Plaza desktop publishing / website design

website design

website designs:


	Premier Shelters Productions - Building & Home Remodeling author and consultant. - in progress
	Who's Your Builder? book by Kathy Helmus of Premier Shelters Productions. - in progress
	The Ballet Glider. - unique accesory for the ballet dancer, by Kathryn Sullivan.
	Jennifer Dorr White an actress and voice over artist. Also links to some very very funny Onion Network News videos. Has voice-over audio, and a video player with playlist (slimbar style).
	Mainstreet Musicals - musical theater developemnt site. HTML site. music players (Flash), and Adobe Forms.
	www.dougbarron.com An actor's page. Yeah it's me. Video, and photo galleries.
	Nesya Blue - filmmaker, writer, director, and director of photography. Contains video. In the process of rebuilding to an HTML5 non-Flash site. Coming soon.
	Tjasa Ferme - a wonderful actress. Contains video player with playlist and photo galleries, Facebook Like Box, contact form.
	Gray Lady Entertainment - Kim Vasquez, theatrical producer. - in progress.
	Robert Malloch - An actors site. - in progress. Flash.
	COI Industries. - coming soon.
	Margarett Perry - a wonderful theater & film director and producer. Most known for her work with Brian Dykstra. This is the third site I have designed for her. See Brian Dykstra and Fresh Ice Productions.HTML site.
	Virginia Luque, a wonderful classical guitarist & conductor. html site. - in progress
	Make It All About Them. A book by Nadine Keller. - in progress. html site.
	Monroe Quinn - very versatile guitarist. I also design and shot the photographs for his new CD On Riverside Drive. Contains several music jukebox players with playlist (flash). photo gallery. HTML site.
	COCKTALES - a quick, simple site for a showcase production of a play by Tjasa Ferme. I also designed all the graphics for the show.
	Linda Rosen - a novelist with a new book Flourish. HTML site.
	More Than Snow - the web series. - by Matt Kohn, starring Tjasa Ferme.
	Ken Cicerale a saxophone artist. - redesigned. HTML site, includes, musical selections, video, and google calendar..
	Richard Abrons - playwright & author. HTML site.
	Breakfast With Mugabe - A site to promote and raise funds to produce this play Off-Broadway. HTML site.
	Babes in The Woods - Cynthia Baback & Michael Huston, two very talented and funny women. - flash site - in progress.
	The Photographers. A site for a feature film I am involved with. - Flash site.
	Riverside Digital Productions - video & audio production company. Flash site.
	NYC Subway Art Tour - A tour of the art in the New York City Subway with Darryl Reilly as your guide.
	Music For Life, NYC (New York Woman Ensemble), new All female orchestra with proceeds from their concerts going to charitable causes. Virginia Luque, Director.
	Altered States of Plaine the movie. film directed by Nick Gaglia. plainemoive.con
	Ardea Media - Touchscreen Tours - Walking tour applications for New York and Paris for the iPhone.
	Nick Gaglia - filmmaker - producer/writer/director. Flash site with mobile device detection.
	Nesya Blue - filmmaker, writer, director, and director of photography. Contains video and a moving film strip. Flash site.
	Spiral Stage - New theater company.
	Diana Altman - author of Hollywood East and other books and stories.
	Daniella Topol - theatre director.
	Leaves of Grass - unbound. A theatrical production of Walt Whitman's classic poem at the cell. flash site. music. www.leavesunbound.com
	Battery Dance Company - an HTML site, with flash elements. Converted from previous Flash site.
	Kether Donohue - actress, anime artist. Flash site with voice over, video, photo, music.
	Ezra Barnes - actor & directors site.- Flash site.
	Celeste Conway. Author & illustrator of books for young girls. - Flash site.
	Harvey Burgett - wonderful composer - I designed many, posters, postcards & a CD for him. Flash site. - in progress
	Wide Circle Fund - a vegan investment fund site.html site, with login and protected pages.
	Young Actors Workshop - Site for young actors site taught by Ezra Barnes a wonderful actor. Converted from a full Flash site to an HTML non-flash site, with some flash elements..
	Artists Entertainment Agency - flash site. site also contains my photographs of Times Square.
	ECHO LAKE a simple site for a production of a new experimental play for Rob O'Neill & Patrick Hogan. - Flash site containing video & some music..
	Leslie Middlebrook - A classical singer and voice-over artist. Simple flash site with many musical & voiceover selections & video.
	Ivana Kunc - classical singer, and music publisher. Mix of html and flash.
	Gates of Power - Designed by Adam Garber, as a Flash site built and maintained by me. Then converted to an HTML non-Flash site. This site has many social media links and feeds.
	Betsy Shulman - a very fine artist and sculptor. www.bshulman.com
	Nina Murano a fabulous actress, singer, lyricist & acting teacher.- HTML site.- contains video and music. be sure to check out her original songs.
	Total Theatre Lab, Caroline Thomas, well respected acting teacher and coach. html site.
	Horton By The Stream a free outdoor summer theatre company in Elka Park, NY that focuses on the work of playwright Horton Foote. Frank Girardeau, Artistic Director. This is a very simple, quick and inexpensive site.
	Precision a sales coaching and individual training company. They have a duel site, both Flash & Non Flash (HTML). Also has a blog, but that is private. PrecisionSalesCoaching.com
	BEKAonline.com - A flash site for model, singer, actress BEKA. This site is in Flash and also has music samples and lots and lots of photographs.Received a facelift 8/11.
	Fresh Ice Productions - A Theatrical Production company. Updated often. Flash and contains flash video.
	Steven Mogck - artist & illustrator. A Flash site..
	Embodiment Workshops - A Physical Approach To Acting. Rob O'Neill, Director / Instructor. Flash site. Contains an extended introduction.
	Luis Villanueva.com - a painter in the Boston area. A Flash site.
	Labyrinth Dance Theater.org --- Sasha Spielvogel, director. My first full flash site. This site has gone through an update as of 6/2006, and contains flash video and flash promos..
	Raschart - painter Jody Rasch, who uses science as inspiration.
	Brian Dykstra -a playwright/actor. A mix of Flash and html, contains flash video.. Received a facelift 10/11.
	Ruth Waldman - a visual artist with some very interesting work.
	Let It Be Art - for one man show about Harold Clurman performed by Ronald Rand.
	Phil Soltanoff - an experimental theatre director.
	Kathryn Marie Bild - author, director, producer, coach.
	Sid Eden - singer / actor / director / producer / critic - music samples from his CD's.
	InnerLandscapes Dance Theater - company has ceased operation. Very popular when it did.
	The Soul of the American Actor Newspaper – www.SoulAmericanActor.com – Redesigned June 2010.

