w3c standards-based XHTML & CSS Development
"clean code is a thing of beauty!"

CLOSE UH-OH! It appears you're using Internet Exploder v6.x - aka the Dick Cheney of web browsers: old, feeble and responsible for untold misery (of developers) and destruction (of clean code).

For the love of all things holy - and to ensure your enjoyment of all the pretty enhancements on which designers and coders work sooo hard -

PUH-LEEZ UPGRADE TO a *REAL* web browser, e.g.:
Firefox,
Safari,
Internet Explorer 7

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About OTL

I'm HTML/CSS Developer Steve Raskin. Out To Launch is my test-bench and showroom.

My core expertise: w3c standards-based XHTML & CSS.

I've been a practitioner and advocate of best practices since I began rolling my own code back in 2001. Fortunately, it seems less necessary these days to preach the long-term benefits of good front-end code - accessibility, extensibility, search-engine visibility, and simplified maintenance.

However, with web applications becoming increasingly ambitious (read: code-heavy), it's never been more important to have optimized markup and style sheets - this is where I excel.

Why Hire Me?

My experience includes coding a wide variety of (table-less) layouts - including several large-scale e-commerce and social networking sites comprising dozens of views and templates. I'm familiar with browser bugs and how to resolve them; my QA setup allows me to develop and test on multiple browsers and platforms, confirming cross-browser consistency of my work. When I deliver your documents, you can be assured they've:

  • passed w3c validations
  • been thoroughly commented
  • been x-browser/x-platform debugged

So I invite you to check out some of my recent work or my resume, and let me know how I can be of service to your project. For inquiries regarding my availability, please contact me.

What's New?

OTL has just been completely overhauled (12/'08): re-built and re-skinned, and incorporating my initial forays into jQuery and AJAX.