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Major Site Redesigns

Gardner Information Design, Inc. offers front-end web development for major website redesign projects.

During Spring 2004, GIDI Principal P.J. Gardner participated as a front-end web developer on a major redesign of Staples.com. The redesigned web site was launched July 2005.

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Staples.com

On this project, P.J. Gardner worked with a team of four other Web developers, creating page templates for a redesign of the Staples.com web site using XHTML and CSS in an IIS environment (later converted to JSP).

Staples Home Page (new site). Staples Rewards (new site, requires logon)

Learn about this project by visiting the live Staples web site:

The purpose of the project was to convert the previous retail site from a table-based layout to a standards-based, modular design to support more efficient content management.

Skills

Skills employed on the Staples.com project included:

  • Hand-coding XHTML and CSS using Macromedia HomeSite.
  • Building web pages and page templates for dynamically generated content.
  • Adhering to detailed design specifications developed by the web team leads.
  • Utilizing precise page comprehensives developed by the visual designers.
  • Testing web pages for cross-browser compatibility and ensuring consistency with strict in-house standards.
  • Structuring and maintaining the source control library.

Disclaimer: Live web sites are always subject to change. The examples on this page may not match the current version.

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