Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - Web design, HTML, Flash Programming

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Whether you need a rebuild of an existing web site or need a whole new web presence to impress your friends and colleagues, I'm your man. With over fifteen years experience in the field I develop custom web designs, which can include Flash interactivity or CSS coolness, at template prices.

To investigate examples of my web-capabilities, simply click the associated thumbnail images below. For my rates just click the "<html>" icon to your left.

Bruce DeSilva - Mr. DeSilva's first crime novel, Rogue Island, was getting rave reviews in advance of its rollout in October of 2010, so he and his publisher thought a suitable web site was in order. They tapped me for the job and I crafted a web site with a definite literary feel. It was fun for me and the client was delighted. If you're interested in such literature Mr. DeSilva offers a free, downloadable sample chapter of his opus.

Trident General Contracting - TridentGCS specializes in "restoration", which means if a natural disaster strikes your home, they're there to fix the damage.

The previous incarnation of Trident's web site was dark, gloomy and confusing to navigate. My new version is nright and nsappy and puts you within one mouse-click of everything.

Global Telemedia, Inc. - After ten years the site I originally designed for Global Telemedia was cramped and inadequate, so I sharpened the scalpels, fired up the chainsaw, and got busy. The new site is bright, easy to navigate, and free of the reundancies that had crept in over the past decade.

Jose Cruz Illustration - The online portfolio of my best friend and fellow Dallas illustrator had big problems. It was about 5 years old and was doing basically EVERYTHING wrong by contemporary web-indexing standards, so I tore it apart and reformatted it into a lean, clean, self-promotional machine.

Check out Mr. Cruz's work if you're in the market for commercial art, editorial illustration, children's book illustration or top-quality print design.

Patricia Smith, Wordwoman - Sometimes you just get lucky, and in this case it means being chosen by a nationally known poet to build her web site.

Patricia Smith is a four-time winner of the National Poetry Slam and has won both a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and a National Poetry Series award. Come read more about her, see where she's going to perform next, even listen to a little poetry.

Advanced Energy Solutions - If you want to slice a big chunk off your home heating and cooling expenses, come visit Advanced Energy Solutions. They specialize in retrofitting homes with the latest in energy-saving technology. Visit thir site and read more about their services. While you're there, schedule an in-home inspection.

Oh, yeah, I built their web site. Just thought you oughta know.

CitizensChannel.org - Internet Interactive uses the power of the medium to bring the voice of the people to the heads of state...and all kinds of progressive stuff like that there. The site makes use of several types of navigation, some fancy, some not, but it's a great place to get your peace on.

Nite Lite DVD - This site was completed literally overnight to get the company online in time for a massive media campaign. It was a new company, started by a nice young couple, that markets a "sleep-learning" DVD aimed at very young children.

In addition to the web site I also created the animation and designed the art for the DVD and the DVD box cover. Check it out.

Turtle TV - From the folks who brought you Wishbone the Dog for PBS comes a new concept in on-line entertainment, Turtle TV. The site is all about, well, turtles and offers movies, games, downloads and Flash diversions for all ages. I was hired to develop the "Ask Granny" section of the site. It's a lot of fun, so give it a peek. (And, ahem, that's ME providing the voice for old Granny.)

The Fitness Architect - They say that Michaelangelo's statue of David defines the ideal male form, but he didn't get that way by accident. Oh no, my friend. Even though the Big Mac was still just a gleam in the Renaissance eye he surely had the 14th century version of The Fitness Architect helping him tighten up them deltoids and making him a STAR!

Note: This company is no longer in business so I'm hosting it purely as an example of my work.

Curatrix.net - This is one of those REALLY satisfying assignments. Not so much because the clients were so nice but because their previous host and nameserver was Verisign, and I had the distinct pleasure of helping migrate them to much "improved" neighborhood. The new site looks great, which is a tribute to the clients photography skills, and loads super quick, which is a tribute to my programming skills. <g>

In case you're wondering, Curatrix specializes in museum consulting, appraisals and advice on vintage clothing. They're nice folks so give them a holler.

Infomercial Solutions - Infomercial Solutions has been in the business of producing informative commercials for years, everything from Dionne Warwick's Psychic Friends to Skin Care with Cathy Lee Crosby, and they're good at it, but their web site was getting a bit dated. It was, you might say, wayyyyy too 1998. In other words, too much emphasis on form over function and therefore not very Google-friendly. This new form gives instant access to almost everything on the site and it's designed for easy updating as new commercials are aded to the data base.

Synchron Voice and Video - This is a simple web site for a complex product. Synchron takes taped depositions and outputs them as time-stamped, word-by-word transcript that run with any number of legal presentation programs. And if you don't have one of those programs available Synchron offers a FREE presentation tool called The Synchon'izer. If you're a lawyer looking for an edge in your trial proceedings you ought to give this site a moment of your time.

M Squared Productions - This New York based video production house needed a slick promotional site to show off their video skills to potential clients. It ushers the visitor in to the site using a fast-loading Flash animation and the internal site uses a password-protected page to showcase their work to selected visitors.

Performance Sales Systems - This was one of those jobs I was anxious to sink my teeth into because the previous incarnation lacked any substantial amount of sex appeal. And why go to all the bother of putting a site on the 'net if no one's going to look at it, right?

Note: The version of the web site you'll be seeing if you click the image to the left is my version. The current "live" version has been altered by the client for his own needs. If you would like to compare the two you can see the live site by clicking here.

Negotiations Workshops - This company specializes in helping businesses get the most out of their bargaining dollar by teaching employees how to successfully negotiate a deal. Their previous site was an uninspiring concoction of oddly-colored tables and mismatched text.

Note: The version of the web site you'll be seeing if you click the image to the left is my original version. The current "live" version has been altered by the client for his own purposes. If you would like to compare the two you can see the live site by clicking here.

Great Expectorations - I have to admit to being pretty much of a home boy when it comes to travel, but in the waning days of the last century I and my beloved girlfriend, Tex, were invited to fly to Paris to celebrate the "real" millennium with friends. Instead of just sending snapshots to everyone when I returned I decided to build a fancy-schmancy Flash web site to showcase my adventures. Give it a try.

Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - 2330 Jonesboro - Dallas, TX 75228 - 214-320-2293