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I’m pleased to announce the launch of two new church websites that I designed and built: Holy Name of Jesus Parish in New York City (http://www.holynamenyc.org) and the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (http://www.cathedralofstjoseph.org).

Both sites run off Expression Engine content management software, a low-cost CMS package that offers a terrific blend of features and ease-of-use.

I’m delighted to report that both clients are very pleased with the results.  Eric Henderson, website administrator at the Cathedral of St. Joseph, wrote the following:

“You did an outstanding job in helping to redefine and invigorate the Cathedral’s website. Your knowledge, professionalism, and creativity was inspiring. Our site is now fresh, dynamic and receiving wonderful compliments from our parish community. You were an absolute pleasure to work and I look forward to the opportunity in the future.”

After a year helping out the team at Columbia University’s Digital Knowledge Ventures, I’ve decided to wield the freelance once again.  I have a number of projects in the works including a youth spirituality community site and a website for another Catholic church in New York.  Look for lots of motion graphics work as well.  It’s good to be back.

Columbia University has proposed building a new campus over 17 acres of West Harlem in an area called Manhattanville.  The university had a pre-existing information website describing the project but it was sorely in need of an overhaul.

Russ built Columbia’s new site from scratch in XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a future-proof combination that works with all modern browsers and offers support for people with visual disability.

Visit the site at: http://neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/

I’ve been a bit lax about posting recently.  The holidays came and went and that ate up a lot of my time.  But the real reason for my silence is a new part-time job at Columbia University’s Digital Knowledge Ventures.  At DKV I’ll be a site developer working primarily with Drupal and Joomla, two popular open source content management systems.  I’ll still be taking on new freelance work but at a more measured pace.