Services
Website Layouts
Whether you're looking for a redesign or just starting out, I can provide a design for your website. I specialize in HTML and CSS, and my layouts are simplistic in principle, with an added artistic touch. For examples of my work, please see my
Portfolio. On today's internet, it is very important to keep a fast-moving, updated site; your content is what draws visitors to return. Blogging is a great way to insure return visitors, and I am experienced in the setup of
Wordpress blogs, should you choose to keep your weblog hosted on your site.
- My coding ensures that the content—the most important element of your website—loads before the design.
- My layouts are unique. your website will not look like a carbon-copy corporate site; it will have individual touch.
- My designs are W3C Standard compliant to ensure maximum accesibility.
- I work in HTML & CSS and I code by hand in Notepad++, though I have used several other editing programs before. I am familiar with InDesign and Dreamweaver, though I prefer the old-fashioned route.
- I am familiar with Javascript (see my Portfolio's pop-up windows) and the use of integrating prepared scripts into websites (as seen on the Contact, which integrates a PHP script for simple retrieval of form data).
Content Design
Okay, so you have an idea for a website, and you know where to go to make it look nice—but what about the most important part of your site? Without content, your website may as well be useless, and my designing has been for nothing! I am a writer, and I have been writing in several forms for many years—novels, short stories, literate roleplaying—and there is no doubt English is my best course. I stake no claim to perfection, but throughout my life I have been told I have a way with the written word. I am also quite familiar with the type of content internet users want to see on the websites they frequent. I can proofread existing content for you and make suggestions on how to improve it, or simply create it from a list of notes or bullet points you have prepared for me.
Skinning
I can skin practically anything, provided the original designer wrote the code in a semi-legible manner in CSS and HTML. I am familiar with skinning Myspace layouts, ezBoard forums, and InvisionPowerBoard custom profile designs. Given sufficient time to pore over code and experiment, I can figure out how it works and deliver a design for your individual profile to stand out on a multitude of similar ones on a social networking site such as Myspace.
Website Templates
Extremely tight budget? Need something quick and dirty? Never fear—I have put together some templates for your use, should you have the proficiency to change the header images and the colors (if you'd like). The templates come with preset images and can be used as-is. Once you have purchased a template you are free to modify it as you'd like and use it for as many websites as you'd like, though you
may not redistribute it; nor can you remove the credit link to my website. The code includes notations as to where to edit, and modification is a simple task even for those with little-to-no HTML coding skills. Feel free to learn from my code, too—I have left notes in my templates, and I hope they will be useful to you.
Update Services
Content is the most important part of a website—and that's coming straight from the fingers of the person trying to sell you website
designs. If you don't have dynamic, fresh content, you have nothing to draw people to return again and again to your website. If you aren't sure about how to keep a website updated, I can help! I can make updates to your site for you—whether you want to announce a new get-together or simply change some information, I can make these textual updates for you. You get unlimited updates, and basic support for your site—i.e., if something mysteriously breaks as things tend to do on the internet, I will fix it for you. If you want to make structural changes to your website (e.g., adding entirely new sections of text, changing the navigation, etc) you get five free passes per year of purchase, following which any changes which are not text-based will incur additional fees. Monthly accounts do not allow for the addition of structural changes.
Please note, my simple update services do not involve modification to the content in any way; will be typing the text exactly as you want it to appear on your website, and I will place the content on your website. You can purchase content proofreading in addition to your update service, and I will proof-read, edit, and make suggestions as to the content to make it as web-savvy as possible. You can also add content creation, where you simply give me bullet points and I create the content for you.
- Monthly Package: $5.00/month
- Unlimited text-based updates
- Full website support
- Add content proofreading & modification for an $2/month
- Add content creation for $3/month
- Annual Package: $50.00/year
- Unlimited text-based updates
- 5 structural changes included per year
- Full website support
- Add content proofreading & modification for $15/year
- Add content creation for $25/year
- Structural changes are done on a case-by-case basis, and will be quoted before payment.