CSS Design

Web standards are maturing with each day passing. Design approaches and practices that were commonly used eighteen months ago are obsolete now. If you do not use a content management system (CMS), your site designer or developer probably uses an XHTML structure with information presented using one or more cascading style sheets (CSS).

Religious Web Sites

I am honored to create and maintain Web sites for church congregations and parishes. I build these sites to the congregation’s specifications to help them tend to their members and promote their message to the world.

Commercial Web Sites

I create commercial Web sites that:

Comply with Web standards
Are accessible to persons with disabilities
Effectively present the client and its operations to potential customers

Non-Profit Web Sites

I work hard for our non-profit customers to present their organizations clearly and effectively. These Web sites comply with Web standards, are accessible to visitors regardless of physical condition or disability, effectively promote the organization’s work, and build community support, sponsorship, development.

Alumni Web Sites

Our society has always been mobile; friends and family spread out across the continent and overseas over the years. Social networking sites, such as Facebook, permit greater continuity or reestablishment of friendships among alumni. A Web site dedicated to a particular class, however, allows members greater opportunities to reconnect by focusing on that class.

Personal Web Sites

Blogging allows you to publish your thoughts or experiences to the public. Many use personal blogs to help keep their extended family informed or to promote their professional or political perspectives.

CSS Design
Religious Sites
Commercial Sites
Non-Profit Sites
Alumni Sites
Blog Sites

February 10, 2012

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Brochure Site

Tell the World We’re Here & We Do Stuff!

Your Web site can be the ultimate brochure for your enterprise and nothing more. Usually, brochure sites are composed of a set of static Web pages, each of which describes some different aspect of your organization. The material presented changes rarely, so it is fairly high-level, or generic, in nature. Visitors who read this content will get a reasonably good idea of what your enterprise is about.

Brochure sites are brochures.
They tell the Web world: “We’re here! This is US!” That’s about it. The only interactivity is usually provided by e-mail (“Contact Us”) links and by polls, if used. This type of site works well with enterprises where interaction is not needed and that which you offer visitors rarely changes. If your content changes frequently or you need greater interactivity between your enterprise and those who visit your site, the brochure site is probably not your best bet.
You have no control.
You can only change the content by providing new copy to your Webmaster. If you need to remove or add pages, the Webmaster has to not only add or retire the physical HTML pages, but also revise the Web links on each page.
It’s expensive to change the site.
Calendars, forms of any kind, comment sections—all must be designed and coded by a programmer.
It will be harder and harder for visitors to find your site.
The Web search engines send out non-invasive code elements to identify, classify, and catalog all sites on the World-Wide Web. After your site is cataloged, the search engines will come back every two weeks or so to re-catalog it based on the date the site content was modified. If the content on your site changes infrequently, the search engines push it further down the hit list of sites returned when a visitor conducts a search.

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