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First Congregational Church, Bellevue

First Congregational Church, Bellevue

FCC Bellevue needed to rebrand their website to better reflect the services they provide. The aim was to provide a welcoming message along the the church’s mission.

Andrea Herrick of Herrick Design provided the design which was built into a new website.

Gillis Real Estate

Gillis Real Estate

Gillis Real Estate needed to rebrand their website to better reflect the services they provide. The company specifically wanted custom maps that reflected their branding.  A Mapbox map style URL was designed to support this:

Gillis Real Estate custom mapbox map

Andrea Herrick of Herrick Design provided the design which was built into a new website.

Dr. Andrew Richlin

Dr. Andrew Richlin

Dr Andrew Richlin wanted  custom site to promote his practice as a licensed psychologist.  This is a brand new site for Dr. Richlin.

Andrea Herrick of Herrick Design provided the design which was built into a new website.

the WORKSHOP CALENDAR

the WORKSHOP CALENDAR

The workshop calendar had very old PHP/MySQL driven backend that required the site owner to use phpMyAdmin to edit the listings.  The website was not responsive making it difficult to view on a mobile device.

Original Site

the WorkShop calendar original site

Updating the Site

A first iteration to revamp the site did not work out for a number of reasons.  First, the developer did not have a plan to import the several thousand listings on the database.  Second, the site owner was told the listings would only appear after clicking a month in the sidebar.  Finally, only the basic WordPress search was included in the site without the ability to search by keyword or speakers.

First Redesign

the WorkShop Calendar first redesign.

Finished Site

Once Kool Kat Web Designs took over the project, completing the site meant exporting the old MySQL data into WordPress.  This was accomplished by using WP All Import Pro along with the ACF add-on to import the CSV file exported from the original database.  ACF pro was used for custom fields such as speakers and locations.   A plugin to handle the custom post type listings or workshops was developed by Kool Kat Web Designs.  As a result, the site could now include the upcoming Workshops in the main area of the site and allow site visitors to search for their areas of interest.

the WORKSHOP CALENDAR

 

Strategic Living Website

Strategic Living

Strategic Living had an old, difficult to maintain site.  The company needed an update to attract clients as well as enable the site owner to make updates.

Andrea Herrick of Herrick Design provided the design which was them built into a new website.

Marina Music

Marina Music

Marina Music sells jazz sheet music for Big Band, Vocals with Big Bands and Small Ensemble Charts. However, the website for this unique and successful business was beginning to look at bit dated. Plus, the store was run on a no-longer supported e-commerce platform, Jigoshop. Clearly, this put the store in a rather precarious position.

Marina Music Original Homepage

Marina Music Original Homepage

Andrea Herrick  provided an updated layout and colors for the site including new call to action boxes.  The  Marina Music website retains the general look and feel of the original site including branding and the rotating banners.  The site now incorporates a responsive layout, allowing customers to shop on their mobile devices.

Marina Music New Homepage

Marina Music New Homepage

Since this site was already on WordPress and WooCommerce was initially a fork of Jigoshop, we decided a conversion from JigoShop to WooCommerce was the best approach. The project was launched on a staging site and then moved to the live site when it was completed. We used Cart2Cart shopping cart migration service for the initial port to WooCommerce. The migration worked almost flawlessly!  The categories acquired new IDs in the process leading to a few coding changes but this was a very minor issue.

Once the shopping cart migration was complete, the next step was to replace all the Jigoshop actions and filters with similar code from WooCommerce.  For example, we needed to make sure that customers knew which items had sample audio files and, of course, we would need the ability to play them.

Marina Music Original Category Page

Marina Music Original Category Page

 

The client wanted to remove some of the widgets from the sidebar as part of the redesign and some elements were rearranged.

Marina Music New Category Page

Marina Music New Category Page

 

 

 

Chaffey Building Group

Chaffey Building Group

Chaffey Building Group had a slow website that did not fully present the builder’s experience and capabilities.

Chaffey Building Group Old Site

Andrea Herrick of Herrick Design provided the graphic design for a customized look and feel.  Once the design mockups were available, I created a custom theme and plugins to handle to unique features.

The client needed an easy way to handle properties whether they were still in the process of being built, available for sale or already sold.  They did not like having to use a page builder and doing the layout themselves as was the case with their old site. To accommodate this, I built a custom post type for properties. The post type includes two (2) taxonomies; one for property status (coming soon, available and sold) and another for location.  Within each custom post, I set up ACF PRO to provide the  property details. The client only has to fill in the information while the theme and plugin handle the formatting.

Chaffey Building Group New Site

 

 

 

Family Centered Coaching Website

Family-Centered Coaching

The Prosperity Agenda approached FuseIQ with the problem of how to present their vision for a family-centered coaching project.  The goal was to enable future coaches to both train and get information by navigating a series of guides or by reviewing tools.

I contracted with FuseIQ to implement the guides and tools on a WordPress platform.  The previous development group created a usable design failed to deliver on the navigational goals.  The original home page can be seen below.  The sections below the top content had not been completed.

Following the guidelines presented by FuseIQ, I built a custom post type with two taxonomies: Guides and Guide Type

Coaching Toolkit structure

The coaching toolkit structure provides the classification or taxonomy for  guides and guide types.  Guides are subjects such as “Developing a Practice of Coaching” or “Building a Coaching Team”.  Guides may have sub-categories creating a whole hierarchy of subjects. A guide type represents the type of information contained in a coaching toolkit.  In this case, a guide type is either a tool or an article.  An article is exactly what it sound like..descriptive material.  A tools, on the other hand, is a downloadable PDFs.  Articles are only navigated  via the guides but tools use both guides and a separate tools navigation.

Once the structure for guides and guide types was completed, the home page section could be filled in with the needed information.

Family-centered Coaching Home Page

 

 

Cornforth Images Website

Cornforth Images

Cornforth Images was originally launched in 2012.  It was a custom WordPress theme featuring a WooCommerce shopping cart that was tailored to meet the photographer’s needs. The jQuery Isotope plugin was used to display the shop’s categories.Horsepower Design created graphic design for the site.

The site’s unique layout emphasizing the photos was feature in the WooCommerce Blog.

Cornforth Images Category Layout

Cornforth Images Category Layout

 

However, as time went on, some of the cart customizations began to cause issues during updates. Plus, the site layout was not responsive so it was difficult to use on a mobile device.

Moving forward, we wanted to keep some of the unique features of the site such as the category layout and the ability to view the main image as it might look in a home, hotel, office or restaurant.

Washington Wine Industry Foundation

Washington Wine Industry Foundation

Washington Wine Industry Foundation is a custom WordPress theme featuring the foundation’s work and scholarship opportunities.  The new website replaces an outdated static site with a responsive layout that looks great on multiple device types and screen sizes.  Graphic design for this site is by Gravity,

Cowen Partners

Cowen Partners

Cowen Partners needed a new website for their national executive search and consulting business. They selected the Dynamic wordpress theme because it emphasized finance and consulting. To accommodate Cowen Partner’s branding, a child theme was built with a custom styles and a few custom templates.

Cowen Partners is a results driven and Client focused recruiting company, offering an industry leading 365 day replacement guarantee.