Shucks Tavern
I was approached to build the new version of the Shucks Tavern web site by an ad firm in Las Vegas. They had already created the designs and just needed someone to build the markup and CSS along with some PHP on the backend to handle emails and some Javascript to add some flair to the site.
The entire build took about 2 weeks and would have taken longer but the client decided not to consider IE6 a first-class citizen (a decision any web developer will rejoice over). jQuery was my Javascript library of choice and it did all the heavy lifting for the JSON-stored data from the back-end. The restaurant’s menu, the specials/promotions, and a few other pieces of the site are all stored in JSON and fetched through AJAX calls. CSS sprites were used to lower the number of HTTP requests, too.
TutorSource
TutorSource is a web site/application, built in Ruby on Rails, to help tutors and students find each other and work out details for their services.
I was contacted by a friend and former co-worker of mine about doing the markup and CSS for the application. It was a fast build, just under two weeks, and was a relatively complex layout in some areas. Large, dynamic tables that hid forms and extraneous information; auto-complete search boxes; scrubbing text boxes and the like.
The site is aimed to be XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant but may not validate completely. The CSS is valid minus a few stray rules for rounded corners and the like.