Responsive design is a simplified approach which provides an optimal viewing experience across as many devices as possible. By using Media Queries, and sometimes incorporating the usage of fluid grids and flexible images a developer can control the styling and appearance of a website that scales to any size resolution. Users no longer need to zoom, pan, or resize their browser.
Skill Set
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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No one goes looking to fail, but it's the only way to truly grow. Failure is part of the human experience. Dealing with failure, however, can develop characteristics in a person that shines in leadership roles. Whether you're a team leader at an office or someone starting a website for an online business, you can apply lessons from past failures to the present. One thing about failure that holds true for everyone — you'll never repeat the same mistake. You can learn a great deal from your biggest mistakes. Once you've had a chance to look back and reflect on what went wrong, you'll have a powerful mental resource-base. You'll be able to easily identify similar situations later.
That's what I've done. After 29 years in the business I've seen pretty much everything that can go wrong, and have found the best approach to most problems.
Responsive Design
Advanced CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document...
jQuery
jQuery is a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig. Used at about 20% of the 10,000 biggest websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. jQuery is free, open source software, dual-licensed under the MIT...
HTML5
HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web Applications 1.0. As of October 2009, the specification is in the 'Last Call' state at the WHATWG...
PHP
PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. As a general-purpose programming...
MySQL
MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that has more than 11 million installations. MySQL is named after Monty Widenius's daughter My. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. MySQL is officially pronounced /maɪˌɛskjuːˈɛl/ (My S-Q-L), but often pronounced “My Sequel” ...
BigCommerce
Bigcommerce is an e-commerce platform for fast-growth businesses, enabling them to easily launch professional online stores in hours, not weeks or months...
EPiServer
EPiServer CMS is a proprietary web content management system. It is used to manage information on an Intranet, Extranet or a public Website. With EPiServer all co-workers can create and update the organization's website from a Web browser without previous knowledge about creating web pages. It can be compared with ordinary word processing. EPiServer CMS...
WordPress
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time...
Drupal
Drupal (pronounced /ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to Enterprise 2.0 collaboration and knowledge management...
Netsuite
As a pioneer in the commerce industry since 1998, NetSuite was the first to provide an ecommerce solution that unified ecommerce with your back office systems. Today, SuiteCommerce powers thousands of online businesses helping them grow and expand to new heights. Backed by professional services, an extensive partner ecosystem and dedicated support, SuiteCommerce provides your business everything it needs to succeed...
Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as 'an industry standard for graphics professionals' and was one of the early 'killer applications' on the web ...
It's What I Do
Through my career, I've developed web solutions and solved problems for many clients, including Consolidated Edison, GE Consumer Finance, Xerox, Seiko, Heineken, Eastern Mountain Sports, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Maclaren and LaserPerformance.
I thrive on finding solutions where others say "...it can't be done..." or "...it's impossible to do...". With that, I possess a strong passion for web development and developing ways to entice users to interact with the web sites I create. Starting around 2006 I had developed several techniques which 'sniff out' the user's device to determine if the device is a phone, a tablet or desktop computer then returns the appropriate layout. With the onset of Media Query usage in CSS, I now focus my attention on adaptive layouts which allow for a single layout to be used across any device, regardless, and scale the layout to fit the appropriate dimensions of the window view.