Web Design

My name is Rick Beckman, and I am a Web geek. I love tinkering around on websites, and over the past several years, I have learned quite a bit about how websites work and, perhaps most importantly, how to troubleshoot problems which arise in the day-to-day maintenance of websites.

In May 2008, I took on my first professional client to do a variety of odd jobs for her website, A Greener Tea. I have greatly enjoyed working with the webmaster thereof, Ms. Christine Scaman, tackling any issues she may have, ranging from design to programming to hosting.

Thanks to you, a blog is better than it was. - Christine Scaman

I have been working on (X)HTML websites on my own since 2000, when I spent hours on my Sega DreamCast putting together sites on free hosts such as Angelfire or Tripod. Since that time, I have not only learned the basics of Web design, but I have grown to respect Web Standards, learned how to manipulate CSS, managed to hack together plenty of custom solutions in PHP, and more. For the curious, a list of my own websites is available.

Services

  • Start to finish site creation
  • Site improvement contracting - to handle odd jobs, various maintenance duties, and more
  • Web standardization - if you want to focus on making the best site possible but don’t want to worry about standards validation or other such things, I can do that for you
  • Search engine friendliness & optimization - I won’t rip you off by charging to submit your site to search engines, but I will help you implement a few “best practices” on your site to ensure the best impact when the search engines do visit your site
  • WordPress - installation, maintenance, theme customization, plugin installation, and more. Please do not contact me in regards to Thesis or other DIYthemes products or issues; I do tons of DIYthemes support, but I do so via their support forum in order to benefit the whole community.
  • phpBB - installation, maintenance, theme customization, MOD installation, and more
  • Troubleshooting (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, WordPress, or phpBB issues
  • Instructional - Do you want to learn how to, for example, post to your blog making full use of the formatting the Web allows? I would love to teach you. The more each site creator knows, the better the Web as a whole becomes!

I try to be as flexible as possible, so if you do not see what you would like done listed, please get in touch and we’ll see what we can work out!

Pricing

Due to the nature of the Web, every job is different, and I do not at this time feel comfortable creating a flat-rate schedule of payments. Please contact me and we’ll discuss payment.

Contact

You are more than welcome to contact me about any Web issues with which I may be able to assist you. Either use the form below, or contact me on Yahoo Instant Messenger, username KingdomGeek. Please do not contact me regarding DIYthemes products or services; I do all such support via their support forums. Thanks.