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New WordPress Website for K L Ditmars
This new website for K. L. Ditmars, author of inspirational contemporary and historical fiction, is has a modern design built with the Astra WordPress theme and Elementor builder. The home page highlights her latest book and purchasing options as well as newsletter subscription and social media profiles. K. L. Ditmars will be able to update
Read MoreNew WordPress website for JaneArmor.com
Jane Armor is a fantasy author with a newly released book series. Her new website is built with the Astra Pro theme for WordPress. The responsive design looks great on mobile phones. Her new website includes a sign up form to her mailer lite newsletter, and a contact form. This simple, three page website is
Read MoreNew WordPress website for Harmony Health Care
Harmony Health Care, one of my first clients, offers in-home nursing and home care on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. Their original website, which I had designed for them in 2009, was showing its age. Although we had kept the website updated, including an overhaul for mobile devices a few years ago, the design of the site was very dated.
Their new website is built using a custom designed theme for WordPress. It looks great on phones and large screens and every screen size in between. Their new website administration area, built using Advanced Custom fields, allows for easy update of the page text without access to design elements (Content Management System).
Read MoreNew WordPress website for Fortheloveofafrica.ca
For the Love of Africa Society is a Victoria based charity serving communities and families in Tanzania. Their new website is mobile friendly and includes eCommerce pages for making donations to their charitable projects. It is built using the Enfold WordPress theme and is mobile friendly. Donation pages built with WooCommerce and the Stripe payment
Read MorePlanning an eCommerce Store
If you’re planning to set up an online store to sell products online, you can use the questions below as a checklist to work on your eCommerce business plan.
Read MoreNew Website for Plan4Growth Sales & Marketing
This new website for Plan4Growth Sales and Marketing is built using WordPress and the Bridge premium WordPress theme. The Bridge WordPress theme includes the Elementor Page Builder, so the Plan4Growth team will be able to edit their own website using a visual, drag and drop editor. The new website is responsive/mobile friendly. As part of
Read More20 of My Favourite WordPress Plugins
Since I started working with WordPress almost 7 years ago, I’ve had a lot of time to check out WordPress plugins and try them on client sites and on my own websites. Here’s a list of some of the plugins I’ve found most useful. 1. WordFence Security I’m putting WordFence as number one because it’s
Read MoreSingle Page WordPress Website for EclipseBudo.com
Last week I completed this small website for eclipsebudo.com, a martial arts studio in Victoria, BC. Their website design is based on their existing poster design which had very bright colours and the custom cartoon style graphic of the two people practicing their art. I incorporated those brand elements into a simple responsive website design
Read MoreWebsite Re-design for The Naval Association of Canada
This summer we launched a new WordPress website for the Naval Association of Canada. Their old website wasn’t mobile friendly, and they wanted to make changes to the navigation structure and in general make the website easier to navigate. The new design is clean with easy to read text. A custom layout was designed for
Read MoreAdding mailchimp’s drag and drop editor to a custom template
Today a client asked me if I could add Mailchimp’s custom drag and drop editor to a custom template. In the past when I looked up this solution for them, after about 2 hours looking through Mailchimp’s documentation, I found a brief note that said it wasn’t possible to add the drag and drop editor
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