websites maintained but not designed:


	The UpSkill Group - Flash site. - completed. I built this site from a design supplied to me.
	Act III Solutions - Office products
	Paula J. Riley - acting teacher and coach

rates:

Website design rates: start at minimums of $300 or $400 for sites for an individual and $400 to $900 for business sites. Rates will vary according to complication of required work. So use this only as a starting point. This is a one-time fee.

Maintaining & Edits: Prices will vary according to changes, but no where near design fees. This could be set up as a monthly rate or as it occurs. If you want to maintain your own site you can, but I have noticed problems with sites maintained this way in the past. Minimum Fees begin at $10.

domain names:

ibm.com | Amazon.com | PlazaDesktopPublishing.com - these are domain names.

Most of your ISP's (Internet Service Providers), like my service RCN or AOL, or Earthlink, etc., supply space for web pages. But the bugaboo is that you can't have a domain name, thus you wind up with an address like: "http://users.rcn.com/dsbarron/plazadesktoppublishing/index.htm" . Not too easy to say. Trying saying that to someone on the phone, on the street without a pen and paper. So if you want to have yourname.com or yourcompany.com, i.e. www.plazadesktoppublishing.com or www.doug-barron.com you have to have a domain name.

So think up a couple of names, (no spaces or &, or other symbols allowed, you can use _ and - and numerals though). I also suggest try saying it to some friends on the phone and have them spell it back to you. You might be surprised. For instance, how do you or they spell the building where plays are performed: theatre or theater? As many names are already taken, I suggest you think up several possibilities.

So you've got a name. Now what? Well it must be registered on the internet. Then the internet must know where that name is. Think of it like dialing your phone and it rings somewhere, that is where your site will be hosted. (see hosting).

Domain names are registered for a fee paid either yearly or in multiple years. Rates vary tremendous. If you supply the domain name and register it, and set it up, there is no fee.

If you want I can register your domain name for you, and discuss with you the various options out there. I charge a one-time or yearly fee of $25, which includes the first year of registration. If you choose to register for multiple years that cost (at no profit to me) will be added.

hosting:

You've got a domain name, now where is it? Websites must physically exist somewhere. This could be your computer, but more than likely not practical. Also most of your ISP's (Internet Service Providers), supply space for a website/webpage. But the caveat is that you can't have a domain name (see domain names above), you wind up with and address like "http://users.rcn.com/dsbarron/plazadesktoppublishing/index.htm"

There are free hosting sites, if you are willing to deal with ads (and not of your choosing) appearing on your page. Most people don't want this, therefore you need something more. Or possibly you can forward it. (see forwarding below)

This requires you get a host for a fee. These fees vary a lot. Is your site for a person, are you a business planning to do e-commerce, take credit cards, provide music, movies? How many e-mail addresses, any e-mail addresses? Are the servers down more than up? These all have different requirements. These sites all require a monthly fee.

If you select and setup the hosting site and supply the technical info I will upload to your hosting site for no additional fee.

If you want I can select and setup the hosting site for a monthly fee to be paid in increments of one year (12 months) at a time - in advance. The reason for this is the hosting sites bill me, automatically - in advance.

Hosting fees in general I have three kinds of hosting plans to begin with.

Plaza Hosting for $60 per year.

Economy Hosting for $72,
same as plaza but includes statistics about web traffic. Most people do not use this as it takes a while to figure out what it all means.

Deluxe Hosting for $120 per year.
This can hold multiple sites included in the same fee, includes statistics.
All hosting plans can contain all web elements, email account, flash, video, music, etc. Most people start out with the Plaza hosting. We will discuss this.

All hosting and domain name fees are separate from design fees.

forwarding:

There is another option to hosting, sort of a cheat really. This option does not work for everyone. In fact with hosting prices pretty low, I do not recommend considering at all. If you have an ISP that provides you with plenty of space for a website, but you still want a domain name. Well, I use web forwarding. In short some one types in: www.plazadesktoppublishing.com and goes to: http://users.rcn.com/dsbarron/plazadesktoppublishing/index.htm or types in their browser www.doug-barron.com and goes to: http://users.rcn.com/dsbarron. Most people do not use this anymore as hosting plans are so reasonable.

Rates may vary and change without notice as charges to Plaza change.

Last updated:November 2012.

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