Michael McDonald

Web Architect — Dynamic website planning & implementation

San Francisco, CA

I am a Web Architect. Whether you are overhauling an existing site or creating a new site from scratch, I help you with everything from setting goals to selecting technology to designing the site to coding the site.

I am interested in partnering with web designers and design firms, in order to round out and elevate their offerings. I have expertise with:

Website planning & information architecture
Web usability consulting
SEM/SEO
HTML/CSS/jQuery construction
WordPress
Joomla
Drupal
eCommerce (PayPal + Zen Cart + osCommerce + Magento)
PHP
Java
Web application development

I am also available for part-time enterprise and web application development contracts. (But please do no contact me if you are looking for an employee.)

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Call me and we'll discuss how we can improve your website and grow your business:

San Francisco, CA

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Testimonies for Worldisround

"I LOVE it, I love the site, the ease with which I can upload photos, everything. I tell all my friends as well to join."

"I think you've got about the most user friendly and richly functional of any site I've encountered."

"Undoubtedly one of the best sites I've encountered on the web. Really. Not only does the site combine two of my alltime favorites; travel and photography, but the site's functionality is excellent."

"I have tried a number of sites where you could put up photos, but they all suffered severe deficiencies, most notably that the default format was really lousy and often difficult to use. Worldisround.com is a joy! The format is great! and the setup is really easy to do."

"This is what the internet was invented for."

My skill set (in a nutshell)

Web Usability
Information Architecture
User Experience Design
User Interaction Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Web Design
Logo Design
Permission Marketing
Project Management
Workshop Facilitation
Search Engine Marketing
Search Engine Optimization
Paper prototyping
Google Analytics
Google AdWords and AdSense
Content Management Systems
Copywriting
WordPress
eCommerce
Magento
Constant Contact
HTML
CSS
JavaScript & DHTML
AJAX
jQuery
PHP
Drupal
Paypal
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Noel
Matrix
REST
XML
Web Services	
Java
iPhone development
Facebook development
Amazon Web Services
Servlets
Enterprise Java
Eclipse
CVS & Subversion
Perl
MySQL
Oracle
Design Patterns
Extreme Programming
Scrum
Test-Driven Design
Refactoring	
ANTLR & JavaCC
Hibernate
Lucene
Unix System Administration
RSS & Atom
Highly Scalable Websites
GTD
Image Processing
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