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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Social Networking Site

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Applications or Web site components that offer visitors to bond electronically into a virtual network are involved with social networking. Web site owners who provide these capabilities are interested in developing a mature customer base who are loyal to the enterprise. Frequently, customer-produced content can be used to perfect products and services, including the functions of the Web site.

There are some legal and social issues to consider, of course. Some people will post anything that comes to their minds (and fingers); the site has to be managed so that slander and libel are not allowed to be published. Others are convinced that foul language is acceptable (well, they accept it; why shouldn’t everyone?). The First Amendment applies only to government; not all recognize that, however. So, management of social networking functions involves additional responsibilities.

On the other hand, comments about the goods or services you sell can definitely help spur further sales. And, if your site helps encourage citizenship within the community, it will become known for its positive role. Strong and enforced terms of use go a long way to ensuring the integrity of Web sites that offer these services.

Social networking elements that can be implemented on a Web site include:

Comments systems
Forums
Personal blogs & photo galleries
Ratings of content & products
Privacy & data security or integrity

Almost every site I create and maintain offers some social networking services to registered site members. Unregistered site visitors are rarely accorded the ability to contribute content to any of these sites.

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