New Web Design for Austin Painter Jennifer Balkan
Redesigning Austin artist Jennifer Balkan’s website into a WordPress website with a filmstrip-style image gallery. Continue reading
Using Featured Images in WordPress Websites
Code fixes for the Featured Image and Post Thumbnail functions in Artisteer themes for WordPress.
When WordPress came out with version 2.9 in the fall of 2010, one of the best things they added was the Post Thumbnail for featured images.
For art sites, this was something of a Godsend. Continue reading
Redesigning My Art Site Yet Again!
I have been moving toward more subdued colors in website designs (especially for artists!), and I think even my colorful work might look better against a more neutral background than before. Soooooooooooo, I redesigned my fine art site one more time. Luckily, this redesign only took me a week, while the structural and visual redesign from last fall took about a month. Continue reading
New WordPress Website Tells a Story from WWII
I’ve just created a very simple design for a WordPress website for a friend of mine. I created the design and set up a WordPress site that will handle “siders”* for my friend Tim. He will be adding all the content himself. I am training him long-distance by phone. Continue reading
New Design for Small Wonders Blog at Blogger
I’ve redesigned the theme for my Small Wonders art blog. This one is a little wider and more closely matches my fine art website. There’s not much more to it than that, but please check it out at: Small Wonders. Continue reading
New Website for Local Artist Marilyn Rea Nasky
Today we are launching the redesign of local painter Marilyn Rea Nasky’s website. Her new site is done in WordPress, thus allowing her to do some or all of her own updates. Visit her new site at lightwithinstudios.com: Marilyn Rea Nasky, Light Within Studios. Continue reading
Redesigning my Decor Site for WordPress
I recently redesigned my decor website into a WordPress site with a blog, which I am using to document some of the trials and tribulations and joys of undergoing a house remodeling project. Continue reading
New Design for New Art Blog – Small Wonders
I’ve just designed a new theme for a new Blogger blog I created for the purpose of selling my small art. Continue reading
Designing Your Own Theme for WordPress, part II
Wherein artist as designer begins to wish she were doing something else instead of geeking it up trying to figure out her template coding issues. Continue reading
Designing Your Own Theme for WordPress, part I
An experienced web designer’s story about designing her first WordPress theme templates, part I. Continue reading
Yet Another Redesign of My Art Site
I have just finished yet another redesign of my art website! The new design is a slight refinement of the previous visual design (with which I’ve been pretty happy for awhile), but more importantly, it represents a major underlying structural change. Continue reading →