Website Design and Development Services
Need help developing a website for your business, organization, or project?
Meet your communication goals by drawing from my background as an educator and writer in addition to my website technical skills. I can assist you with any of the following components of creating a new website or pursuing a re-design. I develop all my websites using current standards-based webpage coding and adhering to widespread accessibility principles. In turn, I craft each site I build for maxiumum usability by its intended audiences.
Web Services Offered
Let me help you with all your website development needs, including:
- Site design with unique, copyright protect-able design to your specifications
- Structured, search-engine friendly navigation for a successful visitor experience
- Submission Forms/Email Links for inbound communication
- Content writing, editing, or repurposing as appropriate to your communication goal
- Image preparation of stock or original photography and artwork, including scanning
- Animation, including banners, graphics, interactive presentations
- Domain Name Registration (e.g., www.YourName.com, YourName.com)
- Hosting Setup, Site Backup
- Website Traffic Statistics/Analytics
- Email Services
- Site optimized for search engine submission with your keywords
- Submission to major search engines
- Email Marketing
- Full e-commerce integration, including online store, shopping cart, encryption, merchant account
- Database Design and Implementation (MySQL and PHP)
- Streaming audio/video
- PDF file conversion and preparation
- Advanced communication: Blogs, Posting Forums, Polls, Calendar, Syndicated content, etc.
Design
Audience/Content
Functionality
CSS-based Design
Accessibility Features
Cross-browser Testing
Modularity
Cascading Style Sheets
Database-driven
Expansion Plan
View a complete listing of the steps of the Web development process (PDF, 52 KB).
Writing and Editing Services
In addition to website development, I offer writing and editing services for both web-related and print-based projects. See my Project and Publications pages for examples of the kinds of technical writing and creative projects I have pursued. My projects range from identity campaigns to program proposals to websites to technical documentation to all in-between.
Philosophy and Experience
My Design Approach - an overview of the design and interactive principles I follow in building websites
Past Websites - information about and links to past websites I have developed
Feature Project - visit my feature project for a project sample
Costs and Development
Web Development Rates - costs for a website or my consulting services
Principles of Development - list of the principles and policies by which I perform my work
Client Education Materials
Design Evaluation Questions - questions to consider when evaluating website design
How Readers Read the Web - an overview of how most readers process information found on the Web
Search Engine Optimization - an overview of SEO and its techniques
Web Development Links - a compilation of Web development resources
Contact me!
Interested in what I have to offer? Contact me with a description of your proposed project and I'll be glad to discuss your project ideas! Start with my Web Development Information Sheet (PDF, 52 KB) for clients to understand the kind of questions I will ask.