Web Design and Development

If you're serious about developing a successful Internet business, taking the time to educate yourself in Web Development, Web Site Design and Search Engine Optimization is a very important step.

Your priorities should lie within your web site, its usability, design and overall impression. If your web site doesn't look professional, all of your marketing and promotional efforts will be moot. Even if there is a lot of traffic to your web site, if it is poorly planned and structured, if it doesn't look professional, you will most likely not make any sales.

CSS Web Design

CSS Web Development or Tableless Web Development (tableless web layout) is the method of developing web sites without using HTML tables for page layout. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to arrange elements (text and graphics) on a web page. CSS was introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). CSS, used properly is a far better tool than tables for laying out your web site for many reasons. Two of the most important being far less code, which boosts your content to code ratio, making your site more visible to the search engines and the second being that CSS gives you the freedom to create a more clean and flowing site, taking away the many limits of tables.

Search Engine Optimization

Attaining a custom built website is an important step in the creation of your web presence, its effectiveness however; may very much depend on how many clients or customers have visibility to it. All of the sites that we build have built in search engine optimization. There are a number of ways to achieve this, through content specific keyword, clean CSS content to code ratios, allowing your site to be fully crawlable and so on. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) from liquidstardesign can help your online presence enhance its visibility on an ongoing basis.

About Me

My Name is Joshua Riddle and I am a full time Web Developer and Designer living in beautiful San Diego, California. I work for Affinity Development Group doing work on the CostcoAuto.com website; as well as a few Credit Unions. We host and maintain an auto buying program. I love my work and I love what I do. My true inspiration lies within design in most any media. The sites that I build are CSS/XHTML compliant, with built in backend SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for maximum exposure to the search engines. Like I said, I love art on any level, I love coding and all the syntaxes that lie behind what you see visually. I am currently adding a lot to this site, so please check back to see additions to my Portfolio and Blog. If you would like a quote on a Web Development or Design project you can contact me here, or fill out the form to the right.