Description:
This was my first web design project. The client wanted a simple site through which visitors could request an estimate and learn about his services.
Skills used:
HTML, CSS, jQuery, Smarty templating engine, PHP, Graphic Design
Case Study
The site is completely hand-built and relies on no CMS framework. (I rarely do this anymore, Drupal and WordPress make a site so much more extensible). My goal with the site was to make it very easy to request an estimate. I figured that people who arrived at the site wanted to contact a lawn care service, find out their prices and get on with their lives. Thus the contact form is the central feature of the homepage.
I found a jQuery validation plugin that I like very much and now use whenever I have to do my own validation on a site. Its super-easy to use, and has a surprising array of options.
This is one of the few projects that I worked on completely by myself. I met with the client to discuss the site’s language, but I drafted a good portion of this as well.
The owner of MyLawn Landcare informed me that he regularly picks up customers through this site.