Welcome to Steve's portfolio web site! Please take some time to browse through the examples of my work by clicking the buttons on the left side of the page. You will notice different media and many technologies on display. My specialty is in the web design industry, so that is where you will see the work that is most representative of what I actually do every day (at my job as a Senior SEO engineer at SEO Inc).
This portfolio features XHTML and advanced CSS positioning tutorials. As well as clearly commented code and detailed working examples. Designed to both show off my artistic portfolio pieces well as showcase the code behind the curtain.
What's New
I am working in beta versions of a new tutorial feature that will detail the process and provides an outline of your goals and and guides you through the 8 steps of creating a portfolio web design.
Menu madness
These are the drop down menu (Tutorial - CSS Drop Down Menu Journal: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 ) that search engines just love to crawl through.
The menu is ready for review!
Please post a link to any example you want to re-use, we can just go with the honor system: if you liked it enough to use it, then surly you can find a place on some domain to place a link to to the example.
Nesting Numbered List Navigation | drop down menu | Free drop down menu | clean drop down menu
Oh, and I am working on a "best links to have handy". While you're working on your portfolio web site you can visit the resource page with all the links to the information you need. The links I recommend I have been collecting for some time now and hopefully this page will turn out to be a very valuable resource . Don't expect to see any links up on this comprehensive resource page until next week.
I decided to use a breathe some life back into this old CSSZengarden design I (mangled the HTML long ago) but it picked up some page rank and I figure it is different enough by now to use as a links page:) If David Shea is pissed I will take it down right away, but I have changed this file several times since it was his HTML from CSSZengarden.
Daddy Knows Best
Assisting in the advanced associates lab at Platt College San Diego gave me a chance to really hone my Photo Shop and HTML skills. The past 4 years of working in the SEO field has expanded my horizons as a web designer in many, many ways. This portfolio website is the culmination of that knowledge, I hope you enjoy your visit!
Concept Car: Designed using; Adobe Illustrator
Web Design Portfolio
Sometime in February of 2005, I realized that my portfolio website was one crucial step away from truly realizing its destiny, and fully living up to it's name:
Using CSS to mimic the look and functionality of my frame set. I found a bunch of great resources. And after many nights of banging my head against the keyboard I came up with a solution.
CSS Rollovers
Sometimes it is easer to create your own solution from scratch than it is to modify an example template from a tutorial site.
This page dose not contain a frame set! View the source code, and you will see that I am using CSS to mimic the look and functionality of a framed page, without having to split the HTML into separate files. It truly is a complete solution to the whole frame problem. What more could you ask for? All of the cool stuff that I like about frames'. None of the issues that would keep me from using one.
CSS positioning
What really kills me is that: there are logical loopholes in present technology. And that's all I have to say about CSS and web standards. CSS layout is fundamentally different from traditional table markup in that you define everything about "container blocks", such as <div>'s, entirely from the CSS.
Cross browser supported
When I originally set out to create my portfolio web design web site I knew that I wanted to move away from using table structure to layout my pages. CSS is the future! And the future is now! I truly dedicated my web web site to the use of advanced CSS techniques! I am a huge fan of using the coding language that was developed for web page presentation: CSS.
CSS frame set solution
Keeping content and structural containers separated logically would allow for for ease of development and increased ability to be truly creative while designing a web layout. Unfortunately the guys at the browser company's can't keep up with W3C's pace of growth and development of web standards. So what happens is you spend all day creating a masterpiece web site that you are so proud of, until you open it on one of your friends computers, and its all massed up.
Creating the Original Platt Daddy
My portfolio web site was an extensive process that I considered a distinguishing feat to have accomplished. But, now that I look back on that experience, it really did not prepared me for the problems with browser support I would face when implementing increasingly advanced CSS solutions.
CSS saves the day once again
Oh, and feel free to snag any of the code you see used here as a starting point to creating your own CSS frame set's, Or CSS rollovers, or Flash embeds that validate, or whatever code you see that you would like to modify. You can farm my code (it is open source) and study my techniques all night long, just please don' t rip off my graphics or duplicate any of the content found in my portfolio web site design portfolio.
Steve Tchorzewski - 08.20.2008
Web Design Portfolio
As you may know by now this is the portfolio website of Steve Tchorzewski, who specializes in producing highly functional, visually stimulating web site's. Amongst his clients and co-workers, Steve is known for using CSS to simplify HTML. Steve's experience using advanced CSS techniques allows him to think outside of the box, and ultimately streamline the coding process. By replacing verbose scripts and removing deprecated tags, Steve is able to create pages that load faster, work better and always meet 508 web usability standards. Platt Daddy's portfolio website is truly a step above and beyond other web design portfolio
web sites. The detailed graphical interface you see is organized and optimized for ease of use. However, the truly extraordinary aspect of this portfolio website is that the source code is entirely CSS driven HTML. There is no frame set! Steve uses CSS to mimic the functionality of frames. There are also no Java Scripted rollovers (Steve's are text based, for easy updates). And of course there are very few tables (Steve's code is mostly div's with a class and ID). For HTML junkies out there Steve provides a great snippets of embedded code to get an .swf file loaded on the page, so that it validates through the
W3C. A nice bit of code to have handy, seeing as how Flash and Dreamweaver write invalid embeds. Steve began working on the web at Platt College San Diego in 2001. Since that time, Steve has produced many website's which have been published for clients around the world. Some of W.I.N's clients that I personally designed (and/or optimized): www.tomsfarms.com, www.Mischa925.com, www.guardsite.com, www.barraguard.com, www.remarkable-recovery.com, www.GunAccessories.com, as well as many others. Also check the new PlattDaddy.com web design portfolio search
engine spider friendly drop down menu. A great example of Steve's unique style, take this portfolio website: It has a sleek and professional look using some nice photo shop work to make a shiny, glossy, metallic theme. As you surf through this portfolio web site you can't help but notice the sharp, usability driven style that tends to somehow compliment the CSS used in its construction. Please take some more time to brows through the web design portfolio web site of Steve's work. This is one portfolio web site that you are going to enjoy! -Kevin Stone
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