Why Garth should design, develop, and promote your web site

I have a unique combination of skills which make me well qualified to create wonderful web sites. These skills include:

HTML coding skills

I hand code clean, standards compliant HTML. This is the first line of defense against sites which only work in certain browsers.

Search engine optimization skills

What's the point of launching a beautiful new site if nobody can find it on Google or the other search engines? I'll make sure that your site is structured for search engine indexing, has original content, and a solid base of other sites pointing links at it.

Use of interactive web technologies

I work with a variety of programs and techniques to create interactive, interesting, and profitable web sites. These include PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and QuickTime.

Aesthetic sensibilities

Through many years of nature photography and considerable graphic design training, I have acquired an excellent sence of composition, balance, harmony, and color.

Graphics software skills

I have a detailed working knowledge of PhotoShop, Illustrator, ImageReady, and various page layout and word processing programs. This enables me to convert your ideas or your existing print document to a functional web site efficiently.

Photographic background

The low resolution of web graphics is often used as an excuse for sloppy photography or not using photos in web sites at all. In fact, the web allows good photography to look good while making bad photography look even worse. My skills in various styles of photography, darkroom work, and digital imagery enable me to get the most bang for your bandwidth.

English language skills

I have a remarkable facilitude with the english language. I've like graduated from collej and stuff like that. My speling and grammer is impeccable, I strive to never ever under any circumstances split an infinitive, my subjects and verbs always agrees, I wouldn't never use a double negative, of cource I'd wouldn't even conceive of writing a sentence that just went on and on and on and on, cuz those are really hard to figure out, they are called "run on sentences" and I never ever use them cuz that would be wrong, and of course I've never found a preposition that it's appropraite to end a sentence with.

Social Networking

One of the latest trends in the web world is the ever-expanding use of social networking to promote websites. I can help you promote your site on Facebook, YouTube, and other sites.

I work cheap  Reasonable Rates

I'm used to starving. Actually, I've had quite enough of starving, thank you very much. But I can still put together a complete site, from conception through design, photography, development, posting, and publicity for less than you imagine. Well, less than you fear, anyway.

Some of my recent web projects:

I have worked on many web sites in various capacities. These sites best represent a wide range of my web work.

For what it’s worth, I am one of only a few website designer/developers on the Mendocino Coast creating database-driven sites using PHP and MySQL.

University Press Audiobooks

Professionally produced audiobook editions of important works by some of today's greatest minds.

Blair House

I revitalized this old site which hadn't been updated for several years. I took a whole new set of photos, edited, expanded and updated the content, gave it a new look, and re-coded the whole thing.

Karen Muller, Ph.D.

A small site for a southern Oregon clinical psychologist who happens to be my sister.

Listen to Genius

A large library of free, professionally produced podcasts from the works of history's greatest writers. We're up to 389 recordings now, and counting.

Under the Table Books

A pre-existing site which I've thoroughly recombobulated. I've added a shopping cart, updated the author's projects, improved navigation and search engine optimization, and installed a WordPress blog.

Navarro River Music

Another pre-existing site which I'm updating—actually, I'm pretty much starting over here. While the old shopping cart and file structure remains the same, the visual design, and nearly all of the content, is new

Mendocino Coast Films

I re-configured these filmmakers' visual site design into clean, search engine friendly HTML.

Environmental Sculpture by Steve Crowningshield

A database-driven photo gallery for a globe-trotting sculptor/photographer

Digging Dog Nursery

This site, while visually simple, is a search engine juggernaut.

Bored Feet Press

Simple, clean, standards compliant, structural markup, php shopping cart/database...

A Tree Story

A small site for a local author and videographer.

Mendocino Sculpture

The work of Robert Milholin.

La Petite Maison: a Mendocino vacation rental cottage.

A small site for a local vacation rental.

Cabin in the Meadow.

Another small site for a vacation rental; this one is in the Anderson Valley

Cheryl Walters Mendocino Coast Realty.

A simple, owner-maintainable, database-driven real estate site using php/mysql.

Mendocino Mortgage.

A very basic site for a local mortgage broker.

Orb Goddess.

The mysterious orb phenomenon in photos.

Daniel Graham Sculpture in Santa Rosa.

Gallery site for the sculptor.

Freedom To Marry.

A site for a group of local videographers who have produced a gay marriage documentary.

Advocating for Someone with a Mental Illness.

A simple site for Sonya Nesch, a book author.

Kibesillah Farmhouse: Mendocino Coast vacation rental

A little site for a vacation rental cabin and farm house.

Mendocino Acupuncture

Acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine from Donna Call.

Navarro-by-the-Sea-Center

History and science at the mouth of the Navarro River

Cynthia Myers Art Glass

Gallery site for a glass artist.