Let’s start the showcase with the Twitter background. Important things I needed to include: Randi’s photo, Uncommon Threads jewelry logo, the fabric from the website and examples of the jewelry she creates.

Next up is the Facebook fan page that I set up for Uncommon Threads Jewelry. For the profile or “wall”, I combined her logo, website info and most popular piece of jewelry. I also uploaded a photo album of her top pieces and set up her blog to automatically publish onto her Facebook page:

Lastly, I mentioned above that I also created a custom Facebook landing/welcome page. Not sure what a landing page is? You can set up Facebook  pages to direct all potential “fans” to land on a custom tab. This tab is basically a mini-web page that can include – links to your website, any special promotion, and sign-up for your e-newsletter. Very cool!

If you are a regular reader of my website, you’ll know that I think that Facebook is a great tool for your small business. To build on that concept, I have debuted new social media package pricing for your small business. But hurry, the pricing is only available April 20 – May 20.

Overall, I focused on creating a clean site to leave the emphasis on her jewelry. One of the key client requests was the ability for the customer to search multiple ways. Why you may ask? Because some people are searching for a cute pair of earrings and others want a whole accessory set – earrings, bracelet, necklace, etc.

I worked with programmer Erik Lutenegger creating this site and together we broke it down into 3 ways to search. The first way, shown below, is by category, such as earrings, necklaces, bracelets, etc.

The second way to search is by collection. For instance, the piece below is in the hammered collection. You can then further view other similar hammered jewelry on the bottom scroll bar.

The final way to search is through an advanced product search. Use this if you know what exact product you are searching for:

Another feature we added was rotating images to the home page. Here is another view of the home page with a different piece of jewelry.

Here is the original:

Below is the re-designed e-newsletter. I created a header with their tag line, that will be used on all future e-newsletters. The re-design leaves plenty of room for recent articles, ads, plus it lists links to popular sections & departments on their website.  I also assigned the popular “Susan-Says” a constant location of the upper right hand side and created color scheme that matched the rest of the website.

I also created the Metro East Volleyball website with a Wordpress theme from Studio Press:

For this project the reverse happened. I was contacted by the web development team from Kramer Web Development to provide a design for a website for Gateway Wine & Spirits, LLC. I met with the client and the developers and we talked over several design ideas they had. I presented three initial ideas two weeks later. The final idea that was picked was the following. You can see the live site at Gateway Wine & Spritis, LLC.

Below is the Intro page:

And this is the home page. Both are inspired by a wooden barrels, as both wine and spirits are distilled in them.