CSS web development: Scott Marlow | Marketing By Marlow

A new hand-coded CSS website for the Center on Infant Mental Health & Development (CIMHD) — part of the University of Washington School of Nursing.

CIMHD promotes “interdisciplinary research, education and practice; and advances policy related to the social and emotional development of all children during the first five years.

According to CIMHD, “the quality of experiences in the first 3 years of life profoundly impacts later development — including how children perform in school and their ability to form satisfying relationships with teachers and friends. Caring relationships with sensitive parents, or primary caregivers, are the most important factor in determining later outcomes.”

How true. In life, relationships are often the key to success or failure. At work, for example, your relationship with your web development team is the most important factor in determining the outcome of your new website or redesign.

Graphic design and logo by Kelly Davis | Farm Girl Works.

The UW Katze Lab staff were so impressed with our work for their lab web sites that they invited us back to re-design the bi-annual Primate Genomics & Human Disease Conference website.

This summer, I contracted for the Katze Lab, part of the University of Washington’s Department of Microbiology, to re-design four websites for their associated labs: viromics.washington.edu, www.macaque.org, nida.viromics.washington.edu, www.pandemicinfluenza.org. Staff wanted a standardized look and feel, and the ability to do internal site updates.

Tiffany James and Todd Karam were selected as the graphic artists. My role included project management, site architecture, planning, content development, and site development.

To facilitate HTML editing by non-technical users, I developed a hybrid table-CSS site. CSS also helps enforce layout and style rules.

The sites now share a consistent navigation scheme to help visitors find information. The sites are optimized for Internet Explorer 7 at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768.

The third launch of four UW lab sites. Design by Todd Karam and Tiffany James.

Visit my latest CSS flavor at http://nida.viromics.washington.edu