small business clients - Quaker Ranter

Catherine Lockwood MFT

Martin Kelley — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:53:03 +0000

Catherine Lockwood is a therapist in the Los Angeles area who had built a site in the since-discontinued Google Page Creator service. It had a nice design but she could never get her domain pointing to it and she was frustrated that Google had closed the service. She wrote me saying “I would like to have a website address that WORKS. I have never been able to give anyone my address because apparently the address is not connected to my website. So instead I have to tell people to google me!”

We rebuilt Catherine’s site using the ever-trusty WordPress. The colors and content were brought over into a fairly standard design. And now Catherine can print CatherineLockwoodMFT.com on her business cards!

DiMeo Blueberry Farms & Nursery

Martin Kelley — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:23:01 +0000

The DiMeo family owns and operates several of the largest blueberry farms in the world, right here in the “blueberry capital of the world”: Hammonton, New Jersey. They have an existing website that is hand-edited. We created a second site using WordPress.
On launch it has much of the same content as the other site, but arranged into posts and categorized and tagged for search engine visibility. It also highlights the DiMeo Blueberry Farms’ Facebook, Twitter and Youtube outlets. I’ll be interested to see how it gets picked up by search engines and how visitors start to use it

Visit site: DiMeo Blueberry Farms

See also: DiMeo Blueberry Farms on Merchant Circle, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.

Bradley J Winkler LLC

Martin Kelley — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:47:04 +0000

In early December 2009, I got a call from a prospective client who wanted me to build a website for her husband’s home improvement business. The catch? She wanted it to be a surprise Christmas present! She started collecting pictures from his clients and I went to work with a simple but expandable WordPress site. Reports are that Brad was thrilled!
See it live: http://www.bradleywinkler.com/

Mike’s Precision Carpentry

Martin Kelley — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:51:57 +0000

Michael Oliveras is a long-time union carpenter making the entrepreneurial jump and starting his own business: Mike’s Precision Carpentry, serving the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware from his shop in Hammonton, NJ. He came to me looking for a webpage to advertise his new enterprise.
It’s a simple design, a typical small-business site of half-a-dozen pages. The color scheme matches his business cards for a bit of branding. Oliveras faced a problem typical for new businesses: a lack of good photos. The work he’s done for many years is not technically his own (per the employment contracts) so for now the pictures are a mix of the few jobs he has done on his own and a few stock images. I’m sure he’ll have a well-rounded portfolio before long and we’ll be able to fill out the site with his own work. In the meantimes, he added a couple of great pictures of him and his family on the “About Us” page to give it that personal touch.
See it live: www.mikesprecisioncarpentry.com

Elisabeth Olver, Artist & Painter

Martin Kelley — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:24:11 +0000

Elisabeth is a painter and artist who specializes in original acrylic paintings and giclee prints of nature and South Jersey beach scenes. Her existing site was attractive, but it didn’t have online ordering and she wasn’t able to update it herself.

We put together a features list and then went through a round of concept screenshots which I built in Adobe Fireworks and Photoshop (you can see our work here!). Design in hand, I built a customized Movable Type site. A specialized template allows her to enter information about the each piece: medium, theme, price and the URL to it’s image (most of which are hosted on Flickr). Movable Type pulls these together into various category and individual art pages, with automatically-generated Paypal “Buy” buttons for available pieces. We stressed search-engine visibility so there are many categories and they all cross-link with each painting.

Visit: Elisabeth Olver

Cleaning Services Guide, E‑Book

Martin Kelley — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:54:41 +0000

A local client from Tabernacle in Burlington County came to me with an interesting project. He’s owned a commercial cleaning company for a number of years and has heard his share of horror stories about the cleaning services clients hired before finding him! This experience led him to write a PDF e‑book about how to hire the right cleaning service. What a great idea and a what a useful book this is for small business owners.

The site’s on a bit of a budget so it’s a simple design, with colors and general look-and-feel borrowed from a site the client likes. Simple editing comes via CushyCMS. When customers click to buy, they are sent to Paypal for the actual transaction and then forwarded to E‑Junkie, which provides the automated and integrated PDF download.

Visit the site: Office Manager’s Guide to Hiring the Best Cleaning Service

Ginny Christensen, Educational Consultant

Martin Kelley — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:09:49 +0000

Ginny Christensen is the force behind Strategy for Growth, LLC, a Wyncote, PA consulting firm that provides strategic planning, board development, executive coaching, and leadership team development for independent schools and nonprofits. The site is fairly simple. It’s built in WordPress and has rudimentary e‑commerce with a Paypal option for purchasing books.

Visit: StrategyForGrowth.com

Kindley Law

Martin Kelley — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:06:20 +0000

John Kindley is a lawyer in a solo practice in South Bend, Indiana. He came to me wanting a web design make-over for his self-designed WordPress site, along with some SEO advice and help with a form. John’s a bit of a tinkerer so he’s already moved on to a new design!

Visit: Kindley Law in South Bend Indiana

Client Testimonial:

“Martin provided great value in designing a website for my law
practice. He was accessible and facilitated the process, despite our
geographical distance, through email and telephone consultations. He
was flexible in working with me to achieve what I was looking for
within my budget.” May 1, 2009

John Kindley, Lawyer.
Hired Martin as a Graphic/Web Designer in 2008
Top qualities: Personable, Good Value, High Integrity