Yahweh Yoga
June 17, 2009
Website redesign
Yahweh Yoga had a nice custom website but it was unable to keep up with the growth of their business. They needed a site with today’s features in order to include their growing community. Yahweh Yoga is a group of friendly people with a passion for Christian Yoga and expressing that visually was my goal.
Photography
The value of professional photography cannot be underestimated. Seeing your actual yoga instructors and real students in Yahweh’s studio makes the viewer eager to join in the fun.
Special Features
Featured content slideshow tells the story of Yahweh’s teacher training.
Video - YouTube link on the homepage shows an intro to one of the DVDs they sell.
Blog - Keeping the extended community up-to-date on the latest information.
Social Media Links - Yahweh Yoga is on Twitter, Facebook and more. They inform a growing group of like-minded people.
Constant Contact sign-up - An important way of keeping in touch with your community.
Link to Online Teacher training and graduate forum - Yahweh is foremost in online teacher training in their field.
yahwehyoga.com
Craig Bergsgaard Studios
June 6, 2009
Website Redesign
Craig is an engaging personality who loves to visit with clients about his work and inspiration. His clients are avid collectors of western sculpture. They meet at shows all over the west and quickly become friends. Our goal was to build a site for Craig that captures his personality and informs his collectors and displays his sculpture fully.
Team
Amy Steeby of Unknot Consulting was my partner in the redesign of this website. She specializes in strategy, marketing and usability.
Special Features
Multi-view header image - depicting sculpture in three dimensions is essential. The header thumbs display multiple views of his latest piece.
Gallery features - Each piece has it’s own page with a gallery feature that displays detailed views of each sculpture.
Show Calendar - Craig travels to many shows during the year.
Visit Craig’s website and see all the great features:
My Wellness Tools
June 6, 2009
Website Redesign
My Wellness Tools was redesigned using a CMS. Now the site can be updated by staff without coding knowledge. Changing copy, adding images is easy with a back-end administrative panel. CMS websites save time, money and put you in control of your content.
Microbusiness Advancement Center
December 22, 2008
Nonprofit Redesign
Microbusiness Advancement Center needed a redesigned website to reflect their growing services to Arizona’s small businessperson. We worked together to build a site that is professionally appealing, easy to navigate and understand. Built with open source software that was customized for them, the budget was less than for a custom website. The site is a Content Management System (CMS), meaning that the staff at MAC can make their own updates to content, add images and manage without the need of a webmaster for most maintenance. These money saving factors have always been important to nonprofits and small businesses but even more so in today’s economic climate.
Special Features
The home page has a custom rotating image feature to display photos of their Business Planning class. Other custom content areas are included to show new information regularly. Additional features are registration forms, a calendar link, Constant Contact sign-up and a Google location map.
Girls Incorporated of Southern Arizona website
September 18, 2008
Nonprofit on a limited budget
- Branding of local affiliate within the confines of national guidelines
- Website redesign using customized template
- Wordpress blog for internal communications
- Constant Contact for email newsletters and announcements
- Google apps virtual office for calendar, docs and spreadsheets
Girls Inc. of Southern Arizona has taken advantage of low price templates and free open source software to manage their nonprofit, leaving more funds available for the girls they serve.
First, I helped Brand their look. Remaining within the national organization’s guidelines we were able to give the local affiliate a unique contemporary recognizable look.
Next was the website redesign. Choosing a pre-made template and customizing the graphics saved hours of website development costs.
Volunteer blog
The associated Wordpress blog was set up with password protection and is available to volunteers. This allows the staff to keep each other up-to-date on needs, events and planning within the organization. The blog is a free Wordpress theme customized to coordinate with the public website.
A free Google Apps calendar and virtual office was set up to serve as a hub for administrative planning and documents, saving time, commuting and office space. The Google Apps account also acts as an online back up to vital documents and spreadsheets.
Email Newsletter
Joining Constant Contact with nonprofit rates, Girls Inc. now sends their newsletters, invitations and announcements via email. This has saved hundreds of dollars on paper, printing and mailing costs and helped the environment.
Even with the smallest budget any nonprofit or small business can have a presence on the web in a short time.
WhosGreenAZ website
September 11, 2008
Tucson and Southern Arizona Green Living Online Resource Guide
- Logo design
- site concept and plannng
- Customized Wordpress template
WhosGreenAZ.com came to me with plans to promote companies specializing in “green living” on the radio in a cause-related marketing campaign. They wanted to include a small website as a means to give more detailed information on each company. As the campaign grew, it became obvious that the companies were more interested in the growing world of digital media than was originally planned. We came up with a website with potential for growth. A year later, the website has grown so much that major companies are in line to sponsor it. We have added options for purchasing ad space on the site with Google check-out, Wordpress plug-ins to track clicks and stats. Using the Wordpress platform for WhosGreenAZ.com has given the website flexibility for growth, ease of updates and all the advantages of a CMS (content management system) at a very low cost.
American Cowgirl website
September 10, 2008
Film documentary and photography custom website
Jamie Williams, a film maker and photographer wanted an elegant, clean and easy-to-use website to promote her amazing documentary film project and associated limited edition photographs.
Working with a web developer in Texas, we created a slide show gallery of her still photographic prints and embedded the film trailer. The goal was to design a site that is subtle and showcases her work.
American Cowgirl blog
Jamie’s work has been featured on television’s Encore Western Channel and the stats to her website are skyrocketing. She was receiving many emails every day with incredible stories and photos of cowgirls past and present. As the project gained momentum, she needed a blog to keep her supporters informed and connected. We quickly developed a customized Wordpress blog to share the wonderful stories and encouragement she has been receiving. We also used YouTube to host her film trailer and the Encore Western piece to save bandwith costs.
McNorton Law website
September 6, 2008
Attorney website
Lisa McNorton wanted a unique look to her website. Requesting simplicity and a feel for the Tucson area, we developed a custom site. It’s main function is to assist her clients in an efficient manner. As a timesaver, necessary information is online and forms are available for download.
TreeHouse Farm website
September 6, 2008
Nonprofit on a budget
TreeHouse Farm is a new nonprofit in Sonoita planning to give children with disabilites the “farm” experience. They came to me with a wonderful idea and needed help in planning a website. Children visiting the farm become attached to a family of people, animals and the environment. We decided to build a site that could show photos and videos of new animals, growing gardens and the experiences of others.
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