Bodeux International had a static html site that was difficult to maintain and develop. As an active blogger and pocaster, transitioning the Bodeux site to WordPress allowed Eve, the owner, to start blogging regularly and easily post podcasts using the BluBrry's PowerPress plugin. Now visitors to the site can take advantage of RSS feeds of all of her content as well as subscribe to her podcast via iTunes.
Brigitte Mars is an herbalist and raw foods advocate in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to her popular books and articles, this site promotes Brigitte’s many workshops and events. Using the Shopp Plugin, she has a shopping cart that is integrated into WordPress with checkout through Paypal.
The publishers of Amazing Wellness Magazine wanted a CMS that would allow their designers to easily update the site each month. We modified the Lifestyle Theme by StudioPress to create robust magazine article driven website. The site is currently under construction to be launched this spring.
Go Travel Ghana had a flat-file, html site with only a few images. Using the NextGen Gallery plugin helped us created a full-featured website with dozens of images for each tour destination. We chose a theme from Elegant Themes and replaced the header image with a rotating NextGen Gallery slideshow. I took most of the photos for the site on a 2008 trip to Accra, Kumasi, and Cape Coast. An amazing adventure!
This neighborhood advisory website replaces a static HTML site and includes a customized weather widget, news feed, featured post slider and tabbed content areas. The site is currently under construction.
Better Nutrition Magazine: This site struggled to get off the ground as it required a webmaster with a print design background who could work with the InDesign source files and with a enough technical website coding and programming knowledge to do significant CSS (style sheet) changes and customize the Perl templates. A colleague of mine recommended the editor and art director of the magazine to me, and we launched the site June 15, 2009. The site was designed by another designer, and I took over making it “work.” I...
This was a very fun site to work on. The Rabbi who lives next door to me wanted a cool site from which to post his Podcast and have it automatically feed to iTunes. Using Blubrry Power Press made the whole process easy and effective. Rabbi Goldfeder liked the album cover of Innervisions, so we used that as our design inspiration.
I just finished this site RandyRoark.com for my Sounds True colleague Randy Roark, local poet, author, and producer. We are still in the process of migrating his old site content to this new site. With WordPress, he'll be able to maintain all the content himself and have a blog for his poetry, prose and musings, and a shopping cart for his current books.
I don't think I could survive without Alex Rabe's robust NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress. This plugin allows for sophisticated management of photos and many options for displaying them on your WordPress blog or website. Following are some sites on which I've used the plugin and taken advantage of the many display options, including:
