Websites

Setting them up, teaching clients to manage them on their own.

First things first: I am not a programmer, IT expert, database manager, PHP maven, or anything of that sort. I do not set up data-driven transactional websites where you can sell products and become the next eBay.

But what I can do — and what I’ve been doing for a very long time, indeed — is build informational websites that allow you to deliver your message and interact with your own clients.

I began creating websites way back in 1997, after combining my journalism and writing skills with a two-day HTML course conducted by the University of Minnesota Extension. Combining those skills created a niche for me even back then, where I could both create the content for a website and then code it into existence.

Since then I’ve had a wide variety of clients for my web work. The St. Paul Companies hired me back in 1998 to build and maintain the most popular page on its internal web, called the St. Paul Information Network (SPIN). BestBuy.com hired me to serve as Managing Editor for three departments on its then-new website. And Schreiber Foods of Green Bay, Wisconsin, brought me on board as an independent contractor to build The Source, its internal news web, and to train its own communications staff on how to run and maintain it.

More recently, I’ve built websites for more than a dozen local organizations and political candidates. I’ve designed those websites with simplicity in mind: effective at getting their messages across while simple enough for each organization to maintain it on their own, saving each organization money in the long term.

I work in WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and more, and also — when necessary — code pages in plain old HTML.

Need a website for your message or group? Contact me today!