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Web Design
Client: Erin Peterson
About: Erin has been a client for a good number of years. She is an excellent freelance writer from Minneapolis, specializing in personal finance and personal interest stories. This is the third or fourth redesign/update of her site I have done for her. A couple years back I talked her into the WordPress platform – [...]
Client: Worth Design Build
About: House builder and consumate craftsman Andrew Long started a new home renovation business in 2010 called Worth Design Build. He asked me to build his web site. He had a good sense of how he wanted the site to look and work. We quickly decided WordPress would make a good base for him. After [...]
INFO: Page Speed Tool
Google has developed another useful tool for as part of it’s Site Performance web master tool suite. This one is all about speed: Page Speed. This one is good for everyone, no matter what type of site you run/own/manage. You simply type in the appropriate URL and ba-da-boom: it gives you a report on page [...]
Client: Appleby Outdoor Products
Meet Jim Appleby. Jim has been an avid outdoorsman for all of his life. He also happens to be a tinkerer and a gear hound. Put these traits together and you get a guy with plenty of ideas for creative new products for the outdoor enthusiast. Enter Appleby Outdoor Products. I met Jim on a [...]
Client: Tour De Pines Bike Ride
About: Over the past 44 years Hostelling International Minnesota has established itself as one of the premier bicycle event organizers in the state. The Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride, the longest running century ride in Minnesota (and one of the top in the country) generally attracts 5000 dedicated cyclists each spring. 2011 will mark the 45th [...]
Client: Pilgrimage Bikes LLC
About: New logo and web site (wordpress CMS) for Pilgrimage Bike Shop in Minneapolis. Client: Pilgrimage | Richard Meredyk Project: New logo design – taken from a photo Richard took while mountain biking in Utah. New web site to replace his slap dash original – with social network plug-ins and google advertising. We also established [...]
Client: Tortugal Marina Hotel, Guatemala
About: Web site redesign for Tortugal – a marina and hotel on Guatemala’s beautiful Rio Dulce. The client sought a refresh of the Tortugal web presence – one which would highlight the beauty of the area with the wonderful photography of Steve Jost. She wanted to incorporate new web technologies which would simplify the updating [...]
Client: Knobs & More
About: Rikk Keobounpheng owns an architectural hardware store in suburban Minneapolis. He asked me to put together a logo and a web site to highlight his wares. Unfortunately in the economic slump of the last few years, Rikk had to vacate his store. He now runs the shop out of his home and hopes to [...]
Client: Screenarchy Printing
About: Mattox Roesch had established a screen printing business in his home basement. He used to be a drummer in a rock n roll band so he had a lot of connections in the music industry. He built up a huge client base of musicians who would print their tour t-shirts through him. He came [...]