Niagara Outdoors
Niagara Outdoors is a small outdoors store located in North Tonawanda, NY. The new website features a "quick links" bar to allow easy access to regional information such as weather forecasts, lake temperatures, and much more. A number of outdoor photos are also randomized to make each page unique. In addition to providing basic information, this project involved modification of Magento, an open source shopping cart application.
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Seen at the Scene
This fully dynamic site was developed for a past colleague. It aims to provide complete photographic and information services for regional bars and nightclub establishments. This was my first project developed using the CodeIngiter PHP framework. (Note: The data on this site is filler. This link will change as soon as the site is fully live and operational.)
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Outdoors Prototype
This prototype was created to experiment with the 960 Grid System and therefore designed around a width of 960 pixels. I found it to be a breath of fresh air from the majority of 800 pixel designs I have worked on in the past. This design is for sale! Contact me using the details below if you are interested or have any questions.
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Restaurant Finder for iPhone
This application was created exclusively using XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and a JavaScript library to emulate the look and feel of the iPhone OS. The application prototype consists of one database containing several tables for storing restaurant information, ratings and reviews, and local cities. The interface allows for browsing by restaurant name, cuisine, and rating as well as searching by restaurant name and/or location.
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Call-Maker Arnie Jonathan
This site was created to showcase the work of custom game call maker Arnie Jonathan. It has received numerous compliments for its ease of use and photo-centric design. Plogger, an open source photo gallery, was used to allow Arnie to easily upload images and make changes without any knowledge of HTML.
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Web Hosting Template #2
This template was crafted with web hosting companies in mind. It features a Web 2.0-esque style along with a 3-state navigation bar. On the order page, CSS was used to style several form elements for a more complete look. Note: The logo was given to me for inclusion when the design was purchased (I did not create it).
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Web Hosting Template #1
This is a mockup layout intended for use by a web hosting company. The layout features a home page that highlights the hosts’ strong points and allows news to be posted. A secondary page was also created to help compare the hosts’ plans. It was purchased recently on the popular web hosting community, webhostingtalk.com.
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Precision Effect
Precision Effect is a web hosting company focused on quality over quantity. As the owner of the company, I felt the site needed to be both usable and aesthetically pleasing. Based on user feedback, the new site has been a great success. This site was also used as the basis of our new control panel interface, PrecisionPanel.
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Recipe Prototype
This project consisted of creating a database to house recipes, ingredients, cuisines, and courses in addition to developing a PHP-based frontend and backend interface. The backend interface allows for easy entry of recipes, ingredient, cuisines, and course vocabulary. The frontend interface allows for faceted browsing of recipes as well as searching using a controlled vocabulary.
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My name is David Garbus and I’m a web designer in the Buffalo-Niagara region of New York. For the past 8 years, I've been working with websites, web hosting, and a whole bunch of other web-related stuff.
In May of 2009, I graduated from the University at Buffalo with the highest latin honors. Now that I'm done with school, I'm ready to work for you. I have experience in XHTML, CSS, PHP, and take pride in a strong attention to detail. When it comes to design, I'm all about user experience. If a person can't figure out how to use your website, what good is it?
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Whether you need a whole new website or just a freshening of your existing design, I’m here to help. You can reach me via email, telephone, or instant messenger services to get a quote or discuss your needs.