My development server bit the dust last week, so while waiting for new stuff from newegg.com I decided to showcase how this new thinking out of the blog approach can be tailored and designed to various needs. Below is a mockup of the way the site will look like. The white bar on the side will look similar to what I have on the right side here: archives, recent entries, search, etc. Naturally, this is just one page, the blog-based site will have as many pages as Mambo Tropical would want. …

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In my quest to lower prices and provide environment to offer anyone an affordable professional web site, I have been advising some of my clients or prospective clients to use the blog model for their web sites. This naturally causes confusion, since the word "blog" has all the baggage attached to it that does not relate to professional web sites at all - blogosphere, politics, arguments, rowdy behavior... all that. As an interpreter and a linguist I should have thought about this …

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Although Applied Geomechanics Inc . is a local Santa Cruz area manufacturer of tiltmeters and clinometers they really are a world leader in tiltmeter and clinometer technology. As have many other clients Linguacom helped over the years, they simply outgrew their old web site. Applied Geomechanics has always been on the cutting edge of technology, including their pioneer web site built in mid 1990-s when Internet was an infant still. Daunting Scope. Rebuilding their web site meant primarily …

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Building a low cost online store is always a challenge, since you are constantly forced to reevaluate and measure which features can be left out and which must be left in. Building the www.puppetsuperstore.com on a tight budget was one of these challenges for Linguacom. www.puppetsuperstore.com is a classic example of an online business. They sell p[uppets on the Internet and this is all they do. They do not have a walk in office, a brick and mortar retail location, so their web site is …

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J. R. Parrish is a local Santa Cruz area commercial real estate company that first contacted me in late 1990-s. I was moving from interpretation and translation into the web development business and learning Cold Fusion Server.  I ended up building my first commercial project web site for them. The site served them really well for 5 years, but in 2005, it felt really old. I wrote the old site in CF v 4.5 and in 2005 we were up to version 7 and there is an abyss of improvements between …

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