Sweet Thursday Web Development: Wordpress Web Sites

In addition to her educational sites, Kristin Draeger had the domain name: kristindraeger.com. She wanted to use this as a kind of portfolio site for her websites, books and anything else she may get her hands into in the future.

Kristin’s website, like all the sites here, including the one you are now on, was created with Artisteer, WordPress and my expertise when needed. Kristin wanted a basic site. This site is good for SEO with links to both her websites and books and pages about each. She has two more books that she plans to publish soon and these can easily be added to her books page. read more »

The Master’s Plan Church needed a nice looking website with the ability to expand and a CMS system included. WordPress and Artisteer were the perfect solution.

Working with Canopy Marketing Principal Kim Jones we modeled the site after a PDF marketing file. Within hours we had a working web site. While Kim added content, I made tweaks to the site: CSS changes to the overall layout and some very specific CSS for a home page image. read more »

As noted in a previous blog, ARTK12 needed 4 new websites, needed them quickly and needed them to have a similar look and feel and needed them to be WordPress sites. By using Artisteer this process was streamlined and all four sites were completed in about a day (not including the task of entering books into Amazon’s astores).

The four sites: SCIENCEK12, LITERATUREK12, MATHEMATICSK12 and HISTORYK12 all incorporate WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System). Each site has blogging capabilities and the ability to add as many pages as necessary. The home page was specially programmed to handle Amazon’s astore and each site is loaded with a SEO plugin. read more »

Original Yahoo Site

ASAP Concrete Delivery is an independently owned and operated concrete delivery service. The task was to take their old site, redesign it and make it a WordPress site with a full CMS and blog.

The first thing we did was dump ASAP’s self-built Yahoo site. I moved the site to a new server and put up a very quick temporary site before proceeding. read more »

ARTK12 is a website that features “Art History Curriculum Disguised as Fun.” The site sells books and projects. Site owner Kristin Draeger has had 4 other domain names for various other academic subjects that have been collecting dust for the last couple of years. Her plan for these domains is to list the books she has used while educating her son both for informational purposes for other homeschooling parents and also to make a little extra money through Amazon.com’s astore feature. read more »

There are times when you need to pay a fair amount of money for a web site. Maybe you own a large company, maybe you need highly customized design or programming or maybe you’re looking for an ecommerce website.

But there are times when you shouldn’t. Let’s face it, sometimes you just can’t spend the money. Maybe you’re a struggling small business, maybe it’s just a hobby web site or maybe it’s just not feasible for your budget. read more »