May 29th, 2009Shucks 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.

tagged: css, html, javascript, jquery, json, php