Welcome!

This site should give you an overview of the web-related services which I provide. I'm based in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. I manage web sites in various locations through the province including Christopher Lake, Prince Albert, Regina, Saskatoon, and Waskesiu.

Use the links above to navigate through the site. Please contact me for more information about how I can help you attain your goals through the design and development of a well-coded, standards-compliant web site.

If the idea of a web site is intimidating or confusing, please contact me and let me help you make sense of it all.

Thanks for stopping by.

Saskatchewan, Christopher Lake, Prince Albert, Regina, Saskatoon, Waskesiu.

— Portfolio —

Here are a few web sites I've designed and/or maintain. Check them out.

Prince Albert Bargains

Association of Professional Community Planners of Saskatchewan

Prince Albert Smart Families Food Coop

Finucan—Peterson Consultants Ltd.

Gabe Penna — Musician

Gerald Hill — Writer

Moreland Woodlot Services

Rural Municipality of Prince Albert, SK (461)

Sage Hill Writing Experience

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Waskesiu Marina Adventure Centre

— Prices —

One-Time Fees

Site Set Up — These fees will include the costs for designing and developing your web site. The exact cost will depend on the complexity and size of your web site. Simple sites with four or five pages can start as low as $250.00. For a quote, contact me.

Ongoing Fees

Domain Name Registration — You must pay an annual fee to register your domain name (www.yourdomain.com). This fee starts at $15 and ensures that your domain name cannot be claimed by anyone else. Prices are subject to change. I can assist you in registering your site, or register it for you.
Web Site Hosting — In order for people to view your site, you need to have your files hosted on a public server. These fees can be assessed monthly, quarterly or yearly. My fees for this service start as low as $7.50/month, depending on the size of your site and types of features it requires.
Site Maintenance — If you need minor changes made to your site, I can bill you monthly or quarterly, based on an hourly fee. For more extensive changes, I can provide a price quote.
Contact me for more information.

— Standards-Compliant Coding —

There are some very good reasons why you should insist that your web site uses coding that meets the standards established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). All new sites I develop meet these standards.

Consistency & Stability —Compliant web pages have the best chance of looking the same on all browsers. The standards ensure existing content will look similar in browsers of the future while still producing adequate results on older, legacy browsers.
Accessibility — Compliant coding allows web access to people using special browsers — such as those that read web pages aloud or translate text into Braille — and hand-held browsers with small monitors.
Convertibility — Compliant documents (especially XHTML) can easily be converted to other formats, such as databases or word-processor documents. This allows for simplified migration to new systems such as TVs and PDAs (hand-held computers).

You can verify the HTML/XHTML coding compliance of any site by visiting the W3C Markup Validation Service and typing/pasting the web address of any site into the form there.

You can verify the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) coding of any site by visiting the W3C CSS Validation Service and typing/pasting the web address of any site into that form.

The W3C allows the display of the icons shown at the bottom of this site for validated coding.

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— Contact Information —

Les Dickson

phone: (306) 764.2087
cell: (306) 960.7333
fax: (306) 763.1083

Links:
other services
the boat that Les built
photos of Australia
photos of China

— About Les —

Les Dickson spent 25 years working at SIAST (Prince Albert) as an instructor and later as a consultant in Planning Research & Development. His responsibilities included program evaluations, curriculum design, data collection & analysis, and managing a portion of the SIAST Intranet web site.

Photo of Les Les holds a Bachelor of Education degree (with Great Distinction - U of S) and has taken numerous workshops and courses in HTML, PHP & My SQL, databases, focus groups, survey design and data analysis.

In 2005, Les was the recipient of the provincial SIAST Innovation Award.

In addition to providing web design and hosting services, Les occasionally teaches an online course in web authoring for SIAST.