Welcome

Jim Sheedy is a technical writer with over 20 years of professional experience. He currently specializes in designing and implementing dynamic Web sites for academic organizations and small businesses. He also provides onsite writing training in technical and business writing.

Web Pages

With writing, database design, and programming skills, Jim can create, manage, and maintain your Web site. He can

• Register a Domain Name for your site and associate that name with a Domain Name Server (DNS).
• Configure your Web Hosting service. For example, set up email accounts for your domain or activate password protection for select areas of the site.
• Design a database schema and dynamic web pages that can update and report on the data stored in the database. Also generate dynamic content from online forms.
• Design and implement online forms. For example, set up online registration forms for website users, and internal forms that staff can use to insert form information into an existing database.

Writing Training

For over 10 years, Jim has been teaching technical and business writing for Duke University's Office of Continuing Studies and the North Carolina Writers' Network. He offers the following training services:

• Onsite writing workshops. Topics include writing software documentation, procedural guides, reports, and proposals.
• A workshop on writing skills for work-related writing (he teaches this workshop through the Center for Business and Technical Writing, a program of the North Carolina Writers' Network). The course covers the fundamentals of effective communication: conciseness, word choice, grammar, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure, and more.