How this site was built
Landing Page
The home page was constructed using Adobe Photoshop as the primary graphic tool. A fractal imaging tool was used to created the swirl effect on the left side of the middle section. Several filters on multiple layers were used to create the texture and shadow effects.
The top banner, containing the Excellanz logo, includes a php script that first builds and then displays the time and date. This script is run every 5 minutes to refresh the time.
The bottom banner, containing the tag line, includes an expanding menu system utilizing several javascripts and a cascading style sheet (CSS).
The menu and the copyright are both completely text based standard html formatted with CSS.
Content Pages
The images used on all of the content pages were constructed using Adobe Photoshop and are placed in specific locations using div layers formatted with CSS. The page layouts, top to bottom and including all text and headings, are built using div layers and formatted entirely with CSS.
These pages use a php script to change the overall color scheme based on the time that the page is loaded. There are five different color schemes, each one being used twice during a ten second span. The script builds a time stamp and then checks the last digit of the portion containing the seconds and, based on the value of that digit, assigns one of five CSS files to format the page colors. While you may occasionally get two pages back to back with the same color scheme, the occurrence is infrequent.
The left-side expanding menu system is built with several javascripts and five CSS files that are designed to coordinate with the page colors.
Other Cool Stuff
The Excellanz website uses a javascript to pop up a message box informing the visitor that the page they are interested in reviewing isn't ready yet. Of course this script only runs when a menu item points to a page that isn't quite ready yet.
Our Form Automated Email on the Contact Us page uses some php scripts to collect the form information and place it into a mysql database. The scripts then create an email containing the entered information and send that email to Excellanz informing our staff that you have requested contact from us. The form is validated, including evaluating the email address entered for correct formatting, using a customized javascript.