Portfolio

SISU Strength Academy is a new gym now open in Waukee, Iowa. I had the pleasure of setting up their website and getting them started on their new adventure.

My theme of choice lately is StudioPress’s Genesis and this site was no exception. The freedom to customize and bend Genesis to fight my needs is the best thing ever. I implemented WooCommerce so they can sell some shirts and hoodies to promote their new business. We also set up ZenPlanner to handle class registration along with Mailchimp for email list management.

Dr. Handal has been a longtime client of mine and one, of many, that I have enjoyed working with over the years. This year her WordPress website was ready for a makeover. I wanted to prominently feature her podcasts and her books on her front page. She has so much to offer and I felt brightening the site and changing the layout and navigation would make those things more evident.

I built the new website from scratch using StudioPress’s Genesis theme for WordPress as the base. This was my first Genesis child theme. There is no better way to learn something new than to throw yourself into it and get started. I also implemented Powerpress plugin to make publishing her podcasts a bit easier.

Because Dr. Handal already had several products that matched her brand, I didn’t want to make drastic changes. I slightly changed her logo and used mostly the same color scheme.

The New Look:

 

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Think Photography offers fine art photography in the Washington, DC metro area focusing on Weddings, Boudoir, Portraits and Events.

Kris needed to make his photography site current. He wanted a clean and crisp look that made the images stand out. As a photographer, showcasing images is your number one concern. A cute site is great, as long as your work is noticed.

Of course, I used WordPress and started out with a Prophoto theme that I customized to fit his needs. Simple was the word and that is exactly what I created. The image buttons on the main page let visitors know right away what type of photography Kris offers. The galleries showcase his work so you can see right away what his style is and decide if it’s right for you.

This is a site I originally made, we’ve updated once and now we’ve updated a second time. The original site was hand coded by me using PHP and Mal’s E-commerce. This time around we’ve moved the site onto a WordPress platform using custom post types and we kept Mal’s E-commerce as the checkout system.

While Mal’s Ecommerce doesn’t have a WordPress plugin or shopping cart system, I was able to use the plugin Post Snippets to drop my precoded forms into the site. Mals is one of the best checkout sytems I’ve ever used. The ability to capture custom information upon checkout is a major pro of this system.

Caroline provided me with a new logo and a basic layout that she was looking for and I took it and added a few elements to make this wonderful site. I was able to migrate their existing blog from Blogger so that everything now exists in one place. I love, love, love the new look we put together. The purple and green are so nice and clean and compliment each other well!

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