GNE Journal
One column theme designed in WordPress. Made extensive use of plugins to protect against spam and to facilitate commenting and social bookmarking. Site made several thousand dollars in sales in the 30 days that it was active (with about 100 readers).
The site was very popular with readers and often had 10+ comments per post.
Lessons learned from project include: 50/50 advertising content mix will seem like too much to some readers, but won’t bother others. Daily updates isn’t too frequent as long as you make good use of stories. Having multiple products to sell saves posts from being overly repetitive. Live products (teleclasses, seminars, etc) are an easier sell than pre-existing products (books, reports, class audio recordings).
Site was designed for a 30-day project and is no longer active.
CJHayden.com
C.J. Hayden wanted to create a hub site for all of her projects. She planned to use WordPress as her CMS as she had for other sites in the past.
She had an illustration for her front page and asked us to complete the WordPress coding and design a layout for the internal pages. She wanted something that made use of layers and had a textured appeal.
The biggest challenge, programming-wise, was that she wanted some internal pages to make use of an additional scroll sidebar. We created a special page template for those pages that would have a scroll, and layered the scroll image over the page template. By attaching the scroll to a widget, C.J. can easily update each scroll’s content.
C.J.’s Feedback
Jessica is a delight to work with. She’s helped me create three WordPress websites. Most recently, she built a customized site for me completely from scratch.
What I love about working with her is that she is not only technically proficient and has a great eye for design, she is as meticulous as I am about getting things just right. Throughout the process of building my site, she was responsive, patient, and upbeat. The end result is exactly what I wanted. I couldn’t be more pleased.
Find C.J. Online
You’ll find links to all of C.J.’s sites at CJHayden.com.
Marcom Writer Blog
Dianna Huff, a marketing communications copywriter, wanted to start a blog to build her reputation online and in the social networking arena. Since we’d designed her HTML email newsletter, she also asked us to create her blog. Using WordPress, we designed a blog template that both built her brand identity and also united her website and email newsletter designs.
We designed Dianna’s blog in 2006, and gave it a face lift in November of 2008 to reflect Dianna’s new website.
Here’s what Dianna had to say about working with us
I trust Jessica absolutely to give me top-notch marketing and technical advice — which I constantly put to good use. Plus, she’s fun and great a person to work with.
Read the rest of Dianna’s testimonial.
Sandpiper NTB
A local Realtor needed a website for properties she had listed in a specific community in North Topsail Beach (on Topsail Island, NC). We created an easily-updated website that she was able to add and subtract listings from as she gained and sold listings.
The Realtor was able to use the site to build a community among homeowners in the neighborhood and soon had six listings (out of 43 homes). The site was very popular with buyers, sellers, and other real estate agents and continued to be useful for owners seeking to rent their new homes as vacation properties.
This site was built in HTML and CSS and updated using the client’s choice of website editing software.
