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WebCommons' Approach to Web Programming Do you need a website with smarts?
Or, does your existing website need
more smarts? WebCommons concentrates on server-side programming and relational database design for
websites and web applications, mainly using PHP and MySQL. Websites with programmed features are becoming the norm, and this is for practical
purposes: Serious visitors don't come to your professional, business or organizational site to stare at
flashy objects—they come to your site to accomplish something. ATTENTION — Web Designers and Design Firms:
WebCommons accepts
subcontracting assignments. WebCommons understands that web development shops can't always maintain all the
expertise or staff required to satisfy customer requirements. WebCommons is always very happy to assist. The hidden programming in a website can deliver various important features that can
drive repeat visits and enhance your business, such as: - Visitor Stickiness — Integrating programmed interactive features that
strongly attract and hold onto visitors, such as reporting issues, collaboratively creating content or
participating in discussion boards. Any feature that gives people a feeling they are contributing something of
value to a community is a big magnet for repeat visits.
- 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 automated or otherwise made easy for its administrators, then rapid updates become the
norm and your visitors stay interested.
- Communicating Up-to-date Content — Syndicating your content so
that previous visitors can keep up with news about your organization's products and services. Another
common approach is automating the sending of e-mail updates.
- 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.
- Knowing Your Visitors — Tracking visitor activity to see what aspects
of your business customers are most interested in and also to see where the navigational bottlenecks are.
- Serendipitous Findability — Making specific content on your site
much easier to find using search engines like Google, as well as web directories and social networking
mechanisms.
- Annoyance Avoidance — Website coherence, page load speed, browser
ubiquity and various aspects of site aesthetics require, if not programming, then at least a programming
design mindset. People are accustomed to being annoyed by websites they visit—if your site doesn't annoy
them, it stands a much better chance of attracting them for on-site activity and repeat visits.
This, of course, is a very short synopsis of what's possible. WebCommons is available
to do all these things and much more.
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WebCommons provides web programming services especially geared toward
small/growing businesses, professionals and non-profit organizations. 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.
WebCommons believes in building long-term relationships. Tell
WebCommons about all your dreams—they may very well be doable, and at a very reasonable cost. See WebCommons Project Highlights >> |
What's Hot at WebCommons Thursday, September 4, 2008 The "front page" of this site is now a blog  The front page I was developing for version 2 of this site just didn't work out. I was
wanting a front page that worked like a portal, but in reality what I had produced was too cutesy, too
static and virtually content-free, in an era where dynamic content is what drives the web (and search
hits). Therefore, with the Bon Vivant Savant^1 site inspiring me,
I have converted the front page into a blog using WordPress^8 software. This initial effort at a blog design
may not be the most ultimate in design (yet), but for now, it will act as a communications center, not only
for telling everyone what's going on with the business, but also for expressing my views on various web
development subjects. Enter version 3 of the WebCommons.biz site — this should be a lot of fun. New (sort of) company name adopted for WebCommons As part of the effort to conduct a major refresh of how WebCommons is presented to the world
(so to speak), WebCommons General Manager Steve Magruder adopted a new official name for the limited
liability company. As soon as the state confirms the amendment to the articles of organization, what was
once "WebCommons.org, LLC" will become "WebCommons LLC". Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Base hourly rate for services increased Due to the soaring costs of gasoline, and everything else that is transported using that
fuel, we regretfully have to increase our base hourly rate from $28 to $32. For existing customers, this
will apply to hourly work starting on June 1, 2008. Negotiated higher rates will not be affected by this
change. Thursday, February 28, 2008 New blog for Bryan S. Bush Books launched  2Using a WebCommons-modified version of WordPress^8,
Bryan S. Bush - The Western Theater Civil War Blog2 was launched on February 28. In the blog, Bryan, a Civil War historian, talks about the books he
has released and is working on, as well as upcoming appearances and subject matter related to the western
theater of the American Civil War.
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Greetings from Steve Magruder, General Manager WebCommons General Manager Steve Magruder, a programmer with 18 years of experience and a
leading PHP† programming expert in the Louisville metro area, welcomes your
inquiries. He and his associates are very excited about taking on 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 or services.”
— Steve Magruder
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WebCommons Delivers High Value ———WebCommons Uses Open Source
Software——— WebCommons is the budget 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, where Steve and his associates
work together, yet independently. WebCommons conducts most business using the Internet… without the need
for office staffs, formal meetings and office space maintenance. Contact WebCommons >> |
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