Cleaning Up Websites

screenshot Bravo Environmental

Some web site maintenance for Bravo Environmental. After inspecting the accessibility and usability of the original site, I located the underlying problem: an over-engineered site for engineers. Al Schumacher swept me into the project.

Site repairs included cleaning up the ASP code, cutting out redundant HTML and vacuuming up 5 nested tables to make content updates easier. Image-based headers were jettisoned to make room for search engine-friendly text-based headers. Web maintenance also involved adding pages to the site map.

You get the idea. Thanks to Beegee Tolpa for the graphic design.

Wacktastic Holiday Light Show

screenshot Wacktastic

WordPress CSS Theming: Scott Marlow

Greenwood/Phinney residents can now enter the 2009 Wacktastic Holiday Light Show Contest!

This is my second year sponsoring this North Seattle community event by providing website development. The new site is powered by WordPress, and features an embedded GoogleMap that accepts batch uploads of contest entries.

Don’t miss the December 20th Awards Party.

Graphic Design credits: Beegee Tolpa, Kelly Davis.

Serving All Indigenous Populations

screenshot Heritage Renewables
CSS/XHTML Development
: Scott Marlow
Graphic design: Beegee Tolpa

Heritage Renewables helps tribes achieve energy independence by providing  consulting and management services for wind energy projects. Google Sites, which hosted the former website, does not support Cascading Style Sheets. So editing site content and making sitewide layout changes was laborious.

I launched a 100% CSS website with an open source Content Management System. Hosting provided by Advanced, LLC out of Vancouver, Washington. Kyle Smith, principal, can now edit content freely, while strengthening his brand image.

Thinking Outside the Box

screenshot Chatterbox Learning

XHTML/CSS Web Development: Scott Marlow
Copywriting: Christa Gardner
Illustration: Beegee Tolpa
Project Management/Design: Kelly Davis

During the 13th century, English prelate Sir John Schorne cast the devil into a boot to protect the village of North Marston in Buckinghamshire. If true, it explains why the French call a jack-in-the-box “diable en boîte” (“boxed devil”).

Shannon Salverda’s new two-color web site for Chatterbox Learning pops just like her logo.