The Good Web

THE GOOD WEB

November 2010 - Business seems to be picking up with several clients interested in social networking sites or Content Management sites.

   A niche social networking site may be a sound business idea as well.    A Content Management site puts you in control of many of the changes to your business content. The freshness of your content is directly linked to return visits, the more return visits, the higher the chance of delivering your message to your target audience and ultimately selling your product or service.

   There are many trusted, stable, Open Source packages available to meet the need for a social networking or content management site. Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress are the 3 top rated packages.

 

 

 

 

NEWS

2-Mar-2012 - Well the Nazareth Home project is finally completed. This project was done on "non-profit time", which means that there is no schedule, no deadlines and no client demand. Careful what you wish for, you may get it...

7-Sep-2011 - Well the bad news: on Monday 9/12 I'm no longer a programming contractor for MEMIC, the good news: that's when I start as a full time employee!

10-Aug-2011 - This is my 3rd week as a contract .NET programmer working in Portland for MEMIC. An awesome company. Love the work thus far. Clean .NET shop. Gotta give them credit. Crunching up some XML, working with Telerik (aka. Javascript) controls, not bad, not bad. Gonna be doing some web services stuff, can't wait. Life is good...

12-Jul-2011 - I start my contract with MEMIC tomorrow! Very excited about this opportunity. VS 2010, and VB.NET...

23-Jun-2011 - Finished up the Korean Yankee's site. I did this site for barter. Worked out pretty well, I needed a granite step and a brick walkway... All-in-all, a good trade.

26-Feb-2011 - I've been busy and this is a good thing. Part of my time is spent as a consultant at MPX an awesome printing and technology solutions company in Portland, ME. This has so far been an interesting and rewarding experiance. Back in Portland on Monday...

5-Jan-2011 - Coming soon - a social networking site for professors. This site should be live in a month or two... Stay tuned...

4-Jan-2011 - Welcome Mike Foley of Mike Foley's Fitness based in Portland, ME. Mike is happy to be with a reliable, responsive web development company and I'm glad to have him.

10-Dec-2010 - I gave myself a birthday present - I finished the major pieces of Discover Maine Magazines re-designed web site.

29-Oct-2010 - I'm working with Discover Maine Magazine to update their web site.

30-Sep-2010 - Started work on a social site based on Drupal 6. In my mind the best CMS platform. I've worked with Joomla! and I've worked with Wordpress. Nuff said...

30-Sep-2010 - Updates to Maine-ly Stoves site - added a news scroller, got them on Facebook and their site connected, got them setup to sell using PayPal and many more nice features. Their business is booming. Life could be worse...

10-Sep-2010 - Starting work on a custom PHP/MySQL ecommerce web application. More on this to come...

26-Aug-2010 - Started work as a consultant with Omni Technical Consulting.They needed help implementing a customized Wordpress/Buddypress site for real estate lawyers - My relaw.com.

24-Apr-2010 - Started talking with the Biddeford-Saco Elks Lodge to establish a membership web site.

19-Mar-2010 - Today I implemented a bit of content management functionality to my web site! This gives me the ability to update The Good Web news items directly from my web site. If you're interested in this for your web site, let me know.

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03-Mar-2010 - I'm finishing up work on Maine-ly Stoves web site, a custom site that pulls together all of the products and services they offer including their on-line Gift Shop. Vist Maine-ly Stoves

11-Dec-2009 - I'm finishing up work on the Solutions Property Management web site. This site is a content management system with many features supporting the work that Matt and Terra do. This CMS makes it easy for them to do most of the content updates and additions themselves. Visit this site here

11-Dec-2009 - I've produced a prototype for the Biddeford-Saco Chamber of Commerce & Industry that is being well received and evaluated at this point. Their needs are for integration of a membership database and a feed to a seperate financial system. This should be a very interesting and rewarding project.