Small Business Web Design and Development

With that small mouth full of keywords out of the way, Odeleya is a small business start up that my wife and I have embarked upon together. In a nutshell, we are a small business whose primary focus is enabling other small businesses to succeed in the global marketplace.

The idea came to us when we discovered Etsy, a hub of other small business owners trying to carve their own little niche. With our experience in graphic design we started out small, designing custom elements for other Etsy shops. It quickly became apparent that we could bring the rest of our skills to the table and help people with their social media strategies, building small e-commerce web sites and developing other custom solutions to further their own business.

Have you ever heard of a dial-up BBS?

Before the world wide web became popular, before the browser wars became technologies greatest story, and before the dot com and IPO boom of the late nineties, life was much simpler. Back then you would fire up your old 14.4 baud modem and dial up a local BBS, play a quick game of LORD and download some cutting edge ANSI Art.

I remember when we read about this crazy new technology called “The Wave” which would make our modems look like, well, what they were; molasses.

Technology has come a long way since then. While I haven’t been working with it directly for the past two decades, I have nonetheless always been involved with it in some capacity or another. In the last few years I have finally made the plunge and turned it into my career.

3 years of auto mechanics, and over 6 as a professional chef.

I’m pretty sure you didn’t come here to ask me if I could grill you a steak though, so the following is an overview of the various technologies I have worked with. Where relevant I have also included the number of years experience I have with each.

• 5+ years PHP development.
• 5+ years MySQL database design.
• Valid transitional and strict HTML and CSS.
• I am not a JavaScript guru, but I’m dangerous.
• 1 year working with MVC frameworks.
• 3 years working with WordPress.

In addition to the above, I have extensive experience working with the Adobe Creative Suite software, primarily with Photoshop but including Illustrator and Fireworks. My wife is the artsy one though, graphic design can drive me to the brink, and I much prefer the logic of coding.

Where is the blog? I can’t seem to find it!

I don’t have the time to maintain a blog anymore and needed to stop kidding myself that I could find or ‘make’ such time. With a variety of unfinished personal projects that I would like to give more attention to, and the sheer amount of work my wife and I have been taking on, it is at the bottom of my list of priorities and may remain there for an indefinite amount of time.