Did you know that with a professional website you can reach thousands of new clients instantly and dramatically increase exposure to your business? Your website is the face of your business!
I look forward to this opportunity to help you design a website from the ground up and start promoting your business on the web using best practices and web marketing strategies (SEO, Google AdWords, etc). I am confident that with my 10 years of professional web development experience I can deliver something that exceeds your expectations. My pricing is also very competitive!
It is my goal to attract respectful customers and provide them with good value for their money.
Why choose me? I strive for the ideal solution…
My theory is that web design doesn’t have to be about re-inventing the wheel and charging someone out the wazoo for it, when all you really need is a solid flexible platform to power your website; something that can get you up and running in an hour or two, yet offer an endless canvas for personalization and customization. That’s why most of the websites I build are powered by WordPress.
EXTREMELY Easy To Use!
WordPress is a robust publishing platform which is designed to be straightforward and easy for you – the end user – to work with. After I commission your website on WordPress, publishing new content is literally like writing a document in Microsoft Word, assigning the document to a category, and then clicking the Publish button. Voila! Your new article is now published to your website, automatically categorized and placed into your navigation menu. It’s nothing short of magic, and it’s how modern day web publishing should be!
Take advantage of these WordPress features and many more:
- Thousands of free and premium themes make creating the simplest blog or the most complex webzine a possibility. Themes are available for photo galleries, portfolios, online retail, blogs, etc.
- Thousands of free plugins for extended functionality such as contact forms, newsletters, shopping carts, affiliate marketing, image slideshows, social networking, top 10 lists, etc.
- Thousands of free widgets for extended functionality. Customize your sidebars with widgets using drag and drop in the admin panel.
- Built-in user registration and management.
- Built-in commenting system and spam protection.
- Automatic tracking and archiving of posts.
- Post and page revisions maintain a history your content edits and enable you to rollback to a previous revision.
- Automated website backups.
- What-you-see-is-what-you-get authoring and editing of site content. It’s really similar to Microsoft Word. Easily embed video from services like YouTube or images from services like Photobucket.
- Powerful search engine optimizations with no action necessary from the user. Get ranked even higher on Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Packages & Pricing
“Once I’ve given you the proposal, you choose whether or not I’m worth hiring!”
WordPress Installation (Basic Package)
What’s included:
- WordPress Installation – I’ll install the newest version of WordPress on your web host. If you don’t have a web host I’ll help you find the best deal and get you setup promptly.
- Basic Theme Bundle – comes loaded with several of my favorite themes for you to choose from. Simply pick the theme you like and activate it! Easily install more using the built-in theme search engine.
- Basic Plugin Bundle – comes loaded with several of my favorite plugins. Easily install more using the built-in plugin search engine.
- Theme Personalization – personalize one theme of your choice – not only will I adjust the fonts and color scheme for you, but I’ll also replace the default theme branding with custom branding, graphics, logos, or text that you provide me with. I believe personalization is an important design step for any website which is why I offer this in my Basic Package. This is basically what I offer in my WordPress Theme Personlization Service, a $50 value!
- Google Analytics – allows you to view site stats, track visitors, and help you understand where your visitors are coming from. Capitalize on new opportunities!
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – standard optimizations with All-In-One SEO and Google XML Sitemap. I’ll submit your website to Bing, Yahoo, and Google search engines so they use the preferred method of indexing your website for better search ranking and listing.
- Contact Form – enable visitors to contact you via email with this simple contact form. Ability to create multiple contact forms and place them anywhere on your website.
- Email Communication – get tips, documentation and support on how to use your new WordPress website – even after I’ve finished commissioning it!
Pricing: $150 (flat fee)
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WordPress Installation (Premium Package)
What’s included:
- Everything from the Basic Package
- Premium Theme – find a premium theme under $100 online and I’ll purchase and install it for you, ensuring that you own the license to use it.
- Initial Content – I’ll publish some content for you – up to 5 pages – using text and images that you provide me with.
- 3 Hours of Customization – for any additional theme customizations you might need. In case we can’t find the right plugins to give your website the tailored functionality you desire, it still might be possible through custom programming, which is why I’ve included 3 Hours of Customization with this package. This is basically what I offer in my WordPress Customization & Development Services, a $210 value!
Pricing: $400 (flat fee)
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WordPress Installation (Migration Package)
Want to move your existing website over to WordPress and start taking full advantage of its powerful user friendly features? Make content publishing and website maintenance a breeze by switching to WordPress today!
What’s included:
- Everything from the Basic Package
- Functionality Migration – I’ll consider a theme that offers as much functionality as possible in relation to your old website, and I’ll install plugins to reproduce any missing functionality we can’t get from the theme itself. This covers typical components such as an image rotator, shopping cart, newsletter, message board, etc.
- Content Migration – I’ll publish all existing content from your old website.
