Tony Geer - web design and development

Attractive,accessible, standard-compliant websites

I work with small businesses and individuals who need an effective online presence to create professional, attractive websites built according to web standards. You can view some of my work or contact me.

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Content management system

Utilizing a good content management system is very important. I have experience working with:

Get In Touch Wordpress: a free blogging tool/content management system. It is easy-to-use and the blogging platform of choice.

Get In Touch Expression Engine: a robust, feature-rich content management system. It is ideal for powering larger, more complex sites.

“I found working with Tony to be an ease. He was able to take my ideas and turn them into a beautiful, professional, and effective website.” Chuck Craytor http://www.craytorleadership.com

Designing the AccelaStudy iPhone application website

The Renkara Media Group contacted me to create a website for their AccelaStudy iPhone language learning application. I was pretty excited by the opportunity and after playing around with the application a bit jumped right into it.

Renkara wanted to imitate the slide-to-use functionality of the application on the website, so I kept that in mind when working on the design (we decided to use the Coda Slider Effect from JQuery for Designers - it was really easy to implement and customize to suit our needs).

At first we decided to go with a dark background and display the highlighted features using icons. As always, the Icon Drawer Classic Icons came in really handy as their Mac-like look and feel really suited the site. I also decided to use Lucida Sans for the body copy and Myriad Pro for most of the headings to further emulate the Apple look.

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Designing The Graveyard Book website

This is the second in an ongoing series of posts where I explain some of the decisions I made while designing one of my recent projects. This post is going to be focusing on the site I did for Neil Gaiman’s new book - The Graveyard Book.
Bill from Subterranean Press emailed me all of [...]

The Digg of the web design community - CSS galleries

It’s a well known fact that when sites get Digg’ed (Dugg?) and make it to the front page they get a huge upsurge in traffic. While I wasn’t fortunate enough to have that happen to me, I did experience what I consider to be analogous in the web design community - being featured on some [...]