Welcome
My goal is to offer a great deal of development services at a reasonable price. I work full time
as a software developer and spend a lot of my free time on the Internet reading and developing my own network of
sites as well as writing code for my own enjoyment. If you are in need of a website for your small business you have come to the right place. I
can build you your own website personal website, or extend it with things like discussion forums and image galleries or perhaps setup your online store. If
desired I can also host your website for you at a
great price.
Efficiency
Efficiency in terms of overall site performance is a large part of what makes a site valuable to a user. If a site takes
2 minutes to load a single page then chances are they won't be staying around for long. When I say I will design a site
to be efficient I mean I will use images that are optimized appropriately and put as much of the styling and formatting information
as possible in a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
A CSS document is a special formatting document separate from the page you are viewing but contains a lot of the formatting and styling that are generally relevant not only to that individual page you are viewing but the entire site as well. Once this file is loaded the first time you visit a page on said site each following page that needs to use that style sheet will not require it to be loaded again improving performance across the site greatly.
In addition to this when ever I personally design a site from scratch I do it entirely from code. Using a WYSIWYG editor often leads to excess code even with a great editor. This in turn leads to longer wait times and frustrated users. The exception to this however is when a pre-existing package, like osCommerce, will be used to create your site at which point I cannot control how the original authors designed the package, but any modifications I do will again be by hand.
A CSS document is a special formatting document separate from the page you are viewing but contains a lot of the formatting and styling that are generally relevant not only to that individual page you are viewing but the entire site as well. Once this file is loaded the first time you visit a page on said site each following page that needs to use that style sheet will not require it to be loaded again improving performance across the site greatly.
In addition to this when ever I personally design a site from scratch I do it entirely from code. Using a WYSIWYG editor often leads to excess code even with a great editor. This in turn leads to longer wait times and frustrated users. The exception to this however is when a pre-existing package, like osCommerce, will be used to create your site at which point I cannot control how the original authors designed the package, but any modifications I do will again be by hand.
Quality
Being a programmer, not only by trade but largely by hobby, one of the things I focus on is creating a
page that is not only attractive and easy to navigate but is written properly as well. I do my best
to write all of the websites I design in completely valid (X)HTML code and
CSS.
What does that mean for you? One of the benefits of this is that not only is the site easy to read for your browser it will most likely function properly in a wide variety of web browsers. While most of the world runs Internet Explorer there is a growing segment that doesn't or simply can't. Having valid code and styling is one of the best ways to ensure no matter what browser your client, customer or reader is running they will be seeing the same page that you are seeing. For this reason I try to stay away from things like VBScript or ActiveX as they are proprietary Microsoft IE extensions.
What does that mean for you? One of the benefits of this is that not only is the site easy to read for your browser it will most likely function properly in a wide variety of web browsers. While most of the world runs Internet Explorer there is a growing segment that doesn't or simply can't. Having valid code and styling is one of the best ways to ensure no matter what browser your client, customer or reader is running they will be seeing the same page that you are seeing. For this reason I try to stay away from things like VBScript or ActiveX as they are proprietary Microsoft IE extensions.
Learn More About Me
While you are here please take the time to browse through some of my other pages to see my various
interests. I am involved in developing a broad range of web services from news feed management to
maintaining auto generated image galleries.
If you are interested in a website please view my portfolio and take a look at some of my other sites. When you think you are ready to move forward please contact me so that we may get started creating your new website!
If you are interested in a website please view my portfolio and take a look at some of my other sites. When you think you are ready to move forward please contact me so that we may get started creating your new website!