For Michael Patterson’s Patterson Builders-Remodelers, Llc. website for his remodeling practice down in  Gaithersburg, MD we took colors from his old website design found via the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine and then built a compact new website using the WordPress Divi platform.

 

Longtime online friend and colleague Philip Herzegovitch’s Daedalus Design website had a display problem when his hosting company upgraded thier PHP and while that was rather easily fixed his existing website still wasn’t mobile friendly so I took the look and feel of his existing web design and converted it in a fully responsive WordPress Divi website, Elegant Themes Divi web builder tool being my particular choce of web theme building tools. 

One change we made was since Philip likes to post on FaceBook we incorporated links to the latest 5 articles on his FaceBook feed (only two shown in this screenshot) and a map showing where he is located in the Danbury CT area.

Dan Kolbert and his company Kolbert Building is an award winning energy efficient builder & remodeler in Portland Maine. He had an antique website (7 years old?) that ran on PHP5  but was incompatible with PHP6 and his host had gave him an ultimatum that he had 30 days to fix the code before they he would be put back on a server running the latest PHP 6. The obvious solution to us was to take his content and and basic design scheme and move it into a WordPress site with a design we were quickly able to build the Divi from from Elegant Themes. It took us about three days and that was while we were concurrently working on another website for a dog trainer (a Small Businness Systems Co. project).

There were a few new design touches we added to the site like the hero image on the home page and the original icons (created in Affinity Photo) and blurbs on their Projects page and other features like a blog. But we now (as of May 9th 2017) have an excellent CMS (content management system) in place and solid design to move forward with into the future.

ParadigmProjects.com is the site we have produced for the contracting operation that originally gave birth to Paradigm-360.com.

We recently remodeled it as a WordPress Content Management System using yet another different WordPress theme framework to create another distinctly different look and type of CMS website.

NortheasternHomes.com, an interactive web site we’ve produced to provide homeowners in Westchester County NY and Fairfield County CT with projects ideas and a comprehensive list of local remodeling and home improvement resources.

The content is designed to stimulate ideas and address a variety of topics related to gardening, landscaping, building, architecture, remodeling and interior design.

To the best of my recollection now back in 2007 I got into some pretty intense debates with some other builders, remodelers and trade contractors online in the old Journal of Light Construction forum about the definitions and difference (which is very important to understand) between the terms Effort and Duration when you are talking about Project Management. For years I had compiled a glossary of project management terms on this website and but around that time I really started to get seriously interested in developing one “go to” source for that kind of information. That page eventually became the biggest page on the whole website so in 2014 I took all the information from that page and set it up on it own site as The Building & Remodeling Business & Project Management Wiki.

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Open the The Building & Remodeling Business & Project Management Wiki

360Difference.com is the website we use to sell and support the line of FileMaker and Excel based CRM, estimating, and job control software solutions we’ve developed.

Mac4Construction.com is the website we created as a clearinghouse or starting place for building and remodeling contractors looking for Macintosh based software.

Another application of WordPress (WordPress.org) setup to run as a Content Management System this time for the non-profit The Raynaud’s Association.

Content The blog or posts on the Raynaud’s Association site appear on the home page as news items under the “What’s New” heading.

Kid Cartoonists

Not a Home & Garden Industry Web Site at all but a good example nonetheless of using blog software (in this case WordPress) as a content management system.

KidCartoonists.com is cartoonist Bob Weber Jr.’s place on the web for aspiring young cartoon artists to post and display their work to the world. We redesigned the site to accommodate commerce (added an Amazon Store) and ad revenue.

EMSVillage.comis the premier on-line community for EMS professionals and is our prime example of a Content Management Management designed and built using Adobe’s Cold Fusion, a commercial rapid application development platform.

Another application of WordPress (WordPress.org) setup to run as a Content Management System this time for the non-profit Fairfield County Safe Kids group.

Regrettably the funding for Fairfield County Safe Kids dried up under the pressures we all felt in 2009 and the local organization is now defunct.

AskCoachTerry.com is the web site for strength and fitness coach Terry Ahern’s radio show and information regarding Coach Terry’s ASAPP Speed and Plyometric Program, Strength Training, Nutritional Counseling, and Exercise Therapy.