Paul Bilodeau

NEK Catholic Redesign

This is the latest redesign of NEK Catholic. It is built around the Pulse CMS lightweight content management system. The site uses a starter template included with Pulse CMS that is heavily modified visually.

The site incorporates "responsive design" techniques that enable it to automatically reformat to accommodate the different sized screens on a variety of devices. Check it out on your Apple or Android device, or just narrow down your browser window if you are on a desktop computer and not using Internet Explorer.

The home page has an animated graphic element that make use of the latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.

The Nautilus

This website was created for Kathryn Mudgett, an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. To quote from the website “The Nautilus is an annual peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship on the literature, history, and culture of the sea.” The website includes the ability subscribe and purchase back-issues by paying with a credit card via online form, or by printing a PDF order form and mailing it in with a check. The online forms are through an account with Wufoo online form builder. In addition to images provided by the site owner, additional graphics to style the site were purchased from iStockphoto.com.

Gun Dog Kennels website

Gun Dog Kennels breeds, raises and trains German Shorthaired Pointers.

As Rodger, one of the co-owners, said; "people visiting the website want to see the dogs", and as you can see, right from the home page, the Gun Dog Kennels website is heavy on the photos and light on the text content.

Rodger and Marge care not only about the dogs, but about the people that acquire dogs from them, with personal service and an ongoing relationship. Hence the website provides an attractive "store front" for their business.

See also the portfolio page at Snow Devil Design for more information about their website.

Westward Equipment Service website

Westward Equipment Service installs and maintains shop equipment for auto and truck repair. It is a business owned by Wes Ward, who also owns and operates Wes Ward Auto Repair, both of which I have built a website for.

The template I had used for the previous generation of Westward Equipment was badly broken when viewed in the newly release Internet Explorer 9 web browser. This is one of the biggest difficulties in website design; getting the site to look and operate properly in not only all the current web browsers, but in each generation of a given web browser.

I decided it would be easier to build a new website that would work in all the browsers rather than put a large effort into getting the previous site to work right in Internet Explorer 9, yet still work in all the others.

Visit the live site at WestwardEquipmentService.com, and trust me when I say, this current site not only functions better, but looks a lot better too.

Revamped Village Gun Store website.

This is a complete overhaul of the Village Gun Store website. The previous generation was built using a website design program I no longer employ, and some of the code it generated was proprietary, which is the reason I wanted to get away from using it. This website, and indeed all my websites now use standardized techniques and code that can be opened up and edited in any text editor.

This website uses a number of design techniques including a re-sizable, full size background image, in this case an antiqued landscape image. Visit the website at villagegun.com and re-size your browser window to see it in action. Visit the portfolio page at Snow Devil Design for more information on what went into its design.

Stan has been very pleased with his website and makes good use of the Content Management System to inform his customers of news regarding product availability and prices.

Launched Devil Design

After initially using this website to encompass all of my online activities, I have begun to spread things out. Late last year I registered the Snow Devil Design trade name with the State of Vermont.

I then produced a website for Snow Devil Design, an image of which is at left. All of my website building activity is conducted from that website now. Please visit the site at SnowDevilDesign.com for more information if you are interested in acquiring a website for your small business, or to just have a look around.

My aim, as you will see in the portfolio section, is building websites for very small businesses or professionals that only require a few pages noting their products or services, their location and what not.

I can accomplish this at a very reasonable cost. I can also provide many ancillary services and configure your new website to provide the functionality you would like.