Cathy Theys is a homeschooling (preschool and "regular" school) mother of 3, who loves creating websites! She has degrees from Purdue University in Electrical and Computer Engineering, teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago on and off in the Computer Science Department, and is very interested in everything Green, Drupal, Shaklee, Usborne, Natural, Educational ... etc. and has started businesses to go with her passions. She would love to help you!
websites
Website Services
- website set-up and maintenance
- domain name set-up and email address configuration
- edits on your existing site
See the portfolio of websites.
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Portfolio: Websites
Site Set-Up, Owner Able To Make Text Changes Easily
Yes! Training and Education set up a very small website for Northern Illinois Lactation Consultant Association (NILCA) http://northernillinoisLCA.org. We registered the domain name, set up a contact email info@northernillinoisLCA.org to be forwarded to their personal email account, and created simple pages: About, Join, Contact. This short video, http://cathytheys.blip.tv/file/1834993, shows how easy it is for site owners to make textual changes to the site.
E-Commerce For E-Book Site, Integrated Google Analytics
We rescued an e-book site that was under construction. The client was frustrated, having tried for a few months to get the site looking the way they wanted, but small changes would break it. And their e-commerce package they paid for was hard to configure and would not work with their hosting company. We installed Drupal and Ubercart, two free open-source software packages, and got them working on their web host provider. It allows customers to order an e-book, add it to their cart, checkout using a paypal account or credit card via paypal, and after the order is complete, the customer gets an email with a link to download the file they bought, or the customer can login to the site and download the file from their personal profile page. The owner of the site can edit text, track orders, change the product information and price, and more, all using administrative pages on the site itself.
E-Commerce For A Mom's Idea, Integrated Amazon Associate Tools
Yes! Training and Education registered the domain, arranged the hosting, installed, configured and customized the platform, including e-commerce, paypal, and amazon associate tools for the Toy Library at http://havingfunlearning.com and initialized the content based on documents from the site owner. We trained the owner to add, edit and maintain content on the site, saving the owner money and empowering the owner too.
Member Only Content, Distributed Editing To Multiple People
We installed, configured and customized the platform for http://goodshepherdlc.org, migrated the old static html content to the new content management system, and also maintain it. It has member only content that is securely hidden and only shown to members logged into their site accounts. http://cathytheys.blip.tv/file/1863166 is a short video showing how users who are given a role with permission to post content in a certain category can publish on their website without special software and no special technical skills. Yes! regular people can! And http://cathytheys.blip.tv/file/1864518 shows a different role, one that allows a user to put member only content (called publications on this site), can upload member only files. We also make training videos like this one, http://cathytheys.blip.tv/file/2790889 to help.
Conference Registration, Easy To Add Menu Tabs
Yes! Training and Education also took over maintaining http://chicagoareabfc.org and has installed and configured a new platform for them as their previous site was difficult to update, was almost impossible for them to expand, and had some layout problems they wanted to fix. Now new menus and news items are a breeze, members can join and donate right on the site, and newsletters are sent and archived for members.
A Private Space
We created a family website http://theysfamily.org to fit the needs of a private space to share blogs, photos, etc only with registered family and friends.
