About

Chris B

Chris Bur­bridge started his soft­ware career at the age of 17, in 1983.

Since then, he has worked as a free­lance graphic designer, a copy edi­tor, a writer, and—for four­teen years—as a com­puter pro­gram­mer for the soft­ware indus­try, devel­op­ing online help sys­tems, web­sites, rela­tional data­bases, and cus­tom text pro­cess­ing tools.

In 2005, he started an inde­pen­dent web design and devel­op­ment com­pany, geared toward help­ing small busi­nesses and star­tups cre­ate a suc­cess­ful pres­ence on the web. He ended this busi­ness in 2008, when he decided to devote his full-time inter­net efforts to help­ing steer peo­ple in the right direc­tion, and leav­ing the actual cre­ation of web­sites to some­body else.

He is avail­able for con­sult­ing world­wide at (831) 435‑9053 (Pacific Stan­dard Time), or email me.

Skills and Experience

Chris’ spe­cific work­ing expe­ri­ence includes the following:

  • E-commerce design and theory
  • Advanced shop­ping cart e-commerce design, imple­men­ta­tion, and coding
  • PHP cod­ing and design
  • Web appli­ca­tion inter­face (UI) design
  • Word­Press theme design, instal­la­tion, and customization
  • Con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem options and theory
  • Up-to-date inter­net mar­ket­ing core con­cepts and theory
  • Email list man­age­ment and lead generation
  • Advanced SEO (search engine opti­miza­tion) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion from Search Engine Academy
  • Pay-per-click mar­ket­ing
  • Social media training
  • Ruby on Rails concepts
  • Web appli­ca­tion design
  • Graphic design
  • Web stan­dards
  • CSS (Cas­cad­ing Stylesheets)
  • XHTML
  • HTML 4.0
  • XML (data mod­el­ing and implementation)
  • Copy­writ­ing
  • Soft­ware project management
  • Soft­ware devel­op­ment methodologies
  • Infor­ma­tion architecture
  • Online infor­ma­tion retrieval theory
  • Text pro­cess­ing
  • Data­base infor­ma­tion sys­tems, includ­ing SQL, MySQL, MSSQL, etc.
  • Web server admin­is­tra­tion and con­fig­u­ra­tion, includ­ing Apache, IIS, etc.
  • Linux, Unix, Win­dows, and Mac OSX server management
  • Core mar­ket­ing concepts
  • Core small busi­ness concepts
  • Blog the­ory

Con­tact me for a free con­sul­ta­tion, at your ear­li­est convenience.