About

This for me is sort of like my "online portfolio", displaying all of the website work I have done for clients over the past three years. I started learning the "ins-and-outs" of website design in 2005 and when I was ready, I built several websites using Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia DreamWeaver; and these websites were hosted on my GeoCities account, since I had an email account through Yahoo- I was allowed 100 MB of free space.

In 2007, I took over management of two client websites: South Beach Tanning and Macomb Batting Cages. Both websites were poorly designed and maintenance was a hassle. I rebuilt the Macomb Batting Cages website from scratch using Front Page and it was only meant to be temporary until I could come up with a new design. Well, it wasn't temporary and stayed online until September 2009 when the website was redesigned using Microsoft Expressions. As for the South Beach Tanning website, it is still using the original code, but we have changed the look of the home page several times, changed the header image on all of the pages, and I am now in the process of "planning" to move this website to the Drupal Content Management System.

In January 2008, I was contacted about doing a website for a local non-profit organization called The Society for Peace. Along with the management of a new website, I also sat on the Board of Trustees as a voting member, was responsible for publicity items, and many other responsibilities. A new website was built using Microsoft Expressions, and in July 2008, I left the organization. Since then, they have had a new website built using Flash (which I do not like), but it looks good and I wish them all the best in the upcoming years.

The year 2009 was a very big year for me, working on four different Drupal websites for Property Concepts, Clinton Township Gratiot Cruise, St. Ronald Catholic Church, and St. Ronald Religious Education. Property Concepts had a website built in ASP.net, the Clinton Township Gratiot Cruise had a website running on ColdFusion, while St. Ronald had a site running on a "customized/hacked" version of Joomla (took away the admin back-end) and the Religious Education website was a new site for the church. I ended up moving both Property Concepts and Cruise sites back to my state-of-the-art hosting facility and built both sites on the Drupal Content Management System.

In 2010, I built websites for Quality Craft, Inc., the Macomb County Ostomy Association, Five Parish Mission, and Leo Melise for House. Coincidentally, three out of the four websites were built in static HTML, while the Five Parish Mission site was built in Drupal since I used an existing multi-site installation (of church sites) for it. I also participated in development of several websites at Henry Ford Community College as part of the "Department Web Sites" project (migration of sites to Drupal).

Here we are in 2011 and work is picking back up again. Updating the Gratiot Cruise website is starting up again, and new client websites are now in the process of being built (will be added to the portfolio when they are live).