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Skincare by Kara

robert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:56:40 +0000

This is a personal website for a friend of mine who is a licensed Esthetician. She’s located in Roseville, CA. Visit this site.

Alterations Unlimited

robert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:33:27 +0000

Since 1985, Alterations Unlimited has provided the Bay Area with quality service and a friendly attitude. We specialize in in-house alterations on all formal wear, men’s and women’s clothing, mending, military, letter jackets and more.

Visit this site.

Association of California School Administrators

robert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:53:42 +0000

This recent assignment was a Web site redesign project at my current employer. In August 2007, ACSA had chosen to purchase a proprietary content management system from a vendor in the east coast. I was hired on as the Web Manager to work with the software vendor to redesign our Web site.

The project took exactly one year to complete and was finally launched in August 2008. My personal contributions to this project included Information Architecture (IA) design, wireframing, project management, software/hardware installation, database installation/configuration, Web site testing and debugging, web author training, writing user documentation. Visit ACSA’s new Web site for more information.

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ACSA Homepage before redesign

Association of California School Administrators

Cali Construction

robert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:48:46 +0000

Cali Construction Company specializes in home improvement projects in the SF Bay Area. Independently owned and operated by my long time friend Hung. Before the Web site redesign, Cali Construction’s Web site was lacking information and an image that represents the quality and workmanship of the company.

The site now have better search engine optimization and a more professional look and feel. Since launched, Cali Construction have been getting more inquiries and more traffic to their Web site. Visit Cali Construction for more details.

Non-Profits & Associations

robert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:37:24 +0000

Small Businesses

robert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:36:47 +0000

For small businesses, we have a solution that will fit your budget and company size. When you need a new website or want to sell products online, we web content management solutions and e-commerce solutions.

Business Professionals

robert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:36:13 +0000

California School Boards Association

robert — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:55:52 +0000

CSBA had a Web site that was about 10 years old and need a major redesign to improve usability and manageability. I was the only Web developer in the organization, so we had to hire a integration company to assist me in the process.

I designed the theme of CSBA’s new Web site. One of the cool features of the site was the side bar navigation menu. The menu is dynamically contructed by using an XSLT template to generate an XHTML menu from XML data. I was responsible for vendor selection, cms software selection, cms training and certification, information architecture design, web author training, budgeting and coordinating with staff on content migration.

Software packages that were chosen for this Web site: Sitecore CMS to manage content and to integrate with CSBA’s iMIS membership database, ASPDotNetStoreFront for the online bookstore, and Google Search Appliance for site search. Visit CSBA’s new Web site for more details.

Homepage Before Redesign

Homepage After Redesign

XML Menu

Services

robert — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:38:49 +0000

E-commerce has been growing exponentially in recent years as more and more online-store websites have launched to meet the ever growing demand of the public to shop the web. Indeed, even traditional giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Target have ramped up their website shopping efforts even beyond what is available in their stores. Shopping the internet opens up the whole world as a virtual mall for people looking for goods and services, and merchandising on the web delivers a virtually unlimited market of shoppers that fixed-location sellers could only dream of before.

An online store for selling product, travel, insurance and a whole host of consumer and B-to-B merchandise and services offers merchants of every stripe the ability to reach out to every city and hamlet in the land 24/7, complete with the built-in administrative ability to manage inventory, track sales, update offerings, feature specials, ship to multiple addresses with every method possible, and follow-up with marketing messages with a minimum of physical infrastructure. Success stories abound for online shopping because even the smallest operation is a big as the world on the web.

Building the right e-commerce solution, however, takes talent and expertise, and Monclaire Design has been building a solid track record of success for its clients for several years. We’ve built e-commerce shopping cart platforms for small stores and even specialty e-commerce sites for merchants offering customized “build your own” products.

Monclaire Design has long specialized in building custom websites, meeting every challenge clients throw our way with creativity and technical expertise. We built several e-commerce online shopping websites from scratch with great results, and then we discovered the wonderful world of Magento Commerce and Interspire Shopping Cart and found a new solution that not only boosts e-commerce functionality, but cuts the costs as well.

I specialized in:

Website Design and hosting
Wordpress
Drupal CMS
Interspire Shopping Cart
BigCommerce
Magento Commerce