What I Offer
I offer very flexible and transparent pricing. We will build around your budget, not mine. We can start small and build the site up over time, stopping whenever you want.
You can update your Calendar, Photo Gallery, Links, Downloads, Reviews, and, of course, your Blog, without my intervention (or fees!). You will log in to an Admin area with a user name and password, and make changes to your heart’s content.
I offer custom programming to reduce maintenance costs, redundant work, and turnaround time on updates. Any information that you want to change regularly can be stored in a database so that you can update it yourself with a form. Or, if you want a web site for a dozen stores or fifty Boy Scout troops, traditional web design would force you to pay for that number of individually designed web pages. The cost would be astronomical. But with custom web site programming, all that information could be stored in a database and retrieved on-the-fly into a common template, at a tremendous savings to you. Custom programming can save you a lot of money.
I offer clean, fast, accessible, portable, maintainable code. My code can be read by any developer, easily indexed by Google, and easily debugged and updated. By contrast, FrontPage sites are filled with clutter, making them hard to update, slow to download, and less accessible to Google and handicapped users. This is a difference you can’t see, but you will see the effects.
I offer years of experience as both a programmer and a designer, and an educational background in English-Journalism, which relates to writing, design, and advertising.
What I won’t do
No Mystery Meat Navigation. You know the kind I’m talking about - A menu system that only a fortune teller could read. People should never have to guess what a button does.
No Skip Intro pages. Everyone will click “Skip Intro.” Why make them? Users see these useless pages as an obstacle they must overcome to get what they want – information.
No Long Page Loads. I commonly see web pages that require a 250KB download on pages designed by the other guys. This may work fine on their cable modem, but if any of your customers are on dial-up, the wait will be over a minute! Is a page really pretty, if no one ever waits long enough to see it?
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