Web Development

Steven L Smith

Web Developer

It seems these days that web developers are a dime-a-dozen. After all, what does it take to throw together a website? Certainly, anybody who's good with computers should be able to handle the job, right? What about your neighbor's kid? She's really good with computers! Let's let her do the site!

It's precisely this line of thinking that gets many companies headed down the wrong path with their website. Web Development is, simultaneously, an art, a skill, and a trade. The best web developers can shift seamlessly from designing a comp in Photoshop, to coding valid XHTML, to configuring Apache. They should be able to shift gears instantly from setting up a DNS Zone, to talking on the phone with a customer who can't seem to remember how to log in to the site's administration area…

In short, web development is a multi-disciplinary field, and it takes a certain kind of person to do it successfully. That "certain kind of person" is Steven Smith. You know all that gear-shifting we just talked about? He does that on a day-to-day basis. As the Web Developer for Nazareth College, he is responsible for balancing technical requirements and feasability, with the demands and requests of faculty, staff, and co-workers. At the same time, he maintains a portfolio of his own web clients — and has done so since 2001. From concept to design, programming to hosting, Steven Smith Enterprises can do it all.

Interested? Contact Steven L Smith.

Portfolio Highlight: BookDecay

BookDecay.com helps college students avoid unnecessary textbook purchases by providing a place for peers to discuss how professors use their required materials. After reading reviews, students can decide which books they need, and make purchases through trusted sites such as Amazon.com.

BookDecay launched Fall 2011, and we're continuing to improve it. As the CTO, I built the site using Django, and am working on a web crawler using the Scrapy framework.

Visit BookDecay.com

Portfolio Highlights: SSE Clients

Bloom Staging and Design
Concept, Design, Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, HTML5, CSS
Counseling Connections Mental Health Counseling Rochester
Concept, Design, Programming (and logo design!)
Photoshop, Django, Python, HTML5, CSS
Betty Lou Designs: The Original Betty Band Headband
Concept, Design, Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, XHTML, CSS, PayPal API
Investors Stock Daily: Investor Relations Services
Programming, Implementation, SEO
Django, Python, XHTML, CSS
Fairport Feldenkrais
Concept, Design, Photography, Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, XHTML, CSS
Greater Rochester Rose Society
Concept, Design, Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, XHTML, CSS
Jaimee S. Lindvay
Programming
PHP, HTML, Javascript, CSS
St. Charles Borromeo Church
Concept, Design, Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, XHTML, CSS, jQuery / JavaScript
Cobblestone Springs
Concept, Design, Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, PHP, XHTML, CSS
Andrea C. Currie
Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, HTML, CSS
Inspired Hope: Rachel L.M. Harnish
Concept, Design, Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, HTML, CSS
Matco Homes
Concept, Design, Programming
Photoshop, Django, Python, XHTML, CSS
Matco Remodeling
Concept, Design, Programming
Photohop, Django, Python, XHTML, CSS
A Garden Preserved
Concept, Design, Programming
PHP, HTML, CSS

Portfolio Highlights: Nazareth College

There are numerous additional projects — like a chemical inventory system, password reset tool, online voting system, and point-of-sale system, to name a few — that are behind the firewall or that require a login; let me know if you'd like to see some of them. These are primarily our externally-facing sites.

Nazareth College: Main Website
Programming
ColdFusion, XML, AJAX, Javascript, jQuery, (X)HTML, CSS
Redesigned: Plone / Zope / Python
Nazareth College: Undergraduate Admissions
CMS Implementation (Plone)
Nazareth College: Graduate Admissions
CMS Implementation (Plone)
Nazareth College: Visit Campus
Concept, Design, Programming
Django, Python, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
Nazareth College: Web Directory
Programming
Django, Python, MSSQL
Nazareth College Web Forms
Implementation of various web forms in Django
Nazareth College: Redirect Engine
Programming
Django app; allows staff to add redirects for use in cross-media projects — (in other words, the site has no content of its own)

Portfolio Highlights: MarketHOLD Clients

GrandeVie Senior Living Community
Programming
Django, Python, XHTML, CSS, jQuery / Javascript
GrandeVille Senior Living Community
Programming
Django, Python, XHTML, CSS, jQuery / Javascript
Dingus & Rivoli Orthodontics
Programming
PHP, HTML, CSS
Fibercel / Orcon / PreCon Packaging
Programming
HTML, CSS
(Splash Page)
Gates Podiatry Center
Programming
HTML, CSS
Greentree Scientific
Programming
PHP, HTML, CSS