SOMA Pain Management Center is a Chicago-based practice with a holistic approach to medicine. They wanted a bright, clean site design that demonstrated the uniqueness of their practice and communicated the diversity of services they offered. I used WordPress to create a site that is easy to maintain, and very search-engine friendly.

The Post Family is a group of seven Chicago creatives who have achieved the creative ideal—finding an curating a collaborative space that they use as a gallery, workspace, and even a place to host kick-ass parties. Here’s how they made it happen.

Creatives infuse their talent into pretty much everything they do. I wrote this feature for HOW magazine’s online presence, which shows an amazing stop-motion wedding invitation created by two Chicago-based creatives. After four months and nearly 5,500 photographs later, they created a video wedding invitation their guests (and likely you!) will never forget.

Sandra Carpenter is a travel writer living in Stockholm. She wanted a site that would take her existing blog content, and expand it into a site including travel tips, a portfolio of her existing editorial work, and also promotes her book project. 59 North is the result—a dynamic WordPress (of course!) blog that also integrates her husband’s exceptional photography as part of the design.

Boston Body Pilates wanted a redesigned site that’s dynamic, evocative of their studio space, ably represents all their offerings and locations, and easy to update. I used WordPress as the platform—and JQuery to create different rotating messages on the homepage. I integrated Boston Body’s existing scheduling software into the site design, so clients are able to reserve classes, buy class packages, check schedules, and even send gift certificates through the site.

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Rebecca Walker is an author, blogger, speaker, and teacher. (TIME magazine even named her one of the 50 most influential people of her generation.) She needed a versatile email newsletter she could use to connect with fans, promote new writing, events, and more. I designed and built a template that she can maintain herself using Campaign Monitor that is as evocative as Rebecca’s personal style as it is informative.

To coincide with the launch of their new album, Strict Joy, Oscar-winning singer/songwriters The Swell Season wanted to make significant improvements to their site. At the behest of Glen Hansard himself (read about my fun night out with the band here), we added a discussion board, custom Twitter feed, integration with social media sites, and many personal photos to the site.

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I’m so thrilled by the launch of this site. This site collects the earliest-known oral histories of Holcaust survivors, recorded by Dr. David Boder on a wire recorder in 1946. This site restores those recordings and makes them available online. It also maps the locations or survivors and provides a detailed history of these survivors. For this site, I created the user interface (which necessitated intricate search functions), and the physical design.

Lakeview Physical Therapy had created a Web site six years before using a (now antiquated) Web authoring software. Needless to say, they were eager to update their look to better reflect their service and range of work. Using an existing WordPress theme template, I worked with their limited budget to create a site that was easy to maintain and much more visually pleasing. (Not to mention, super search-engine friendly.)

To accompany the launch of her new book, Hardball, Sara Paretsky wanted to redesign her existing site, and make it more modern, dynamic, and easy to maintain. WordPress enabled us to easily maintain tour information, integrate her existing blog, create a dynamic content management system, and refer sales to a variety of different online venues.

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