Web Design & Web Development
Since early 1996, I've been involved in the design and
construction of quite a few websites. It's been interesting to
bring my experience in the design of print manuals,
brochures, newsletters, advertising etc. to this new medium.
Add to this my programming and database skills. Of course,
web standards and technologies, browser apabilities and general
trends, change on the web faster than anywhere else.
The following pages will give you an insight in to some
of the websites I've personally designed and built, listed
in chronological order:
Microsoft Activate the Internet Awards
In November 1996, I was privileged to be chosen as a finalist in
the Microsoft Activate the Internet Awards.
The website design you see here (www.borrett.id.au) was
selected by the Microsoft FrontPage team in January 2001 as
one of the five outstanding personal websites worldwide that they
had seen built with Microsoft FrontPage 2000. As a result of
this publicity, my website traffic increased briefly to as many
as 215,000 hits per day.
Petals Around the Rose
In the middle of October 2003, solving the Petals Around the Rose puzzle
suddenly became a popular challenge for many
Internet users and this website has been extremely well
used ever since. By October 2005, this website was receiving
53,000 unique visitors and 3.1 million hits per month.
Website Construction Tools of the Trade
Over the years I've used a wide range of tools when
building websites. As of June 2007, the software tools
I was using the most included:
- Etomite Content Management System
- Adobe PhotoShop CS2
- Adobe ImageReady CS2
- Adobe Illustrator CS2
- HTML Tidy
- NoteTab Light
- Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
- PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin
Photos were usually input via my Canon PowerShot S40
digital camera, or my Umax PowerLook II scanner
(1200 x 600 dpi), using MagicScan 4.2 and binuscan
PhotoPerfect Advanced 4.3.
I occasionally use other tools like: CorelDRAW 11;
Adobe GoLive 4; Adobe ImageStyler 1; and Microsoft Visual
InterDev 6. And I'm planning to have a good look at the
Macromedia range of web design products soon.
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