Plaza desktop publishing / website design

website design

website designs:

	Ask Tillie, real estate advise.
	Spiral Stage - New theater company. - temporary site is currently up. coming soon.
	Diana Altman - author of Hollywood East and other books and stories.
	Daniella Topol - theatre director.
	Reboote - Jennifer Wade, career & life coaching. Flash site..
	Leaves of Grass - unbound. A theatrical production of Walt Whitman's classic poem at the cell. flash site. music. www.leavesunbound.com
	liveINtheater.com & LowerEastSideMurder - in progress
	Battery Dance Company - a new design of their website. - in progress, while maintaining their current 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.
	Grace Kiley Performance Coaching. Presentation coaching for business, sales, and actors. - Flash site.
	www.dougbarron.com An actor's page. Yeah it's me. Flash.
	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.
	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. - Flash site.
	Betsy Lyn Beauty - wedding make-up & hair stylist. Second site for her, see Betsy Shulman, artist below. Flash site.
	Young Actors Workshop - Site for young actors site taught by Ezra Barnes a wonderful actor. Flash.
	The Brutles a tribute band to the music of the Beatles with members from the Broadway production of Beatlemania. Flash, music.Unfortunately like the Beatles themselves the band split up. Unfortunatly the band broke up and the site has been removed..
	Artists Entertainment Agency - flash site. site also contains my photographs.
	ECHO LAKE a simple site for a production of a new play for Rob O'Neill & Patrick Hogan. - Flash site containing video & some music..
	Debbi Fuhrman - an actress * dancer * athlete and sometimes Betty Boop. - Flash site.
	Leslie Middlebrook - A classical singer and voice-over artist. Simple flash site with many musical & voiceover selections & video.
	Caroline Thomas' Total Theatre Lab – Acting teacher, with many successful graduates. This is a redesign of a previous site I did for her several years ago. HTML site with flash pieces & video.
	Nesya Blue - filmmaker, writer, director, and director of photography. Contains video and a moving film strip. Flash site.
	Ivana Kunc - classical singer, and music publisher. Mix of html and flash.
	Gates of Power - in the works. Site hidden from public view while being built. Designed by Adam Garber, built and maintained by me. Flash.
	Betsy Shulman - a very fine artist and sculptor. www.bshulman.com
	Ken Cicerale a saxophone artist. - Flash site.
	Nina Murano a fabulous actress, singer, lyricist & acting teacher.- HTML site.- contains video and music. be sure to check out her original songs.
	Jennifer Dorr White an actress and voice over artist. Also links to some very very funny Onion Network News videos. Flash.
	Relentless Theatre - A New York Theater company doing good theater and good work for the community. - an updated design from a traditional html site I had done earlier to a full Flash site. Contains my first blog. This company has closed. www.relentlesstheatre.com/jigsawblog
	R.E.A.D. - Relentless Educational Arts Development. A scholarship program for young students to study arts in college and work with professionals in their field. This company has closed.
	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.
	Fresh Ice Productions - A Theatrical Production company. Updated often. Flash and contains flash video.
	Steven Mogck - artist & illustrator. A Flash site. Redesign planned.
	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.
	Guile World - a New York comedy duo. - contains video.
	Delilah Henry Interior Design - a simple site promoting her designs. This site has been slightly redesigned and is now maintained by a company in Mexico.
	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.
	Shea Sullivan - choreographer/teacher/pageant coach.
	Brian Dykstra -a playwright/actor. A mix of Flash and html, contains flash video..
	Ruth Waldman - a visual artist with some very interesting work.
	Clurman the play - for one man show about Harold Clurman performed by Ronald Rand.
	Phil Soltanoff - an experimental theatre director.
	Relentless Theatre - A up and coming theater company all doing good work for the community. Now with an all new flash design. (see above)
	Kathryn Marie Bild - author, director, producer, coach.
	New Actors Workshop - acting school founded by George Morrison, Mike Nichols and Paul Sills. Has been redesigned in 2006.
	Sid Eden - singer / actor / director / producer / critic - music samples from his CD's.
	Hashalem – healing through creative expression. Now changed to Gates of Power. New design to come.
	Caroline Thomas' Total Theatre Lab – Acting teacher. This redesign no longer exists as there has been a new design created (see above).
	www.dougbarron.com. This site has finally be redone. See above.
	appletheplay.com - a site for the play apple. No longer necessary the site no longer exists, but it helped tremendously in contacting and reaching professionals in the industry.
	InnerLandscapes Dance Theater - company has ceased operation. Very popular when it did.
	The Soul of the American Actor Newspaper – www.SoulAmericanActor.com – changes 4 times a year. Redesigned June 2010.
	The Printing Store - the site no longer exists as the owner has passed on. He was a great mentor to me regarding the printing business.
	Bed and Breakfast Bureau - The first site I ever did.

websites maintained but not designed:


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

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 $20.

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. But one I use for myself. And it works just fine. This option does not work for everyone. If you are like me 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. I purchased a domain name, but host my site at RCN, and people get to my site. If this option is available to you then - why not? I have yet to get this to work for AOL, and I need some very technical information, that most ISP's do not want to supply as they want that extra money for hosting your site, but if you can get the info, it can save you the monthly fees. If you want me to set this up for you, I can do this for a yearly fee of $10. 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:February 2010.

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