A basic rundown of skills we possess and technologies we work with:

* XHTML
* CSS
* JavaScript and various JS libraries (like jQuery & mootools)
* AJAX
* PHP
* ColdFusion
* MySQL or Access databases
* ecommerce (Magento, Zen Cart, PayPal)
* CMS (Drupal, WordPress)

Content management systems (CMS) are a wonderful tool for anyone who would like to be able to easily update their own site content without knowing HTML.  You might use a CMS for maintaining a blog, writing news articles for your site, maintaining an event calendar, and many more tasks.

There are 2 content management systems that we love to use.  WordPress has an extrememly user-friendly administrative interface, that doesn’t overwhelm or intimidate.  It’s a solid platform with lots of different plugins you can add for increased functionality.  we use WordPress for straight-forward blog sites that don’t need a lot of additional functionality, because it’s easy to use and anything else would be overkill.

The second CMS we use is Drupal.  Drupal is hugely flexible–this results in a more complex adminstrative interface.  This complexity allows for tons of added functionality, like controlling different types of content (news articles, reviews, blog posts, etc) or having lots of different functional blocks on one page (content in sidebars for example).  These things are possible in WordPress, but Drupal is really built for that kind of functionality.

Aside from content management systems, we can also do static websites.  If you don’t need your content updated very often, a static website is perfectly fine, and is usually a more affordable option for anyone on a limited budget.

We can also provide e-commerce solutions, for those who want to sell products online.  We have worked with Zen Cart, PayPal, and Magento, and can set you up with one of these shopping carts, or another if you prefer.  Magento is a favorite of ours–it is fully customizable and offers an amazingly intuitive and simple user-interface on the administrative side.  It also offers a lot of plugins for integrating different payment processors, which makes it very flexible.

Like I said in the beginning, we’re always interested in trying new things–so if you are interested in something you don’t see listed here, please don’t hesitate to ask us about it!  More later…