~ MonteSite

2009-11-12 09:11:39

Business & E-Commerce Sites I have Designed:

2011; WordPress Site - WI Fishing Club @  http://wifishingclub.org/, still under development, awaiting a PayPal account once again…

2007; Southway Bait Sales @ http://southwaybaitsales.com/home.htm. Definitely the pinnacle of my hand coding work, I spent ages getting the look and feel I wanted. Unfortunately it still does not function as intended. The creation of a Pay-Pal account, a retail price and shipping cost structure, and the editing of an old VHS vid, all took so long that we lost the password and the will to recover it.

2007; Workhorse Project, some good freinds were looking for a loan to launch a cyber cafe with a catering and delivery site, with computer sales recycling and service as an integral part. This material was quickly designed to help get the loan, which was not in the end granted.

2006; Shiraz Project, I worked hard to propose a site based on current branding and images from print and facilities, they went with a cousin from Chicago wh set them up with a mostly black site. I see they have had it changed again, this is much more what I was working towards but is more subtle and dignified http://www.shirazpersiangrill.com/.

2004; Second commercial site, for local rapper Lil’ Dude, @ http://montesite.net/os/lildude/index.php. I started this one in php with a mind towards being able to add more functionality down the line, nonetheless it still remained largely an html based site. Not only has the artist changed his name, but they have since decided to go without a website of their own. In 2008 he set up a more modern page at http://lildude.net/home.html. It has been good for me to see this young man’s career progress apace, he has worked with many talented music biz veterans. Some errors on the front page result from my header and footer for montesite.net being blocked by the Joomla installation.

2003; First commercial site, for my sister’s business, now defunct, @ http://montesite.net/os/r2/home.html. This would have been much easier to build in a scripted user managed space like this one, but, unaware, I built it in raw html with well over 100 hand coded pages. The shopping cart worked back when we had a live paypal account. My sister’s partner absconded with most of the actual product soon after the site went up, so it was never able to be used as intended.

My CMS Sites:

WordPress; Wisconsin Fishing Club @ http://wifishingclub.org/ , Artisteer Theme Example @ http://montesite.net/wordpress/ , DIY Assist Aids @ http://montesite.net/diyassist/ , Sandbox @ http://montesite.net/wordpressdefault/ .

Joomla; Allness Unlimited @ http://montesite.net/nh/, Necedah Harvest @ http://montesite.net/nh/ , Sandbox @ http://montesite.net/joomla/ , Sample site fully populated with default options @ http://montesite.net/sample/ .

Drupal; WI Green Party @ wigp.org, lead consultant, web promotion, graphic design.

Desktop Video Tutorials – UWM Alpha AccountFilezilla Transfer Tutorial Page

Social Web, Blogging, & Social Bookmarking Applications

Largely academic at first, I expanded this list to promote candidates.

CMS; WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, Templates:

WordPress, the most widely used, and largest open source community

@ http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all in 2011:

“WordPress is used by 54.2% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 15.6% of all websites.”

Joomla, My First Choice of customizable CMS for Ease of Use
http://montesite.net/joomla/ a sandbox for checking it out and learning to admin Joomla
http://necedahharvest.org/ & http://montesite.net/ the two main sites I am responsible for
http://www.joomla.org/ the source

Free Joomla Templates Allow Hundreds of Off the Rack choices
http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting/joomla15-templates.htm
http://www.joomlaxtreme.com/free-joomla-templates-download/joomla-1.5-templates.html
http://joomlatp.com/
http://www.joomla24.com/option,com_gallery/Itemid,6.html
http://joomla2u.net/

Drupal is More Complex & Flexible than Joomla, less used, more powerful for custom script and DBs.
http://wigp.org/ – The Primary Site I Help Oversee with Others

http://drupal.org/ – The Original Best Nonprofit Oriented Open Source CMS Has Found Much Commercial Use

CMS, What Is It?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system – Wikipedia
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&num=100&q=open+source+content+management+system&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq=&fp=94f5bc3d92523f1a

Lists of Open Source CMS Show Many Similar Options
http://php.opensourcecms.com/
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/09/01/top-40-open-source-content-management-systems-cms/
http://www.la-grange.net/cms

Hand Coded HTML - From those ancient days before I discovered Joomla