Web Design & Development

Websites are dynamic publications that grow and change over time. If form follows function, then keeping the form simple makes it easier to adapt as the functionality evolves. From the database details to the user interface design, I custom build Websites that fit your business model and move with it.

I am a Data Processing Professional who has been working online for the past 20 years. I've been building Websites for twelve years and I am familiar with all of the related technologies. If you are looking for in-depth experience and recognized expertise, you're on the right page.

Technologies:

Web Business

The ISPs, host services, e-commerce, ad servers, search engines -- a whole 'nother business that didn't exist five years ago. If you need to be online, I can guide you through the process and show you your options.

Content Editing

Good writing plus skilled preparation and editing of text and graphic elements are the basic skills of Web development. Creating attractive page layouts with logical navigational tools is the heart of Web design.

HTML Coding

Correctly defining the logical structure and properties of Webpage elements in HyperText Markup Language, adding Interactive features with Java and JavaScript programming and making it all work with different browsers, operating systems and computers ain't easy.

Webmastering

Providing server-side, CGI programming connecting Web browsers to applications and databases turns a collection of Webpages into a Interactive Website. A thorough technical understanding of how to move data over the Internet is essential to making a Website productive.

Internet Audits

An expert survey and report on your current Internet and Web enterprises with recommendations on how best to adapt new technologies and make everything work better.

Internet & HTML Training

I've been teaching on and off for over 20 years. In the mid 1970's, at Columbia University Computer Center teaching non-credit courses, such as: "Introduction to Computing" and "IBM OS Job Control Language". Students used 80 column punched cards to do their homework. In the 1980's, working for Boeing Computer Services, I taught classes in APL (A Programming Language) and students worked on terminals with "daisy-wheel" printers and 300 baud modems. In the 1990's, I carried my laptop and LCD projector into corporate training rooms. I also tought HTML and advanced Web topics online to thousands through ZDU.

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Course Catalog:

Every course is custom designed to fit the need of the students and sponsor. The following descriptions are representative of what I've been doing for the last three years. Tell me what you need and I'll put together a proposal for you.

Introduction to Webscaping

Seminar: The basics of publishing information on the Web in a four to six hour presentation using the Web in real time to teach its principles of operation and enough basic HTML to create a homepage.

• How the Web Works
• Editing and Uploading FIles
• Basic HTML Elements
• Images and Graphics
• Linking Pages Together

Class: A two day version of the above with hands-on exercises for smaller groups seated one or two to a workstation. Additional HTML elements, such as tables and forms, are covered.

Introduction to the Internet

A three to five hour seminar covering the structure on the Internet and how to use it productively. Covers the structure and operation of the Net from both the technical and social perspective. Course includes an intensive question & answer session.

• Overview of the Net
• Getting Connected
• The Protocols: email, web, newsgroups, ftp, telnet, chat
• Resources and Tools

Advanced Web Design

Like Introduction to Webscaping this course can be taught as either a seminar or hands-on class. The choice of topics is often up to the students covering some or all of the following:

• HTML Review
• Advanced Web Graphics
• Tables & Advanced Layouts
• Frames and Framesets
• Forms and CGI
• Cascading Style Sheets
• JavaScript Tricks

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Teaching Methods

PowerPoint presentations may be pretty, but I like using HTML to create my presentation "slides" as it allows me to add links, animations and input forms -- Using the medium to teach itself. I can even edit the presentation, real-time, in class to illustrate technique. Student exercises are linked into the class Website as they are completed allowing students to discuss and critique each others work.

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Client List

Disney Online

Sony Music

Goldman Sachs

CBS

HBO

Globix

Newscorp

Met Life

Doubleday

United Digital Artists

SonicNet

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

The New York Macintosh User's Group (NYMUG)

The New York PC User's Group (NYPC)

The World Wide Web Artist's Consortium (WWWAC)

Tech Documentation & Online Guides

I was always the guy on the project who got stuck with writing the user guide. Maybe it's because I can type fast. I wrote a number of system and user guides for Boeing, CBS, American Airlines and Mobil Oil. Drawing on this experience, I wrote two editions of an important computer book, the HTML Manual of Style. I've learned through experience that the Users' Guide is often the most important part of the Human-computer interface. Let me apply that experience in creating documentation for your important applications.