Websites Designed

ForeverFlowering.net

This site is a great example of a Joomla 1.6 site built for a client who wanted to redesign a site that had a less appealing interface, several links and pages did not work, and that required several changes as well as to upgrade the current Joomla version.  Because most of the content already existed, the work was to redesign, restructure, and move the platform from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.6.  Working with a very competent user analyst (who will eventually take over maintenance), I was able to recreate a better structure and appearance. The template allows the beautiful “slider” on the front page; the basic structure, including header, footer, navigation, and general organization.

It is a fairly complex site with several “widgets”. Both WordPress and Joomla have hundreds of widgets contributed by people all over the world. Widgets are small pieces of software that integrate into the platform (Joomla or WordPress) to accomplish certain tasks. The widgets used on this site do things like create social network links; allow Facebook pages to be integrated; allow picture galleries – and much more.

This is also an example of a venture that has only the .net top-level domain name because the .com name was already taken.   I would have lobbied to use something like ForeverFlower.com instead of ForeverFlowering.net, to avoid confusion between the sites.

I am no longer maintaining this site, but I’ve included a screenshot of the front page as it was when I maintained the site below. To appreciate the complexity and beauty of the site, please see the current site (completely redesigned) here.

PFlagNevCo.org

This site is a great example of a WordPress site built for a client who wanted control of the content; another programmer has since taken over and substantially modified the site.  But I had created the basic structure, including header, footer, navigation, and general organization.

You can see the latest effort here.  I’ve included a screenshot of the front page below, as I originally designed it.  The site uses a standard free WordPress template.  It took only a few hours to build the site once I had designed the header and walked thru the general purpose and requirements of the site.

EmpireMine.org

This is a fairly complex WordPress site that took quite a while to design and build to client satisfaction.  I am still maintaining the entire site.  A writer sends me updates periodically, and the pictures change fairly frequently, too.

PawsitivePooch.dog 

This dog/puppy trainer needed a web presence for her new business after she parted ways with a former partner (amicably).  She is still in the process of developing some of her content, but she has tied this to Facebook and uses both in her marketing.

She wrote most of her content, with some suggestions from me as we built it.  It is a simple but beautiful site – and the pictures of all her (recent) success stories really draw in her potential clients.  She gets rave reviews on Yelp and Google, and it has only been a few months since she started her own business.  She loves the “.dog” top-level domain URL; there are now dozens of these new and useful qualifiers.

NailheadBuick.com

This company was looking for a way to display pictures of hundreds of items for sale, but not to sell them and take payment online.  They feel each item is very individual and would rather deal with the customer personally.  If you click on any of the “Buick Parts” sub-items, you see a page of those specific and special items.

I discovered the interface plugin that makes this possible: the client uploads photos to albums in Picasa (an online photo app) with item descriptions and the interface plugin creates the desired page.  Google has created problems for us when they purchased Picasa, but we were able to make it continue to work!