Candy Lopez is a Bay Area-based motivational speaker. She found that she was losing out on business because she did not have a robust Web site. We designed this site to show not only the types of services Candy offers as a speaker, but also her personal experiences and how they have shaped her professional life. A balance is struck between a strong, professional presence, and a human, compassionate approach.

I built Incorporating Movement more than two years ago. Pilates instructor Rebekah Rotstein needed to revamp her site to accommodate a growing demographic of Spanish-speaking clientele, new services, travel events, and exciting press she had received. I gave her site a mini-makeover, establishing new sections, dynamic rollovers, and an enhanced section exclusively for Spanish speakers.

Have I mentioned how much I love working with authors? Julianne Balmain (pen name: Nadia Gordon) is a San Francisco-based writer whose fourth mystery novel (Lethal Vintage) just pubbed. Her site was about 10 years old, but she really wanted a place to promote the new book, events, and other writing projects. Julianne had a limited budget, so I built her templates in a WordPress blog, then taught her how to build all the pages. The result is a dynamic, extendable site that she has full power to update and maintain going forward.

I was delighted to work with this Chicago-based author to create for her a WordPress-based blog where she could promote past work, solicit new work, and muse on different things that inspire her. To keep costs low, we tweaked an existing WordPress template to make it entirely her own, and then incorporated some of her son’s fantastic photography to illustrate the fiction.

In 1946, Dr. David Boder headed to Europe to record the stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words, using just a wire recorder. More than 60 years later, these survivors’ voices are being heard again through this ambitious project, where the oral history can be heard through Flash movies on this site. I was honored to create the user interface and design for this inspirational site.

Authors Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile have definitely stirred up something with modern mothers and wives. Appearing everywhere from The Today Show to Oprah, these women have authored three different books that aim to tell the truth about motherhood, marriage, and being a modern woman. This site was designed to create a dialogue with their readers and encourage others to post their own “dirty little secrets” about their lives.

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Based in El Dorado Hills, California, the Guiding Hands School is a special-needs school for children aged 2 – 14. The school requested a site that not only showed the diversity and spirit of their student body, but also gave parents a place to learn about events, programs, and connect with teachers. I had a lot of fun designing with the photos they provided and playing with their purple, blue, and yellow color palette.

After taking some much-needed time off after the birth of Cormac Peter Hazen in November, I’m now back at my desk. I’m currently filling up my schedule with new projects for the coming weeks and months. Please feel free to contact me if you’re interested in talking about your Web or writing project!

The site for the music group Iron and Wine provided a lot of different opportunities for interpreting their music through the Web medium. We built this site using the Good Barry platform, which allows the band to easily maintain dynamic information like news items, promotions and tour dates. We also created two different media players that allow visitors to both stream entire albums and experience live music via the homepage.

The owner of Studio Lotus, an Atlanta Pilates studio, came to me because her site had outgrown its existing design. The site needed a structure designed that would appeal to new customers, existing clients, and teachers looking to bolster existing education. Using her existing collateral as a basis for the redesign, I better adapted her palette to the new design, and redesigned the interface with drop-down menus to help users better navigate the site.