Lucar Informatique - http://lucarinfo.com

• Assistance with Domain registration, Web hosting & E-mail set-up.
• Very affordable quality web sites, custom made to your specifications.
• Sites that follow existing web standards as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
• Making your site more user-friendly and accessible following Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) standards.
• Submission to Search Engines and Directories.
• Content Management, copywriting, proofreading and editing.
• Using some of the latest features to add visual interest and make your website more compelling.
• Making your site more visible online using search engine optimization strategies, to help lead your clients to you.
• Maintaining your site and making the required updates
• Providing assistance and support
• ALSO: Resume and Cover Letter Services

The following are some of the applications we've seen or used, and would recommend. Can you believe that so many of the best applications online are free and open-source? They're also well supported and very popular.

• JQuery, cross-browser and lightweight Javascript library, free and open-source.
• Wordpress, free blogging software with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
• PHP, the free scripting language that so many use.
• MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.
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Learn about the (OSI) Open Source Initiative. “The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.”

Approach

As a freelancer there's little overhead, so I'm very affordable. If you need some help getting started; if you want to add some new features to your website or make it more accessible; if you want your website to do better on search engines; or if you just need someone to maintain your site or help you get started maintaining your own, I may be able to help.

User-Friendly and Accessible

When I develop web sites, my primary focus is on usability and accessibility. I try to use technologies that are accessible to as many people as possible, or that downgrade gracefully in the computer platforms and browsers that don't support them. So for instance, even if the people visiting your site have javascript turned off, or don't have the latest browser, they can still use your site, and have a good experience. The people behind many of the applications I use share the same philosophy. Click to read more on Accessibility.

Search Engine Friendly

Being friendly to search engines is another important consideration. You want to make it easy for search engine bots to crawl your site and find your keyphrases, important links, and great content. So you use the right structural markup to help search bots find the information you want. You also use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets ) to design the page, which you can then link to on a separate external sheet, instead of having it clutter up your web page. This has the added benefit of making your pages quicker to load, and can save you money on server space and bandwidth.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Optimizing your web pages for search engines means getting good listings on search engines like Google for the keywords and keyphrases you target. It's these keyphrases that you would use in the web page's title, description, headings, and even it's navigation and links. You also want to write relevant content that emphasizes these keywords. It should be one of your first considerations when creating a web site.