About WebCommons
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What WebCommons Does
WebCommons provides professional web programming services that concentrate in server-side and client-side programming, relational database design and advanced configuration for websites, dynamic website features, and web applications, mainly using PHP and MySQL.
Whether you already have a website that requires new/enhanced features (or even a full makeover), or if you’re just now aiming to have a site developed, WebCommons is highly skilled at plugging in the brains and dynamic mechanisms that present-day websites are expected to have.
Whatever your needs, WebCommons will work with you to determine what can be feasibly done for a reasonable price.
Websites with programmed features are today the norm, and this is for practical purposes: Serious visitors don’t come to your professional, business, community or organizational site to stare at shiny objects — they come to your site to accomplish something.
Proper design along with the hidden programming in a website can deliver various important features that can drive repeat visits and enhance your business, such as:
- Always Fresh Content — Providing continuously fresh information (e.g., periodically published articles) so visitors will want to keep coming back to see updates. When site content updates are made easy for its administrators, then rapid updates become the norm and your visitors stay interested.
- Visitor Stickiness — Examples include pointing to similar content the visitor may be interested in, providing for collaboration or discussion, or asking for input (such as voting in a poll). Any feature that gives people a feeling they are contributing something of value to a community, or doing something that builds up their own ego or stature, is a big magnet for repeat visits.
- Participation Encouragement (see Visitor Stickiness)
- Ego Stroking (see Visitor Stickiness)
- Projecting Your Content Far and Wide — Syndicating your content so that previous visitors can keep up with news about your organization’s products and services. Also giving visitors the easy ability to subscribe to your content or share it via e-mail or social networking sites is very powerful.
- Obvious Navigation — If your visitors are easily getting lost on your site or having trouble understanding a website with a design that would make Dali envious, then it is high time to simplify. Of course, WebCommons can make your website simple to navigate in the first place.
- Search Engine Optimization — Making specific content on your site much easier to find using search engines like Google. The key to people serendipitously finding your content is writing a lot of specialized, compelling content, but there are design and programming approaches that can better expose this content in a way that makes it more enticing in search results.
- Zippy Performance — Visitors rightly expect that your website pages load as quickly as possible. And you don’t want your server bogged down, especially if you use shared hosting. There are both server-side and client-side design and programming considerations for ensuring high performance.
- Functional and Style Coherence — Visitors don’t like to be confused by two similar features on a website behaving in very different ways. Good design and programming, or just using a good solid platform (e.g., WordPress), helps with making behavior common across all pages.
- Knowing Your Visitors — Tracking and analyzing visitor activity to see what aspects of your business customers are most interested in and also to see where the navigational bottlenecks are. Analytics is your friend.
- Freedom from Bugs — Visitors don’t like tripping over bugs left and right, especially unrecoverable database errors or browser-dependent strangeness. A properly designed and programmed site will be fully tested and debugged.
This, of course, is a very short synopsis. WebCommons can build in all these features and much more!
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Greetings from Steve Magruder, General Manager
WebCommons General Manager Steve Magruder (@SteveTheWebDev), a full-time freelance programmer with 20 years of experience and a leading PHP programming expert in the Louisville metro area, welcomes your inquiries. He is always very excited about seeing if WebCommons can fulfill any web programming needs you may have.
“I don’t claim to be the most artistic designer around, but I do claim to have a fairly unusual point of view – Website designs should be simple, easy to navigate and easy on the eyes. It’s my contention that most website visitors are less interested in vacuous eye candy but instead seek meat and potatoes, that is, getting what they actually came for, whether it’s information, products, services or online collaboration/discussion.”
– Steve Magruder
Cost-conscious Solutions that Meet High Quality Standards
——WebCommons Uses Open Source Software——
WebCommons is the cost-conscious choice, that is, the reasonably low cost, but high quality provider for your web programming needs. WebCommons achieves this through our embrace of open source and open standards, as well as very low overhead. WebCommons conducts most business using the Internet… without the need for office staffs, formal meetings and office space maintenance.
Company Information
WebCommons LLC is a Limited Liability Company registered in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is located in Louisville, doing business as WebCommons :: Web Programming Services.
WebCommons General Manager Steve Magruder originally wanted to only produce open source web applications that contribute in significant ways to a robust commons. However, he eventually came to the conclusion that similar goals could be reached through commercial avenues as well, exploiting the power of open source technologies and reusable code to benefit customers with great web solutions for low costs – this is the new commons of web development.
WebCommons normally works as a direct contractor with customers seeking web design or programming assistance, but also is open to working as a subcontractor for other web development firms.
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