U.S. highway lettering seen on New York street signs in February 2005. Two weights of highway lettering would often be used in the same street sign, a standard condensed version used for the main name and a half-size regular for less important information like ‘road’ or ‘street’.
Fontello - Icon font generator - This tool lets you combine icon webfonts for your own project.