Websites

We build clean, quick loading, easy to navigate web sites that are viewable by any web browser. Ease of maintenance is another important goal, minimizing long term financial and personnel commitments. Search engine ranking is something we excel at. Interactive applications are programmed to be secure. Then there is the robust tool kit we've created for quickly building websites. Domain name registration and/or site hosting can be arranged.

Below are some of our projects, in reverse chronological order.

Forget Giuliani

The primary goal of this website was obtaining good search engine results. We used the sure-fire, ethical strategies of carefully choosing each page's text, HTML elements, title, and name. The following search terms indicate things worked out pretty well: giuliani secrecy and giuliani 42nd street. The layout only uses tables to guarantee horizontal separation. The rest of the design is accomplished via style sheets.

American Jewish Society for Service

Our recent overhaul had two priorities: updating the site's look and getting them competitively ranked by the search engines. The efforts got them to the number one spot for their target terms.

The initial work we did was a dramatic clean-up and refactoring of their existing site. We cleaned up the graphics, provided a consistent look to all the pages and instituted centralized settings and calculations for figures such as the organization's age and number of states visited.

6/15 Green Community Garden

A simple site thrown together for my community garden.

Gotham City Networking

Closed security holes. Brought the source code into CVS and produced shell scripts for deployment and backup. Fixed some bugs and tweaked some of the pages. Produced detailed instructions on how to manage the new system.

Times-Up!

Two aspects of their web presence were produced by us. One is a photo gallery that allows the public to post their own content. Each submission is automatically resized and has a thumbnail generated in order to reduce storage and bandwidth requirements. The allowable size, thumbnail size and number of images on a page are all customizable by a few settings. An administrative interface exists to remove and edit content.

The other is the calendar. Listings are created by volunteers using a private web interface. Viewers can choose between calendar and list formats.

Both systems have the ability to use either a MySQL, SQLite or PostgreSQL database. Designers can easily adapt these programs into any website design because each HTML element can be addressed via style sheets.

Actionmail and Fulfillment

We were hired to draw business to this mail house by improving their search engine rankings. Text-rich content on subjects of interest to prospective mailers were successfully used to this end.

PEAR

We were one of the volunteers on the PEAR web team. We helped modernize the site's appearance, provide a consistent look and feel and enhance the bug system.

BikeSummer 2003

A fun, collaborative, project utilizing a dynamic navigation system for quick page loads and ease of updating. The best parts are the database driven calendar and photo gallery. This calendar accepted events from the public which were then moderated using administrative web forms.

Most importantly, the site's architecture was planned to permit redeployment from year to year by copying a few files and making a few minor adjustments. See the 2005 site for an example and the presentation we gave to the NYPHP user group for a look under the hood.

John Tank

An affordable site for a musician.

Tribeca Learning Center

Interactive, clean design for a New York City public school. It had news and calendar sections powered by a database back end, including easy-to-use web forms for entering and editing items. The site also contained a system for posting and cataloging the meeting minutes by just uploading them in a simple plain text format.

International Sports Consultants

We were the initial information architect for this highly dynamic sports site. Schedules, scores and odds are automatically acquired from external providers, parsed and inserted into a database. Information is output as XHTML tables with standardized CSS markup. These tables are acquired by servers and formatted via style sheets, allowing the content to be both used on their various websites and resold. Formatting is adjustable by URI parameters, allowing significant customization. The owner said we got them "looking at the internet in a whole new way." Please note, the client regularly modifies the site, so the way it works and operates differs from our initial design.

Manhattan Rickshaw Company

You've heard about Web 2.0 and it's snazzy bells and whistles? Well, this site is Web 0.2 — we first made the site back in 1999. The simple, text rich site was quite effective at getting media exposure for my client. His company was the business model featured in an episode of The Apprentice. Another nice feature was the super-clean JavaScript image rollover functionality. (That bloated MM_swapImage() garbage makes me ill to this day.)

The Governance Group

We produced their first and second websites many years ago. They eventually sought a third design, though decided to go with a PowerPoint based design produced by another firm. The current site retains the dynamic job postings and personalized directions and transit schedules we programmed for the first site.

Divine Dialogue

A basic site put together for a friend.

Infinity Wellness

Another site we created for a friend and they maintain.