Web Site Design

Every site I design:

Presents information clearly, organized so search engines see your content first (menus, footers, etc afterwards)
Is easy to maintain, add pages, or change the look. A template (simple HTML file) controls the layout, another file has the content, for each page.
Looks good on screens from laptops to web cell phones, and also easy for low-vision people to use it. Users control the font sizes to their liking. Colors match, using artist color theory.
Uses contact forms that spammers can't use to send mail to others, and that do not reveal your email address to spammers.
Can be printed clearly, without items that don't make sense printed (such as menus, ads, and social networking buttons) and showing link locations.
Has clean HTML and CSS style sheets, so any web developer can add to or maintain it (no special software needed).
Has repeated information (for example menus, contact information, sign up forms, page footer and copyright) in separate files so changes in one place show throughout the site. Individual pages can display different menus, sign up forms, etc. simply by including a different file.
I develop and test on a separate location than what is published on the www, to avoid glitches the public could see.

Here are some sites I have developed:

Lerner Consulting, Inc. www.lernerconsult.com (My main site)
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology http://crnano.lernerconsult.com (Still being updated before republishing, I redid the layout and made the site easier to maintain. Converted over 150 pages from FrontPage table-based layout to flexible CSS style sheets. Old layout: www.crnano.org)
Alternative to Meds Center (Made site easier to modify and added many pages, and improved search engine ranking. Set up blog, with search engine enhancements.) www.alternativetomedscenter.com
A video conferencing sales site (The original web designer used special layout software that made the site extremely difficult to add pages or even display enough information to properly present all a product's features. I re-designed the layout, added products and re-wrote the text to present products well.) www.vcivideo.com

I have full web site development software, including DreamWeaver and a development web server on my laptop, for developing and testing web sites off the Internet.

Let's discuss what you want on your web site, and what having people see your web site will do for you and your business. Contact me

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Lerner Consulting site, default style sheet. Easy to attach a personal style sheet, for special formatting preferences.

Lerner Consulting site, purple style sheet. Use a menu item to change among all the styles I've written, including a Print Preview style that is great for people with low-vision.

Alternative to Meds Center main page. Even the rounded corners for the main portion of the page and the sidebars are done in CSS (no corner images to build).

Face Painting site. All the colors in the site are taken from the big picture.

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology - Basics page

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology site, Basics page (new design)

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology map page

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology site, Basics page (original design, FrontPage tables embedded within tables to control layout).

Technology Sales Site. Very easy to add products, success stories, or additional product details.

Technology Sales Site, product page

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News

29July2010 - Have a WordPress child theme working, with custom post type, colors that match a background image, and a custom plug-in, based on Thematic theme framework.

8July2010 - Working with two companies to use the Product Launch Formula, so their products are marketed and sold to their customers amazingly well. The Product Launch Formula is great, and you have to execute successfully a complex plan.

6June2010 - WordPress 3.0 is out, and the multiple site features are wonderful. But they need very specific configuration, and most web host technical support people don't know how. I can take them step-by-step through getting multi-site to work. Contact Me

10May2010 - Have you noticed you are wanting to market better online? Just completed re-configuring my Blog, integrating it with Social Marketing sites such as Twitter, including PayPal for product sales, and better Internet Marketing.

18Mar2010 - If you have Safari or Firefox 3.5+, or even Internet Explorer, you will see some styles on this site use downloadable fonts (from http://www.larabiefonts.com). (even though IE doesn't recognize standard truetype/opentype fonts)

28Aug2009 - Organizing workshop video and audio recordings for editing in Final Cut.

23June2009 - Now offering Transcribing service, for workshops or seminars, translating what you speak, so that what communicated well in person, is clear and powerful in text. Whether you want to offer your students a transcript so they learn more deeply, or are wanting to write your book and know you speak better than you write, having transcripts of your best work will make it so much better.

31May2009 - What key problems is your organization facing, to stay alive and prosper as the economy improves? How might talking to someone skilled in improving sales and operations, for even the best-run companies, improve your results?

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