CSS Designer

Orchid Suites is seeking an experienced Interface Developer to join our rapidly growing team. Professional experience with design-centered development, css1 and css2 essential. Experience with server-side scripting is a plus.
  • Solid Standards Compliant XHTML (transitional 1.0) and CSS skills.
  • Cut up and creation of tableless web page templates using supplied designs.
  • Ability to work with both tabled and tableless designs
  • Maintenance and content population for existing sites
  • No Wysiwyg editing
  • Awareness of usability and disability compliance issues
  • Strong testing matrix and attention to detail
  • Ability to QA own and other' work for code validity, spelling, layout consistency of look
  • Testing existing and developing sites against a variety of browsers, versions and platforms
  • Testing static content as well as content management tools prior to launch per a pre-prescribed checklist
  • Regular testing and regression testing of tools developed by the programming department
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Attend regularly scheduled meetings
  • Coordinate workload with other staff members and other departments
  • Able to meet tight deadlines with little supervision
  • Attention to detail
  • Independent worker that also works well in teams
  • Good grasp of progressive industry best practices and W3C Standards
  • Ability to deal with compressed schedules
  • Ability to pick up existing projects / requirements
  • Experience with Photoshop, ImageReady, or Fireworks to cut images from completed designs
  • Proven track-record of strong design principles and adherence to complex design specifications throughout the development life cycle
  • Experience in testing across multiple browsers and platforms to ensure conformance to requirements
  • Experience with Visual Source Safe, CVS or SVN
  • Experience in developing accessible websites (Section 508, W3C WAI Guidelines, etc.)
  • Experience in developing sites that are easily crawlable, indexable and retrievable by industry leading search engines (Yahoo!, Google, MSN)