Web Design and Development: Experience

Rates

Web Design and Development: $45/hour

Qualifications

Over 30 years of computing experience, from mainframes to minis to workstations to PCs.
Published in LAN Magazine, Database Programming and Design, Software Development, Sun World, Triangle Business Journal, Microsoft Systems Journal, and ANSI SQL Standard.
Designed and developed private and public Web sites that use advanced technologies. Click here for examples.
Designed and developed private and public Web sites that use ecommerce. Technologies include osCommerce, Zen Cart, Shopify, and Wordpress.
Implemented search engine optimization (SEO) tools and techniques across Web sites.
Web site management with Plesk, cPanel and other tools, including for VPS.
Designed, developed, and taught courses on: C/C++ Programming, CGI/Perl Programming, Active Server Pages/Active Data Objects, XML/XSL, SQL Server, Apache Web Server, Internet Information Server, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Object Technology, VBScript, Unix/Linux, Intranets, Computer Networking, ColdFusion, FrontPage, and Java.
Designed and developed the acclaimed Capital Gainz portfolio management software for Windows. Capital Gainz was the premier choice for investment management by the American Association of Individual Investors, and a top download selection by PC Computing magazine.
Programming Skills: PHP, SQL/MySQL, JavaScript/jQuery, CGI/Perl, HTML, CSS, AJAX, XML/XSL, Bootstrap.
Education: Computer Science degree from Georgia Tech, 3.8 GPA

Experience

HTML: standard across all Web browsers
PHP: structured coding and object oriented development
jQuery: including a large number of addons
JavaScript: including custom libraries
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): standard across all Web browsers
AJAX: Javascript calls to server for interactive sites
Bootstrap: to develop advanced, responsive web sites
SSL: secure access for logins and shopping
CGI/Perl: including custom code
Flowplayer: video player tool
JWPlayer: video player tool
Galleriffic: plus several more jQuery image galleries
XML/XSL: for structured data
SQL/MySQL: many years of relational database experience
osCommerce online store: including massive customization
Zen Cart online store: including massive customization
Shopify store: including customization
Apache Web Server: including htaccess and other features
ImageMagick: command line and PHP embedded image manipulation
Object Technology: including PHP object oriented programming
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): including Google sitemaps and other tools
Plesk/cPanel: site management, including VPS
Mobile Web Site technology: including browser detection
Contact Management Interaction: including custom ConstantContact and iContact forms
WordPress/Blogs: WordPress blogs, including extracting titles to links on home page
phpBB/Forums: bulletin-board style interaction, including extraction of a forum for presentation as a blog

Dave Cohen -
Alleycat Software