- 3 Hours of Customization – for any additional theme customizations you might need. In case we can’t find the right plugins to give your new website the same functionality as your old website, it still might be possible through custom programming, which is why I’ve included 3 Hours of Customization with this package. This is basically what I offer in my WordPress Customization & Development Services, a $210 value!
Pricing: Starts at $400 (depends on amount of content / complexity of existing website)
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WordPress Theme Personalization Service
Personalization of one theme of your choice – not only will I adjust the fonts and color scheme for you, but I’ll also replace the branding with custom branding, graphics, logos, or text that you provide me with.
Pricing: $50 (flat fee)
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WordPress Customization & Development Services
Need something unique done for your WordPress website? Maybe you have a theme that needs to be updated or tweaked slightly with additional functionality. Perhaps you need a custom widget developed for your sidebar, or a plugin for publishing content from a MySQL database. Whatever the challenge might be, I am eager to develop a solution for you.
Pricing: $70 (hourly fee)
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WordPress Maintenance & Support Services
Need help updating your WordPress website or publishing new content? Maybe you want to add a contact form to your website using one of the many available WordPress plugins. Or perhaps you updated your theme and accidentally broke something in the process. Whatever the case may be, I can probably help you out! Just let me know what you need done and I’ll give you an estimate on how much time it will take.
Pricing: $50 (hourly fee)
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What to Expect
We’ll work together to discuss your design needs up front (a worksheet will assist us with this) and from here we can make the critical choice of what theme your website should use, as well as any customization it might need to fulfill your specifications. I’ll outline everything in my proposal and give you a breakdown of the work to be performed.
Once I’ve given you the proposal, you choose whether or not I’m worth hiring!
I will develop your website on my own private web server which I will share with you so that we can preview any changes and/or progress before going live. Once you have accepted your new WordPress website, I’ll move it off of my server and onto your server.
Testimonials
Coming soon…
Showcase
If you’re not sure whether I have the skills to fulfill your requirements, I’ve put together this small resume for your convenience.
- 10 years of professional experience in the workplace.
- Proficient knowledge of languages & markups: ASP.NET, PHP, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, jQuery, SQL, etc.
- Proficient knowledge of standards & techniques: SEO, OOP, W3C compliance, phpMyAdmin, etc. I prefer writing markup in a text editor as it is faster and more robust than a program like DreamWeaver.
- Experience installing and maintaining various content management systems – WordPress, Joomla and MediaWiki (Wikipedia framework).
- Ability to program custom themes, widgets and plugins for WordPress.
- Graphic design and photo manipulation ability with state of the art tools.
Extensive projects take place behind closed doors for private businesses so unfortunately I have no way of sharing those here, but I do have a public portfolio of work I’ve done at oDesk, as well as the following public projects:
GlassOcean.net (2009-Present)
Description: This is my personal website, and you are here right now. This site is powered by WordPress!
My involvement: highly customized and expanded default (“TwentyTen”) theme, custom WordPress functions and widgets for content formatting and delivery, custom MP3 file listing component with ID3 tag extraction, intuitive content layout for many unrelated topics and categories.
TriciaMoiseLifeCoach.com (2011-Present)
Home of Tricia’s “Pure Joy Life Coaching” program. This website is powered by WordPress!
My involvement: Setup multiple affiliate programs, theme customizations, on-going site maintenance and updates.
ChelseaThurman.net (2011-Present)
Chelsea Thurman is an aspiring Hollywood actress. Her goal was to produce a clean, no frills acting portfolio.
My involvement: developed from scratch, on-going site maintenance and updates.
DollFaceChelsea.com (2011-Present)
Chelsea also has a thing for beauty and fashion. She has a unique idea for an empowering online magazine which is still coming to fruition.
My involvement: developed from scratch, on-going site maintenance and updates.
Kelly was brutally murdered while terrified and crying for help.
Big news the other day, AT&T is about to acquire T-Mobile. Internet rage ensues. It was only a matter of time before someone started a petition, one of which made it to the front page on reddit.com:
A long time ago, I created this idea called Verbal Reckoning where I would collect the most absurd claims and arguments from the web and comment on them myself in a thorough, very critical, insulting and sarcastic way…like policing internet trolls (a contradiction in itself). But mostly it was for humor’s sake, entertainment for the soul. This project idea faded quickly as I took interest in other things, but there was one relic from this ancient endeavor which I recently found on my FTP server and still hold close to my heart…
What the hell? How did this \\heaven\HP4650 printer get added to my system at login!?
Sometimes I need to migrate a large amount of shared files on a network from one drive or system to another for better organization, more space, security concerns, or whatever the reason might be. However, a migration like this can interrupt network users who need access to those files. In this post I’ll show you a better method for file migration, which is now a staple in my IT arsenal, as it has proven useful many times.
Glass Ocean is Perry Butler's Blog, Music Productions, Services, and Software Development.