Web Design Services

• I can recommend some good hosting
• For now, you must pay for your hosting by yourself. I will help you by walking you through it. I am looking into ways to resell hosting, but it would require that I get a merchant account to do credit cards, which currently I can't afford.
• Intermediate CSS-based web design with limited graphics capabilities
• I hope someday soon to get Adobe CS5.
• Quick site changes, programming and otherwise
• Strong in programming (PHP+MySQL, Javascript, DHTML), and getting better as time goes on.
• Photo touch-up
• Thoughtful usability/feature enhancements from time to time
• If you need a language developed in that you don't see listed, let me know and I will learn it. For instance, if you would prefer an ASP.Net driven site.
• I don't currently do any e-commerce stuff any more due to the new PCI Compliance requirement by some states.

About my transportation problems

I currently cannot drive. So If I am going to meet you, it's going to have to be online through fubbie, or via you picking me up and meeting somewhere with pen and pad, or meeting at Cameo Cafe in Vancouver, WA to hammer out details.

About the menuing system I use

On my own site, I have designed a flexible PHP+XML+template-based menu programming framework which I use to process the whole site, and it uploads the sitewide changes to the web hosting's FTP server. Fully automated. When you add a new page, you add a line to the XML file, and then run a batch file to process the changes.

I am thinking about a redesign which can be incorporated into the server itself.

The XML file basically contains the page links and titles and google priority numbers. It also generates a google-compatible sitemap.xml file (google may not choose to use all of it if it gets too big) and automatically uploads that.

I can choose to generate any kind of DHTML menu I wish using this PHP-based scripting system. Just pick one and customize.

I chose Dynamic Drive's DHTML tree menu due to the sheer size and structure of most of my sites, and because it looked pretty good (folder icons were better than what I could design on my own). I also have a tree menu system of my own, but I lack folder icons, for which I must pay $120.

Using this system and its templates gives my sites a consistent look and feel across the site. I tend to use CSS styling, but I can also incorporate images.

I am a very good speller, but I am not perfect at grammar, and my typing has gotten worse over the years due to having to type at different angles. When I am typing out documents for other people, I try to do my best for other people, especially with case, although I don't care about case with my own sites because I don't think it's all that important for my own stuff.

e-Commerce

I don't currently do any e-commerce stuff any more due to the new PCI Compliance requirement by some states.

If you implement a cart that is not offered by the hosting company, you must submit your work/setup for PCI Compliance testing/verification, which can be a pain I am told.

I am currently do not know the ins and outs of PCI Compliance for e-Commerce hosting, I have heard that if you have paypal on your site using https that this is enough, but some say you need more than that.

I read in the PCI Compliance docs about using puTTY with shell account access to your web site required to monitor the account for PCI compliance. possibly this is handled by paypal? or google cart/whatever? exactly who is responsible for monitoring the account, and how often must they monitor it? Those are my questions.

There are e-commerce hosting companies, which I am sure will provide a full solution.

YOU the customer must arrange for shipping accounts with UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, Pony Express, or whoever.