Getting You On The 'Net

The following are examples of some of the Web sites I've completed. They will give you an idea of the functional and design requirements that I can meet.

Nonprofit Resource Center of Texas

NPRC uses Blackbaud to host their Web site, database, and other online functions. Blackbaud is a very powerful, full featured nonprofit support company that uses a proprietary Web-based interface to build and maintain both the sites they host and the functions accessed via the sites. My challenge here was to learn how to use the BK system, including how to integrate my design ideas and tools into the final product. I and the client are both pleased with the result. And I thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience, especially the chance to work with the BK tools. I hope I get more work with their clients.

San Antonio Educational Assessment & Consulting

My most recent site. Very basic informational site for a small business. I'm pleased the way the design turned out: quite clean and professional. I also coded a simple "hit counter" for the client that doesn't require a database.

Daughters of Charity of San Antonio

This is my first "bi-lingual" site and it was a lot of fun! It is a big site, with heavy use of CSS and it has some basic dynamic functions like staff login and a hit counter. However, mostly I enjoyed the process involved in essentially building two sites: one in English and one in Spanish. Since I do not know Spanish, this was only possible with some really active and creative support and guidance from my client. Thanks to their POC and his helpers, I've learned a lot about how to do sites like this and look forward, hopefully, to more.

Master Marine

The customer had some very specific requirements for the "look" of the site. He also wanted "links" to the various manufacturers' sites that required some interesting use of page code "includes" to maintain a visitor's connection to the Master Marine site. Also, like the Down Syndrome site (see below), I made the site easy to maintain with the client's copy of Adobe Contribute.

Military Officers Association - San Antonio & Texas

I built both of these sites, using related design themes and even site structure to highlight their organizational relationship. I also maintain the sites as a free service as part of my commitment as a graduate of the Masters Leadership Program in San Antonio (see below).

Masters Leadership Program of San Antonio

This is one of my more complex sites - actually it is two sites: one for the program and one for an associated Alumni Association. It is another "dynamic" or database driven site, with password protected sections, event registration and payment, major searches of a multi-table database of events, registrants, students and alumni,, web application forms and even dynamic, printable forms used by the organization's Board of Directors. I also built it with lots of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) structural elements. I'm using CSS technologies more and more now, because the W3C folks are touting those as the future of the Web.

Safe Familia

This is one of my "small business" sites. Two ex-firemen have started a business using song and entertainment to pitch fire safety programs to schools and other organizations. This is the only site I've done where clients wanted sound - they have sample songs from their CD.

Down Syndrome Association of San Antonio

This site had heavy database requirements - tracking/managing members, children, events, even T-shirt sales. The database section is password protected, so its only accessible by the DSASA staff. Of note, I worked with the client to make this site very easy to update. I introduced the client to Adobe Contribute (Content Management Software or CMS) and they have become very proficient at site maintenance.

San Antonio Medical Group Management Association

A basic site for a local organization of doctors who want to manage their association and its activities online. I set it up to maximize their ability to maintain and update the site themselves.