Insite Architects Website

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Insite Architects Website, October 2007.

In October 2006, I started to build a news website for Insite Architects, a architectural service group in Ivanhoe, Victorian.

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Insite Architects Website
Design Philosophy

The design of the Insite Architects website was based on the company's letterhead design. Elements of the Mollio template by Pete Ottery, plus some other ideas I had seen and been mulling over, were adapted to produce the final template. The result is a new CSS based table-less template, meeting the requirements. Considerable efforts were also made to build in improved support for accessibility standards.

The Tools

The following software tools were used to build the Insite Architects website:

Etomite CMS
(running on a Linux platform using Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin)
Microsoft Internet Explorer v7.0
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Adobe PhotoShop CS2
Adobe ImageReady CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
WS_FTP for Windows
HTML Tidy
NoteTab Pro
TopStyle Pro

Platform

The Insite Architects website runs using the Etomite Content Management Systems, an open source solution released under the GNU license scheme. Etomite is a CMS solution built using the PHP scripting language with MySQL for the database.

A JavaScript and CSS based drop down menu is used for the main menu, the data for which is generated by an Etomite snippet. The secondary navigation menu is a simple list, generated by an Etomite snippet and styles with CSS.

The Insite Architects website is hosted by JaguarPC on servers running the Linux operating system, using the Apache web server.

Web Standards

The Insite Architects website respects W3C standards. The website is currently validated to XHTML 1.0 Transitional with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The website also conforms to a number of accessibility standards.

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