One of my first clients, Beacon Insurance, had a site that was a good candidate for a WordPress makeover. Even with using the Library feature in Dreamweaver, changes to the navigation and content were cumbersome, especially when they wanted to add a new newsletter page. After creating a sample site and letting them check out the dashboard end of things, they decided to give me the go-ahead. Continue reading »
Jan 192011
Apr 072010
PatsyAnn.net: Welcome Page
Jenn Mears Web Design has just launched a site for Patsy Ann doll enthusiasts that was designed for Marblehead resident, Debbie Essig. After collecting Patsy Ann dolls, furniture and ephemera for many years, Debbie decided to combine her love of this unique doll of the Depression Era with her gift for creating vintage design doll clothing into a site that would showcase her extensive knowledge of Patsy Ann as well as providing a way to sell her unique hand-made outfits online.
PatsyAnn.net's navigation bar
Debbie wanted to emulate the style of Effanbee’s 1930s advertising flyers, so I needed to incorporate vintage Depression Era graphic elements into the overall design. I found the Fairfax Station font to be a good choice for the main header as well as the side navigation and the page headers.
Patsy Ann with vintage clothing and accessories
I built the page template based on the Silver Dreams theme (available at WordPress.org), and it was a highly adaptable, lightweight theme that provided a solid foundation to bring Debbie’s vision online.
Jul 172009
Michael McCarthy Law has been in development for a while now and readers will soon find that it was worth the wait!
Meant to be much more than a simple “shingle site” for a Personal Injury and Estate Handling firm, MML is aimed at educating both current and potential clients, an approach that more and more businesses are finding to be beneficial to both parties. Creating this site was an exercise in conditional tags, one of WordPress’s most powerful site architecture tools. Certain pages were designated by the client to live in the top navigational bar, while pages dealing with the various areas of practice were to have their own listing in the left sidebar. The theme is a customized version of CognoBlue 1.0 by BlogsDNA, which was a pleasure to work with, clean, flexible and consistent across browsers. Feel free to stop by Michaelmccarthylaw.com and take the grand tour!
Apr 292009
Ooh, I am so excited! I wanted to utilize the Sliding Door CSS theme by Wayne and incorporate it with a previous motif on the site which compared developing a site to the changing of the seasons. I’m still “unpacking the boxes” a little, so keep visiting for changes!
