Free Web Design?

For a limited time, I'm designing web sites for select organizations and small businesses, for free. I am in the process of building my personal portfolio. By building web sites, I hope to make the local web more beautiful and gain some experience in web design and working with clients. I'm particularly interested in web sites for non-profit charitable organizations, though I also have other interests as well. I'm mostly interested in developing sites with useful content, rather than a few pages of advertisements.

I am an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop, and a Macromedia Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer. Essentially, that means I know how to use the software to work with graphics and design web pages. As an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, I can also transition designs to print. For a look at some of my other qualifications, you can browse my on-line resume pages at http://www.saltatoria.com/dbell/resume/.

While the design work is free, you still have to have Internet "real estate" to work with. Specifically, you will need web space and a domain name, and in order to get internet response, you will need an email address. This is usually handled with your hosting company along with a host of other amenities.

If you are interested, don't delay. The first thing you will want to do is decide what you want/need over a period of time and then develop a plan with various stages of development. Most new sites for small businesses and organizations would consist of 5-10 areas, the home page and initially one page for each area.

If you are interested, contact me with your ideas.