for hire:
interface developer
Hello. I'm Steve Raskin. My core expertise is developing accessible, extensible, standards-based HTML & CSS. Out To Launch is my test-bench and showroom.
my expertise …
I've been hand-coding HTML and CSS since 2000. I adopted, and have advocated, w3c standards and other best practices since I began developing for the web. Always conscious of the practical, real-world (and user-centric) context of my work, I can help you ensure that your HTML and CSS is semantic, accessible, optimized and scalable. A survivor of IE6, a veteran of cross-browser hackology, my approach is QA-centric; I test my work cross-browser, early and often, to ensure that bugs are quickly identified and resolved.
… & experience
I've sliced PSDs for a varied clientele, including enterprise e-commerce, universities, television networks, global brands in the airline, finance and social media marketing sectors and an international non-profit organization … among others. CSS is disposable, but done well, your HTML should have very long shelf-life. I can help you secure these advantages.
standards-based HTML & CSS
Please 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.
this just in:
I've been having a kick at HTML5's tires. While looking forward to cross-browser full HTML5 compliance, we can in the meantime, at least simplify
our DocType and a few meta tags, and ready our form controls for browser validation (woo-hoo!) and some other cleverness (semantic input types!). As a
semantics-obsessive (or maybe just a little old-school), it seems the jury's out on some of the new elements, though <canvas>, <video> &
<audio>, e.g., will be most welcome indeed, when they're fully supported in all the major browsers.
I've also recently optimized OTL for mobile browsers (iOS, BBv4.7; Android tests pending), which required only CSS3 media queries and, because my HTML is semantic, a very modest time commitment. I have some further mobilizations in mind for OTL when my schedule allows. Please stay tuned!
Some of the brands and agencies represented in my portfolio:
