Silva Web Design

About

Silva Web Development (dba ConX-2-U) provides consulting services and is developing a custom enterprise software solution for local business and organizations to improve their operational efficiency and marketing techniques. ConX-2-U's innovative solution combines the core software services that a modern business needs and makes customer communication and outreach easy for business owners whether they are web savvy or technologically challenged. Visit http://www.conx2u.com for more information.


This page is a static page for Silva Web Development.   My site redesign is almost done and will be uploaded soon. Contact me at email or call me at (916) 337-5113 if you have any questions.

Front End

Working with my clients to develop the front end they want and working with the many tools that the internet can offer them to create new customers and keep current customers coming back is what I strive for.   Chances are my solutions will open up new ways for my clients to market their products and become more interactive with their customers then they ever thought they could.

To provide more value to my clients I have been using a few different CMS's (Content Management Systems) to speed development and create safer, more robust sites.   For large sites that need enterprize support I am now developing in EZ-Publish and Joomla.   For smaller E-Commerce driven sites I am developing in OSCommerce and Cube-cart and for blog sites I am developing in Drupal and WordPress.   All of these content management systems allow me to provide sites for my customers that are standards based and have a large developer base for the best in security, and usability while being easy to modify with extensions and PHP programming.   My clients can with little training update/customize their site with with their own content.

The front end technologies I use include PHP, PERL, HTML, DHTML (Dynamic HTML), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), JavaScript (a client side scripting language), and of course graphic design.

I have over 7 years experience in the front end graphical design & layout, hand-coding of html, dynamic html, and javascript for web pages, as well as the use of cascading style sheets.

For front end development, cross-browser compatability is very important. This entails writing code that works for the various versions of Document Object Models (DOMs) of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, MozillasFirefox, Netscape's Communicator, and googles new Chrome browser - to name a few.

Middleware

The middleware technologies I use include Perl - a C-like scripting language, PHP - an open source HTML embedded scripting language, XML - a markup language allowing one to define their own markup tags for data, and XSP (basically xml with perl or java embedded in it) - from Apache web server's AxKit projects.

I have several years experience working with Perl...from server administration, to CGI scripting, from HTML conversion to XML parsing. I am familiar with and have used many of the perl modules listed on cpan.org.

I have also written numerous XSLT templates, and XML documents, including document type definitions (DTDs). Also incorporating XPATH scripting into many XSL files.

The key is to use new technologies to allow for the most flexible and most easily supported code.

Back End

There are several back end technologies I use. The web server of choice being Apache, running on Linux (or some for of UNIX).

My database of choice is MySQL, the foremost open source relation database management system.

Should you require streaming content, be it video or audio - mp3, avi, quicktim or Real© content - I can setup and maintain your Real© Server for streaming on-demand content. There are several other open source streaming content servers for mpeg and mp3 format as well.

I have more than 5 years of Networking experience - from setting up a SOHO (Small Home Office) LAN with a shared broadband line...to installing and configuring DHCP for corporate development servers and client LAN access.

I pride myslelf in doing what I can and working with the customer to meet and exceed their goals.   Please give me an email or call me (916) 337-5113 if you have any questions.