Welcome to Dornbush Web Designs. We provide services and software that enable sites to have content contributed and managed, if desired, by the users of those sites. The people who "own" the content can directly manage their content rather than depending on a staff, while the web site maintains control over the formatting and publishing of the content. For me, this is a "win-win" situation. A typical web site starts with so-called "static" content. It is called static because it doesn't change - unless, of course, the webmaster changes it. So it changes very slowly. An active static site changes perhaps once or twice a week. A dynamic site can be changed by the webmaster or others who are enabled by the webmaster to change the site. For example, this web-log, or "blog," is something I typed in as regular "plain" text, and the formatting occurred by the site content management system, or CMS. This allows more people to contribute to the site, and for it to be fresher and more current than sites that are only updated by the webmaster. The CMS is the key to how to enable a site to be managed by its users rather than the webmaster. It is the key technology that I provide along with my services to install and configure the CMS. Of course, everything in a CMS is "just programming," and could be developed by any good developer. But why re-invent the wheel? There are many good CMS systems out there. I tend to use Drupal in my work as I have found it to be robust and generally very flexible for supporting the requirements of a dynamic site.  I also use CiviCRM for payment processing.  It has other uses, too, for maintaining a constituency.
 
I got started in this web business by developing and maintaining several sites for charitable organizations. At first, the sites were static, as that was all we could manage in the early days of the World Wide Web. As the web technology developed, people began to want to involve more that those who were talented (or not so talented) web programmers. In recent years, this has been called "Web 2.0" to reflect a major change in the Web. CMS systems allow us to simplify the language for the more non-technical users. You can use a plain text editor like I am using now, or a "WYSIWIG" editor. (WYSIWIG is short for "What You See Is What You Get." I have over 30 years of experience in the Information Technology field. I have been both a technical contributor and a business manager, so I understand the needs of both sides of the typical business operation. I can help you make sure that the technology supports the business, and can help you find and develop the technology that will make your business more competitive.