Design215 Sites

Gallery215.com

Artwork and photography by Robert Giordano

Linkatopia.com

Keep all of your bookmarks and favorites in one place. One of the few social bookmarking sites that doesn't allow spam, Linkatopia will become "invite only" in 2008.

PoeStories.com

Stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, with educational resources. With over 600,000 unique visitors in the first two years since it's launch, Poestories has become the most popular Poe site on the Internet.

PULPchat.com (CURRENTLY NOT ACTIVE)

The world's best HTML chat and instant messaging system for web sites.

RobertGiordano.com

An online resume and links to current projects.

Robert Giordano's Photo of the Day

Robert Giordano's personal blog with his own random photos and opinions.

Cophase.org

Amy Cofer is one of Design215's graphic artists.

Facebook.com/Design215

Design215's company Facebook page

Facebook.com/Robert.Giordano

Robert Giordano's personal Facebook page

Design215 Clients

Budget Video Rentals

Full service video production and video equipment rental facility located in Miami, Florida. Call 24/7 800-772-1111

Cesany Plastics

Specializing in replacement yacht windows and custom fabrication.

Dan Beyer

Dan Beyer is a 20-year veteran of Web, Video & Multi-Media Production.

David Haylock

David Haylock is an award winning film producer, director, cinematographer, and videographer.

Dimond Health

Dimond Health provides information on raw foods and healthy living.

Donzi Yachts by Roscioli

World Famous Tournament Sportfish Yachts.

Drum and Bass Arena

A huge drum and bass music store, located in the UK.

Digitizing World (formerly Dubs and Dupes)

Digitizing World provides video standards conversion, DVD and CD duplication, replication and authoring, and 8mm / 16mm film to video conversion. Based in Miami, Florida

Edit International

35 years of delivering the best feature news stories all across the globe.

Exceed Wetsuits

High performance wetsuits and rash guards featuring extreme designs and colors. Design215 built their web site, produced their imaginative print ads, and provided the photography for their catalogs.

Hiro's Yakko-San

Hiro's Yakko-San Restaurant in North Miami Beach serves some of the best, authentic Japanese cuisine in South Florida.

J. Richard Gentry

Richard Gentry is an internationally acclaimed author, educational consultant, and researcher and a recognized leader in spelling and literacy education.

Kiewit Southern

Design215 produced a time-lapse film of 12th Avenue Bascule Bridge project in Miami, Florida. The new drawbridge was brought up the Miami River on a barge, pre-assembled. It was raised into place and was operational in 72 hours.

LaSpadas Hoagies

Famous sandwich shop serving South Florida since 1973. "Best Damned Hoagies in Town."

LifeShop Collection

Contemporary Indoor and Outdoor Furniture, Lighting, Artwork and more.

Mollie McClure Meyers, Inc. Realtors

Realtor specializing in beach properties in South Florida including Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and Boca Raton for over 20 years.

Mortgage by the Sea

Get the best customer service for resisdential loans in South Florida from Toby White.

MOT Plans

Provides maintenance of traffic plans created by certified people.

Özzie

Design215 provided still photography for this female recording artist and actor from London.

Roscioli Yachting Center

Roscioli Yachting Center Inc. is a state-of-the art, multi-million dollar, full service yachting facility and marina. Separate from Roscioli Donzi, the Yachting Center services all makes and provides undercover storage up to 125 feet, haul and launch up to 165 tons, mechanics, propeller service, carpentry, refinishing, and more.

Southeast RC

Florida's Radio Control Pro Shop for RC Cars, Trucks, Helis, Airplanes and Boats. Design215 created the header images for their web site.

SuperGroup International

Video production, video equipment rentals, duplication and dubbing, props, and more. Based in Miami, Florida

Ultra Music Festival

From 2002 to 2013, Design215 provided still photography for this huge, annual music festival in Miami, Florida.

Vision Earth Society

The Vision Earth Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to global ecological communications.

Zona Fresca

"Not your everyday Mexican food ... Mexican food you can eat everyday."

ASP (programming)

Resources for Active Server Pages

4GuysFromRolla.com

ASP articles and tutorials

Aspin: ASP Scripts, Applications and Tutorials

MSDN: Microsoft Developer Network

Planet-source-code.com

Large collection of free vbscript source code.

CSS (stylesheets)

Andy Budd - No Margin for Error

Detailed explanation of CSS margins.

Containing Floats

Very good article from Eric A. Meyer about how CSS floats work.

CSS Beauty

A CSS design showcase

CSS Transparency for IE and Mozilla, and Firefox

CSS Validator

Online utility that checks a site's stylesheet for errors. When we build a site, we normally have the link to this service on the bottom of every page.

