Website redesign for MMD France: MindManager experts
This project involved redeploying an extensive static HTML site as a WordPress site with a brand new look and feel. MMD France is made up of a team of experts in MindManager, software used for “Mind Mapping” ideas.
www.mmdfrance.fr
To distinguish MMD from its competition, the goals for this redesign included:
- Becoming content-driven: Focusing attention on MMD’s 10 years of expertise by deploying a blog made up of tutorial videos, tips, and free “maps” for download
- Making the human connection: Demonstrating that MMD is operated by real and approachable people with unequaled experience in their field.
- Simplifying content management: Using WordPress, MMD can easily update nearly 100% of their website content using a web browser. Adding new training videos or products takes minutes.
Website for Earth Treasure Vase
For Thanksgiving Day 2009, the official website for the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project was completed and published. Visit EarthTreasureVase.org to see how this interesting and profound spiritual practice was illuminated using an unusual circular introductory video and an interactive geo-tagged google map.
This site is 100% WordPress powered, meaning that as new Earth Treasure Vases are buried, the client can edit the content, photos, videos etc. without assistance.
www.EarthTreasureVase.org
Website for “under the rose”
Today I designed and donated a simple website to launch under the rose, an album featuring master oud player Rajim AlHaj and nouveau flamenco pioneer Ottmar Liebert. The musicians who recorded this album are giving it away for free in support of Direct Aid Iraq.
Click above to listen to under the rose
Website for Green Psychology
This website was designed for Jake and Hannah Eagle, co-founders of Green Psychology™. The content management system for this site is based on WordPress so that the client can easily update web pages, articles, and hosted discussions.
www.GreenPsychology.net
Using free WordPress templates for fast & affordable redesigns
Here are two beautiful, highly functional, self-editable websites that were launched on shoestring budgets by making good use of off-the-shelf WordPress templates:
Deva Foundation
www.deva.org
I started off with this freely available WP theme. Then my client found a nice stock image of clouds on iStockPhoto.com that I converted into an ephemeral background. Finally, I popped in a new header graphic, improved the font styling (and IE compatibility) and integrated iContact for email newsletter signups and and PayPal for ecommerce.
Ta-da! Deva Foundation’s brand new site was completed in less than 20 hours, from concept to completion.
Maria Benitez
www.MariaBenitez.com
This website for the legendary Santa Fe flamenco dancer Maria Benitez was completed in even less time by taking advantage of the excellent — and freely available – “Yoghourt” WordPress theme.
Flash Site for GCI
Working from Illustrator mockups (graphic design by avantgarde) this 100% Flash site was built with gorgeous full-screen portfolios, custom text and photo scrolling classes and efficient loading / pre-loading behaviors.
www.gci-sf.com
GCI is a succesful San Francisco based commercial contracting / construction management firm.
Prototyping for PayPal
I really enjoy doing rapid prototyping, and from a business perspective there’s no better way to figure out how to bring a new product to market. This month, AnswerLab (San Francisco) hired me to produce web prototypes to test a new financial product for PayPal.
Here’s how this type of study works:
- Figure out what different messages or images you think might help to sell your product
- Produce a prototype (fake) website that simulates purchasing that product, with variations for each message or image you want to test
- Send users to test out each variant of the website
- Conduct statistical analysis of users’ browsing behaviors to figure out which variation produced the best results
Being With Dying
Today we launched this simple elegant website to promote Upaya’s enormously important “Being With Dying” training program:
www.BeingWithDying.org
“The professional Training Program in Contemplative End-of-Life Care has long been dedicated to fostering a revolution in care of the dying. This unique program provides clinicians with essential tools for taking care of dying people with skill and compassion, as well as sustaining resilience and dedication as they serve others.”
Ottmar Liebert’s Redesign
The last time I did a complete redesign for platinum-selling flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert was in 1995. By 2008, he was ready for something new and fresh, something that pushed the envelope while staying rooted with his zen-sensibility for elegant, clean, functional design.
The jewel of this redesign is a environmentally sensitive home page which, if left alone for 10 minutes, gets devoured by weeds, vines, bugs…
This fairly huge project included:
- SEO-friendly flash
- A wordpress diary that goes back 12 years
- A record label
- An MP3 downloads shopping cart.
http://ottmarliebert.com
Wedding Photography Blog Redesign
http://henshallphoto.com
This was a super-basic blog redesign for a friend and former colleague of mine. The assignment was to create a look and feel that kept his existing branding requirements (color pallette, logo) while making a new frame for his blog that would provide an elegant relief for large animated photo slideshows and sparse text.
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