Recent projects
Freyda's Hands - sparking collaboration in the traditional folk arts
This nonprofit organization needed a new site that would grow along with it. Since its first major undertaking has been an interdisciplinary collaboration among musicians and dancers from different traditions, generations, and regions, the site features video snippets, audio samples, photos, and plenty of engaging explanations and explorations. This site is built in Wordpress.
Andrea Hoag - Versatile & imaginative fiddler with deep traditional roots
As a performing and teaching artist, Andrea needed a site that would showcase both her recordings and her lessons and classes. She also enjoys writing, so she wanted to be able to edit her own material, and to post news and project updates in a blog feed. We therefore set her up with a highly customized Wordpress site, featuring audio samples and online ordering for her CDs, a gig calendar driven by google-calendar, a gallery of high-resolution photos in her press kit, and the occasional video snippet.
Northlands - New fiddle tunes in traditional Scandinavian styles
Single-page site for a new CD release. Contains sample audio tracks, album art and photos, and a schedule of upcoming performances. Offers purchase via PayPal or snailmail or digital download. Plus, this is especially exciting because it's my own CD! Check it out! (I did the album design too.)
Chef Edgar - highly personalized lessons and meals in the comfort of your own home
A large portion of this project entailed coaching the client to discover how he wants to present his new business. The resulting site, built in Drupal, features a database-driven view of upcoming classes, a sparkling clean design with attractive imagery and compelling testimonials, and colorful food icons to set off the navigation menu for a whimsical touch.
Guiding Star Grange #1
In redesigning this site, we tackled a variety of challenges. For most of its user population, the most important feature of this site is the public events calendar, which we reworked from a sprawling flat page to use google calendar. This new strategy makes it possible for the organizers of individual event series to maintain their own listings. We also conferred with each of the organizations that make up the Grange community, in order to present a more coherent view of each that would clarify their relationship and goals, and achieved consensus despite the sometimes differing interests of the groups. The much-expanded section about the building's facilities makes life much easier for both potential renters and the folks responsible for renting the hall. This site is built in Drupal.
Epie's Handyman, Residential & Commercial Services
The client for this redesign came to me with a fairly complete sketch of how the new site should look, and just wanted help implementing the markup and stylesheets. As the design evolved further, we also revitalized the existing logo to match the new style and color scheme, added some glowing testimonials, and sharpened the marketing presentation overall. We've since added a slideshow gallery to showcase recent projects.
Journeywork - Glass Fusion Art & Jewelry
This redesigned site now features extensive photo galleries of the client's beautiful fused glass pieces, in many categories each of Jewelry and of Home Décor, easily browsable and very crisply presented. The new site makes much more conscious use of space, with clearer navigation and a clean modern feel. We created some back-end scripts to automate the building of the gallery pages, and turned the site over to the client so she could maintain it herself.
Bob Mills, Sound & Recording
This redesign project was a long overdue modernization of what the client called his "vanity site from the '90s," now revamped into a much more extensive small-business presence. We created image-filled galleries to showcase his client lists for concert/dance sound, live recording, studio recording, and editing/mastering. We also updated the web-ification of his renowned how-to publication All Mixed Up -- and, just for fun, embedded a google maps representation of his regular concert and dance locations.
Liz Toffey, Artist & Garden Designer
As an artist, this client wanted a redesign that would showcase her multiple professional roles in line with her artistic sensibility. We created a Perl-driven image gallery for her watercolors, silkscreens, and other artworks, featuring a page of thumbnail images for each group of works and a detail-rich description page for the individual image, with added links among related works. In recognition of her additional roles as lecturer and writer, we added substantial content in these new sections of the site.
Vävstuga Swedish Weaving & Folk Arts
This project began as a site design for Becky's Väv Stuga, a weaving school and very small store for weaving supplies operated out of the client's home. Since we first created the site in 2002, the business has grown tremendously, changing its name and moving to a beautiful new dedicated location. We've continued to develop and expand this site as the needs and capabilities of the business evolve. We now offer an extensive catalog of looms and equipment, a monthly News update and mailing list, instructional "mini-movies" hosted by YouTube, a studio-time reservation system based in google calendar, and a multitude of other features.
Pioneer Valley Dermatology
For this medical practice we created a clean, straightforward and informative site to fit the client's professional aesthetic. We've incorporated numerous updates as the practice has augmented its staff and broadened its services. Patients can find online versions of any paper handouts they've received at the office, and learn more about the various laser treatments or aesthetician services that may be right for them.