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Though I'd spent 20 years in high tech (10 in hardware in the '80s and another 10 in software in the '90s) and had always wanted to, I'd never actually worked with websites. That changed in '05 with my first web job for Wildmind where I was 'Webmaster' for about a year. It was a somewhat grandiose title at the time as I was basically just updating the news section and tweaking some HTML. I did do some design work getting a couple of Amazon book reseller pages working and looking good, too. As you might imagine, the site has since been radically re-designed over the last 7 years.
Some Personal Webwork History
To Live and Work
With Creativity and
A Lightness of Spirit
I did some training and web work for Gifford's Ice Cream in '06. They were half way into their first website and had lost their site designer. I picked up the threads of the development effort, made some process and technical adjustments and mentored the staff through their learning curve for their design software. They took over their own site development and successfully brought it to the Web. This site too has been re-designed in the intervening years to keep up with changes in technology and business needs.
In '07 I took over and completed development of the Laughing Buddha Trading website. The company's primary web presence was and still is through Amazon, but they were looking to have their own website and were looking to do some independent e-commerce as well. I integrated the shopping cart piece into their website and also did some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) work to help drive more traffic to their site.
In '08 I put together a simple site to showcase a friend's original oil paintings. mkrgallery.com uses a bit of JavaScript to show selected thumbnails in a relatively hi-res pane.
More recently, I built two sites for Oak Tree Pottery including their sister site Toadhuts.com. These are informational sites that highlight the ceramics work of a friend.
Even more recently, I built a site for Computer Improvements in Skowhegan. I also took over development of and completed a site for Just-a-Cookin' in Madison. My latest project was a site for Somerset Home Improvements in Solon.
If you'd like to get yourself or your business on the Web, drop me a line at Cliff@hazensbrains.net to schedule a free consultation. We'll sit down for a few minutes, find out what you're looking for in a web presence and discuss how to make that a reality.
