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Diane Tressa Bail Bonds
Diane was looking for a simple website that would convey her message effectively, but her main concern was a private area where she and her employees could communicate and search their history. WordPress again did a great job.
I designed the logo, website, stationary, and banners for her business. Things were complicated a bit when her previous designer decided to delete her old site instead of waiting until we were ready to move it. I had to hurry, but we were able to put up the new site with very little down time.
When I came to Jim, not only did he redesign my existing website, but he got my business branded and setup up to run more efficiently in a short period of time. It is a pleasure to work with someone professional, knowledgeable and always available to "solve the problem". I am happy to have been referred to Jim by one of his customers and without hesitation will refer him to anyone and everyone I know looking for a webmaster.
Craig Zinger
Pianist/Parody Creator
Pianist Craig Zinger delivers a knockout, entertaining show of hilarious original parodies (The Pierogi Polka & G-20 Parody as featured on Radio & TV) plus dazzling Boogie Woogie/ Ragtime piano.
Songs include "Pierogi Polka" the official song of Pierogi Race, played at every Pittsburgh Pirate baseball game at PNC Park in 2010
"Not only did Jim Lillicotch design an excellent, eye-catching site, he had a bunch of great marketing ideas. I highly recommend Jim."
Craig Zinger, Parodywriter,
Pittsburgh, PA
Time for Music
The private practice and business of music therapist Wade Richards.
For parents, school districts, and local agencies in the Greater Rochester, NY area- learn how to access music therapy services, wellness programming, or Orff-Schulwerk classes through Time for Music.
Wade wanted a more professional looking site as well as private areas for his students to login to to be able to access their own songs to practice with. Also he wanted to sell his sheet music and song shop area with automatic downloads after they paid with PayPal.
Right from the start Jim stood out from over 60 website designers that responded to my ad. Jim linked me to his website and let his work and client recommendations speak for themselves. Many web designers did not understand the unique vision I had to promote my music and work as a music therapist. He is so knowledgeable in a wide variety of areas and quickly found out the answers I needed to move forward. Jim is always personable, quick, and able to see the big picture. His ideas and recommendations have been invaluable and he has really made this process fun, exciting, and stress-free!
Talk'n Tables™
Replaces the existing tabletops with polyurethane-covered solid oak table tops will have space available for local businesses to
advertise.
These ads are digital, full color, computer generated and are permanently laminated into the tables. Restaurant tabletop advertising at
it best.
This site owner wanted pages added with some in a password protected area where his clients could log in and get private information. He was quoted for many hours of work and testing for a convoluted PHP solution and the pages in that section didn't even match the rest of the site. I provided him a basic htaccess solution at no extra charge, that was simple, secure and worked right away without testing (although we did test it).
In addition I removed tables, cleaned up the code, added a nice background, added hover effects for the buttons and made all of the pages match, including the private ones.
Without any question I recommend Jim as a webmaster. He's quick, creative, a workaholic and just a darn nice guy. I was in a position with my site where I needed to start over, but Jim was able to "revamp" instead of "replace" my site which saved me money and time. Jim was referred to me by one of his customers and I am glad I went with him. He's a winner! Give him a shot.
NPD BOX CO
An ecommerce site that had many different price equations.
We would like to take this opportunity to say that working with Jim Lillicotch has been a pleasure. We were referred to him by our IT guy. All we were given was a phone number to work with. We were in need of changing our website to a new server. I will say that when contacted by us, Jim was at all times very professional. Jim was given some interesting issues to work with. Our old website was very outdated. He worked diligently to get it up to date and user friendly. He worked with us to get all issues resolved in a timely manor. Most issues were resolved in minutes, or at the most 1 day. We are very pleased with his professionalism and knowledge base. I would recommend Jim to anyone looking to start a webpage or update their current webpage.
Gwen Ehrman
Administrative Assistant
NPD BOX CO
Wolf Business Brokers
This customer was happy with the look of their site, but wanted to be able to make changes, add new listings, etc. themselves. When I learned how they wanted their listings and search feature to look I recommended using WordPress as a content management system (CMS). It's simple, easy to learn and the customer loves that they can manage their website themselves.
Quad City CERT
Quad City needed a more professional site. Their main concern beside the outdated look was that they wanted to be able to keep a public calendar and photo gallery that they could easily update themselves. They had a database of their members that was stored in a MySQL and not easily manageable and they were thinking about updating it later. I realized that once their old site was taken down the data would be gone, so I insisted that we update their database sooner rather than later. Google Docs turned out to be a free, simple, secure and manageable system for their member information.
