Basic web design since 1995
The Internet (the Web) is the modern "Yellow Pages". Customers look on the web to see if you're "real" and find out more about you. The web lets you make a much larger presence than the Yellow pages but the idea is the same. A web site tells them about you and your business and your products or services and how to contact you.
I started with very basic sites in 1995 for my own needs. I have expanded along the way to include more graphics and programming. Check out the sample pages and the old versions of this page at the left. The old versions were all table-based. This one is 'table-free' which is the 'new' way to design web pages. I'm constantly learning new ways and methods. Here are the usual names and acronyms for the technologies I use: HTML, CSS, XHTML, DHTML, Javascript, AJAX, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, SEO, sitemaps, hand coding. I also have a limited familiarity with IIS and ASP.
Below are the sites that I have designed and maintain along with other information about the technologies and software that I use. Several sites including my Music pages use databases to generate displays and provide event calendars. I also create sitemaps and upload them to Google so people can find your site. Basic SEO with appropriate keywords and descriptions for each page is standard practice.
I concentrate on design and maintenance for inexpensive, affordable web sites. If you have a really big project, do a Google search for "Sacramento Web Design", you will find plenty of people to help you. I'm learning about CMS (Content Management Systems) so I can do larger projects in the future. I have a number of clients that needed just maintenance and updates and so far I haven't found anything but flash sites that I couldn't help with.
Hope to hear from you soon.
I started with very basic sites in 1995 for my own needs. I have expanded along the way to include more graphics and programming. Check out the sample pages and the old versions of this page at the left. The old versions were all table-based. This one is 'table-free' which is the 'new' way to design web pages. I'm constantly learning new ways and methods. Here are the usual names and acronyms for the technologies I use: HTML, CSS, XHTML, DHTML, Javascript, AJAX, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, SEO, sitemaps, hand coding. I also have a limited familiarity with IIS and ASP.
Below are the sites that I have designed and maintain along with other information about the technologies and software that I use. Several sites including my Music pages use databases to generate displays and provide event calendars. I also create sitemaps and upload them to Google so people can find your site. Basic SEO with appropriate keywords and descriptions for each page is standard practice.
I concentrate on design and maintenance for inexpensive, affordable web sites. If you have a really big project, do a Google search for "Sacramento Web Design", you will find plenty of people to help you. I'm learning about CMS (Content Management Systems) so I can do larger projects in the future. I have a number of clients that needed just maintenance and updates and so far I haven't found anything but flash sites that I couldn't help with.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Original Designs
- Allie's Alley - Music and Recording
- Body Friendly Yoga - Exercise and Training
- Two-Tone Steiny & the Cadillacs - BluesBand
- Dave Croall, Johnny Knox, and the Soothers - Blues Band
- Jeff Watson Band∗ - Blues Band
- Steve Foster Band∗ - Blues Band
- Kathleen Cairns - Blues Singer
- NSAI Sacramento∗ - Songwriter's Group
- Loreality - Lori Casey's Artwork
- Carl Worner - Actor, singer, songwriter, playwright,inventor
- Santa Lucia Fly Fishers - California Fly Fishing Club
- J.E.I. Inc. - Electronics Manufacturer
References
- W3C World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
- W3Schools Free Online Web Tutorials
- Code Style Open standards Web design
- Code Style Windows font survey results
- Microsoft typography-fonts-default
- HTML Tidy Project Page
- The Web Robots Pages
- http://www.php.net/ the PHP web site.
- http://www.mysql.com/ the MySQL web site.
- Alan Wood's Fonts and Unicode Resources
Software Tools
- HTML-kit - Web page generator / HTML editor
- Adobe Photoshop - Photo and image editor
- Corel Draw - drawing program
- Corel Photo-Paint - image editor
- Paint Shop Pro - Photo and image editor
- GSiteCrawler Google Sitemap Generator from SOFTplus
- CutePDF writer - PDF printer driver
- ASP.NET - free software from Microsoft
- Visual Studio Express - free software from Microsoft
Re-designs and Updates
- Lisa Phenix∗ - aka Silly Little Mama.
- Sacramento Blues Society∗ - Blues for Sacramento
- Kama Linden - Singer/Songwriter
- Craig Kincaid - Singer/Songwriter
- Hilltop Collective - Musicians Resource
- Capital City Investigations - "eyesonu.com"
- Sacramento Blues Revue - Blues band with special guests
- Accurate Millworks, Inc. - Hardwood and molding company in West Virginia.
- Aratron II Electronics, Inc. - Electronics Manufacturer
- Escape Travel Inc. - California Sports Vacations
- Escape Sacramento Tours - California Sports Vacations
- Escape San Francisco Tours - California Sports Vacations
- John A. Tosney - Specialists in Bankruptcy Law
Other Links
- Experts-Exchange IT Solutions
- WebProWorld Useful Resources - Coding & Standards
- A List Apart
- JavaScript Kit
- Dynamic Drive - free, original DHTML & Javascripts
- Hurricane Electric Internet Services my preferred Web Hosting
- Dotster Domain Registration and Web Hosting
- Network Solutions Domain Registration and Web Hosting
- http://sourceforge.net/ home of Open Source software
Browsers
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: 7, 6, 4.01
- Netscape: 8.1, 7.2, 4.8, 4.08
- Opera: 9.2
- Firefox: 2.0, 1.5.x
- SeaMonkey 1.1
- Safari 1,3
- A Comparison of web browsers
Web Servers
- Apache on Linux with PHP and Mysql
- Microsoft IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 with ASP
- Microsoft IIS 5.1 on Windows XP Pro with PHP and Mysql
