Why Garth should design, develop, and promote your web site

I have a unique combination of skills which make me well qualified to create wonderful web sites. These skills include:

HTML coding skills

I hand code clean, standards compliant HTML. This is the first line of defense against sites which only work in certain browsers.

Use of interactive web technologies

I work with a variety of programs and techniques to create interactive, interesting, and profitable web sites. These include PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and QuickTime.

Aesthetic sensibilities

Through many years of nature photography and considerable graphic design training, I have acquired an excellent sence of composition, balance, harmony, and color.

Graphics software skills

I have a detailed working knowledge of PhotoShop, Illustrator, ImageReady, and various page layout and word processing programs. This enables me to convert your ideas or your existing print document to a functional web site efficiently.

Photographic background

The low resolution of web graphics is often used as an excuse for sloppy photography or not using photos in web sites at all. In fact, the web allows good photography to look good while making bad photography look even worse. My skills in various styles of photography, darkroom work, and digital imagery enable me to get the most bang for your bandwidth.

English language skills

I have a remarkable facilitude with the english language. I've like graduated from collej and stuff like that. My speling and grammer is impeccable, I strive to never ever under any circumstances split an infinitive, my subjects and verbs always agrees, I wouldn't never use a double negative, of cource I'd wouldn't even conceive of writing a sentence that just went on and on and on and on, cuz those are really hard to figure out, they are called "run on sentences" and I never ever use them cuz that would be wrong, and of course I've never found a preposition that it's appropraite to end a sentence with.

I work cheap  Reasonable Rates

I'm used to starving. Actually, I've had quite enough of starving, thank you very much. But I can still put together a complete site, from conception through design, photography, development, posting, and publicity for less than you imagine. Well, less than you fear, anyway.

Some of my recent web projects:

I have worked on many web sites in various capacities. These sites best represent a wide range of my web work.

For what it’s worth, I am one of only a few website designer/developers on the Mendocino Coast creating database-driven sites using PHP and MySQL.

Listen to Genius

A library of free podcasts from the works of history's greatest writers.

Abell Builders

A work in progress, this site for a Mendocino Coast building contractor will incorporate WordPress to allow the owner to update his projects section, plus other non-techie-friendly update functions.

Digging Dog Nursery

This site, while visually simple, is a search engine juggernaut.

Bored Feet Press

Simple, clean, standards compliant, structural markup, php shopping cart/database...

A Tree Story

A small site for a local author and videographer.

Able Locksmith of Seattle.

A small site for a Washington locksmith

La Petite Maison: a Mendocino vacation rental cottage.

A small site for a local vacation rental.

Cabin in the Meadow.

Another small site for a vacation rental; this one is in the Anderson Valley

Cheryl Walters Mendocino Coast Realty.

A simple, owner-maintainable, database-driven real estate site using php/mysql.

Hands-On Leather.

E-commerce site for local leather workers.

Orb Goddess.

The mysterious orb phenomenon in photos.

Daniel Graham Sculpture in Santa Rosa.

Gallery site for the sculptor.

Freedom To Marry.

A site for a group of local videographers who have produced a gay marriage documentary.

Advocating for Someone with a Mental Illness.

A simple site for Sonya Nesch, a book author.

Mendocino Photography.

My own mega site. Fortunately or not, I've had very little time to update it recently. I've been too busy working on other people's sites.

Kibesillah Farmhouse: Mendocino Coast vacation rental

A little site for a vacation rental cabin and farm house.

Why You Should Give a Damn About Gay Marriage.

A site for the author of gay marriage book.

The Outdoor Store

A simple web presence for a small local business.

Navarro-by-the-Sea-Center

History and science at the mouth of the Navarro River

Cynthia Myers Art Glass

Gallery site for a glass artist.