CSS Zen Garden

This site fully demonstrates the power and flexibility of CSS.

Embedding fonts in Internet Explorer

An interesting technique. Too bad it only works in IE.

Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial

Mezzoblue.com - CSS Crib Sheet

Simple steps to take when you run into problems with your CSS.

Mezzoblue.com - CSS Zen Garden design list

Mezzoblue.com - Image Replacement

Documents various methods used to replace H1, H2, H3, etc. with images.

Position is Everything

Modern browser bugs explained in detail!

QuirksMode - for all your browser quirks

Great resource for determining which features will work in various browsers.

Sliding Doors - CSS Tab Navigation

Styling form controls with CSS

A great article with screenshots of how form control looks in all the major browsers, Mac and Windows.

Dictionaries and Reference

English to French, Italian & Spanish Dictionary

Google Maps

We shouldn't even have to post this but its still new to many people. If you haven't seen it, check it out!

Latin Dictionary for students

Urban Dictionary

Publicly edited slang dictionary. Many of the slang expressions are nonsense but it is fairly comprehensive.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Free online dictionary with no advertising banners or popups.

Wikipedia

Free online encyclopedia with no advertising banners or popups. We use this site almost every day to look up almost anything we're curious about.

Internet Services

We recommend these sites because we use them on a regular basis.

000domains.com

Register domain names for $13.50/year. They are ICANN Accredited and we have been using them to register our domain names since 2002.

CSS Validator

Online utility that checks a site's stylesheet for errors. When we build a site, we normally have the link to this service on the bottom of every page.

(X)HTML Validator

Online utility that checks any web page for errors in the HTML or XHTML markup. When we build a site, we normally have the link to this service on the bottom of every page.

SamSpade.org

Look up IP addresses and other information. Download a free network query tool.

Wayback Machine

See what a web site looked like years ago. Find copies of sites that are no longer online.

Whois Source - Wildcard Domain Search Lookup

Look up domain names and see who owns them, where the sites are hosted, and how many other sites are hosted on the same server. You can also do wildcard searches for domain names which is really useful.

Marketing Directories

These are useful directories for listing your web site. Most of them require a reciprocal link on your site.

ProductionHUB.com

Listed on ProductionHUB.com in Photographers - Still / Production in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Marketingtool.com

Design215 is a Preferred Vendor in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida Photographers Directory at Marketingtool.com.

Design215 is a Preferred Vendor in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida Web Design Services Directory at Marketingtool.com.

Photolinks.com

Design215 is listed under Commercial Photographers

Photography

Directory of Notable Photographers

Lists information on familiar names such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier Bresson, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, Matthew Brady, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus and others.

dpreview - Digital Camera Reviews and News

This is the best site we've found to do side-by-side comparisons of all different brands of digital cameras. An extremely helpful site.

Infrared (IR) basics for digital photographers

Infrared Photography with a Digital Camera

Ken Rockwell - Diffraction and Depth of Field

Good technical explanation.

Ken Rockwell - Film vs. Digital

Great article. We agree.

Travel Photography and the Law

Important things to know.

Photoshop

Absolute Cross

Some good tutorials here and links to other resources.

Eyeball Design - FxZone 2001

Old but good tutorials on how to make interface components with bevels, curves, slots, and rounded corners.

Noise reduction plug-in comparison

A fairly thorough comparison of top noise reduction filters.

Photoshop 7 Color Management

Step by step guide. Site has other articles, including Photoshop CS color management.

PSlover.com

Links to hundreds of great Photoshop tutorials. You can find how to do just about anything you want here.

PHP (programming)

PHP Function Reference

The English version on php.net

PHPBuilder.com

Tutorials and articles.

Wikipedia: PHP

An extensive article about PHP with a good list of resources.

Zend PHP Tutorials

Web Standards

A List Apart

An online magazine created by and for web designers.

Dave Shea

An influential web designer who promotes web standards with his project, the CSS Zen Garden.

Eric Meyer

A former employee of Netscape, Eric is an expert on CSS and is the author of several well-known books.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Founded A List Apart and co-founded the Web Standards Project (WaSP).

Molly E. Holzschlag

Member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Voted one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web.

Shaun Inman

Creator of IFR (Inman Flash Replacement), Mint, and Designologue.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

How to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities.

Web Standards Project (WaSP)

Promotes core web standards.

Webmaster Guidelines from Google

Things we keep in mind when designing your site.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Primary source for web standards information.

HTML 4.01 specifications

XHTML 1.0 specifications

XHTML 1.1 specifications