A Day in the Life of a Web Architect

by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC Taking a break at the midpoint on my series, Top 10 Website Features I thought I’d keep track and write about a day in the life of a website architect here at Page Mountain LLC, staff of one. I usually hit the desk, coffee in hand, between 6am…

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Top 10 Website Features #5: A “Clean Well Lighted” Home Page

by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. – Ernest Hemingway, “A Clean Well-lighted Place” In Hemingway’s short story “A Clean, Well-lighted Place”, we listen in on three men in different stages of their lives from young to middle age to old. Hemingway’s sparse prose and clipped…

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Top 10 Website Features #4: Website Logistics

by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC Backup at the same frequency as changes Finding the Contact Us Button A responsive “mobile” design Website Logistics Life’s about logistics. With the right support systems, you can do anything. – Mark S. Burgess In the military, according to Wikipedia, a quartermaster is ”generally a relatively senior soldier…

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Top 10 Web Site Features #3: A Responsive Mobile Design

by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC Backup at the same frequency as changes A Contact Us form with multiple recipients A responsive “mobile” design Responsive web design (RWD) is a web development approach that creates dynamic changes to the appearance of a website, depending on the screen size and orientation of the device being…

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Top 10 Web Site Features #2: Finding the Contact Us Button

by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC 1. Backup at the same frequency as changes 2. Finding the “Contact Us” Button This is another seemingly unimportant and often neglected web site concern. While a web site is an asynchronous communication device, it can still facilitate dialog. “Asynchronous” because the message sending and receiving is not…

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