Quad City CERT is a 501c3 non-profit group that assists the fire departments in four neighboring communities. In our first year of existence, a website and database was created to inform our membership of upcoming training, post our newsletter and share information from various levels under Homeland Security. The website was adequate and served our purpose. Over the next few years, our organization grew quickly as did the use of our website. Unfortunately, the ability to change the website, and run reports from the database, was for the most part, in the hands of the website developer. This proved to be non-productive and a hassle to both our staff and the website developer.
Jim Lillicotch was recommended to us by the IT professional contracted through my employer. After speaking with Jim and checking his references, I know we had the right person for the job! He took our long wish list, ideas and objective, and provided insight and suggestions on functions that make the new website a valuable resource for our organization.
I enthusiastically recommend Jim Lillicotch to anyone that needs a website designer that is professional, infinitely knowledgeable, easy to work with, and makes your goal, his goal.
Thea Guilfoyle
Quad City CERT
TEXT IT 2ME
TEXT IT 2 ME helps businesses and organizations establish a unique, direct connection with their customers or members. TEXT IT 2 ME allows businesses to communicate information directly to their customers. Through TEXT IT 2 ME, businesses can send out messages that are relevant and reach their customers helping to drive traffic to their store(s) and increase sales.
Jay Jackson Designs
Jay is a jewelry designer who is starting his business. He needed a way he could sell his creations and maintain his site himself. WordPress and eShop were the perfect solution.
Business Leads Exchange Networking Group
This is a networking site that I attend and recommend to anyone in the Pittsburgh area. There are some really good participants and there is quite a bit of business done through our group.
“Our mission is to provide a creative, professional, comfortable and fun environment for business owners, independent professional and sales people to cultivate relationships and expand their business base. ”
“Jim Lillicotch is an EXCELLENT webmaster. His knowledge of web design is comprehensive. I have hired him to develop the
www.BLXNetworking.com website. Every time I send him new information, or have a question it is dealt with in a professional and timely
manner. I cannot recommend Jim highly enough!”
Top qualities: Expert , Good Value , High Integrity
Oldtimer & Lily
The customer had a store on safeshopper.com and they sent a notice that they were closing.
They need a secure shopping cart quickly that they could maintain themselves.
We also added a blog and an email newsletter management program.
Jim is responsible and responsive, honest and open, patient, and an incredible value for the money. He is especially adept technically, as well as being well versed in the technicalities of security issues on sites that gather personal information. My employer brought Jim in to clean up a real mess made by the previous web designer we had hired, and he was able to get us back on track and functional in far less time than we thought possible.
It was because of my regard for Jim in the way he handled my employer's businesses that I hired him to help me with my personal website. I, too, was in a situation where I needed a "fix" quickly, because the provider of my existing site and cart closed the doors on short notice. Though there are still minor corrections and enhancements to make on the Oldtimer & Lily site, I was up and running with a new site in plenty of time, with no impact to my business. I truly could not have done that without Jim.
Jim is easy to work with, takes any quirky ideas I might have and makes them functional, and has really helped me on the road to growing my personal business. He is always advising me that it is *my* business, and does everything he can to make that comfortable for me.
FastDiscountBanners.com
A site that lets visitors design their own 3' x 8', 3' x 10', 3' x 12' banners on line. The visitor can add and manipulate text, then add graphics and order their banner on the site.
Chamber Musicians
This site was originally done by the owner in Rapid Weaver and was very plain. Many of the pages looked different and the code was cluttered and bulky. I gave the site a consistent look and feel, added a background, removed the tables and cleaned up the code. I also added a blog that matched the rest of the site.
"...After creating my web site several years ago, I have tried to find someone who was knowledgeable to help me work with it and keep it updated. I went through several companies and a few individual web designers who looked very promising and supposedly were eager to help me. However, it was not until I found Jim's web site that it finally started to become clear what it takes to have a site of your own. He was able to not only run my web site on a technical level and redesign a lot of things on it, but also to explain to me a lot of details about my site and what had to be done in order to attract clients of my own to it. Even with my limited computer background Jim was able to put things in a way that was understood by me, without getting caught up too much in "techno- computer" terminology, which is what scared me away from other web designers. He keeps it all simple, clear and to the point without making it all confusing. The longer Jim has been working on my site - the more traffic I started getting to it, which is great for my business!..."
Your Career Edge
Provides assistance to businesses with exiting employees for re-employment which quickly reduces unemployment insurance cost, administrative cost and vulnerability of lawsuit while improving morale and productivity of remaining employees and goodwill of the community. Also provides support for career professionals and executives, as well as, outplacement support.
This site owner saw my work with Talk'n Tables and also wanted pages added in a password protected area where his clients could log in and get private information, except he wanted four different sections with four different password lists. He was also given large quotes by others. The same basic htaccess solution worked simply, easily and effectively with four different password lists at no additional charge. In addition, I removed tables and changed his navigation from a flash animation to plain text, html and CSS. That made his menu look very similar, but is much more effective for the search engines.
