Portfolio

Below is a list of web sites developed by the The Henry Ford Community College Web Design and Development Club or its members. If you need a web site, please feel free to contact us for quote. We charge students rates and all proceeds go towards club activities and scholarships.


HFCC Ice Carving Club
The HFCC Ice Carving Club web site is a CSS-based tableless design that incorporates Flash for dynamic photo galleries. PHP is used for form processing to avoid client-side e-mail links.
CIS Department
The HFCC Computer Information Systems Department web site was originally designed as a CSS-based tableless site, but has since been converted in a database-backed web site. Drupal is the Content Management System (CMS) being used for the web site. Drupal is an open-source CMS based on PHP and MySQL and allows content to maintained by users with no programming skills.

When the club designs a web site for a client the following factors are considered.

  • Who is the audience of the web site?
  • What writing/reading level is appropriate for the site?
  • What typography and colors are best for the site and purpose?
  • What are the current W3C standards for HTML, XHTML, and CSS? Web sites designed for these standards are more accessible, load faster, and display more consistently across differnt browsers
  • What types of navigation should the site use so that visitors can easily and quickly find what they want on the web site, i.e. drop-down menus, search box, quick.jump menu, site map, breadcrumb trail, etc?
  • Would the web site benefit from multimedia, such as audio or video streaming, Flash, or panoramic views?
  • Will photos and images for the web site need to be drawn, taken, collected, purchased, or gathered from public domain?
  • Will the site require a dynamic programming language such as PHP for form processing, a mailing list, database, blog, or login area?
  • Will a third-party shopping cart be needed?
  • How will be market the web site if the client wants the site marketed, i.e. search engines, reciprocal links, etc. And is the web site optimized for the search engines?
  • Would the web site benefit from being built within a Content Management System?
  • Where should we host the web site, what are the best hosting companies, and what is a good domain name?
  • How can the web site be built so that if the clients wants to be able to easily change content on the web site they do not need to contact a technical web site developer again?