September 19, 2007 – 9:05 pm
Recently I decided to create an additonal website for my partner Coen, drummer and percussionist. Up till now Coen had his weblog integrated with his main site. Blogging is great by the way to increase customer trust because it’s the place where you can show some more of who you are as opposed to all the sales pitching you do on a sales site…
The reason to split the site in 2 was to allow Coen to post stuff on his blog that isn’t focused only on percussion workshops. He also plays in 2 bands, facilitates drumming classes, plays guitar and writes song. He now feels more comfortable blogging about these other activities as well.
You can find Coen’s new weblog at www.trommel-workshops.nl (opens in a new window).
September 1, 2007 – 8:52 pm
This summer I designed a new website for my friend Elisabeth Kolpa. She needed a site to publish daily channeled messages she receives from Sananda, Mary and Mary Magdalene which are intended to be read by a global audience.
It was a really joyful and uplifting experience to design this site. I dare say I received some guidance as well when choosing the images for the background. Incidentally my design skills reached a new level as well as I simultaneously studied the art of ‘POSH’ - plain old semantic HTML - scripting.
The website is located at www.fromheavens.org and it officially launched today.
August 15, 2007 – 8:57 pm
Ritme op Maat is the company of my partner Coen van Vollenhoven, a percussionist and drummer. He earns money with what he loves doing most: banging those drums!
During the Summer holidays he reviewed his website and asked me to make a couple of changes. Since his webscript needed updating as well and the installed design really was going to break - it kind of hang together on thing threads… - I decided to revamp the looks completely with a design of my own.
I just returned from an inspiring photography week at Buitenkunst and had some cool ideas of how to use pictures of Coen drumming as the background for his new site. This is the result…
http://www.ritmeopmaat.nl
I’m currently working together with an old schoolfriend in offering a website design and search engine optimization (seo) service. Jacques Soudan is the expert on SEO. I provide the graphic design and template scripting.
Of course we needed a cool design for our own website as well. When I told Jacques I had an idea with pictures I took during a steam train ride this Summer with my kids, he seriously questioned if I had it all together properly. However, he was nicely surprised when I showed him the results of an afternoon photoshopping…
See for yourself at: www.sumsera.com
Well, not the magazine itself. But I was given the opportunity to upgrade the outdated website into a modern community site using the Joomla content management script.
Educare Magzine publishes about inspiring new trends in education and child rearing and a new issue comes out 5 times a year. The magazine began as a collection of essays that were copied and stiched together by volunteers. The readers were the authors and editors at the same time. This was almost 25 years ago…
Because of its history many of the Educare readers are very involved with everything that the magazine publishes and eager to discuss this. They also love to get to know other people with similar interests. So this really required a proper community site.
Designing the site was a huge challenge. There was simply so much that had to be included and it’s quite hard to create a site with so much content without it becoming totally overwhelming. Months of evaluation preceded the launch, but I’m proud to announce that the new Educare community has gone live today!
http://www.educare.nl
Cool design detail: the color scheme of the site changes with every new issue to reflect the design work of our print edition graphics designer…
Recently I decided to create an additonal website for my partner Coen, drummer and percussionist. Up till now Coen had his weblog integrated with his main site. Blogging is great by the way to increase customer trust because it’s the place where you can show some more of who you are as opposed to all the sales pitching you do on a sales site…
