• It's built using the latest web standards. Including HTML5 and CSS3.
• 100% valid markup. Every web page I build is 100% W3C verified HTML. This is important to ensure that the pages display correctly, and to help search engines such as Google parse the contained information properly.
• The IanWebDesigns logo and the icons on the home screen are drawn with the open source JavaScript SVG library Raphael. SVG has several benefits over standard image files. It scales perfectly, never gets pixelated, can be animated or interacted with and uses less bandwidth than standard image formats like jpeg.
• The application that runs IanWebDesigns is written in Ruby using the Rails web framework.
• Interactivity and AJAX for the site uses jQuery.
• The site's layout uses a percentage based system called Susy to draw the layout on the screen. This means that the layout for the website will adapt based on resolution it is viewed in for the best fit. Neat huh?
• Every piece of software used to deliver the site is open source.
• IanWebDesigns scores 100/100 on YSlow (Or 98/100 if you include the CDN options which are surplus to requirements for this deployment ) Pages are heavily optimised at every level to keep load times and file sizes down.