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, Marsden, Prince Albert, Regina, Saskatoon, Vanscoy, 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. Check them out.

Waskesiu Chamber of Commerce

Prince Albert Hearing Services

Prince Albert & Area Chamber of Commerce

Regina Therapeutic Riding Association

P.E. Outdoor Advertising

Prince Albert Community Futures

Sacred Energy Work

Habitat for Humanity — Prince Albert

Sage Hill Writing Experience

Prince Albert Smart Families Food Coop

River Bank Development Corporation

Finucan—Peterson Consultants Ltd.

Gabe Penna — Musician

Gerald Hill — Writer

Moreland Woodlot Services

Rural Municipality of Vanscoy, SK (345)

Rural Municipality of Buckland, SK (491)

Rusty's Wild Rice

— 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) which ensures that your domain name cannot be claimed by anyone else. I can assist you in registering your domain name, or register it for you. My annual fee to register your domain is $20 - prices are subject to change.
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.
I provide web hosting through Varial Technologies because they guarantee 99.99% uptime.
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 can easily be converted to other formats, such as databases or word-processor documents. Most importantly, this allows for simplified migration to new systems such as tablets, smart phones, TVs and PDAs (hand-held computers).

Testimonials

"I have to give you a HUGE Thanks... this little website is working very well... I would have to say right now 10-20% of the people I have registering is thru the website. In the end BIG/Fancy was sure not necessary for my business."

"You made it easy for me, and very affordable for my small business. Exactly what I was looking for and a pleasure doing business with you."

Jan Cej
React & Respond First Aid

— Contact Information —

Les Dickson

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

Links:
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.