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Lake Park Lutheran – website redesign

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:14:23 +0000

I had worked with Lake Park Lutheran church staff in the past to help with updating & training on their previous site when the web person had moved on. It had become clear that their old website template wasn’t an accurate depiction of the community at Lake Park Lutheran (For one, the main header image was a picture of half dead trees. Which quickly became a funny inside joke around the church office), and that they would need to upgrade to a custom website.

The end result allows for much more flexibility and gives a much more welcoming feel (especially more welcoming than the dead tree photo ) All areas of the church’s website are editable by the staff, and training was provided before the site launch. Also having multiple site editors/administrators has helped them to keep the site alive and up-to-date.

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Milwaukee Ale House

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:49:15 +0000

One of my favorite local destinations, the Milwaukee Ale House, was looking to have more control of their website. With the amount of content their site needed to cover, the site really needed to have a flexible but focused structure of information. The Milwaukee Ale House website redesign was completed with a fully customized wordpress with plenty of templates to fit the content.

Fresh off a readers choice win of “best live music venue” in Milwaukee it was important to focus on the live music area of the new site. Since the Ale House provides home for lots of live music at both Ale House locations, having a way to filter events by location, but also allow users to easily see if their favorite band was playing at either location were both equally important. Each event now has it’s own detail page with photos, videos, links, etc. so that the band can easily promote the show by linking to the show page itself. By entering a band genre(s), the site also recommends bands on the schedule that are similar in sound, allowing the user to potentially find another reason to come back to the Ale House again.

Finally, being a restaurant, live music venue and micro-brewery with two locations (three if you count their newly expanded brewing/bottling location), it was important to have a functioning mobile version of the site, so visitors could easily look up directions, menu, phone number, (etc) if they were on the go.

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milengo – website redesign & social media branding

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:53:02 +0000

Milengo is an international company that provides quality localization and translation services. Their old website was created years ago, and was no longer meeting the needs of the company. They needed a wordpress powered web solution, a fresh look as well as a unified presence throughout their social media sites. The added challenge to this web design was to make the web site multilingual, as they have customers and offices all over the world. Milengo wanted to shift the focus of their website from the details of what they do, to the benefit that the end user receives from their localization services. By highlighting the end user’s experience, this also helped bring a more personal, relatable feel to their image.

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rachael joy

admin — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:37:15 +0000

for someone involved with creating and producing video and new media content, it’s crucial to have a site to display that in a simple, yet interesting way. I met Rachael Joy through the video social networking portion of seesmic.com, and later was approached with the job of creating an online portfolio to display her work. Rachael really enjoyed the dramatic, yet simple layout of tracyapps.org. The simple layout of this site provides a great canvas to display, and not distract from, the videos that Rachael produces and/or hosts. Best wishes on your continued success, Rachael! (also, if any of you need a host or a producer for web, tv or both go check out her stuff… it’s great!)

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everymoment.org – my blog

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:54:59 +0000

i’ve been blogging since 2000. and back in 2000, people thought i was crazy for putting my journal online. maybe that’s true. but i’ve met some amazing people through my blog, and through other people’s blogs… many of whom i consider good friends. my blog started off at blogger.com, then i moved it to tracyapps.org (here) in 2001, then i bought thisroad.org and used that as my ‘travel journal’ blog, and then finally moved to everymoment.org in 2004. my blog has had many different facelifts, and this latest design was created in early 2007.

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