Website Maintenance & Remodeling

specializing in WordPress – rapid work and quick modifications via CSS

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WEBSITE REPAIR & MAINTENANCE

Is your volunteer webmaster too busy? I will quickly bring your site up to date, and make the modifications you need to stay relevant.
Does your good-looking WordPress, Joomla, or hand-coded website seem daunting to maintain? Let me do the tech stuff for you, so you can focus your energy on content.
Concerned about the distraction and expense of planning a new design? I can make your current site functional.
Is your website ranked lower on Google Search than you should be? Small modifications may be the only SEO that you need.

WORDPRESS TEMPLATE MODS VIA CUSTOM CSS

Frustrated by your WordPress template? Too much whitespace? Would you like to position the elements better? I can help with those things.

WordPress has a "Customizer" that allows adjustments without changing the template code. After using the Customizer, the CNPS Quarterly Gatherings website (screenshot on right and link below) now requires less scrolling and provides more space for information.

QUICK BUILD-OUTS FROM A TEMPLATE

It took only twenty hours to create a 4-page starter site for a CNPS chapter, using the standard template provided by the parent organization. The time included consultations with the client, selecting the initial images for them, and modifying the contact and calendar extensions to enhance appearance and extend functionality.

A SIMPLE WEBSITE FOR A WORKGROUP HOME BASE

For committees and workgroups, a private website can serve as a central location and front end for communication and work sharing. Unlike conventional cloud storage, your topics and documents can be arranged via menus, annotated, and illustrated. And the structure can easily be re-arranged as your needs evolve.

comparison of Google Sites and WordPress versions of same page

Current

This is my personal site

By design, it's not biographical or comprehensive, but has served well as an informal social and business resumé. It was created on the discontinued Classic Google Sites, and recreating the appearance in WordPress was a challenging and educational experience.

CNPS Quarterly Gatherings

Designer/coordinator, four sites per year, with spin-off websites for Chapter Council committees. Now hosted on WordPress , it was originally on Classic Google Sites.

Facebook

Politics, culture, empathy, surreal lunacy (e.g., "Motivator posters")... and frogs. These days we are very political. Most posts are restricted to friends, but you can get the idea. https://facebook.com/levinel

Earlier

VoiceofRoma.com

I've been the site manager of Voice of Roma for many years. (Yes, it's due for a design update!) It is hand-coded with SSI headers and footers, sometimes with page areas swapped out using javascript. The lovely violet/gold landing page, the banner graphics, and the sweet blue border around the content were created by others. (image below)

Rare Plant Inventory

- the first online version

I was the developer of the first online version of the Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants (image above). It had previously been published as hard-copy and updated infrequently. The database platform and page design was modified from the open source WODA (Web Oriented Database) which was written in Perl and created at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. (image below)

the original Online Inventory of Rare Plants

Voice of Roma - an older page

North Coast Chapter CNPS

Originally handcoded, the second version in Joomla featured a Facebook feed embedded in home page to add some dynamism to the content. The COVID-era Virtual Wildflower Show 2020 incorporated Java-generated photo galleries. (The chapter later decided to migrate to WordPress, and the contracted design is effectively a downgrade.)

North Coast Chapter CNPS, Aug. 2021 - Joomla

an older Chapter Council meeting on Classic Google sites

CNPS meetings originally on Classic Google Sites

Jeff Burleigh Legacy

Data monkey gig - automating the conversion of photo meta data from MS-Access to Coppermine gallery, using the SQL back end, and assembling the SQL commands in MS-Excel.

Blogging

Some work on from MySpace (below) was salvaged and recreated on Blogger. See Balkan page for link.

M-eye-Space

Before Facebook, we tried to out-compete each other with ingenious and/or nauseating page hacks. My trademark profile photo was an infra-red close-up of my eyeball. The occasionally used 'fiesta' eyeball is on right.