I will admit to being a little nervous, I had never worked with someone quite so famous before, and I wasn’t sure what that would look like. It turns out that what it looks like is a grounded and considerate co-creative process, a team of kind and talented people, a perspective of honesty, generosity and mindfulness, and a woman at the center of the project who walks-her-(world renowned)-talk.

I worked with joy, stretched my skillset and creative boundaries, learned and taught a lot, laughed a lot, and contributed to the birthing of a wondrous new online presence that my client and her team are ecstatically happy with…what a wonderful experience!!

The nitty-gritty:

• SARK + Team came to me with an existing but unfinished WordPress website design.
• They were looking for someone to:
• polish the website mock-up and bring it up to SARK’s level of fun, creativity, integrity and personality
• build the new WordPress website from scratch
• get the support team members up and running with training on managing site updates and maintenance.
• We worked as a core team of 5, with some other contributing team members joining in at various points along the way.

Project Feedback:

Lisa~ Thank you for the LOVE you put into the new website! You made it come to life, and we so appreciate you! Susan, Dori, and the Planet SARK Team

Check it out!

View the original website mock-up »

View the finished website design »

View the live WordPress website at PlanetSARK.com »

This is a very brief overview of the WordPress website design project Amy and I completed recently.

Amy was getting ready to launch her first published book and wanted a WordPress website that combined the professionalism of a bestselling author and a warm and welcoming landing place for her viewers.

We took the initial site comp that Amy had from another designer and made fairly extensive revisions (see initial and revised comps below). The final result is a bright, beautiful, professional, communicative website that is extremely functional and easy to navigate.

Amy’s video testimonial about working with me »

See Amy’s live website »

Original site design comp (from another designer)

Revised design comp

Big huge heartfelt thanks to Amy for her generosity of spirit, and for being a fantastic woman to work with! Clients like her make working feel more like creative playtime.

View Video Testimonial »

My heartfelt thanks to Marion for her willingness to be a fully present co-creator as we revamped the look of her site!

Marion’s previous site template wasn’t quite communicating the spirit of what Marion has to offer, there was a definite disconnect between her energy and the energy of the site. We had a great time incorporating her muse, her favorite pieces of artwork, and the playful photos of her (after a backyard photo shoot she undertook at my request) into the new site design.

All of this creativity, playfulness and communication resulted in a site that Marion loves and feels connected to, and that I am incredibly proud of!!!

See Marion’s live site »

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Here is the rough outline of the elements involved:

1. Product Landing Page – Add a new page to your site. This is where you’ll drive traffic re: the product.
2. Thank You Page – Add a new page which is where people will be redirected after they have purchased/signed-up for the product.
3. New Product – Add a new product in 1SC. You’ll need to know product title, description, price, payment options, etc.
4. Sign-up Form – Generate form code for the product you’ve just created. Add this form code to the HTML section of the new product landing page you’ve created. This is how people will purchase/sign-up and get to the checkout/shopping cart.
5. Autoresponder – Create a new mailing list/autoresponder in 1SC. This is how you’ll track who has purchased/signed-up for the product.
6. Autoresponder Email – Create a new message attached to the above mentioned autoresponder. This email will go out after purchase/sign-up and should include any instructions or product URLs.

Qualifications for being on this list do not include cinematography greatness, brilliance of script, or any other such indicators of movie quality. Rather, they are the movies that touch me the most, make me laugh the hardest and comfort me in the telling and re-telling of their stories.

• All of the Harry Potter movies – I’ve actually even worn out a DVD or two in this series
• Evil Under the Sun – lovely, hilarious…and music by Cole Porter
• Moonstruck
• Bull Durham
• Rock n Rolla – effin’ brilliant
• The Long Kiss Goodnight – “ham and rye” anyone?! The only movie in which I like Samuel L. Jackson.
• Ocean’s 11
• Indiana Jones series
• The Thin Man series
• G.I. Jane
• Grosse Pointe Blank – OMG. I couldn’t possibly love it any more.

• WordPress.org – Home of the wonderful goodness that is WordPress, check out their site for documentation, tutorials and best practices.
• Remarkablogger – Blogging expert extraordinaire (plus, he’s funny on Twitter).
• Chuck Reynolds – Super techie WordPress expert and SEO ninja.
• Wendy Cholbi – Don’t like reading step-by-step guides like my DIY WordPress Guides?! Dive into one of Wendy’s “WordPress Swimming Lessons” teleclasses.
• Yoast (aka Joost de Valk) – Web developer, SEO and online marketer, the Yoast website is a treasure trove of WordPress and SEO information.