Abell Smith Design http://abellsmith.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:36:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 New website work!! Chocolati e-commerce site… http://abellsmith.com/?p=35 http://abellsmith.com/?p=35#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:53:45 +0000 Abell http://abellsmith.com/?p=35 So for those who don’t know, I’m currently enrolled at Seattle Central Community College in their (increasingly renowned) web development program. Well, I got my grades back for Summer quarter (all 4.0’s!), and I now have the first spoils from my new edjumucation…

First, I completely recoded two previous sites, Coastal Cafe and The Grub Hut, getting rid of all that nasty code (nested tables) in favor of clean divs, php includes, and external style sheets. I also added some cool stuff that I’m just now getting comfortable with, such as JQuery sliders on the home pages and Lightbox image enlarging.

The big news, though, is that I finished a large e-commerce site for Seattle chocolate company Chocolati, which uses the behemoth (to me, anyway) X-Cart Shopping Cart software. This one is actually not 100% done yet… I’m still working on improvements to site usability, browser compatibility, and SEO. But I think it’s ready to show.

Check all this stuff out… there will certainly be much more to come soon!

]]> http://abellsmith.com/?feed=rss2&p=35 0 Magazine Ad for A.W. Hoss & Son http://abellsmith.com/?p=31 http://abellsmith.com/?p=31#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:49:21 +0000 Abell http://abellsmith.com/?p=31 Added a magazine ad design to the Graphic Design section for furniture company A.W. Hoss & Son. Will be doing some website work for them soon, too…

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]]> http://abellsmith.com/?feed=rss2&p=29 0 Official Welcome! http://abellsmith.com/?p=24 http://abellsmith.com/?p=24#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:22:00 +0000 Abell http://abellsmith.com/?p=24 Take a look around, stay a while…

All CSS here, no more tables for this guy.

Most likely it’ll need more tweaking and troubleshooting, so let me know if anything doesn’t look quite right on your browser!

]]> http://abellsmith.com/?feed=rss2&p=24 0 Colors? http://abellsmith.com/?p=19 http://abellsmith.com/?p=19#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:13:13 +0000 Abell http://abellsmith.com/?p=19 I might play with the color scheme a little bit… looks a bit more purple-ish than the blue-ish I was shooting for.  But the blue seemed a little dull…  what do you think?  Shoot me an email — abell@abellsmith.com.

]]> http://abellsmith.com/?feed=rss2&p=19 0 WordPress http://abellsmith.com/?p=17 http://abellsmith.com/?p=17#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:37:40 +0000 Abell http://abellsmith.com/?p=17 Looks like I finally got this thing working.  We’ll see how it goes when I test on a buncha different browsers…

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