I’ve re-launched my design portfolio. Mainly re-badging it from Wilson’s designWorks to my independent contractor name – Steve Wilson.
It’s really the only change, other than updating to the new version of WordPress and K2. Both had a few tweaks involved. K2 did away with the styles to implement the more flexible child themes.
Everything should be up and running now!
Athens Electric is a licensed electrical contractor in Athens County, Ohio who specialized in electrical services and solar photovoltaic system design and installation. They do everything electrical and wanted a down-to-earth and straightforward site to reflect that.
The Athens Electric site is powered by WordPress and is a semi-custom theme. I custom designed the home page to highlight several important parts of the site. The content in the three columns at the bottom is pulled from the database, making it easy for the site owner to update without having to dip into the coding of the page every time.
I worked closely with Scott Krieg of SWK Home Innovations in Phoenix, Arizona to customize a WordPress site to his specifications.
His install makes use of almost a totally custom theme. And, utilizes Slideshow Pro for the before/after and recent projects galleries.
I also designed the SWK Home Innovations logo and work with Scott on many other projects related to his growing business.
In addition to working as an intern/apprentice in 2008 at Plum Forest Farm on Vashon Island, I also implemented a WordPress-based web site for them.
Using WordPress greatly facilitates the web site owner. Not only does it empower the site owner to edit and manage their site whenever they want, but with the blog feature, you can record the history of your business with ease. My motivation in wanting clients to set up a blog is that it can serve as a reference both for the owner of the site as well as potential customers. Customers can browse the history of the company in the blog and get a more in-depth and personal feeling about the company. I think this makes it worth it.
The initial set-up cost seems prohibitive for some clients, but forward-looking budgeting is important – with a content management system such as WordPress, future site maintenance billing will be minimal. You can do the content changes yourself!
I am confident I’ll hear from Plum Forest that WordPress works tremendously well and they are astounded by the ease and power the system puts in their hands.
Angela Pirkle and I recently completed and launched the web site at www.apmlimited.net.
Angela was referred to me by Steve Garrels, another freelance designer, who had completed the identity design for APM Limited. Since the identity was fresh and APM Limited is just starting out, I wanted to keep with the new identity as much as possible and used Steve’s work as a basis for the design.
Angela and I are happy the way the site turned out. Take a look: www.apmlimited.net.
This site is now hosted at www.geekstorage.com! If you are seeing this, the domain transfer and dns settings have completed and things are ready to go!
woo hoo!
If you need web hosting, let me know! hosting[at]wilsonsdesignworks.com
Things are going well this quarter at wDw, I’ve got some recentWorks to post soon. I’m available to take on additional projects, so drop me a line!
I redesigned taxbarron.com to better position Barron’s tax service. He had previously tried to design his own web site up and it was plain text only done in MS Frontpage. His goal was to make it a little more graphic and better organized more focused on his business, and to make his site more interesting. With his text-only site, he didn’t feel like was getting much business from the site. The last time I heard from him he was too busy to return my emails in a timely manner! So, it is safe to say the site helped a lot.
Barron and I have worked post-launch as well, recently completed an overhaul of the Contact Us page to better capture some revenue from tax advice.
Barron was referred to me by my designer friend Peter Harris (a.k.a. Dr. Atomic).
Athens Electric is an Electrical Contractor in Athens County, Ohio.
SWK Home Innovations sells and installs custom blinds in the Phoenix, Arizona area.