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Where’s the Price of Your Product?
Dear e-commerce site owners — one of the reasons people abandon their shopping cart is because you make them have to click the “buy” button before they can find out the price, and don’t provide the...
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Where’s My Paintbrush?
I make websites for a living — customized WordPress sites — and I really love what I do. I really do…most days. But when you work on the web, you have to deal with hosting companies and their servers,...
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Honesty – the Best Policy?
A travel package SMB (small and medium business) client is thinking about continuing her business for one more year. Her husband wants her to retire. But the site’s design is 9 years old (I know,...
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Do I Care abut How Much Klout I Have?
“Social Media is the New Currency.” We’ve all heard that in some form or another. We’ve opened Facebook accounts we can’t tear ourselves away from. We compulsively post all of our pictures to Instagram...
View ArticleWebsite – Max Performance Bike Fit
Max Performance’s target audience is athletes (mostly males) who enjoy pro/am bike racing, and triathlon and Iron Man competitors. He wanted a bold, energetic website that would not only provide...
View ArticleWebsite – Girl Scouts San Gorgonio Council
In 2013, Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council needed a new responsive (and rather large) website. We chose WordPress because it’s such a great content management system, allowing several employees to...
View ArticleWebsite – Resource Equipment Co.
In 2013, Resource Equipment Company was referred to me by some good friends/developers to redo the client’s site. It needed to be easily viewable on mobile devices. I quickly discovered some security...
View ArticleWebsite – Capitol Ministries
Capitol Ministries needed a site that had many functions to access a ton of information on their site, including a section for Bible Studies — hundreds of them. This included searchable Bible studies...
View ArticleWebsite, Misc. Graphics – OVALIZER™
This website, launched in April 2017, is for OVALIZER™, a user-friendly, foam-covered, low-impact, freestyle total body conditioning exercise equipment. The client wanted something very simple and...
View ArticleBusiness Cards and Brochure – Sunless Kiss
I was approached by the client, Sunless Kiss, because her graphic designer had disappeared. She tracked down the original graphics files, thank goodness, but her business cards needed to be recreated....
View ArticleWhat Having a Brain Tumor Taught Me About User Experience
On May 23, 2016, I had surgery to remove a brain tumor. I won’t go into the gory details, because who wants to hear about that? I’m here, I’m fine. I want to talk about user experience. Here’s the...
View ArticleHonesty – the Best Policy?
A long-time travel package SMB (small and medium-sized business) client thought about continuing her business for one more year. Her husband wanted her to retire. But the site’s design was 9 years old...
View ArticleDo I Care About How Much Klout I Have?
“Social Media is the New Currency.” We’ve all heard that in some form or another. We’ve opened Facebook accounts we can’t tear ourselves away from. We compulsively post all of our pictures to...
View ArticleWorking on Working
When we get to an age where having a job is required to keep from being homeless, we often hear the phrase, “If you don’t have a job, you need to make a job of finding a job.” When you’re...
View ArticleLearning to Earn
Let’s talk about the practical side of learning for a freelancer or entrepreneur. Doctors, nurses, teachers, and many other professionals have to take continuing education courses throughout their...
View ArticleFine, I’ll Learn Git and Github
A couple of years ago, I was helping my now-81-year-old mom with her aging computer and setting up her printer. Understand that my mom is a brilliant woman who can do the most amazing things, but she...
View ArticleDesign Is Not All Pretty Pictures
In my business of graphic design and web design, and even illustration, I’ve been able to do some cool projects for over 45 years. Website, email campaigns, logo designs, brochures, posters,...
View ArticleWorking on Spec and Other Crazy Payment Schemes
“I’d like you to design a logo for me and give me a few choices, and if I like it, then I’ll pay you for it. I’ve also asked a few other designers to do the same thing. I don’t want to pay for...
View ArticleTrash-Talking the Competition is Trashy (and Short-Sighted)
“That man is a liar!” “That person is a cheat!” “She is incompetent and ugly, to boot!” As we gear up for any election, we hear a lot of trash-talking from both sides (all sides?) about the opponents....
View ArticleMind Your (Business) Manners
I’ve been noticing a lot of problems with people and their business manners. Just this last weekend, a couple of people and I walked into a KFC, and there was no one at the counter. We waited, and...
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