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Most of Keith's technical efforts these days are spent in the cause of furthuring user-friendly, easily navigable and maintainable Intranet/Internet sites.
 He enjoys sharing his knowledge of website development, webmaster resources and industry happenings at WEBtheJOINT.com, the Web Resource Center for Small Business. Keith built WEBtheJOINT primarily with PHP and mySQL.
Many hours have gone into developing and refining content management system (CMS) scripts that allow non-programmer content managers to develop and maintain websites. The fruit of these labors are dotWidgets -- compact and easily-configurable scripts that facilitate website content management
The Day-to-Day
He works for a large property/casualty insurance company in Cleveland as a technology consultant in the Intranet development group where the tool of choice is Lotus Notes/Domino. The group also uses embedded HTML, JavaScript, cascading style sheets, DHTML, and Java.
On the job he's designed much of the company's Intranet, building subsites with an eye toward easy content maintenance for non-programmers.
The company has a strong Internet presence, being the first auto insurance company to actually sell policies over the Internet. He worked with the company's Internet team and graphics folks to design the Jobs@Progressive part of the site.
He's also put together a few heavily-secured extranet sites which allow knowledge workers within the company to share vital information with select outsiders. If he showed you these he'd have to kill you.
Other Web Sites
In addition to WEBthejOINT and this personal site (reichley.com, built using NetObjects Fusion), he's created and maintained several sites for small businesses. Keith used Microsoft FrontPage (reluctantly) to develop the web presence for Antone F. Feo, Ph.D. & Associates, Inc., a psychotherapy practice in Westlake, Ohio.
Articles Published
As his author bio states in recent issues of the Lotus Notes/Domino Advisor technical journal, "numerous articles and presentations at national and regional technical seminars have contributed little to the college funds of his children, Spencer and Emma."
Keith's latest article, Profiles in Personalization, was published in the July, 2000 issue of Lotus Notes/Domino Advisor. The article instructs web developers on using Javascript, cookies, and full-text searching to personalize a Domino-based site.
Map Your Web Site, an article appearing in the December '98 issue of Advisor, explains how to program and populate a site map to facilitate the navigation of Domino-based Intranet/Internet web sites.
An earlier article published in the September '98 issue of the same journal is even more obscure. View Pointers highlights ways to enhance the functionality and appearance of Notes views seen through the browser. Talk about your fun reading.
Back in the pre-web days he wrote articles and presented at national and regional technical seminars on a fourth-generation language called FOCUS.
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