Official Site of Grammy-winning band. The mission: create a friendly hub to help fans of the now-disbanded group learn about the members' new projects. This 2013 upgrade is mobile responsive, and built on the Joomla 2.5 framework.
Mission: develop a media-rich website to help extend the Shasta Music Summit experience. The site features image galleries, music players and video players. Much of the site is password protected for the private use of Shasta Music Summit artists and campers. This is built on Joomla 2.5 and utilizes an artistically customized professional template.
Mission: Develop an easy-to-update Wordpress website using graphics from the Bee Eaters' latest album for the design direction.
In 2012 we worked closely with Sara to rebuild her site to showcase her new album, Sun Midnight Sun. The new site has many customizations and features to make it the hub of her online presence. It is built as a Wordpress site.
Mission: create a band site that is graphically simple and uncluttered. The site features a small "shop" for selling CDs and t-shirts, a music player that is iphone compatible, tour calendar, twitter feed, social networking linkage...and is easily updatable. It is built on Wordpress.
Here's an example of a budget-conscious project. With a nice logo and graphics provided by the band, a simple, well-defined set of content, and a determination to stay close to the styles set in an existing professional Wordpress theme from StudioPress, the site gets the job done at a musician-friendly price.
2012 started with a fresher, more updatable website for this Birmingham Alabama musical group. The site is built on the Joomla framework using a highly customized pro template. It includes a music player, event list, gallery, integrated Youtube playlist, Twitter feed, Reverbnation widgets, and integrates the band's shopping cart.
Freshening up a website after a few years of faithful service -- well, that's just part of having a website. Sean and I looked things over and made a few changes -- added a twitter feed, simplified some things and added a podcast section. This is built as a Wordpress site.
The mission: bring the solid core content of an older site into a CMS framework so the owners can update the site themselves. Along the way the site appearance was updated with earthy colors and textures. Included in this site is a shopping cart solution which can also be managed "in house".
The mission: redevelop an older site to clearly showcase the various facets of the business and make it possible for the staff to update various aspects of the site.
The mission: rescue an existing Joomla website which had been slapped together and then buried under a mishmash of ill-fitting content. I re-customized the template and re-assembled the content to suit the vision of the special projects director at this private school. I love to perform this kind of rescue mission.
This site allows the pipemaker to list available handcrafted pipes, and then shift the listing to an archival category once they are sold. A slideshow on the front page shows off examples of his works, and the incorporation of social media like the Twitter feed allows visitors to quickly catch up on what's going on in the pipemaking workshop. The site is built on Joomla 2.5.
This church puts a premium on keeping its website updated, so I was asked to upgrade their existing static site to a content management system. Now the church staff can update the news items. The site is built on Joomla 2.5 and the design showcases the beautiful Tiffany stained glass window that uniquely graces this historic small-town church.
The great bluegrass and blues singer, Mollie O'Brien, needed a new site to highlight a new album -- Saints & Sinners -- but we decided not to key the design elements of the site specifically to the album cover graphics - in hopes that the site design will harmonize well with future albums. The site includes a music player, tour date calendar, and mailing list subscriber linked to Mailchimp. Her albums are for sale using Paypal buttons and links to iTunes.
Husband-and-wife bluegrass team Kenny and Amanda Smith came to me with a wonderful silhouette photo and the idea that it would make a striking background for their new website. I loved the challenge and we all love the result. A highly customized pro template was used over the Joomla 1.5 framework, and a simple shopping cart and music player were added, all customized to match the site design.
This website highlights this electronic composer's recordings. A highly customized pro template was used over the Joomla framework, and a music player, graphically matched to the site's design, was added.
This funky, fun band from California's site uses a customized template over Joomla's first generation content management system and features a custom music player, a guestbook, a customized gig calendar with an RSS feed and more. The band updates this site through a front-end log in process.
Jennifer is an award-winning artist whose work has been showcased at galleries in the US and Europe. To showcase her classical style, I customized a professional Joomla template, keeping design elements minimal. Its simplicity keeps the focus where it should be--on the art. Jennifer's site features several galleries and a blog.