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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Content Management

We Do Stuff & We’re Dynamic About It!

A good managed content site provides you with great flexibility in establishing the character and quality of the visitor’s experience when she or he drops in on your site. Content Management Systems (CMSs) draw the content a visitor selects from an underlying relational database. Click another link, and new content is displayed. Nothing new about that, but…there isn’t a new “page” to build, so the content is seen much faster than with a traditional site.

Flexible Design
You can establish and structure extranets or intranets through a managed content system; most CMSs can be easily made into what Web designers call portals—links take the visitor to sections that deal with specific content or operations, such as on-line Help or Help Desk support, where registered users can “talk” on-line with your support staff or create support tickets easily.
Update Content Easily
Products and prices change constantly. A managed content site can be used to host an on-line store, through which you can sell goods or services. When you add or remove items, change prices, or stop offering a particular service or item, you merely unpublish it; you do not have to have the site code re-written.
A Great Experience
Managed content sites tend to earn the approval of Internet visitors and get them to return much more often than a static brochure site. Such Web sites are popular not only with visitors, but with your staff, too.
Interoperability
(Well, that’s a mouthful!) Managed content sites are modular in construction; you can always take advantage of a superior new component that offers greater benefits to you and your business. For instance, you will not need a special software tool to set up and run a shopping cart or to connect securely with your merchant account.

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