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• BMH Consulting
• CDC ZA
• Drizit
• SA Maritime College
• Dumela Safaris

bestwebsitedesigners.co.za

Never to be accused of hiding lights under bushels, this domain was easy to come up with - and several clients have said that those were the words they entered into Google. The site can easily be adapted for regionalization.

This is the latest fiddle with some CSS3 properties but it is largely an ode to the 'megafooter'. This contrivance is getting bigger and bigger and I am not sure to what purpose. The general philosophy seems to be "Duplicate all the links in the menu" and "Add a bunch more that would confuse the navigation if it were at the top of the page" and finally "links to all my social networking sites".

• The word 'Website' is real text using @font-face and has been reworked to give a gradient fill, a white lower highlight and a black top shadow. Doesn't work in all browsers but is very versatile. The font is FolksRegular.
• The word 'Best!' is a graphic but could just as easily use CSS3 transform with the above properties.
• The menu is kept as simple as possible - no drop-downs. All the major pages are visible all the time including their state.
• The main page heading is DroidSans and the content is LatoRegular.
• The content images also use CSS3 to give them a small radius and drop shadow automatically.
• The H2 heading uses a little negative left margin to make it stand out.
• The footer contains complementary links that are not essential to decision-making on the site. The links are well spaced with large icons.
• I always try to make it easy for visitors to contact me so on every page there is a telephone number, an email link, and in the case of the large footer, room for a contact form. This has CSS3 radius, radial gradient fill and for the first time, CSS3 image border. Again, not recommended for all boxes but it gives it a little pizzazz. To save space, there is more fiddling to get the filed titles in the fields using jquery.