I'm Alan Cook, and cfreek.com is my personal web site.
Working as a professional web designer in Richmond, Virginia, I specialize in web site design and web development.
While working for several years in web site development, and currently as the owner of Southside Studios, a web site design company in Richmond, Virginia, I have become experienced in a wide array of web related services.

Lead and Communication
- Manage programming and web development projects
- Communicate with client during projects, and relayed information to programmers
- Suggest and implement solutions to solve client needs
- Provide quotes for work to be performed for clients
Web Design Knowledge
- HTML/XHTML
- CSS
- Dreamweaver CS3, including creation and use of DreamWeaver templates
- Knowledge of HTML without use of WYSIWYG (can hand code HTML)
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and increasing search engine results
Web Applications
- DotNetNuke
- Installation and configuration
- Portal template design
- Component Skin Design
- Interchange
- Template design
- Page customization
- Programming custom functionality using ITL
Graphics
- Photoshop CS3 & CS4
- Paint Shop Pro (although it's been a while)
- Familiar with Flash
- Familiar with Adobe Captivate
- Have used/am familiar with Adobe Illustrator
Programming/Scripting
- JavaScript/JScript
- JQuery
- JQuery UI
- VBScript
- ITL (Interchange Tag Language)
- PHP
- Pear (for PHP)
OS/Servers
- Linux (Command line and GUI)
- Apache configurations, including:
- .htaccess
- .conf files
- configuring virtual hosts
- Windows (95,98,98SE,2000,XP Pro - have worked with 3.1)
- IIS Experience, Including:
- Creating new sites
- Installing Front Page Extensions
- Creating FTP Users
- Windows server DNS
- Simple DNS
Server Software
- Experience with Plesk
- Experience configuring Merak Mail domains and users
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