I'm trying to build a resume', and the quickest and best way I can think of for doing this, is by working for very little compensation, and doing the best job I know how. So far I've built this site, (the one you're reading this on now), and the one mentioned below. I know that to be taken seriously, I need to be able to show more experience, so I'm looking for an opportunity to do an outstanding job for a few people up front, and then be able to show others in the future what I've accomplished.

This site is Joel Lawson's website. Joel Lawson is my broker and the owner of Integrity Realty & Associates, LLC. I built both sites using the Drupal platform. Any user with the right privileges for either site has the ability to paste a video link into a designated field, and maybe write some text in the body or upload some images via an easy to use interface, hit publish and whoever finds the post can watch the video, see the photo's, read what the user had to say, and leave a comment if they like. This is quite different from hand coded sites where, in many cases the only person who can post content or make any changes to the site, is the person who built the page, or someone who has the ability to understand the code behind it.

There are some people out there who enjoy hand coding everything, and to each his own I guess, but the times they are a changin'. If you hand code a site, you're limited by your own knowledge, as to what you can use the site for. But when you have people like FedEx, AOL, Popular Science, White House.gov, and Yahoo (to name only a few) using Drupal, something very cool happens. These bigger companies and organizations have bigger budgets, and so they hire as many people as they need, then put all their heads together to come up with a solution to something they have a vision to be able to accomplish, whether that be some kind of functionality or some aesthetic feature (a building block, if you will). In any case this so called "building block" get's done. In many cases it wouldn't have been possible for any one person to accomplish on their own, but because they had the ability to work together, it got done.

In many cases these companies and many individuals will contribute these "building blocks" back to Drupal, so that everyone who uses Drupal can use what they've learned to build better sites for their clients. This is one of the things that makes Drupal so unique, and powerful, and why I recommend it to anyone, from a simple blog to a complex user intensive site.

As a side note, there are many reasons why people contribute their ingenious hard work back to Drupal, but this really isn't the time to go into that. If you'd like to know more about Drupal though, click on the Drupal, or you can contact me.

Not only do you not have this kind of a community with a hand coded page, but most of the time you don't even have the most basic of what Drupal does natively, like the ability to change something in one place, and have that change be made throughout the rest of the site. There's also the ability to *safely* have users on your site who can post bits of info and carry on a conversation, which will allow customers and/or others, who may be interested in what your site is about to benefit from the ongoing dialog. This makes your site a recourse for people who are in your target market, making it the logical place for people to conduct business.

This last part takes time and effort on your part, but it's worth doing. Let's say you have a company that buys and sells collectible coins, and you have five employees who spend much of their time watching a particular part of the ever changing market on coins. You could have each one of them write up a post about what they've been paying attention to throughout the past week, so that people could find that info on your site and ask questions of that employee, or anyone else watching the conversation. This causes your site to have content and dialog which search engines love, which causes you to have more traffic, and which brings more business through the door. ***Disclaimer*** I (obviously) know nothing of the collectible coin market, but I think this example gets the point across.

Here are a few of the things I can do:

• Help you choose a good domain name that will help your target audience to find you.
• Set up and manage the hosting.
• Install Drupal and the modules you'll need to accomplish what you want on the site, and theme theme so they are a part of your site, and not just a clunky box.
• Tune your site so that search engines will find you.
• Build a unique, custom theme for your site that will be your very own.
• Maintain the basic code which runs your site, so that any new versions of Drupal or the modules installed on your site stay up to date.
• If you have an existing site that you'd like to be more dynamic, I can get it set up on Drupal, so you will have more control over the content, and be able start building a community.

If you're interested, please contact me. Once I know your situation I'll be able to give you a price. Just in case you're wondering, I'm not pushy. I respect the right you have to choose and shop around. I'll need to be able to cover my expenses of course, plus a little extra for my time, but I'm not trying to make a lot of money at this point. I mostly just want to get some experience above and beyond what I've done so far, get my foot in the door so to speak, and be able to show more experience.

One more thing I must say here, I reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. I say this only because there are some things out there on the internet that I would not feel comfortable in helping to promote.