Web Design Exercises

June 2007 / Web Design

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About this project

It was in the late spring 2007 when I truly knew I wanted to seriously pursue web design. Not having anything along the lines of completed projects to show for myself, I decided to create some mock layouts to refine my skills and show what I could do.

Over the next few months I created several different mock layouts, each one pushing my XHTML/CSS, PHP, and graphical skills to new limits. These websites still exist and can be viewed below:

An outline to my approach to each of the preceding sites can be found in the content of the layouts. Primarily I was concentrating on combining my familiarity with Photoshop & Illustrator with my budding interest in XHTML & CSS.

Upon the completion of these personal projects, it was not long before I took on my first freelance project for an actual client.