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As Sparklejet, Matt Jalbert commits passion, integrity and ingenuity to the creation of beautiful and useful
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“Matt Jalbert grew up in the 1970s in central Connecticut, where he made his own wood fishing lures, built flying model airplanes, and carelessly inhaled toxic plastic cement fumes as he assembled horrible little WWII tank kits. Before he turned 16, he apprenticed for an Old World Italian cordwainer/cobbler who taught him some crafty things about how to make shoes well and good. Later in high school he discovered the electric guitar and photography, which somehow led him through Los Angeles, Berkeley, New York City and San Francisco where he has worked as a
ditch-digger
paper vendor
delivery driver
lettering artist
art director
photographer
concert promoter
teen idol
website designer
English tutor
owl mascot
tech consultant
author
editor
musical entertainer & typographer .
Matt is arguably at his best when riding his fixie, strumming a guitar and singing, tending the garden, or minimizing his CSS.”
About Sparklejet
& Matt Jalbert
 
Services
- Concept to completion site development: working through the entire process of creating a website from scratch, or re-designing an existing site.
- Expert HTML+CSS coding with an emphasis on modern CSS3 techniques and mobile-friendliness.
- Information architecture and user experience design: developing the best structure for your site content and navigation, enabling users to quickly understand your offerings.
- Search engine optimization (SEO) strategies that ensures your site’s visibility to search engines.
- Editorial and writing guidance, to help you find the right voice for your website and present yourself appropriately.
- Email newsletter marketing with MailChimp, ConstantContact, VerticalResponse…
- Facebook and Twitter messaging — maintaining a professional presence on the most popular networks.
- Social network sharing with Facebook, Twitter, AddThis, ShareThis…
- Landing page optimization and site statistics with Google A/B testing and Google Analytics…
- Online surveys and polls with SurveyMonkey, and Web forms data collection with WuFoo, Google Docs.
- Targeted improvements: enhancing just a few key pages of your website (as opposed to an overall redesign).
- Template development: handing off a perfectly coded HTML/CSS template to your back-end developer. Common with WordPress, ecommerce, or CMS work.
- Graphic design, advertising banners, marketing landing pages, shopping cart pages.
- Maintenance and website updating, with a smart copy editor’s eye on your message.
- Photography: I offer a range of professional photography services, such as interior and exterior architecture, landscape, product, catalog, and portrait. My availability as a photographer can simplify some very common needs in the course of website development, such as good quality headshots for your About Us page. As a skilled photographer, I also teach clients how to get the best results from their own cameras when they are shooting for their business.
Why choose Sparklejet?
- For a clear explanation of your options so you can get the
best website possible.
- For intelligent web design solutions, stressing clean,
rational and efficient design.
- For fast loading easy-to-navigate pages that keep your customers happily
clicking.
- For multi-platform accessibility, so your site reaches the widest possible
market.
- For maximum value on limited budgets.
- For a collaborative, client-focused design process that expands on your
assets.
- For Google-friendly sites that rank at the top of major search engines.
- For sites that are easy to update, maintain, and expand.
Unique strengths
- A real-world approach emphasizing usability, functionality
and maintainability.
- Standards-aware HTML/CSS design with outstanding accessibility. Every new Sparklejet website is coded with the finest semantic HTML and well-crafted modern CSS, adopting “progressive enhancement” with CSS3.
- Over 14 years of experience developing successful commercial websites.
Proficiencies
- modern & clean multi-platform
compatible HTML + CSS code
- information architecture, usability, user experience, user interface design
- email newsletters
- branding & advertising
- writing & editing
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