About ShooFlyDesign
About Joe
Joe Chellman, Principal, has been a web designer since 1996 and a drummer since 1989. He received his master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on usability design, in 1999. When he's not whacking hollow objects with sticks or building websites, Joe can be found cycling, cooking, shooting photos, and grooming his Wookiees.
Joe favors clean, simple design, both visually and functionally. He is an avid supporter of web standards and accessibility guidelines and laws, and he builds sites to comply with both.
Joe’s technical repertoire includes HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XML, Lasso, JavaScript, Shockwave, and Flash.
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ShooFlyDesign is a Mac shop. We find Macs to be the right tools for us to get our work done quickly and well. We also have a Windows PC for testing our websites and supporting our clients who use Windows.
Some of the software we use to produce this and other websites include:
- Drupal is one of the best content management systems out there, and it's free and open-source. Most of the websites we've built since 2007 have been based on Drupal, and we've been involved in the Drupal community since 2006.
- BBEdit, a great text editor from Bare Bones Software.
- Photoshop Elements, from Adobe.
- Create, a do-everything graphics application by Stone Design.
- GraphicConverter, the best software of its class for any platform.
- Movable Type, which runs our weblogs.
- Markdown, a text-to-HTML converter that we run inside Movable Type, but can be used in BBEdit as well.
- PHP, a programming language with which we have an unhealthy relationship.
- Smarty, the template engine that is developed with PHP. It allows us to keep all the nasty code in one place, and all the nasty words in another.
- MySQL, the database management system that pretty much everyone uses.
- WordPress is another widely used blog software that can also be used as a content management system, especially for smaller websites.
This website is hosted on Linode.
