Joe Naturals Farm Store Cafe is a “farm to table” cafe and natural foods store located in historic Leiper’s Fork, near Franklin, TN. The owners contacted me through a fellow farmer with whom I have worked on several web projects. The website project was languishing, after being abandoned by a designer who lacked knowledge of [...]

Apache and MySql Performance Tuning for High Traffic Website
SoccerNews.com is a high traffic WordPress site with over 600,000 unique visitors and over 2,000,000 page impressions per month. It is a content republisher and aggregator, presenting custom XML feeds for (what else?) soccer news from all over the world. The site has a very active user base, providing content in the forms of editorials and [...]

E-Commerce Magazine Subscription Website
Light Sport & Ultralight Flying Magazine needed an easy-to-manage e-commerce solution, coupled with Content Management and slideshows. I used Joomla plus VirtueMart, and SlideShowPro to give them a sophisticated system that is simple to use. The magazine has been in circulation since 1975, so the publishers know how to survive and thrive. Online sales & [...]

Public Art Non-Profit Website
Mark Making is a Chattanooga non-profit with a mission to enhance the town with public art and to engage the public in the creation and production of art, not merely it’s appreciation or exhibition. This project was yet another “rescue effort” to save a dying website that had been abandoned by a previous developer. Knowing [...]

Industrial Galvanizer Website
Tennessee Galvanizing had an aging Joomla site that needed major software updates. So, I migrated the site to WordPress for ease of use and ease of updates. WordPress is much more user friendly than Joomla, and also easier to maintain. Simple WordPress site with front page slide show, news blog and contact form

Office Furniture Retail Showcase
I worked with Office Coordinators Inc’s talented in-house designers to update the OCI website. OCI chose an e-commerce theme, and we completely reworked the CSS and layout to match their colors and logo treatment. After a previous failed attempt with another developer, they were surprised at how quickly the site came together, and how easy [...]

Bike Shop Website with Facebook Features
I’ve been hosting and helping with Suck Creek Cycle’s website since they opened in 1998. The site was long overdue for an upgrade, so I took an existing template design and tweaked it a bit to look like the bike shop, then integrated social media and syndicated content from their vendors. Facebook local business page [...]

Landscape Architect Website with Slideshows & Social Media Integration
This is a simple website for a Chattanooga based landscape architect that focuses on beautiful portfolio slideshows. We’ve also added Twitter and Facebook integration to keep fans and customers updated on the latest projects.

Property Management Website
This site for Walldorf Property Management in Chattanooga uses Joomla CMS and EZ-Realty to create a site that’s easy for Walldorf employees to update and manage. Online forms for lease applications, maintenance requests, and general questions Multiple listing categories and unlimited properties Image uploads automatically create slideshows for each property Multiple, automated RSS and XML [...]

Rafting and Adventure Travel Site with Reservation Form
This site, for an adventure travel company that runs rafting and eco-tourism trips in North and Central America, features a clean interactive design and extensive search engine optimization, including tailored metatags, hyperlinks, and a backlink referral network.
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Non-profit website with Calendar and Slideshows April 24, 2009 -
Property Management Website October 29, 2009 -
Carpet Manufacturer Website with Extensive Product Galleries May 13, 2008 -
Chamber of Commerce Website December 1, 2008 -
Content Management Consulting February 25, 2009
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Farm to Table Restaurant Website December 24, 2011 -
Apache and MySql Performance Tuning for High Traffic Website August 26, 2011 -
Tuning Apache and MySQL for Best Performance in a Shared Virtual Hosting Environment August 22, 2011 -
APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments August 22, 2011 -
Remote publishing to WordPress from Facebook via RSS July 25, 2011
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Chris rocks! Man, you are building excellent confidence in me for all future work that will come to you.Samir Deshpande http://www.webnmap.com/ →
Everything is running smoothly and it’s a great relief knowing that we made the site faster, safer, more stable and reliable.Kim Vincenzius http://soccernews.com/ →
All my large projects, I would like to set up on the cloud. All setup, config and tuning working will come to you.Samir Deshpande http://www.webnmap.com/ →
Thank you for your persistence. You’re our favorite website/technically savvy guy ever.Emily Vaughn, OCI http://officecoordinators.com/ →
The site has been as good as “flawless”, with no downtime. We couldn’t be happier.Kim Vincenzius http://soccernews.com/ →
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