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© 2012 Bryan Elliott
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I love what I do Create Experience
Designers make it pretty.  I make it work.
Bryan Elliott
I care about one thing Good Code
Good code is clean, modular, and can mean 
the difference between two weeks maintenance 
and two months.
Bryan Elliott
Bryan's role as part of the Toys"R"Us conversion team was that of converting 
Prototype-dependent scripts to jQuery, converting an include-based JSP website into one that leverages
Tiles, and ensuring W3C validation throughout the site.
Maurices needed a dynamic Store Locator that could be integrated with Google Maps' API; Bryan was happy to oblige.
Bryan set up fonts and flash, enabled CSS3, and played "fixer" for this fast launch.
He turned a glorified form into an entertaining user experience
Whether calculating your gasoline savings with a Vectrix scooter versus other
vehicles, or determining how far you can go on a full charge, Bryan's code enables you.
A photographer's portfolio can be boring but Bryan's code can help it move you
Downtime happens.  Diligence is the art of making sure it doesn't happen for long
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the Past
the Present
the Future
a Short History
Bryan's first experience with programming was in second grade.  Dad had just bought their first computer, and Bryan spend months poring over the GW Basic syntax manual, testing commands, breaking things, and wondering what a "Syntax" was.
Through middle and high schools, Bryan taught himself Turbo Pascal, game programming, Assembly Language, C, and ultimately HTML.
Since then, he has freelanced for a number of clients in the Philadelphia area, including The Wharton School,  Abacus Studios, Sevens and Sixes, and I-SITE.  He then spent two years at TrueAction, Inc., building the UI for demanding eCommerce clients like Toys R Us.  At the moment he is employed with RSI Content Solutions, creating the UI for the latest version of their RSuite CMS product – but is always looking for opportunities to innovate.
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Obviously, HTML is just a small piece of WebDev.  Start with a solid structure that is modular and repeatable, and your site's architecture is flexible enough for any client's needs.
Using that foundational HTML along with functional requirements and IADs, a backend can be built, using PHP, JSP, .Net, Node.JS, or if your server technology is something different, Bryan picks up new languages and ways of thinking quickly, leveraging his exsiting knowledge of MVC architechture and OOP principles to ensure rock solid stability and optimal performance.
At this point, there may already some skeletal CSS going on - possibly abstracted using Stylus, Less or grid systems - just to get a feel for interaction, but once the comps come in from the designers, the site will quickly start looking like it's intended – even in early browsers.  One thing that Bryan excels at is leveraging technology - such as the HTML5 shim, Modernizr and CSS3PIE - to ensure t