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Mobile friendly upgrade for HarmonyHealthcare.ca
After the new google search updates were released this spring, John from Harmony Health Care contacted me to upgrade his website, which I had built in 2009, to a mobile friendly version. We also increased the page width of the website for desktop users and made a few improvements to the home page.
Read MoreGoogle’s New Mobile Friendly Search Update
Google has recently launched an update to its mobile search, giving higher priority to websites designed for small screens. This won’t affect results returned via a desktop search, but if your users are searching via their phone, not having a mobile friendly website could affect your website search rankings. For more info, read Rolling out
Read MoreBloodhound Home Inspectors – New Mobile Friendly Website
Bloodhound Home Inspectors is a new Victoria business by owner James Tillapaugh. James had his logo and website designed by Mark Bawden, and contacted me to transform the design into a responsive (mobile friendly) WordPress website.
Read MoreResponsive Upgrade for EmpoweredChoices.com
After hearing about Google’s new mobile search ranking update, Anne from Empowered Choices Counselling and Therapy contacted me to update her existing website to a mobile friendly version. Anne was my first client when I started doing website design professionally in 2008. 7 years is a lifetime in website design, and much of the code
Read MoreWebsite Re-Design for Axiom Mould Experts
Axiom Mould Experts’ new website is mobile friendly and built on WordPress CMS. Their goals for this re-design were to add their new logo (company name change from Eco-Impact), improve search engine optimization for the Victoria area, and to allow Ryan, the company owner to update text content himself. They had recently expanded their business from Vancouver to Victoria,
Read MoreLogo Design and WordPress Customization for CakeandGreens.com
Cakeandgreens.com is a new health and fitness blog by fitness instructor Shauna Haddow. Shauna had me design her new logo and customize a WordPress theme of her choice with her new colours and fonts. Her blog is full of healthy recipes and fitness tips.
Read MoreStop the bots: Secure your WordPress website
WordPress is a popular blogging and CMS platform. It’s free, and comes with access to thousands of great plugins that make web development less expensive and easy to use. But popularity can come with unwanted attention. WordPress is often targeted by a variety of malevolent bots, hackers, and spammers bent on somehow profiting from your misfortune. Luckily there are things we can do to prevent these kinds of attacks.
Read MoreNew Mini-Website for Tunnel Hill Cottage
Tunnel Hill Cottage is a new vacation rental cottage located in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver island. This newly renovated, fully furnished 4 bedroom cottage is located on private waterfront property and is now available for weekly rental. This single page mini site shows off the cottage with photo galleries of the cottage and grounds and
Read MoreNew Website for Partnerships for Opportunity Development
Partnerships for Opportunity Development, or PODA, is a non-profit organization based in Victoria that organizes sustainable projects in Africa. They approached me looking for a low-cost option for a new website that could be completed before an expected baby’s due date (not mine). The new website is built using WordPress and a free WordPress theme called Spacious,
Read MoreFavourite Plugins: MailPoet, Duplicator, Wp All Import Unlimited
Here are a few plugins that saved the day: MailPoet Newsletters, Duplicator for moving WordPress sites, and WP All Import for data imports.
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