Christ in the Desert Monastery

Christ in the Desert Monastery

This job had two equally important goals. First, to redesign the public website for the monastery. Second, to design and implement a database and content management system to accommodate all of the monastery’s needs for managing overnight  guest reservations, taking donations, and sending out mailings.

Jim Rabby Gallery: Elegant & easy-to-edit artist website

Jim Rabby Gallery: Elegant & easy-to-edit artist website

In redesigning www.jimrabby.com, the client wanted a very clean and minimal website to showcase the prolific amount of work produced by the artist. (At the time of launch, over 400 paintings were included.) One of my goals was to make sure that the client could edit...
Website Redesign for Unity Woods Yoga

Website Redesign for Unity Woods Yoga

Unity Woods Yoga hired me to design and build a modern website for their four yoga studio locations in the Washington DC area. The client is able to edit 100% of the pages on the website using WordPress, including all homepage content, instructor bios and the blog....
Tutorial: How to crop images within WordPress

Tutorial: How to crop images within WordPress

WordPress is great for resizing the resolution and file size of images you upload using its editor. If you upload a huge 3000 x 2000 pixel 8MB digital camera snapshot, WordPress will do the work to reduce the image to a web-friendly 600 x 400 pixel 100KB file. And now...
Ottmar Liebert’s Redesign

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,...
New Donations System for Upaya.org

New Donations System for Upaya.org

The Challenge: The Upaya Institute relies on donations to support a variety of projects, and using PayPal for donations has turned out to be expensive and difficult to track. Upaya needs to be able quickly manage and prioritize a list of funds, and make it easier for...