About

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.

Experience

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 CS3/4, 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
  • Joomla!
    • Installation & configuration
    • Template Creation
  • WordPress
    • Installation & configuration
    • Template Creation

Graphics

  • Photoshop CS3/4 & 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
  • 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 with cPanel
  • Experience configuring Merak Mail domains and users