I develop comprehensive web presence solutions for small, community supported businesses and nonprofit organizations. Notice the differentiation between the terms website and a web presence.
Take a moment to examine almost any website and you'll notice that it is conglomeration of technologies. Each technology serves as a unique aspect of a much broader objective, which is to leverage as many web based technologies as possible to help further business objectives. When distinct technologies are functionally and visually integrated, the potential to achieve a much broader presence on the web is achieved.
My approach to solutions production is unique, because each solution that I choose to work with has the potential to easily scale or adapt to changing business needs as those needs present themselves.
Yes. When building a new site from scratch isn't an option, there are ways to incorporate content management technology into the traditional static framework of an HTML based site.
The solution may not provide all of the bells and whistles of a boxed CMS such as Drupal, Joomla, or WordPress, but if all you need to do is periodically edit or update content on the same static .html pages, then an integrated CMS will probably work for you, and this is something that I can help you with.
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The most prevalent complaint I've heard from website owners over the years is they feel like they're being held hostage by the very solutions that help them drive their day to day business. They feel like every web production project, no matter how simple, always runs over schedule and over budget, and they're frustrated by this.
Traditionally, webmasters built sites with static content and updates were infrequent, but the atmosphere on the web has changed. It's a very crowded place out there. If you're a site owner and you want some visibility, you know that the most effective way to improve your query placement is to consistently feed your site fresh, relevant content.
The downside to this reality is that millions of sites, both old and new, are still built with static .html pages. It's this static design that's often the culprit behind blown schedules and budgets. Sometimes making a simple change to a static page will literally blow that page apart in a browser window. A webmaster is going to have to rebuild that page--possibly from the ground up. This is frustrating for customers because simple changes sometimes take forever and they're cost prohibitive.
My sites are dynamic, scalable; durable. often, wholesale, site-wide changes can be completed with a just few button clicks, so if you're a site owner who wants to manage your own content, the sites are so intuitively designed, you can learn how to produce and manage your own content with minimal training.
I build sites using both the Drupal and WordPress content management frameworks. My sites are designed to grow and change as the needs of your business grow and change. This is accomplished by implementing technologies that are considerate of the rapid evolution that occurs in business and technology on a day-to-day basis.
Change is inevitable, so the technological solutions you implement today might as well have some safeguards in place that will allow them to naturally evolve over a given time period, versus experiencing a process of rapid decline and obsolescence over the same given time period.
A site should be able to morph into what you need when it is most needed. You may not need a blog today, but tomorrow, maybe. You may not need ecommerce today, but what about next month, or next year? Not all solutions are capable of morphing themselves into the daily soup du jour, but the ones I work with do. What does this mean to the you, the customer? It means that instead of focusing on chronically overhauling your site, you can focus on using your site to grow your business.
