The first step to many projects is mocking up an idea so that the client can see a visual representation of what I am envisioning. At that point, we look to find if we are thinking the same things and re-adjust as necessary. Here are a few examples: Child Opportunity Zone is a new client and also a non-profit agency for childhood and adult literacy through the Pawtucket School District for which I work twice a week teaching English to immigrants. This is the proposal design. It will likely be m...
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Proposition: Design banner(s) to line the streets of an ultra-wealthy boutique town on the Central Coast of California. Here’s version one. Hand-drawn vector graphic. These are mock-ups, but I’m pretty excited about the look and feel of them. On the Carmel banner, the bleed is included. The main part of the drawing is of the Bixby bridge, which is a landmark between the towns of Big Sur and Carmel. The Big Sur Marathon route is on this bridge, obviously, as there is no other way (th...
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I love this new little flyer so much! All vegetables are vector hand-drawn and are actually part of another little project I have on the side which I can’t quite talk about yet. If you’re in the area, drop by the seed swap; it should be a lot of fun!
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Likely, if you don’t know how to use WordTube, your webmaster or good friend or indentured servant has installed the plugin for you and created a playlist. This 4-step visual tutorial is to show you how to add videos to your playlist.
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I’m still working out many little clean-up things like the sidebars, dates, facebook integration, etc., but am very happy with the way it looks overall. Can’t wait to make it fully live!
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The “Read More” Feature allows you to break your post up into a small lead in, keeping the front page of your blog or site nice and tidy. It looks something like this: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum amet, consetetur sadipscing eli...
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This picture tutorial is geared toward a user new to Wordpress. The Dashboard is the first page you’ll see when you log in. The first thing you’ll want to do is click on “Write” in the top left corner or “Write a New Post” in the orange bar from your Dashboard. Notice along the top left of your screen there are areas to Write, Manage, Design, Comments & (in this case) Gallery. These may be different on your site according to what plugsin you have, but you...
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Mr. Medicare will be a site that will help those that are entering the Medicare system navigate their way through the process. Keeping in mind the target audience, I am designing it to be very clean, moderately corporate, with simple navigation. As always, the site will be built in Wordpress which allows the client to update and manage content independently.
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Jenny won my services in a raffle. She’s also my friend, so this is going to be a lot of fun! I’ve just sent her this image as the starting-point for her new website, but it has not been approved yet. Jen’s got a thing for lions, and her drawing of this great lion wooed me into using more of a hand-written font than I had originally planned. The bottlecap images are just placeholders; they are not her work and I was simply using them as illustration to where her bottlecaps or ...
Read moreSuppose you want your Wordpress installation to have one layout and CSS styling for some pages be completely different from the layout and styling for other pages. For example, you might like to have a members only section have a completely different style than the public side of your site. Some Wordpress users suggest using multiple installations of Wordpress. Another way to do it would be to have two different headers and two different css files used in conjunction with page templates. Another advantage to this technique is there is no need to edit any of the HTML or add any additional CSS classes or IDs. To use this technique you will need a text editor, an ftp client, and ftp access to your server. I recommend using TextWrangler for code editing and Cyberduck for the ftp client if you ...
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I am graphic designer partnered with Justin Lewis. Together we make websites based in WordPress. My professional background is in print design, fine art and research writing.
Additionally, I teach Beginning English to immigrants for Pawtucket Adult Education as well as manage an organic community garden at an elementary school in Pawtucket and Fox Point Community Garden in Providence. And I do it all by bicycle.
