Website Design - Training and Support
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Web Site Design - Our Goals for your web site:
- Easy to navigate--the visitor should be able to find what he/she is looking for without a lot of button clicking, head scratching and frustration.
- Informative - important information about your enterprise should be readily available.
- Functional - Your web site will provide appropriate tools for accessing information, downloading files, and communications between you and your customers and/or clients.
- Aesthetically pleasing--The site should be easy to read and pleasing to the eye, but not to the point of distraction (unless it is the beauty of your product that is causing the distraction).
- Displays and functions properly in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Opera, Firefox and SeaMonkey browsers (FireFox and SeaMonkey are heirs to the now unsupported Netscape Navigator) with standard and "larger" text sizes.
- As error free as possible. Our associate graphic artist and editor LeeAnn Ellis reviews our pages for language clarity and grammar as well as graphic design, quality and clarity.
This site is designed to inform you about web site design, including some of the things you should be thinking about relative to the design of your own site. Please browse our site at your leisure, and contact us with any questions that you have.
We are now supporting image management using Lightbox. Click on an image below to see how this works.
Lightbox Slideshow will do automatic or manually started slideshows as well. We are also supporting FloatBox, another picture viewer based on the original lightbox code but with many extension. For an example to a Floatbox application, click on the Indy New Thought Living link below and browse to Ministries and then Peru. This example also demonstrates how we can put additional pictures besides those on the source page into a slide show.
Please explore the following sites that we have created:
Circle Unitarian Univeralist Fellowship: www.cuuf.org. A relatively large site, cuuf.org shows the usefulness of drop down menus when a site has many pages.
Indy New Thought Living: www.IndyNewThoughtLiving.org. This is a small site; only a few pages.
Architectural Concepts: www.ArchitecturalConcepts.com. This is a not a large site, but it does have extensive pictures that enlarge when clicked on, and then shrink back down when the enlargement is clicked on. This is a three column site, with links on the left, pictures on the right and text down the middle.
Momma Lisas Books: www.MommaLisasBooks.com. This is a very small site, a kind of reference point for return customers. We plan to expand this site over the next few months to becomes a seller site.
The site your are currently on is, of course, our design. And we do use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on all of our sites. Proper use of CSS separates most of the appearance of the site from the information on the site. See the Computer Support section of this site for an example of the power of Cascading Style Sheets . The changes in appearance in the Computer Support section come about through a half dozen changes in the CSS file and the web template that format the support pages of the web site, plus a few lines of code adding the extra support menu. Also visit www.csszengarden.com to see the extent to which appearance can be controlled by the CSS. The web page is identical for all of the pages on the zengarden site, only the CSS file has been changed.
Training and Support
Training has long been an activity that we enjoy at Johnson Leflore and Associates. Anne Johnson has worked in the computer field doing support and training since 1982, and Rob Green started doing computer support work in 1973. Over 60 years of combined experience translates into a very strong ability to support your software needs, whether it be in training or system and software support.