The Lowe Family's Web Site

For almost 10 years now I’ve been doing the Lowe Family’s web site. The Lowes are very dear to me and have been since I first met Doug in elementary school about 20 years ago. In fact, I ended up marrying Doug’s sister Korinne and have been working full time with the family since.

Anyway, their web site has been the same for about the last 5 years. After a lot of thought, design, and programming, I’m pleased to announce the completion of the Lowe Family’s new web site.

The site was written primarily in PHP with a mySQL database interface. I’ve watched and admired Flash over the years but have always been reluctant to implement it as not everyone had the plug-in installed. Although it’s cool, I didn’t want Flash to hinder the purpose of the site. Hence, I have opted out in the previous revisions of the Lowe Family’s web site. However, after all these years, I believe Flash to be widely in use enough that I did several parts of the new site in Flash—the header, navigation bar, videos, music, etc. I went under the assumption that most of our clientele has high speed Internet capabilities such as DSL or Cable. As a result, the videos are fairly large in size and dimension—but they look great! I am currently looking into streaming services for Flash to pretty much guarantee a seamless playback for those at lower speeds.

Anyway, I don’t mean to start rambling, but if you get a second, check out the Lowe Family’s new web site!

• Posted Saturday June 30, 2007