BNI Synergy Network New WordPress Website

BNI needed a new website and needed it quickly and at minimal expense. As with all the sites listed here, Artisteer made website building process quick and efficient.

The new site can handle as many pages as they want, can be updated themselves, is good for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and if they get tired of this look they find free themes or pay for themes if they wish.

You don’t have to spend a lot of money for a great website. Contact me (Glen) at Sweet Thursday Web Development if you have any questions (619.589.0341).

Great Hands 4 U Old Website

David Neff is a massage therapist. He’s had his site, GreatHands4U.com for quite awhile. It was built with tables and the design of the site was outdated. However, like a lot of people in this economy David didn’t have a lot to spend. Once again Artisteer, WordPress and Sweet Thursday Web Development make the perfect solution.

Great Hands 4 U New Website

David’s old design was revamped quickly and efficiently with Artisteer, but more important than that, the underlying code is suitable for search engines and if David wants to add his own pages or blog consistently, WordPress will automatically add the appropriate tags for search engines or if David wants he can add his own customized meta tags.

The site incorporates WordPress plugins for: SEO, Twitter, Google Sitemap, Spam and Forms. Another great site for a very reasonable price.

Old Website

Alan’s Music Center has been around for a long time…since 1954. They sell and rent instruments, repair instruments, provide music lessons, sell sheet music and much more in the La Mesa / San Diego area.

Their website has been up for a long time and like a lot of websites it was adequate when it first launched. The internet, however, marches on at an alarming pace and what was adequate 10 years ago is not so today.

The new site will be an informational site only, but they still wanted the ability to list instruments and prices and they want to be able to blog regularly. WordPress, once again, is the perfect answer. The site was built quickly using Artisteer and then I added a page to handle photo gallery pictures which will be used as product pages for instruments.

The Development Site Ready for Content

I spent an hour with Alan’s Music Owners Jan, Alan and Bob showing them how to use the very intuitive WordPress administrative area. The site is basically complete, all that is left now is for Alan’s Music to add their content and when that’s complete, I’ll launch the site.

I purchased inexpensive, professional images for much of the site and Alan’s music will be able to obtain many more professional images from their suppliers.

The new website is clean and SEO ready with a full Content Management System. All this at a price they can easily live with.

Sweet!

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.

Even though this is basic, it has, like all these sites WordPress sites I build, the capability to add as many pages as she needs and the ability to blog on a regular basis. And Basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is handled for you with the ability to take it to the next level if you want.

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.

I also added a great SEO plugin, a tinymce plugin that enhances the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress and a spam plugin. In addition I changed a few formatting things that we decided we didn’t like in the Artisteer version.

With his new site Pastor Dave Rhone can blog, add as many pages as he wants, upload images, pdf files and generally create a presence on the web.

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.

HISTORYK12 Website

SCIENCEK12 Website

MATHEMATICSK12 Website

LITERATUREK12 Website

These sites are a great example of customizing WordPress to do what you need. That’s where I come in. I’ll let you know what can be done, if there’s a plugin for it and/or how much time it will take me to implement your needs if WordPress can’t handle it out-of-the-box. Sweet!

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.

The process for creating the design used Sweet Thursday’s  WordPress theme “Dark Two” as a starting point. This was then tweaked in Artisteer, uploaded to the site and then the theme files were further tweaked. Two plugins were added and activated: one for Search Engine Optimization and the other for a Contact form.

Once I had the site up and running I spoke with ASAP owner, Vince Badovinatz, on the phone. I gave him a quick run through on how to use WordPress and we also tweaked some things that he wanted changed. I also added a template page for an area of the site that needed some special coding.

Vince now has the ability to add as many new pages as he desires, upload images, blog about new jobs he’s on or has completed and if this design loses its appeal for him in the future, he can change it with the click of button. Sweet!

Temporary Site

Completed WordPress Site

The Task

What we wanted to do was create, as quickly as possible, 4 related websites each of which would house a home page with the Amazon.com astore, a couple of other pages (about, contact, etc) and a blogging area. WordPress and Artisteer was the perfect solution.

By using Artisteer we created one template as our overall layout design. Then we tweaked each of these templates to match the theme color of the academic subject. WordPress is very versatile so I created a WordPress Template page for the astore as this needed a completely different layout.

The basic structure of these sites was completed in about a day. Once all the books are loaded into the astore via Amazon.com’s administrative area, the sites will be ready to go live.

This project went a little beyond the structure of One Day Websites, but the basic idea is still there: need a quality, quickly designed, inexpensive website? This is the ticket.

Check back in the next couple of weeks (when the sites go live) for links and images of the 4 new WordPress websites.