Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Tag: Web Design

  • Yet Another Website Relaunch

    Yet Another Website Relaunch

    Throughout my career I have relaunched this site quite a few times. I’ve used it to explore new web technologies that I can then then leverage on my job. The first jackreichert.com site I launched was when I moved from Israel to New York. It was a portfolio of the work I had done. I…

  • Announcing the new ISDA.org

    Announcing the new ISDA.org

    I’m the Director of Web Development at ISDA, a trade organization whose goal is to make the global derivatives markets safer and more efficient. I started there a little over 6 years ago, just after they had launched a new site. The design was contemporary for its time. The codebase was built on top of…

  • Announcing IlanaCMyer.com

    Announcing IlanaCMyer.com

    I’m proud to announce the launch of the author site of my talented wife: Ilana C. Myer. The art is by the very talented Galen Dara; the site design and development is my own. I wanted to take a few words and go a bit into my thoughts behind that design. The design: The primary…

  • A Small Thought About Adaptive Web Design vs Responsive Web Design

    Responsive Web Design, which is built on the principals of Graceful Degradation. Whereas… Adaptive Web Design is built on the principals of Progressive Enhancement. Whhahaatt? Graceful Degradation is when you build your site for modern browsers, then find solutions to make the experience passable for people using Internet Explorer or Mobile Browsers. Progressive Enhancement starts…

  • Why I tried Twitter’s Bootstrap and What I Didn’t Get from It

    **Edit: **Now that Bootstrap has been around a while I’ve updated my thoughts. ~=~=~=~=~ The inspiration for Twitter’s Bootstrap is pretty awesome – a predefined reusable modules for building beautiful, elegant sites. Who wouldn’t want that? There are so many common design patterns we front-end developers use throughout our work, why not put them all…

  • Beautiful WordPress 3.3 Site in Under 30 Minutes

    Edit Now it has a custom theme… Ilana C. Myer My wife needed a professional site. What were we to do? WordPress! arom conception to reality it took 30 minutes. I didn’t design the site from scratch. There are thousands of beautiful free themes out there. WordPress.org has a great way to filter through themes…

  • Announcing: The Redesign – Part One

    Edit: So, since this went up I got a full-time job… My plans are now to clean up the blog design and focus on side project that will benefit the community. At some point I may return to the long-sideways scroll page… But for now it won’t be my focus. I’ve been working on a…