Bigcitymaps.com
Big City Maps is the website for Eric Hunden, a fantastically talented cartographer. He lovingly designs maps for cities, campuses, or any site that needs its details preserved. He is one of the most thorough and conscientious craftsmen I know.
Since the maps are the stars of this site, I used Zoomify to let visitors zoom into map samples to see the minute details Eric puts in each map.
Client Need:
Eric Dean Seaton is a talented director who has several shows under his belt including That’s So Raven, MacKenzie Falls, and Sonny With A Chance. He needed three (whew!) sites, two for showcasing his directing work (and his thoughts on it) and one to promote a graphic novel/movie project.
Solution:
Three customized WordPress blogs for him to easily update.
nighthawksoulsorcer.com site features:
- WordPress installation, with some html pages for special needs
- Customized WordPress theme
- Kick ass navigation bar with graphic “sliders”
- Slideshows for displaying concept art, graphic novel pages and characters
- Twitter integration onsite: site visitors can view Eric’s tweets, and can follow him quickly from the Twitter widget.
Ericdeanseaton.com and alleyesone.com site features:
- Customized WordPress theme, including custom header graphic (these two themes are similar)
- Customized front page image rotator – front page pictures rotate to show Eric doing what he does best!
- Image galleries to display pictures from the shows Eric’s worked on
- Twitter integration onsite: site visitors can view Eric’s tweets, and can follow him quickly from the Twitter widget.
- Multiple subscription options: users can follow him on Twitter, subscribe to RSS feed, etc.
- I also provided him with Twitter training – how to write good Twitter posts, the best time to twitter, using hashtags, URL shortening services. etc.
www.davidellisdickerson.com
David is fabulous New York storyteller, puzzle creator, humorist, and soon-to-be-published author!
Client Need:
David needed to update his professional website. He previously had a blogger account. He needed a place to store his blog posts, show his little illustrations, and also to promote his upcoming book.
Solution:
I set up a customized WordPress blog for him to easily update.
Site features:
- Customized WordPress theme
- Customized image rotator – illustration changes on page refresh
- Automatic Twitter updates: whenever he posts, it generates an automatic Twitter message with the post link.
- Twitter update widget: recent Twitter posts are shown
- Customized “welcome” messages depending on visitor source. In the picture above, the visitor has come in with a direct link. If the visitor had been directed from Facebook, they would have been welcomed with a Facebook message, and presented with a link to “share” the site on Facebook.
- Multiple subscription options: users can follow him on Twitter, subscribe to RSS feed, etc.
- I also provided him with Twitter training – how to write good Twitter posts, the best time to twitter, using hashtags, URL shortening services. etc.
www.marmel.com
I love working with a client with a sense of style and humor, and that’s Steve Marmel!
Problem:
Steve was using Facebook to post his political and pop culture rants, and he wanted to get them on site that he owned.
Solution:
I set up a WordPress blog for him to easily update, and set it up to feed the content over to his Facebook feed (where he has 4500 fans he still wanted to keep in contact with!)
Site features:
- Automatic Twitter updates: whenever he posts, it generates an automatic Twitter message with the post link.
- Automatic Facebook import: whenever he posts, the post is fed to Facebook notes and a notification appears in his stream.
- Twitter update widget: recent Twitter posts are shown
- Customized “welcome” messages depending on visitor source. In the picture above, the visitor has come in with a direct link. If the visitor had been directed from Facebook, they would have been welcomed with a Facebook message, and presented with a link to “share” the site on Facebook.
- Multiple subscription options: users can follow him on Twitter, subscribe to RSS feed, etc.
- I also provided him with Twitter training – how to write good Twitter posts, the best time to twitter, using hashtags, URL shortening services. etc.
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