What services do you offer?

The short: I offer website production and site management services for small, community supported businesses and nonprofit organizations.

The long: I develop comprehensive web presence solutions. Notice how I differentiate between the terms website and a web presence.

When you look closely at most websites today, you will notice that a site is really a conglomeration of technologies. Each technology serves as a unique, but essential aspect of a much broader objective, which is to use web based technology to help accomplish business goals. When these technologies are functionally and visually integrated, the web presence is born.

My websites, in their simplest forms, are just that: websites, but, each site has the potential to transform itself into the solution that is essential for your business, in the very moment the need presents itself.

The breakdown of my services from a thousand feet: design, build, optimize, market; refine.
 

Can I somehow integrate my current, static site with a content management system?

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 isn't going to provide you with all of the bells and whistles of a boxed CMS, but if all you need to do is periodically edit or update content on the same static pages, then an integrated CMS will probably work for you, and this is something that I can help you with.

Check out Cushy CMS.

Can you build me a site that will allow me to manage my own content?

Yes. Content management is standard fare.

One of the most frequent complaints I have heard from site owners over the years is that they find the relationship with their webmaster to be cumbersome, because they cannot get those presumably simple updates completed in a reasonably short period of time. From a webmaster’s perspective, I can tell you that this is frustrating as well.

Traditionally, webmasters built static sites with static content and content updates were infrequent, but competition on the web has become very intense, it has become a very crowded place, so search engines have had to develop complex algorithms to help them establish how a site should be ranked, and therefore placed on their query results pages.

If you are a site owner, then you know that a sure fire way to improve your placement on a results page is to consistently feed your site, fresh, relevant content. Unfortunately, many sites, both new and old, are still statically designed. It's this static design that's often the problem. Sometimes making a simple change to a static web page, like adding a few new sentences, can blow that page apart. The webmaster is going to have to rebuild that page, so it works with its new content. This is frustrating for both the webmaster and the customer because it takes hours to complete simple updates that should take minutes.

My sites are dynamic: wholesale changes can be completed with a few button clicks. The system is intuitive, and it's fairly easy to learn, so I can hand over content management and administrative responsibilities with minimal training.
 

What kind of websites do you build?

I build agile, sustainable, durable sites, using the Drupal content management system (CMS). My sites are designed to grow and change as the needs of your business grow and change. This is accomplished by implementing technologies within the production process that are considerate of the rapid evolution that occurs in business and technology on a daily 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.

My sites can be what you need when it is needed most. You may not need a blog today, but tomorrow you may. You may not need ecommerce today, but tomorrow you may. Not all solutions are capable of morphing themselves into a new soup du jour every day, but mine are. What does this mean to you? It means that instead of focusing on chronically overhauling your site, you can focus on using your site to grow your business.

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