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About Woods Web Design

Woods Web Design.com came about when people started asking me to create web sites for them. At first, I worked almost exclusively in static HTML, building pages in Dreamweaver, but it didn’t take me long to leave that method behind and start working with dynamic pages built with php-based database-driven software. The site I created for J. L. Woods Construction Services was created with static HTML pages:

Why dynamic pages?

• A “dynamic page” doesn’t just sit there, it responds to your web site visitor’s clicks.
• Web sites that are made with dynamic elements–even something as ordinary as a calendar–that keep the web site up-to-date without constant maintenance by a webmaster.
• Dynamic web sites that are database-driven have an almost infinite number of pages, which keeps visitors at your site longer, learning more about your products or services, or encouraging them click on advertising you’ve added to your site to boost your revenue.
• Dynamic sites are easier to maintain and keep up-to-date than static, plain HTML sites, and allow you to keep the site organized and easy to navigate.

To blog, or not to blog? That is the question.
You have probably heard the word blog coming up a lot lately, and there’s a good reason for it: Everybody’s blogging. The word “blog” was formed by combining the words “web” and “log”, and a blog is a kind of journal, but public. Most of the blogs out there are personal, and bloggers often pick a theme for their blogs. There are blogs dedicated to very narrow topics (e.g., Shameful Typos.com or BikeBlog.us), and there are blogs that cover any topic that happens to interest the blogger at any given moment. Lately, businesses have been starting to use the blog-format to promote their products and services, and there’s a good reason for that, too. It works. The ShamefulTypos.com site is created in blog format.

• Blogs are interesting, because bloggers write often, keeping the content fresh and compelling.
• Blogs connect to many other blogs through links and through visitor comments.
• Business or corporate blogs allow the personality of the employees of the company to make a connection with potential customers.

What’s a “content management system”?
Here’s a definition from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org:

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. A content management system is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. The market for content management systems remains fragmented, with many open-source and proprietary solutions available.

A content management system (CMS) might be the right way to build your web site, depending on what you want to do with your web site. Do you have a wide variety of products or services to sell? Do you have a lot of information to share? Do you like the idea that you can build upon your site as time goes by, even after the design stage has “officially” ended? Then a CMS could be just right. The Buffalo Bike Taxi Co. site is running on a content management system:

Contact Thomas:
Let’s discuss how to best build your web site. Send me an email: thomas@woodswebdesign.com or call me: 716-563-9325.

Friday ~ November 11, 2005 by thomas Posted in Uncategorized |