People expect your Web site to be up-to-date, but you've got better things to do with your time than learn to use a new piece of software in order to make all the changes yourself. That's why my sites make it simple for you to edit Web pages -- and even create new ones -- right on the site without any additional software. You'll be confidently editing pages in under an hour!
A big part of making your site sustainable is to be able to recover from accidents, without having to ask for help. The systems I install save all changes that are made, so that if you make a mistake, you can go back and restore the way it was -- even if days or months have passed.
Freya Schafer, a professional life coach, had specific ideas about how she wanted her site, Essential Clarity, to look: a different image in the top-right corner of every single page; drop-down menus she could customize herself, and a page layout made up of discrete blocks of text. This is not the typical wiki layout, but once I set it up for her, she was able to do everything herself, and has since created more than two dozen pages on a wide variety of subjects.
New Orleans-based professional storyteller Angela Davis, the Yarnspinner wanted to be able to update her site with news and photos as she traveled around the world. With her new site (complete with a Mardi Gras color scheme she selected) she can not only "blog" about her travels, she can add events to her calendar and even update her bio ... from any computer, anywhere.
Does your company or organization have an environmental focus? Do you buy wind-generated electricity from your utility? Are your customers or members concerned about global warming? Then the next step is eco-friendly Web hosting! Although the power consumption of an individual Web site is insignificant, collectively all the Web servers in the world make a big impact. Do your part to reduce that impact -- visitors to your site will respect you more for it!
