Designing New Website For Portfolio - Part 2

My new website has left the Photoshop phase, and is now a working layout. I 've become good at z-indexing for layering my graphics. One of the my other challenges is making the load time faster without loosing the quality of my graphics either.

http://www.dmtportal.net/dmtportal-new/index2.htm

Check List

1. Header graphic hot spot - Done
2. Change 2 small left content graphics
3. Add text content
4. Change color and headings of slider menu
5. Add slider content
6. Form - fonts size/bold fix z-index - Done
7. Footer text
8. Add pages
9. Cross browser test
10. Submit
11. Update layout of blog

Designing New Website For Portfolio

My current portfolio website was my first time using a tableless css layout. The site is 3 years old, and it's time for a total make over. I've learned a lot since then from always challenging myself. I need to take it to the next level with each new website. The old site was http://www.dmtportal.net/. The new site will be www.david-toth.com.

This is the photoshop mock-up.

Final Checklist for Ar-Jay's Upholstery

1. Validate XHTML - Done
2. Validate CSS - Done
3. Convert to PHP with includes files - Done
4. Design photo gallery -
5. Design contact forum and test - Done
6. Map - Done
7. Create pages - About, Services, Work, Contact - Done
8. Blog - Done
9. Site map - Done
10. Submit - Done

Site Update

http://www.arjaysupholstery.com/

Arjay's Upholstery Working Layout

After a few learning curves, I've completed the first working web layout. I still have some more styling to do, but I'm happy with the results so far. I've been experimenting with optimized graphic, and combining style sheets for faster load time. I'm going on a short 4 day vacation, so I will not be working on the site during that time. It will give me a fresh perspective when I come back.

1st working layout:

Updated php version as of 9-10-10

Old link inactive

I Challenge Myself - ArJay's Upholstery Website

With every new web project I like to challenge myself with something new. ArJay's website has a lot of png graphic overlays and textures. The footer area will be the most fun. I will become good at positioning and z-indexing. Also, with the amount of graphics, I will have to speed up the load time with some good image optimization.

ArJay's Website PSD Layout For Final Approval

Here is the final photoshop mock-up. Next, I need to go over with customer for final approval. Also, need to go over detials before slicing the image. Need stock pictures of upholstery work of airplanes, boats, and late model cars before creating service pages. Here is the layout.

AR-Jays Website Coming Together - 2nd Revsion

This project was put on hold while waiting for stock photos from customer. It gave me time to work on and finish some other web projects. I also became good at fixing Malware issues. A couple of week ago, GoDaddy server was hacked, and one of my php sites was attacked. I had to go through all my files, and clean them out 3 times. At first, I thought it was an RSS problem, but later discovered it was coming form the server. Afterwards, I apologized to the creater of SimplePie. It was a little stressful. It would pop-up a fake virus scan, and would try to trick you into taking action.

Here is the latest Ar-Jays Photoshop Mock-up.