Straussner & Sherman

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Straussner Sherman website boasts capabilities of the Law Firm in providing legal services to safety members and their families.

The website primary goals were to:

• Establish an online presence for generating new business.
• Offer information about the capabilities of the firm.
• Provide legal resources and informative articles regarding Workers' Compensation.

Front-End Developer Role

• Front-end WordPress theme development incorporating HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, PHP, and fluid responsive layout.
• Use tools like Sass and CodeKit to organize and compile minified CSS code.
• Browser test front-end code with Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8 and above.
• Responsible for the build out and visual layout of the content.
• Performed periodic website updates.

Challenges

• Using proper CSS fallbacks for non-supported CSS3 properties. Relied heavily on caniuse.com for a list of supported browser features.
• Testing front-end code in all browsers. Browserstack.com was the tool that was used to test the website in various operating systems and web browser combinations.

What I Have Learned

• The math behind crafting responsive CSS code (target width / context width = relative width).
• Using polyfills to add support for non-supported CSS3 properties, such as html5shiv, selectivizr, respond.js to make ie8 understand media queries.