WHO AM I

My name is Mike Dukes, I spent 28 years as a musician, entertainer, band leader, show producer, song writer and promotion director. Worked with greats such as "Little Richard", "Maxima Show Band" and "The Nashville Impact". I was privileged to write a Billboard Award winning Hit Song for Epic artist Joe Stamply, "If You've Got Ten Minutes Lets Fall In Love".

I began website design in 1999 and have designed over 100 working websites and over 300 demo websites as well as design elements for other web design firms.

WHAT I DO 

I conceived, own and have web mastered ColumbusGeorgiaOnLine.com (CGOL) since July 4th, 2001. CGOL averages 900 visitors a day, and has many unique community features and resources.

I also designed and built Pest Products Online, a large e-Commerce website that requires my daily attention as it's webmaster. This site employs the expert SEO services of John Knox. In just 5 months with over 17,000 website competing for the key words, "Do it yourself pest control", Pest Products Online is listed on the first page. This is outstanding.

For a complete list of MDDS website designs see my portfolio.

 My work also includes:

• Layout Designer
• Copy Writer
• Graphic Artist
• Free Lance Design
• Product Photographer
• Static Page Shopping Carts
• Data Base Driven Shopping Carts
• Room Booking Software
• Web Master
• Host Master
  

EDUCATION

In 1999 I saw great potential in the Internet and began intense study. I actually had an insatiable hunger to learn this stuff. Every waking moment I ran over technics and tricks of the trade. I studied month after month; year after year. I finally started to get a kick out of watching peoples eyes roll back in their heads when I talked computers. LOL

It would be misleading to say I was self taught, because I learned studying the works and writings of such greats as :::

• Lynda Weinmann (element design)
• Jackob Nielson (usability)
• Curt Cloninger (website styles)
• Dayton Davis (photoshop)
• Robin Williams (website design)
• Scott Kelby (photoshop design)
• David Bush (digital photography)
• Tom Ang (photography & photoshop)
• Plus over 100 individual manuals and college text books dealing with one phase or other of web design, usability and photography.
• Awarded WMasters Degree 2004
• University of Hard Knox
  

ORGANIZATIONS

Chattahoochee Web Designers Association :
I am a member of a small, but talented, group of professionals that pools our talents as needed for projects; therefore you don't have to pay the salaries of a staff when they are not needed and I can offer CWDA services along with my own. This is truly a "Best Value".

National Association of Photoshop Professionals :
I am a member receiving on-going training in the latest technics and tricks with Photoshop Professional teachers.