Portfolio
I have built and worked on many sites, including
James Calemine
James's old website was built using Godaddy's website platform. He wasn't happy with it, so i built him a new site in WordPress. I also built his bookstore using Woocommerce.
Seed to Pantry
This cookbook publisher wanted a new site which was cleaner, modern, and easy to navigate. I was happy to oblige, and I am thrilled how it came out.
Lawrence Light
Lawrence hired me to refresh his existing Weebly site. This was a fun challenge due to the limitations of the Weebly platform, and I think it turned out great.
Lateral Action
Lateral Action is the site of author, poet, and business coach Mark McGuinness. I helped Mark update a decade old site. First we switched it to HTTPS, and then I identified and replaced outdated plugins, tech that modern web browsers no longer support (Flash video, for example), and page elements that could look better (outdated signup forms).
Mark is also a current support client.
Suzanne Cardinale Books
Suzanne is a long term client. I ahve been maintaining her site for several years, and most recently I added a store page for her cancer survivor project.
Kate Deimling
Kate hired me to set up her new editor site on Squarespace. It is simple and clean.
Jerri Williams
Jerri Williams is a former FBI agent and crime and non-fiction author. I designed a new site for her with a custom home page. I also added a second blog to the site so that her blog posts could remain separate from her podcast.
Cross-Cultural Way
I do not usually work on philosophy and humanities websites, but I think this one came out rather well.
Author Website in a Box
Author Website in a Box solves the headache of setting up a WordPress website. It packs an entire author website into one easy to install package, and includes everything from a pre-built home page to bookshelf and contact pages.
Lisa Lilly
Lisa's site needed a lot of work, including both updates and a migration to a new hosting company.
I added HTTPS, imported blog posts from Lisa's old blog, and then moved the site from Godaddy to Bluehost. The site is now faster, costs less to run, and and will have better SEO as a result of the added blog posts.
Windweaver Press
This site was a lot more graphics intensive than I am used to, In addition to building the site, I also set up a store and connected tracking for both FB and for Google Adwords.
Brittany Larsen Books
This started as a simple website update for a romance author. I think it came out rather nice.
Tom Fowler Writes
Tom Fowler is a thriller author. I host his websites, and I also recently rebuilt his author site using a one-page template. It's simple, but I really like it.
Dreamwatch
Dreamwatch is an indie press. It had a well established site that needed a refresh.
I created a new front page for the site, and added a second blog. The new home page is designed to bring all three of Dreamwatch's main activities to your attention, and entices you to find out more.
Bonnie Traymore Books
Bonnie Tasked me to update her site with new book covers and links, and also to polish the design so it looked better.
Sisters in Crime Toronto
I built the new website for the oronto chapter of Sisters inC rime
Waystone Press
Waystone is a newly-launched small press that focuses on fantasy and related non-fiction (studies of historical myths, for example). I designed and built the site using Genesis, found all of the press's books on Amazon and added them to the site, and completed other important parts of setting up the site.
The New Praetorians
The New Praetorians is a new series from an author named RK Syrus. I was tasked with creating a minimalist low-effort site on WordPress.com that promotes the series and is easy to update.
Northern Virginia Writers Club
My local writing club's new website was a fun project which I proposed and carried out pro bono. It has a simple design which we all think looks great.
Julia Vee
This was a simple rebrand, and it came out rather well. Julia is an established SF author with a new urban fantasy series which was being shopped to publishers. I had to rebrand her site so that it looked less like an SF author's site and more like the site of an urban fantasy author. I did not have a lot to work with (the series is still unpublished) but I think this project came out well.
And then in 2024, I built a new site which the author could edit herself.
Mystic Writers
Mystic Writers is a small collective of writers based in Connecticut. Their site was scratch-built, and deliberately kept simple so that you noticed their work rather than the site itself.
Jody Lebel
Jody Lebel is a book narrator and voice-over actor. She wanted a simple single-page site which promoted her services. The site I built (and host) is colorful in an understated way. It tells visitors what they need to know without getting in the way.
BiteSizeFitness
This site belongs to an author who is a fitness trainer in their day job. This was a fairly straightforward site, and includes e-Commerce functions. I integrated Stripe, and tied it into the client's mailing list.
The site has since been shut down.
Allise Hurd
Allise Hurd is a children's author. In late 2018 I designed a site for her using a simple and clean WordPress theme. I continued to support and host Allise's site until late 2019. (The site is now defunct.)