For this project, the client, Seth of Seth Wernow Photography, showed me exactly how he wanted his site to look. He sent me a link to another site, one done in Flash (gag, cough, gag some more), and I told him what I could do for him without using Flash. The result is a minimalist photography site where the photos shine through above everything else. To ensure a quick turnaround and a solid site with fast load times and excellent SEO...

For Flavie Bagnol‘s site, the client, Flavie, wanted to convey a playful, feminine vibe without veering into the girly or cheesy. She showed me images of 50′s pinup girls and asked me to take colors from a specific image she loved, and I went from there. The main design elements on this project were the colors and fonts. In the end I created a simple “about me” type website for her that conveys all the information in one...

My client, growthmountain.com, wanted to change their homepage from the default look that came with their theme. Instead of having blog posts in the main content area, they wanted to have that whole section of the landing page be populated with WordPress widgets that they were already using in their sidebar. This kind of request is pretty common because it enables an end-user to customize the look of their site without doing any coding. Most...

For this Goodspeed Histories project, the client had outgrown her Blogger site and wanted to move to her own domain with a more powerful blogging platform. Because she’d already been blogging for years, it was important for me to save her content and transfer it over, as well as help her keep as much of her blog traffic as possible after the move. In addition, she had a very clear image of how she wanted the new site laid out (she...

My friend Ben Zimmer is a linguist who a few years ago started writing frequently for the New York Times, and as he got more and more publicity it became clear that he needed a website. For this blog-style site I again used the Thesis Theme and gave Ben a simple two-column layout for his homepage so that he could easily feature particular articles or news. Because he writes for many different sites and this site wouldn’t have new...

Back before I knew that I didn’t have to code websites from scratch, I took on a client project to build a website for a tutoring company called PJL Educational Services. The whole site was done with tables (which I now shudder to think of) and took a lot of back-and-forth with the client to get right. In the end the client was extremely happy and reported that they received compliments from the students and their parents. While at the...