Experimental Web Development from Montreal
I am a web developer, specializing in standards-based XHTML, CSS, JS and PHP development. I have been in the business since 2002. Throughout my experience, I have come to a few conclusions about web development and deployment:
- W3C valid coding is expected, not an option
- Flash in moderation, there is such thing as too much Flash
- Busy layouts are out
- XHTML, PHP, CSS and JS mastery is a must
- Wanting a little bit of everything, in-turn, leaves you with less
I am currently the Lead Project Manager and co-owner of Pezus Web & Graphic Design, this site is where I experiment with Javascript and PHP. I also share my views on the web development scene and enjoy communicating with other developers!
Site Updates
This is a news feed of recent site updates. It is both manually and automatically updated (through my actions around the site)
- Mon, 26th of July 2010: Fixed misspelling on contact page thanks to anonymous visitor.
- Mon, 15th of March 2010: Setup site on new VPS from WiredTree!
- Wed, 17th of February 2010: Enabled GZIP and Compressed HTML Output :)
- Thu, 1st of October 2009: Uploaded new blog entries and made some core modifications
- Sun, 23rd of August 2009: Few more fixes and updates launched
Version History
1.1
- New design
- Concept taken from www.kevorkaghazarian.com and improved upon ten-fold
- Integrated Pezus Core
- Custom Marquee Class
- XHTML Strict and CSS3 Valid
- Blog framework re-done
- Fail-safe AJAX system
- Mobile Versions built for iPhones or other mobile browsers
1.0
- Simple design
- Logo change, added small sparkle animation
- Animated Menu
- Loading Overlay that preloads images
- Drop-down to view past versions of Kovo's Webspace
- Sample Here
0.9
- Experimental design
- Greater mootools usage
- Preload images on entering the site
- Integrated LifeType blog into custom design
- Sample Here
0.8
- Completely different design concept
- Precursor to Pepi-OS
- Online Operating System Concept
- Sample Here
0.7
- Straight design concept
- Playing with different pages and ideas
- Still using .html extensions for pages
- Filled Wiki
- Integrated LifeType Blog
- Sample Here
0.6
- Left aligned design
- Used SHTML
- No Mootools use
- Integrated LifeType Blog
- Sample Here
0.5
- Design taken from version 0.4
- Used primitive AJAX
- No Mootools use
- Different color themes
- Sample Here
0.4
- Newspaper style design
- Used primitive AJAX
- No Mootools use
- Different color themes
- Used Flash Powered MP3 Player
- Sample Here
0.3
- New design
- Lots of SHTML use
- No Mootools use
- Used Flash Powered MP3 Player
- Sample Here
0.2
- New design with 4 themes
- Lots of SHTML use
- No Mootools use
- Used Flash Powered MP3 Player
- Sample Here
0.1
- First version with try-out design
- Used Flash Powered MP3 Player
- Sample Here
Quick Info
| Languages Spoken | Armenian, English, French |
| Web Languages Spoken | S/P/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, XML/XSLT |
| Age | 22 |
| Love | Mootools, Clean designs, Google, PHP/MySQL |
| Hate | Non-Standards Compliant Browsers (Internet Explorer can just die) |
| OS of Choice | Windows XP |
| Browser of Choice | Firefox |
| All-time Favorite Movies | Matrix Trilogy, LOTR Trilogy, The Myst, The Patriot, Behind Enemy Lines, Enemy At The Gates, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, 7 Pounds, Zeitgeist Series |
| All-time Favorite Games | Donkey Kong Country Series (SNES), GTA Series (PC), Age of Empires Series (PC), Sims Series (PC), Simcity Series (PC/SNES), Half-Life Series (PC), Rise of Nations/Legends (PC), Max Payne Series (PC), World of Warcraft, Civilization Series (PC), Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2 (PC), Heroes of Might and Magic 3 & 5 (PC) |
| All-time Favorite Cars | Audi R8, Ford Mustang Cobra, Ford Mustang GT-500, Corvette Stingray, Pontiac GTO, Nissan GT-R, Nissan Sentra SE-R, Nissan Maxima SL, Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SV, Aston Martin Vanquish, Aston Martin V12 Vantage, Pontiac Solstice |
