My Portfolio

I invite you to go take a look at the websites described below. Each site is very different from the others. And, the design I create for you will be different, as well.

Each design is custom and unique, taking into consideration the client's individual corporate image. I work with my clients to come up with a design that they are happy with.

These sites are mostly some very recent ones... as a matter of fact, some of them, I may still be working on.

Like this one...
www.monkeypuzzleltd.com 
This client has an established and successful landscaping company, but didn't have a web presence. Now he does!

The site reflects the owner's fun-yet-professional image and personality.

The site is finished, although it will grow over time with the on-going addition of photos of projects. Behind the scenes, my next step is to get the site on the first page of Google for his best keywords, with some on-site, as well as off-site, optimization.


And this one's not quite finished yet either...
www.kenchung.ca
It's not finished yet, but the main design elements are in place. Just waiting for more content from the client, and then I'll be installng a blog and several more pages.

I really like the way this site is an 'above the fold' design, meaning the site visitor doesn't have to scroll down to access the content. Just click,click, click!

The client wants to use the site as an online brochure, to which he will drive traffic from offline sources, so he didn't need any seo or Internet marketing.

Here's another recent project..
www.actionglassbc.com
Action Glass had a template website provided to them as part of their Yellow Pages ad package. For some reason, the old site still comes up in searches. You can check it out here... http://actionglass.supersites.ca/home/. Not so great, heh? You can see why they wanted a design that presented their company as the professional and successful company it has become. They also wanted their website to show up in Google searches, which it wasn't.

The company actually offers a number of different services, and the old site made it hard to figure out what was what. So, I compartmentalized everything into three separate areas of service. Now, it's easy for site visitors to zero in on exactly what they're looking for.

The main design challenge was the company colours... blue and red on bright yellow. A combination that can make it hard to get a classy look. But, we did it.

One of the owners had an idea of the look and feel he wanted for the site, so I took that idea and turned it into a design that is totally unique. Since the company is all about glass, I put in some tall, glass buildings for a background, and gave the page a look of glass on glass, as well as some design features that look like tinted glass, including the nav buttons at the top right.

This one has changed since I built it, but you get the idea...
www.conservativesbc.com
The Conservative Party’s former site was amateur in appearance and functionality. With a, then-pending provincial election, they needed a more professional image in order to compete favourably with the competition. The Party executive and directors loved the new design, and have been getting great traffic, along with regular membership sign-ups, donations and volunteers.

The Party has one of their own people updating and maintaining the site now, and I've noticed a number of pages aren't there now (mostly election-related pages, which they don't need at this time), and a couple of graphical and font issues due to changes made after I turned it over to them, so it doesn't look as good as it once did. Maybe I ought to approach them about a maintenance contract. ;o)


Here’s one that was updated not long ago…
http://integrityenvironmental.ca
These guys needed a whole redesign for their website. They, too, needed a much more professional look. I wish I could show you the old one, but I took it down and filed it away... far away. ;o)

The client and his staff love the new design. And, they loved the increase in traffic they were getting due to the search engine optimization I did.

Recently though, the company restructured and changed hands, and so now the main keywords we optimized for are irrelevant. I was asked to take out the info on the parts of the business that were sold off, and I modified the seo. Once the new owner has settled in a bit, we'll be discussing further marketing techniques to better promote the one main service on which the company is now focussed.


This was a fun one to work on…
www.adelaideministorage.com
This is a new business in Winnipeg. The owners wanted a website as part of their marketing, to work with their yellow pages ads. The ads point to the website where the visitors can learn all about their facility.

As you will see, their building is an old brick thing… secure for a storage facility? You bet! But, attractive? … not so much. :o) My challenge was that they wanted a picture of their building in their header graphic. I believe I managed to make it work. They really love it, and that's what counts! And, they're totally enamoured of the 'storage space calculator' that I installed. Not only is it useful for their site visitors, but they use it themselves all the time!


Now for something different...
www.tonasenergystudio.com
This client is a Reiki Master, and she is a very spiritual type. So, the colour I chose for her site is the colour of the crown chakra. She wanted her site to have a peaceful, soothing feel to it, but professional at the same time.. not too 'woo-woo'.

I put a large slide-show flash graphic on the homepage that shows some of the Reiki hand positions. My feeling was that a visitor to the site who doesn't know what Reiki is, would see right off the bat what it involves.

I installed an interactive calendar on her site, that shows when her Reiki classes are (she teaches it as well as administers treatments). She can go in behind the scenes and put whatever she wants on the calendar herself.

The project included some basic Internet marketing. I did some onsite and offisite stuff, and her site has been performing very well in the search engines.


This next one isn't 'published' yet...
www.inspiredwebpresence.com/condo-cat
It is a site I designed and completed, but the client had to postpone her start-up due to an injury. As soon as she is well, I will transfer the site to her own domain. She wanted something soft with lots of white space, but still professional-looking. She absolutely loves it. I do too.

This is an older one, but one of my fave's...
www.osoyooswintercarnival.com
The Carnival has been disbanded, but as of this writing, the site was still up. It has some nice features, and was fun to do.

A Real Estate Investor wanted his site to match his business card…
www.f-cubed.ca
So, I designed it to match the colour scheme and the background graphic. The topic is creating wealth through real estate investment so we wanted the look and feel to project an image congruent with that.

______________________________________

Come on back for a visit again real soon!
I add new projects regularly, and
I'll also be adding screen captures soon... when I get time!!