Artistic enough to make your site beautiful....
Geek enough to make it successful!
When someone hires me, they are getting a computer geek with a programming degree, over 10 years of web development experience and the expertise to get higher rankings in Google. Click on the tabs below for examples of the technical services I provide.
- HTML Programming
- Search engine optimization
- Cross-browser compatibility
Websites are more than what you see on the screen. They need to be written in a language that computers understand. Take this page for example. If you right-click with your mouse and choose "View source" you will see the code that programmers write to produce what you see on the screen.
This is what scares most designers but because of my programming experience I am perfectly comfortable first doing the design then jumping right into the code. You're only working with one person saving you time, money and possible miscommunications.
With all the websites there are in the world, yours must be "optimized" in order to be found in the various search engines (Google, etc). Optimization includes the placement of appropriate keywords in strategic locations, limiting the use of Flash animation on the site, making sure the words people will be searching for can be found and not just words within a picture that the computer wouldn't recognize as words. Even how long a site has existed or how fast it loads on the screen can affect ranking.
Business owners must also be realistic with their expectations of search results. Being #1 for a very common term such as "lawyer" for instance is infinitely more difficult than a more specific "Divorce family practice lawyer Skokie IL".
There are several different browsers available for viewing websites, Internet Explorer and Firefox being two of the more common ones. They don't always display websites the same way due to how they process the code internally (even in different versions of the same browser). Good web developers know this and know how to compensate for the differences. Below are screenshots of how a website looked in Internet Explorer (left) and Firefox (right) before I fixed them to be compatible in both.
