Microsoft Visual Studio Starter Kits "Personal Site "

2004 - design the personal web site start kit for Visual Studio 2005

human factors

Section 508 compliant, 800x600 above the fold sensibilities to the layout, information design: how to present a lot of data and rich lists in a way that is easy to read and edit when admin

marketing

starter kits are sample web sites shipped with a successor version of Visual Studio, developers can pick up and run with the site, adding their own content

technology

Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, tableless CSS and DIVs layout

aeSthetics

"velvety", "creamy", a soft look and feel that is totally expandable, for example, the photo gallery thumbnails can be any size or proportion and the borders will still work great. make everything customized, that is, no system looking controls. The only control that is still system-looking is the drop down menu in the photo detail page (a push back too strong to counteract from development)

about the samples below

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