About Noodleman Design

Simplicity. Clarity. Singleness. This is the guiding philosophy of Noodleman Design.

My designs emphasize usability, accessibility and functionality; clean, uncluttered and user-friendly sites that focus a visitor's attention on your content and message. Simple. Clear. Focused.

Noodleman can work within many small-business budgets, and I will work closely with you throughout the conception, design/layout, and deployment process. I am available, too, for any on-going site maintenance and content updating needs you might require in the future (on a per-hour or retainer basis), and am also able to tweak your site for better search engine optimization.

Why waste your valuable resources on anything but a concise, professional-looking, and cross-browser compatible site? I'll even tell you if you're budgeting too much for a site project!

Please contact Noodleman Design for more information. References are available upon request.

Please note: I don't "do" Front Page. I hand-code my HTML mark-up. There are two important reasons why I choose to do so:

  1. Front Page can (and will) create proprietary markup that can only be interpreted by Internet Explorer. That's not a good thing because ...
  2. It's difficult, if not impossible, to achieve cross-browser compatibility until one goes in and works with the raw mark-up. Even Dreamweaver leaves behind superfulous mark-up that can complicate browser compatibility.

Rather than using Front Page (or other WYSIWYG), I make extensive use of cascading style sheets (CSS) and have not designed any sites using tabled layouts since 2001. (Yes, tables have a place on a site but as data containers; not as a site layout function.) CSS greatly simplifies marking-up site layout, and even its most basic application can result in faster page-load time.

Noodleman Design is well-versed in:
  • D/HTML
  • Cascading style sheets
  • Javascript
  • Web graphics & banner ads
  • Search engine optimization
  • Web 2.0
  • Wordpress
  • Photoshop
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Microsoft Office

    ... and has worked with:

  • Shockwave/Flash
  • PHP/MySQL
  • RDBMS (Access/SQL/Oracle)

      

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