Tom Rogers Web Design

Webmaster - National Empowerment Center

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• Alternatives 2008
• Eastern Board of Approved Soccer Officials Association
• Interrelate
• Legal Advocacy Workshops
• National Empowerment Center
• National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
• The Edfund

   In Development:

• Citizens for a Strong Community (Joomla website)
• Hamilton Wenham Health & Wellness (Joomla website)

   Volunteer Work:

• Support Our Schools
• Citizens for a Strong Community

   On The Side:

• Chairperson and Webmaster for the ABRHS Class of 1972

   1977 - 1998:

• Thomas Rogers & Company

   Miscellaneous:

• Materials for Sale

12/19/07 - When someone is pleased with something, they will share it with at least 3 others.  If you can make it easy to spread the word about a product or article at your website, you can increase traffic considerably for very little money compared to the cost of advertising.

With that in mind I recently added three new tools to the top of the page on all 90+ articles at the National Empowerment Center.  So now one can:

• Bookmark the page at their favorite social bookmarking website,
• Share the article by sending the page URL to a friend, or
• Easily print the page by clicking a button.

  Read more about these tools

2006 - New online store for the National Empowerment Center (NEC)

• Replaced an outdated Yahoo! store
• Customized to match the NEC website
• Set up payment processing via Card Service International
• Simplified order processing for NEC staff
• Using Miva Merchant version 5 [More on Miva Merchant 5]

11/2005 - New NEC website launched

In rebuilding the site, my goals were:

• Compliance with Section 508
  • Details at http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm
• Able to meet the standards set by the W3C for HTML
  • Using the validation tool found at http://validator.w3.org/
• Able to meet the standards set by the W3C for CSS
  • Using the validation tool found at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• Following accepted standards of site layout and design to make the pages
  • Load quickly
  • Look similar in various browsers
• I created a special "articles" template (there are over 80 articles) and a style sheet which includes:
  • No side navigation menu, so there is more space for text and graphics
  • Minimum navigation at the top
  • A special print style sheet - when you print the page, you will see no navigation, or colored border areas
• All photos and graphic elements in the site include a short text description
• Complicated graphics include a link to a separate web page for a long description.  This is good for people who use a screen reader, (visually impaired).

Visit the NEC web site at www.power2u.org

Visit the new NEC store at www.power2u.org/mm5/merchant.mvc

View the Transformation of the NEC Website and Store