Select from the menu on the right to view specific projects. You'll find a common thread with all the designs. The focus is on the content. Most layouts are "liquid", meaning that they stretch when the browser window is adjusted.

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Our page design and coding uses the most intelligent systems available to give our clients the best value for the dollar. Today, we code with web standards with all projects. This helps ensure that future browsers will render the web page as they do today.

HTML (or XHTML) tables are used by many designers to create structural grids. The grids are used to hold parts of the design in place. The problem with this is that tables also lock your content in place and make it more difficult to adjust the design later on. We only use tables when necessary, such as presenting information in a tabular format. We never use tables as structures for the overall design.

Tables also contribute "weight" to the page, which eats bandwidth. The redundant <tr> and <td> tags used to code tables can really add up, and eliminating them cuts a good portion of code on the page.

So how do we control the display of the pages? By linking the web pages to a CSS file. CSS gives web designers the tools to organize our pages, and much more. CSS is basically a set of rules to control how elements such as paragraphs, lists, and links are displayed on an XHTML page. There are books dedicated to the topic for those interested. The key is that by defining global styles in a single, separate file, updating a site's look takes less time, money, and reduces the chance of errors. Now the XHTML page is now more "flexible" because more of it's text is devoted to content, what the viewers came for.

There are other benefits to CSS, too. Just as we made our pages "faster" by eliminating tables for layout,by separating most of the presentational info (background colors, text descriptions, etc.) our pages arrive get to the viewer by taking styles out of each page and putting them into the CSS file. Once a CSS page is accessed browser caches it, this means that once the styles are downloaded, the browser remembers them for use later on.