Website Design Portfolio_{XHTML & CSS Standards Compliant}

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Other Official "Holistic" Branded Websites:

Our Mighty inventory of websites maintained by HFW website engineers.

Mini Experimental CSS Experiences

1. Tacoma Web Design @ Artifex
2. Robert "The Traveller" Hill, Fringe Fanzine
3. 100th Turtle Party - Disengagement from Tacoma Artist Networking
4. CSS Madlibs - Governor Gregoire's 2008 Washington State of the State Address
5. Virtual SolaRichard® - Genuine Tacoma Personality Online
6. Tacoma Art at Work Month Feedback Survey
7. Choose Your Own Sketchbook Adventure
8. American Museum of Alaskan Entrepreneurship
9. Webmaster (XHTML + CSS) Resume
10. Holistic Forge Works Online v1.0
11. Tacoma Cartoonist Society
12. Tacoma's Cultural Arts Specialist for Hire

Web Design That Inspires Us

1. Say This, Say That!
2. Happy Cog Studios
3. Net Diver
4. CSS Zen Garden Designs

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Holistic Forge Works version 6.0 _{New Voyages in Tacoma Web Design}

Welcome to the speedy new HFW 6.0 website, we're glad you made it! We hope your experience is a pleasant one. Please note that you're not interacting with dumb XHTML & CSS, You're interacting with a man. As the one of countless web design companies in the Pacific Northwest we want to reveal to you our underlying idealistic intention of HFW's MODERN THINKING™ philosophy, of which this site and all her content embodies--that may be a joke, but we doubt it.

Our XHTML markup and CSS are Standards Compliant

• Desirable for ADA's 508 Accessibility Requirements (no table layouts here!)
• Swift to Update and Maintain - which translates to your bottom line

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We Separate Content, Style & Page Functionality

• Higher Search Engine Visibility - since goggle doesn't have to sift through all those obsolete style tags, no sir, all google sees is pure content! How can you tell if you've been ripped off by your old webmaster? They've polluted your code with tons of div and span tags using styles to make them look like headlines and paragraphs instead of using correct markup.

Do You Need a Content Management System?

• because we know how to do that too.

What is "The Internet(s)?"

The Internet is a nebulous sea of information with many competitors and we realize you want to run an excellent and profitable website with functionality that provides usability to the largest market/traffic possible. Properly facilitated with CSS, The right XHTML website addresses and uplifts the heart and holds high values. In the right hands XHTML can make people feel good and want to associate with you.

In Tacoma, There Is No Competition

Did you just pay a bunch of money to some asshole web design firm only to discover that your site is invalid, bogged down with Tons of Spam, has poor search engine results, or is Slow and inaccessible to special needs users & other popular internet browsers? Ask yourself why and you'll soon discover that most local web developers are complacent idiots who are consumed with envy & self-loathing at the appearance of superior/unknown web design technologies; Thus, we of the forge describe this phenomenon as: Your Local Web Designer's Death Spiral of Stagnation.

At HFW We're Not Even In the Same Unverse!

1. Artifex (Tacoma Web Design & Print)
2. SiteCrafting
3. Rusty George Creative
4. Exit 133

Holistic Forge Works Web Success Story #666

Studying these five (5) easy web design tips can bring you unparalleled success in today's tight job market. Below is an ACTUAL letter I received from an ACTUAL ambitious young web designer.

Dear HFW Webmaster,
I got a full time web design job! I will be working here: [some lame web design company] in approximately 2 weeks.

They hired me because I can design using CSS and my strong illustration/design skills. I told them flat-out that I'm not that experienced but I love web design and have taught myself over the past year how to design using CSS. They liked that! They can tell that I've got smarts! And that I'm a good American!

I owe this to you! You helped push me to learn CSS. *tear forms in corner of eye* I learned it by watching you. *voice trembles* You are the wind beneath my wings.

Thanks for all your help!

P.S. I saw President Bush today and he told me to tell you to "stop looking for answers through sin."

~ Lisa S. Burroughs