The Wolseley Wardrobe is a fine-yarn and consignment store. They had no online presence, so they needed a website that would help them showcase the two very different aspects of the store.

Yarn Catalog

With Textpattern, I created an easy to update website, as colourful as the store itself. The consignment area offers general information about what they offer, what they need, and the art sold at the store. The fine-yarn area offers the more advanced features on the site:

• A yarn catalogue that allows people to search yarns by name, weight, fibre content, etc. , and order the results by name, date added, price and weight
• A calendar of events & classes

Event Calendar

Digital Learning is a consulting company that specializes in providing on line learning solutions. They needed a new corporate image to set them apart from the competition, and give them a more professional look.

Unlike most of my clients, the people at Digital Learning are coding experts. They knew how to code their site, but they needed me to design their logo, business cards, stationary, and website.

Custom Logo Design

Using Dreamweaver, I created a template that they used as a base for all their pages.

I need a place where I can post all my knitting and crochet musings. I ended up with much more: a bilingual site with tutorials, patterns (for sale and free), and my musings.

Sidebar Tools

I used WordPress to create a blog in both English and Spanish. Some of the features of this site include:

• Project gallery using the Ravelry API and SmoothGallery
• Custom theme
• Pattern catalogue integrated with PayPal to accept payments
• Text resizing for accessibility
• Article sharing via Email and social network sites
• RSS feeds and email newsletter for new content notifications
• Google Ads integration

Pattern for Sale

Swiss Hospitality Training is a global educational firm that offers a broad range of premium quality training and consulting services.

They had a site set up and running in Joomla, but they didn’t quite like its design. I redesigned the existing theme to meet my clients’ expectations.

My client wanted a simple blog to increase his personal brand awareness as a hospitality and marketing educator.

He liked the format and layout of an existing theme (Connections), but he wanted to have softer, calmer design, and a custom header graphic.

Original Connections Theme

By using an existing theme as a base, I was able to create a theme much faster, and cheaper than if I had started from scratch.

I also integrated social networking into the theme, via links at the top of the sidebar to the client’s profiles, and with bookmark links at the bottom of every article.