Category: Design

  • The $500 Small Business Web Site/Blog

    For a short time only, let eNews Park Forest Web Services design a Web page for your small business for only $500.* Want a year of no-worry hosting? We are pleased to offer a year of hosting for the price of 10 months — that’s two months free! Contact ENEWSPF today to give your business…

  • Should I Joomla?

    Sometimes clients are looking for an easy solution for a web site they can maintain themselves, or at least one that allows them to easily submit new content for a web designer to style and add to a site. Clubs and organizations, especially non-profits, can benefit from such sites. For these, the perfect solution is…

  • Improvements to eNews Park Forest

    One of my most important projects is eNews Park Forest, a news site for the Park Forest, IL, area. I use PHPList to send announcements of new issues and breaking stories. Today I simply want to showcase the email sign-up page, located here, which is the newly styled sign-up page for the site. One can…

  • State Rep. Al Riley’s Campaign Site

    State Rep. Al Riley’s official campaign site, just launched this week, ready for the masses!  I’m very happy with the way this site has turned out.  It was a bit of a “rush” order, but it turned out very nice. Good luck on the campaign trail, Al!

  • Introducing State Rep. Al Riley’s Legislative Web Site

    Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Shire Enterprises web creations announced the release of its newest design this week, the official web site for Illinois State Rep. Al Riley, of the 38th Legislative District. The site was designed using Adobe Dreamweaver 8.2, and images prepared and edited for the web with Adobe Fireworks 8.0. The site can be…

  • Pop Menu Magic

    I made my first purchase from ProjectSeven.com: Pop Menu Magic.  I’m not disappointed with the purchase.  While I enjoy creating my own menus, like the simple CSS menu I employed at Kopycinski.net — a site very much still in development — Project Seven does have some very nice products. They’re a bit on the pricey…

  • New Look for the Blog

    One of the nice things about WordPress blogs is the versatility.  Changing themes is a snap, and I rather like this one, called, Autumn Concept 1.0, created by Ed Merritt.  Photography by Peter Hellebrand. I always add my own code to the CSS of any theme, but this one already appears to be very well…

  • Meet the Tall Grass Artists

    Tall Grass Arts Association, an art gallery in downtown Park Forest, IL, is a very busy place. Now, Park Forest itself is an interesting town. By way of full disclosure, I do serve on the Park Forest Village Board, so I do have a bias in promoting my town. The village has struggled to bring…