About Benni Austin
Hello, my name is Benni Austin. I am a web developer located in Minnetonka, MN. I have been building websites for about nine years and have been doing it professionally for four. I strive to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in web-development by not only reading about them, but experimenting with them also. If you have any questions, you can contact me here.
My skillset
I have worked as a front-end developer for a large eCommerce company based in Minnesota, U.S. for four years. On a day-to-day basis, I worked with and wrote Valid XHTML, CSS, and Javascript. I am familiar with using Photoshop to create web-sites and to slice existing designs. You can view my resume here.
Valid (X)HTML
By following proper coding standards I will ensure that your website is compatible across many browsers. A website with valid code in it's initial implementation will be easier to maintain in the future. A website written with clean, valid code will be more accessible, not only for the visually impaired, but for search engines as well, thus making your site easier to find.
Clean CSS
CSS code should be written cleanly so that it can be navigated easily by you, or any designer/developer you may hire in the future to make any updates to your site. I will include a properly formatted CSS file, saving you time in the future. I am well versed in the language of CSS and consider myself an expert. I will never use tables for layout, and will provide clean semantic (x)HTML that will work across many browsers.
Accesability
When a visually impaired person visits your website, they will use what is called a screen-reader. It is important that your website is setup to be properly read by these screenreaders. If considerations are not taken to ensure that your website is accessible, it could be very difficult to navigate.
Javascript
If your project includes any javascript, I will make every attempt to present the code in the cleanest manner possible, while adding plenty of inline comments, and keeping everything together in a javascript.js file in the <head> section of your page. I have plenty of experience writing javascript that works, including AJAX and DHTML. I will use jQuery wherever possible, but I am personally more comfortable writing javascript from scratch.