Summary
As my interest in and exposure to web themes, methods, and resources developed, I became more interested in taking part in it all. Below are samples of my experience in creating web pages.
AndrewHLyons.com version 3
I began with a simple HTML document provided by my roommate at the time edited in Microsoft Word. The content was roughly the same types as you see here today, but the style and usefulness left much to be desired, so I decided to move on. I did a little research and found that many sites were designed with tables as the base for formatting and layout. This seemed like a good enough course to take, so I decided to learn a few things about HTML to help me get the ball rolling and learn more of what is possible.
Tables were good, and allowed me to create what I wanted well and define exactly how it should look. The problem was that the code underlying a table-based design is more complex and harder to parse for the novice than that for an as necessary
-coded page. This is why I eventually moved away from the tables to the XHTML-compliant, CSS-based coding you see now. You can read more about my transition to cleaner code in the Computer Science 107 section below.
You may view a screenshot of AHL Online version 3.
Computer Science 107
In Computer Science 107: Applications, Implications, and Issues with professor Brian Rosmaita, we studied compliant code, accessibility issues, and concepts of web design. The site that I created during that course is included here in its entirety as a sample of growing comfort with the coding tools and to provide the analyses and examples that I createdthrough a variety of assignments.
You may view my research and development through the course.
Communities That Care redesign
As part of my work in Computer Science 107, I worked on a team to redesign the site of the Oneida County Communities That Care organization. The redesign included an assessment of accessibility, usability, maintainability, and general appeal, followed by actually reworking their code to produce a more accessible, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing site. Further details about the assessment and redevelopment may be found in the Computer Science 107 section above.
You may view a screenshot of the revised CTC site.
Lab Consultant Resources
As part of my work with Hamilton College's Information Technology Services in the summer of 2006, I redeveloped the Lab Consultants' online home and resource page. The new version pared down much of the content of the previous version, which, though thorough, was cumbersome to navigate, and allowed the site to become a single page with links to the most commonly used resources, such as contact information, schedules, and links to their web-based daily tools. The code of the new vetsion also made it much simpler to maintain, by removing the tables and using external style sheets in place of deprecated elements such as the font tag and the align attribute.
You may view a screenshot of the revised Lab Consultant Resources page.
