Category Content Management Systems

This website redesign project was referred by my web design partner. A printing business has an existing site, which was outdated and not representing the company’s products and services. We worked with the client to examine their competition and agree upon an information architecture that would provide results. After creating wireframes that represented the content for each page type, my partner designed the website in Illustrator. I built the approved design on the WordPress CMS platform, using a web standards-based approach. Future phases will include eCommerce features to purchase products online.

Highlights

About the site

• WordPress-based website
• Completed January 2010

Work performed

• Web Design & Development
• Information Architecture, Wireframes
• WordPress Theme Development
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Technologies Used

• (X)HTML
• CSS
• PHP
• JavaScript
• WordPress

Applications / Tools Used

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
• Adobe Photoshop CS3

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Lindblad Alaska is a standards-based, lead-generation, travel-related microsite designed for an existing client and developed on a WordPress CMS. Much of the look n’ feel was derived from existing branding from travel supplier print material. I participated in the end-to-end design & development of the website. 

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This web design project was for a business lawyer client in Los Angeles, California. The project involved information architecture, wireframes and Photoshop design mock-ups. The site was then built on the WordPress CMS platform leveraging a web standards approach. It encompasses the clients need to communicate that their legal services provide direction.

Highlights

About the site

• WordPress, standards-based website
• Completed December 2009

Work performed

• Web Design & Development
• WordPress Theme Development
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Technologies Used

• (X)HTML
• CSS
• PHP
• JavaScript
• WordPress

Applications / Tools Used

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
• Adobe Photoshop CS3

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The Galapagos Islands is a standards-based, lead-generation, travel-related microsite designed for an existing client and developed on a WordPress CMS. Much of the look n’ feel was derived from existing branding from travel supplier print material. The site leverages Cufon, a font-replacement technology, that allowed me to target the well-established supplier branding. As the Galapagos Islands are a unique destination, fun for adults and children, I thought it would be fun to have a blue-footed booby simply hanging around the site.

Highlights

About the site

• Microsite designed for an existing client.
• Completed December 2009

Work performed

• Web Design & Development
• Flash animation creation
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• WordPress Theme Development

Technologies Used

• (X)HTML
• CSS
• PHP
• JavaScript
• Flash
• WordPress
• Cufón – Fast text replacement

Applications / Tools Used

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
• Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Adobe Flash CS3

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The client, who created the initial 10-year old website using Frontpage, was my dentist at the time. For many years, I commented on how I could freshen up the look of his website while increasing the chance the site would rank better on the search engines. After several off and on discussions over a period of years, he finally decided to take me on. After an audit of the current sites’s content and a redesign of the site’s information architecture, we wireframed and mocked-up the website. After a change in overall direction (from general to more cosmetic dentistry), I delivered the final standards-based site. The site marked a milestone as my first WordPress-based site.

Highlights

About the site

• Completed August 2009
• Redesign of established, website for Chicago dental practice.

Work performed

• Web Design & Development
• Flash animation creation
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• WordPress Theme Development
• Information Architecture, Wireframes

Technologies Used

• (X)HTML
• CSS
• PHP
• JavaScript
• Flash
• WordPress

Applications / Tools Used

• Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
• Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Adobe Flash CS3

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