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I spent the last 5 days helping one of my customers write a proposal for an agency of the Federal government. I was the lead writer for one of the proposal’s largest sections on Website Development and Marketing. I also drew up the budget for the website and related tasks, and put together a set […]
Completed a major “renovation” of the Meeting & Events section of a client’s website. The visually redesigned section dynamically displays upcoming events in several different event categories and highlights quotes and photos from past events. The event data is fully integrated with my custom content management system (CMS) and is easily updated by my client’s […]
Spent the better part of a day fixing/cleaning/optimizing my father’s laptop and mother’s desktop (both windows xp). Removed a bunch of garbage software, redid their wireless network, and installed better virus software (AVG).
Installed Joomla Fireboard (discussion board) component on a client’s website. Worked with server administrators to conduct pre-install backups and set proper permissions.
Designing an email newsletter template for a client. I’m building off the branding work that I did for their website. The newsletters will be distributed using iContact, which I set up for the client.
I recently presented a client with a set of strategies that could be used to garner links from other websites. “Inbound links” (high quality inbound links, that is) are a key ingredient in improving a site’s results on the major search engines. My analysis showed that the client had a lot of low hanging fruit […]
My custom CMS now includes a page search that allows website managers the ability to quickly find the page they need to edit.
Troubleshot and resolved an issue where pages and files from the old version of a client’s website were still appearing in Google’s search results. Reviewed the XML sitemap, data in Google Webmaster Tools, robots.txt, and 301 redirects.
Conducting a large-scale reworking of my CMS’ architecture, especially the PHP and MySQL stuff. Foreign keys, arrays, joins and unions, etc etc.