Past Projects
I know it takes a lot of trust to place your website and business in someone’s hands. Here are a few of my past projects, from site builds to fixes and updates I’ve done on other sites, to help set your mind at ease.
Work I've Done
Jess Erickson: Site Build, 2024
This client was looking for a simple one-page site to give clients a way to find her other than on social media. She gave me some images that conveyed the feel she was going for, the copy she wanted to use, and the colors she liked in the images, and I took those elements and built out the rough draft of the site. We reviewed and refined it together, and we’re both so pleased with how it came out.
A Squared Equestrian: Site Build, 2024
I had a great time building this site–the client provided the colors, copy, images, and fonts, and I worked out the details of layouts for the copy and images on the various pages. The gallery page was a particular delight to make, as it shows so much of the client’s personality and journey. Because the client came with so much ready, and the functionality of the site was so straightforward, this build was exceptionally quick, at a little under two weeks.
Updates to GenPride Seattle
I was pleased to help GenPride Seattle with some updates to their site, including streamlining of their homepage, standardization of styling on their staff page, and creation of a splash page for a year-end donation drive. We didn’t build the site, but I quickly learned to edit in the Brizy page builder the site uses, and to work with the service that provides their donation forms. It’s been a joy to help them, and support their important work, and I continue to do so whenever they have updates beyond the skills of their in-house staff.
Studio Fran: Site Redesign, 2023
For this site, the project was part-redesign, part-rebuild. I moved the site from a theme that had reached the end of its supported lifespan to one that should last many years, and updated the site’s colors, fonts, and layout to fit the look and feel that felt best to the client. The menus became simpler, and the layout of the homepage cleaner and modernized. In the backend, though, all the products in this large shop remained as they were, saving many hours of work over a full rebuild.
fabeku.com: Site Build, 2022
It was an honor to make this client’s vision come to life in this built-from-scratch site. The client furnished all colors, layout, fonts, and content, and I implemented them in just two weeks of building. This one was a more complex build, with payment options for both physical products and services. Since the built, I’ve done ongoing maintenance on the site, adding occasional (hidden) sales pages and payment pages to go with them.
Sales Pages for danifake.com
One of our clients, who’d previously had me set up Acuity Scheduling and Mailerlite for her, had an upcoming course and, separately, a new offer, for which she needed infrastructure (payment links and automated emails) and sales pages created. I used the previously-created Acuity and Mailerlite accounts to create the functionality the client requested for the payments and emails, then set up a sales page to match the other pages on the client’s site (sales page for the course pictured above).
Fix for a Social Icon Issue
A client of mine noticed the social icons had disappeared from her site. I restored them to the site’s footer, and updated the links and styling to be current. This project took less than 30 minutes, including the updates.
Jacqueline Gates: Site Build, 2020
A clean and elegant site, I built the first version in 2020, then updated it in 2021 and 2022 to keep it running well and current with our client’s needs, and to add sales pages for our client’s major program for those years. I also trained this client in updating her own site, which she’s periodically done, keeping it healthy over the years it’s been up.
Robyn Spurr: Site Build, 2019
This site is one of my favorite sites I’ve built, and while the look and feel remains the same as when I built it, my client has maintained it diligently and updated the content regularly, keeping it fresh and healthy over the long term. In 2022, I also returned to optimize the backend of the site, speeding up load times, improving SEO (though I am far from an SEO expert, I can do some) and improving the security of the site. I also provided a little updated training, so the client could start using the new Gutenberg features of WordPress.
Email Support
I’ve done a few projects of this sort. In one, a client’s email forwarding (professional email to personal email) broke due to changes by the service hosting the personal email, and I helped the client connect the professional email again so the client could access their business emails. In another, a change in hosting provider led to an email address no longer working, and I set the email address up at the new provider and enabled forwarding again. In a third, I guided a client through adding a domain to Google Workspace.
Website Guidance and Training
For every site I’ve built, I’ve done live training via Zoom with screen-sharing on the basics of maintaining and updating a WordPress site, so my clients could do simple updates for themselves. But in some cases, clients have come to me with a site they are in the process of building, to get some guidance and training on how to use some of the tools and options in the back end of the site. So far, I’ve guided DIY clients through the basics of using Elementor (a page builder for WordPress) and Squarespace, and I’m currently helping one with a Shopify build. I’ve also guided clients through the basics of building a campaign in Mailerlite (a mailing list platform) and have made video guides for clients on setting up simple automations (for automatic emails following a course signup) in Mailerlite as well.
Endless Stories: Site Build, 2018
One of my earlier sites, endlessstories.love centers around remembrances of those who have gone on. It’s remained largely the same since I built it, and uses a membership plugin for the submission of new stories from anyone who might wish to memorialize a loved one either publicly or privately (accessible only to the person who submitted them). Originally, it also linked to MailChimp to send a submitted story to the submitter’s email annually.