This past weekend my good friend and great photographer, Jonathan Jackson, came to visit.  It’s always nice when someone you’ve known for so long comes to see you not only to just shoot the breeze but also to do something productive.

Jonathan Jackson is a professional photographer.  I consider my apartment his unofficial art gallery.  His budding photography business, Mountain Multimedia Inc., has been without a web site for quite sometime.  We built a web site for him many years ago by hand, something that even then was becoming a thing of the past.  Updating it was difficult due to my insanely busy schedule and for lack of a better term, his handiness with HTML and PHP.  However, mountainmultimedia.net is built with his and I’s ease of use and design in mind.

The site is a Wordpress managed and NextGen Gallery enhanced design.  Let’s face it, blogging and CMS software has come a long, long way.  Wordpress was up and running in minutes and not too much later the gallery software was serving up crisp images integrated into the site seamlessly.  The ease of use of Wordpress gives Jonathan the ability to update content and photos any time he wants and not when I’m able to do it.

Is this style of web design (one in which the designer manages the back end and the owner plugs away at the front end) the way of the future in web design?  It could possibly be.  It provides the best of both words for all those involved.  Low cost for the owner and the ability to update their site for virtually nothing, also, ease of administration and design for the web guru thus creating the ability for him or her to consistently crank out more web sites than ever before.

I invite you to head on over to the Mountain Multimedia Inc. web site to see what essentially ten to twelve hours of work under this model looks like.  I’m impressed with it but I’m quite the old school web designer.  I would very much like to hear what you have to say.