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Enlightened vending (here’s their new site) needed a site fast to promote their company that specializes in tasty, healthy snacks. They wanted a site that “POPPED” and a sunny logo that would express warmth and charity since a percentage of the profits from their nutritious snacks goes to good causes.

WordPress is once again the CMS of choice to allow for easy edits and fast search engine indexing. Rather than starting a theme from scratch to save time and money they went for a modified Blixed theme.

They already had hosting and a domain name so they passed me the details and I went ahead and installed the latest version of WordPress, a template and configured several key plug-ins (including a Contact Form script, Akismet anti-spam, & google XML site map creator). Then I went about modifying the colors and other elements.

I also created the graphic elements such as the vending machine “buttons” which should be there until they have their own images to upload. The turnaround for the entire site was just three days. If you want a quality website and need it fast, get in touch and let’s make it happen!

Here are some I designed for a nifty little gadget - a powerful LED flashlight that recharges in your car’s cigarette lighter… If you’re interested in buying a lighter, try lighterlight.com. If you’d like me to design some web ad banners for you in a range of sizes, call me or shoot me an email!

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  • Blue Fin- Logo Design

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    Blue Fin is a new media company that hopes to expand into lots of different areas. They chose the middle logo above out of the options I designed. Logo packages start at $99 depending on the number of revisions and complexity. Get in touch for a free consultation.

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  • Centro Educativo Nueva Era

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    This is a site for a primary school in Guadalajara, Mexico. It’s a (non WordPress) brochure site which provides lots of information about the school for prospective parents and current students alike though it does feature a wordpress news area. There’s a gallery, a center where all the forms parents need are downloadable, has a neat little Flash animation of their logo, has ever-present contact information and shows what a fine educational institution it is.

    The school’s director, Lic. Rosa María Amezcua, was delighted as you’ll read in her original words and my translation below:

    ¡Nuestra Página Web, que recién estrenamos quedó muy, pero muy bien! Nuestros papás encantados, comentan que quedó muy cálida y que expresa lo que somos y lo que hacemos, que les da confianza, seguridad y agrado. Gwyn trabajó con nosotros muy de cerca buscando todo el tiempo que saliera nuestra página como lo habíamos deseado y necesitado; y como somos nuevos en esto de las páginas Web, Gwyn nos tuvo paciencia, echó mano de toda su creatividad y nos acompañó durante todo el trayecto,…tomó fotografí­as, nos escuchó, se involucró y nos explicó más de una vez lo que necesitamos saber para sacarle el mejor provecho a este nuevo medio de comunicación. Estamos encantados con el resultado y queremos más, más de su asesorí­a, de su profesionalismo y de su capacidad de trato personal y minucioso. Todo eso gracias a Gwyn, bien por todo lo que sabe y que puso en nuesrtras manos incondicionalmente, ojalá y otras personas tengan el gusto y la oportunidad de trabajar con él.

    Our recently debuted web site turned out very, very well. The parents love it and have said that it looks very welcoming and expresses who we are and what we do, it inspires confidence, security and friendliness. Gwyn worked with us closely making sure all the time that the site would look how we needed and wanted it to; and since we’re new to the whole Internet thing, Gwyn was patient, used all of his creativity and walked us through the whole journey… he took photos, listened to us, got involved and explained more than once what we needed to know to get the most out of this new media. We are overjoyed with the end result and still want more! More of his advice, professionalism, and meticulous, personal touch. All this is thanks to Gwyn, thanks to his knowledge and because he handed himself over to this project. I hope many other people have the pleasure and chance to work with him.

    I’m blushing now.

    Kevin Fennelly Construction

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    Kevin wanted a site and logo to give his Bay Area construction business a quality web presence. I designed a small (non-wordpress) site with a Flash entrance page, gallery and contact forms and created a classy logo that expresses elegance and hard work.

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