Design and Consulting Services

Custom Web Site Design

You need to establish a web presense in order to stay competitive. A website is a requisite in today's economy. Phone books are becoming a thing of the past and you are loosing business by not having a web site. Consumers today expect a business to have a website. It's so important that your site look professional, loads quickly, and visually communicates it's purpose. How the content is organized is just as important.

Potential clients will get easily frustrated if any of these factors are overlooked and will find someone else's site that does communicate well. A website represents you to the outside world and in many instances, is the first and only impression someone will have of your business. Do you see the importance of having a professional website?

Programming: LAMP (PHP, Perl, MySQL, Apache) & Javascript

Sean Showalter has professional experience working as a software engineer on the LAMP stack and with Javascript at the following compaines:

• Capitol Advantage where he helped develop the Capwiz application.
• At PBS, where he was the Station Services Technologist responsible for bridging the webmasters at member stations accross the US to PBS HQ. He also worked on the main website with Ken Burns Jazz being his biggest accolade.
• Science Server, where he helped develop and maintain code for an on-line journaling system written in Perl.

The LAMP stack is a standard open-source toolkit used by software engineers for developing dynamic websites. Sean is more than capable of meeting your programming needs.

Content Management Systems

What is a CMS?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.

Joomla!

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Joomla is the most popular open source CMS currently available as evidenced by a vibrant and growing community of friendly users and talented developers. Joomla's roots go back to 2000 and, with over 200,000 community users and contributors, the future looks bright for the award-winning Joomla Project.

Wordpress

WordPress started as just a blogging systems, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. (And tech chops.)

Other Services

Green Web Hosting

What is web hosting? Put simply, its where your website is stored on the internet, and it is required. Every site on the internet has a web host.

All of our web servers are 130% wind powered!

Domain Name Registration & Transfer

DNS stands for "domain name server." A domain name server is the computer (or one of several) that "serves" requests for your Web site or email address. Think of a DNS as the battery for your domain name. The more powerful the DNS, the more likely people will be able to see your site, send you email, etc. If the DNS isn't strong enough, people may have trouble reaching you.

Most companies offer customers one or two domain servers -- one main server, and one for backup. When you register your domain name with us, your domain name is backed by six servers distributed around the U.S. The result? Superior connectivity and reliability.

Choosing a Domain Name

The goal is for you to get customers to your site. If they have to type in something too long or ambiguous, then they may opt to find something easier to type. I'm not making this stuff up. People are notoriously lazy on the internet. They want things quick and easy.

Also, be aware that even though you come up with a fantastic doman name, it may already be taken. Your domain name must be unique.