As my business grew and changed, I developed products targeted for business to business rather than the retail focus predominant in my initial website design. I needed to refocus my website to be more business professional. I also needed the added capability for my clients to have password access to information from my website. My original web designer’s change proposal included third party technical support in designing a password data base plus a couple of months testing and no guarantee that it would work to specification. I wanted no part of that arrangement.
Still searching for an alternative, I was introduced to Jim Lillicotch of Lillicotch.com. Jim’s proposal was straight forward and effective. We first moved the website to a more user friendly web hosting and he directed me in ensuring that my website was registered and managed under my ownership. These were important items in the administration of your website that were foreign to me with my first web designer. He quickly designed and tested the web access data base and it is operating to specification today.
The website is still a work in progress but Jim’s accessibility and flexibility allows me to keep my website on-line while making the changes necessary to target my new customer base. The total conversion has been reasonably prices as well.
Thanks, Jim
Wayne Smith, President, Career Edge, LLC
Al Meixner
Performing polkas, international folk, classical, rock, pop and jazz. Al's been recording and producing music projects for more than forty-four years and music marketing / merchandising has been a great interest of mine for the last thirty-five years. Sing, whistle or hum a song every day..... you'll be a happier person.
Al's site was several sites merged into one. I gave them all a common theme, cleaned up the navigation and then taught Al to maintain the site himself.
Jim Lillicotch is "da Man". In nine years I had five webmasters and was a slave to the webmaster for updates. After Jim redesigned my site, I totally maintain and update my site by myself. On two occasions I needed help - Jim responded and the problem was solved within 24 hours. He goes out of his way to give you what you want & need. I highly recommend Lillicotch to individuals, small businesses, large businesses, local, state & federal governments, other countries, etc......... Al Meixner
Pets for the Elderly
The Pets for the Elderly Foundation helps pay the fees to participating animal shelters throughout the United States for senior citizens (age 60 and over) who adopt a companion dog or cat from a participating shelter — including pre-adoption veterinary exams and spay/neuter, if part of the adoption fee.
Midwest EXP Video
A Cincinnati based full service videography firm that offers high quality digital video production.
Weddings, Sports, Corporate, Performance, Production & Family Video. Be sure to look at the Video Samples page
We Care Home Improvements
A Home Improvement Company
This site is based on their brochure. Traffic seems to be improving each month.
He liked my work and has added 5 more sites to promote his mission of meaningful licensing in the home improvement industry
Mandate To The Mayor.com
www.Disclosure For The Public.com
We Care USA.net
We Care USA.org
We Care On A Mission.com
We Care Free Estimates. Com, Inc. has been using the services of Jim Lillicotch for our website development and implementation for the past several years. We find Jim to be most accommodating to our sometimes insane requests and we acknowledge that we are a difficult at best client.
Visit any of our sites that what Jim has developed over the years. The many complexities and changes that we have requested has always
been with the most professional accommodations.
Jim Lillicotch is always more than helpful, accomplishes the tasks at hand in a timely fashion at the most reasonable costs. We do not
hesitate to recommend Jim Lillicotch to anyone who can utilize his services.
James K Weigold Pres.
Joseph Bucher Sec/Treas.
We care Free Estimates.Com, Inc.
Mark Handlovitch, CRS, GRI
A Real Estate Agent
Mark wanted a way to integrate his ERA listings into his own site without having to update them on both sites separately.
"Jim has been great to work with, not only did he save me a lot of money over the so called “professional” site I previously had but continues to save me money. His knowledge of what would work in my business was refreshing. Jim is always easy to contact and work through changes and crazy ideas I might have at a moments notice. It is a pleasure and I look forward to a long lasting business relationship."
Bottchers Landing Apartments in Big Flats, NY
Townhouse style apartments.
This customer had a big radio advertising campaign that was directing people to his website and he had no website. This was a rush job, but I feel it came out well.
Taylor Allderdice High School Class of '56 Reunion
I'm From Class of '74
My friend's class was having a reunion in 2003 and they had the beginnings of a website. I offered to help them with it by fixing the design and updating the data.
"You have been nothing less than terrific with us, and your patience with us has been phenomenal. You've helped us create a very
informative and beautiful web site for our high school class."
Esther Schwartz and Jim Reich
Jim's Maze
A game that I made.I began by writing these mazes on graph paper 30 years ago. Several years ago I moved the pages to a web (html) design. With just a few animated GIFs and several hundred web pages I wrote this game. The layout is very simple, but the mazes are very challenging.
Mohel, Louis Marmon, MD
Board-Certified Pediatric Surgeon
Serving Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC
My friend copied a free template for his site and had trouble using it. I helped him make it work.
