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Generation Nation 2018 Overhaul
The Charlotte non-profit wanted a more modern tone and the ability to highlight social media posts on the home page. This new site gives a much more modern and on-trend user experience.
Car wash site
Partnering with a local marketing company, this website features a client-requested background video in the header, as well as custom background colors in the navigation links. This client returned to me three years later for a freshening.
Lockers Unlimited Refresh
Lockers Unlimited's original built was an Expression Engine site. When it came time for a refresh, we rebuilt in Wordpress. The client didn't need such a custom setup and Wordpress allowed them to dig much deeper into SEO work for their business. The new site plays...
Gastonia News Source
The City of Gastonia wanted an easy-to-use website where they could control their own news and information. This site features some of the city's features and news reports, as well as links to community news outlets.
College T-Shirt Club
CollegeTShirtClub.com was a fun project because the business idea seems golden. The website sells subscriptions for customers to receive random college shirts each month. The site design evokes that cool college vibe while being easy to navigate and simple to manage.
Allen Tate Power Players
Allen Tate typically features its best agents in local print media, but this year they wanted to add a digital brag board. The challenges on this mini-site were to allow each agent a direct link to feature their listing while also keeping it responsive and easy to load.
Marketing Firm
Working with a design from a boutique marketing firm, this project was a lot of fun because of its quirks. The site features lots of background videos and interactive elements to take users on an adventure in marketing and branding.
Cary Periodontics
The original Cary Periodontics website was built using static HTML pages. This "business card" site contained basic practice information and encouraged current and future clients to contact them for additional information. When it came time for a refresh, the new site...
St. Stephens Preschool
The preschool located within Charlotte's St. Stephens United Methodist Church sought to expand its online presence beyond the page on the church website. They enlisted me to revamp their branding and build a website that could better serve their needs.
Union Grove General Store
Union Grove General Store enlisted my help to develop a fully interactive and functional ecommerce site for its Case XX Knives. Its existing site (on the right) had a Google Checkout store, which users found cumbersome. As part of a branding overhaul, which included a...
MSTS – Move It, Sell It, Trash It, Store It
MSTS is a Concord-based business that caters to those buying or selling their home or moving their furniture. Along with a new, clean website, MSTS has basic SEO to help them be more visible to potential customers in the area. The website also features a new, clean...
City Tourism Site
Partnering with a local boutique marketing company, I originally rebuilt the town's website from a Joomla content management system but mimicked the entire design in Wordpress so that the marketing company could perform content updates more easily. In late 2016, I was...
Nest PM
The clients weren't happy with the service they received for their former website and approached me for advice on how to move forward. Rather than transfer the existing design, we developed a brighter, more sophisticated site. The site includes an easier system for...
Jimmie Johnson Foundation
Jimmie Johnson Foundation's site features an easy to use content management system and responsive wireframe, making it easy for mobile users to navigate.
Supportive Housing Communities
McCreesh Place is part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Homeless Services Network. They needed a website overhaul, migrating from a static HTML site to something more dynamic that would attract multiple visits. The new site, built in ExpressionEngine, includes a news...
Hospitality House of Charlotte
This well-known Charlotte non-profit agency wanted to perform a visual facelift of their old site, as well as ensure mobile friendliness. The new site mimics the organization's branding standards.
Traveling Brand
This Charlotte NC business wanted to update its website, making it responsive and also more in line with print collateral. As a collaboration with The Creative Group and Pivot Public Relations, Traveling Brand's new site gives a better online presence to the...
Veterinary Practice
A new concept in pet care opened in fall 2015. This site was designed by a marketing company who asked me to bring it to life.
Mill renovation site
Partnering with a local marketing company, this project involved taking a site design mockup from a graphic designer and developing a responsive website in which it would be easy to make content updates. The challenge was developing a site that matched the designer's...
Lockers Unlimited
Lockers Unlimited, Inc., has been a longstanding client and was in need of a website facelift. The former site, mclocker.com, was originally an attempt by the Charlotte-based locker and storage company to create an online presence for B2B communication. The new site,...
Charlotte construction company
Collaborating with a local boutique firm, this site was a challenge. Literally. The firm's designer handed me the design wireframe and asked, "Can you build this?" The site features a responsive design that detects mobile devices to display a more appropriate home...
Generation Nation
Kids Voting Mecklenburg, a non-profit dedicated to civics and election educational opportunities for youth, recently rebranded as GenerationNation. Its new site, built in ExpressionEngine, features several channels of information, including a Learning Center and news...
Maryland Catholic boys high school
Collaborating with a local boutique firm, I developed the back end and code for this site using wireframes developed by the firm's in-house designer. The site includes quite a few custom-built developments, including a responsive, highly visual home page. The site has...
Chicken Fountain
The Chicken Fountain's first website was a do-it-yourself program from a popular website hosting company. The Davidson, NC, company wasn't happy with the look, and enlisted my help to make their site "pop" and appeal to the backyard chicken enthusiast. Keeping costs...
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