Robust Web Pages

Using combinations of advanced "front-end" and "back-end" technologies, techniques and tools, I can offer clients very robust web pages, dynamically created, with user-interactive animation, sound, graphics, text and images!!

For the front-end, I use Flash, Image and Graphics tools (such as Photoshop and GIF Animator), and even sound (if desired), along with DHTML. {DHTML stands for dynamic HTML. DHTML is composed of 3 technologies - 1) standard HTML, 2) JavaScript, and 3) Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS) }. NOTE: I no longer use Java applets, as this technology is not only slower executing and rather outdated, but further many browsers today do not come pre-bundled with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JVM is needed to display a Java applet. Further, as the Java standard is constantly emerging (such as Java Swing classes a few years back), even the older browsers that had pre-existing JVM's would not display applets that use newer Java components. The net effect is that if we were to use a Java applet, it would require most users to have to download and install a compatible JVM for their browser, something definitely not desirable.

For the back-end, I use exclusively PHP and MySQL. PHP and MySQL work very well together, are both very powerful, fast, and efficient, and better yet, they are both completely free open source technologies!!! While I sometimes will still incorporate and/or modify exisiting Perl/CGI scripts (an older technology that was more or less the predecessor to PHP), for any new development I will use PHP instead. These free open-source technologies are far superior to even some pay-per-license technologies (such as one which I won't mention by name, but it's initials are CF), which rely on the JDBC and thus execute sustantially slower.

So by combining the back-end power of PHP and MySQL, along with the power of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, and much more on the front-end, clients can get web pages that will knock their customers socks off!!!!