Websites

updating it and making it responsive. The new site features an opening slideshow and an interesting navigation arrangement.

what they need when they need it, and don’t hide important stuff. We decided an easily-updatable WordPress install would be an appropriate choice. So I designed a new logo, built a custom theme with nice typography, photo gallery, some (responsive, of course) tables chronicling Bill Monroe’s history and discography, and most importantly, the registration page with payment options, and a means to collect campers’ data. All-in-all a fun project for great folks.

to her clients and colleagues. I set her up with self-hosting, and built a clean, responsive WordPress site. Pretty straightforward. Then, 2/3 of the way through she needed new stationery, invoices and business cards.

Perfect! This allowed a budget for logo development, which her site seriously needed, but hadn’t been included in the original estimate. While happy with the first iteration of her site’s redesign, she was thrilled with the newer, branded version.

Many of Dr. Thomas’s former Resource Page links were dead. The last thing a troubled patient seeking help needs is the frustration of a broken link. So I fixed her up with a simple solution, so when external links change we receive an email, and can fix them.

him a custom responsive theme with the features he liked. Still waiting for him to fill in pages with Vimeo-hosted videos he promised.

a photo gallery and resources. A special residents’ section contains a calendar of local events, news bulletins and downloadable forms & documents. A community forum, The Virtual Stoop, only awaits Board approval, as does an intra-building classified ads page.

I conceived, designed, wrote, produced and photographed the entire site from the ground up. The site’s header, background and footer use the building’s actual architectural features. Other images include vintage public domain shots.

The sidebar features a feed from the Westside Rag® with current neighborhood/local news items, and an event calendar feed which includes local events of interest.

broken elements and errors, it needed major editing, a graphic makeover, and the ability to easily update it in the future.

The first order of business was to set up a WordPress CMS. Custom post-types and categories helped sort out her “portfolio.” Adding content became easy: fill in some blanks, upload a sound clip, check off a category, and when published the new composition finds its proper place on the site.

Added to that were an events calendar to post premieres and lectures, blog, and downloadable press kit info and a couple of static pages for bio and recordings. Good photography already existed, so we used it. Shot against a black background, the images proved both dramatic and economical.

recording and production facilities. This one is getting a little “long in the tooth,” so stay tuned for an update!

clients, testimonials, a bio, links and a blog. The most fun was designing and illustrating the logo which reappears throughout in fun variations.

dramatic photo galleries. It inspires custom orders, and helps gain entrance into exclusive shows and competitions. I love this site, and am especially happy with my logo design and the photography.

including myself, could find the music they love. Its main feature is an events calendar covering four categories: American Roots, Festivals, Jams and “Other Savories.”

Included are lists of tri-state venues, complete with maps, local music services, links to local talent. A Google search for NYC bluegrass, old time music now ranks this site in the top 2. I designed and wrote the entire site, adapting its header image from an out-of-print Bill Monroe record jacket.

disaster-stricken locations around the world.

This site is a legacy to that work. Because it was built to help those in similar circumstances, technology is kept simple, with only a little javascript. Presentation is straightforward, relying heavily on collected quotes from those who were there. I designed the logo, which combines the Greek character, psi—the symbol, as I discovered—for psychiatry, with the meteorological hurricane symbol.

evolved into an interesting project.

He needed an e-commerce solution for his books and one CD. The books have wonderful illustrations, so maximizing existing art was a no-brainer to attract sales. But various problems needed solutions.

E-commerce shopping cart subscriptions were not cost-effective and overly complicated for the small scale involved. The author’s publisher already had a shopping cart on his own site, and managed inventory of the books. But, to be honest it was pretty unappealing.

And order fulfillment snags abounded. For instance, inventory was split between Virginia and Massachusetts. Split-shipping, drop-shipping…what to do?

Duh. Create one low-tech source; media-mail a cases of CD’s to the publisher in VA for $21. It took a few phone calls to set up distribution with the publisher, but they agreed. So inventory, printing and shopping cart were now totally handled by the hybrid publisher, Mascot Books. A bit of luck—Mascot redesigned its own site in the middle of all this, making the shopping experience way less egregious than before.

Now for media links and publicity the Guess Who Zoo site needed to

1. Really feature the material that’s sensible even for grandparents.
2. Tell the author’s very interesting story
3. Have a “Buy” page describing prices, discounts and packages with links to Mascot’s fulfillment pages.