The new website for my company has launched: SilasPartners.com. Our super-duper creative team came up with the fancy designs for the homepage and secondary pages in Photoshop, and I took it for integration into the CMS we’re using. A typical integration job involves taking the Photoshop PSD file our designers create, slicing out the proper images (like the header graphic, or a search button), and then laying it all out with HTML and CSS stylesheets. So while I don’t actually do too much graphic design work, I make the design “happen”, so to speak.

Unlike work we do for clients, we have a little more flexibility with what we can do with our site… since well, it’s our site. So we can experiment a bit more with the amout of flair we use, and try out some things we wouldn’t ordinarily try with our client web sites. Here are some of the really neat stuff we did, in no particular order:

• Ohhh-ahh nice fonts for all headers. We use a very specific font for our headers, instead of some generic web font like Arial or Verdana, and we do it without actually creating any images.
• Neat-o team introduction page. This is a DHTML widget I put together, which makes use of some custom Javascript functions and routines I wrote. Also degrades quite nicely for older browsers.
• Squeaky clean XHTML compliant code (well, for the most part).
• And a bunch of other hidden behind the scenes tricks…

I’m pretty proud of this site, as is everybody else that worked on the site, since it really showcases the quality of work that we are capable of. Explore the site, and learn more about the mission of my company. If you know of a church or ministry that needs an awesome web site, have their people talk to our people and we’ll get something setup

SilasPartners.com