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I wish I could vote for Frank Kern but I can’t so I did the next best thing: I designed and built his website.
I recently had the pleasure of designing the new website for the first annual The Urban Birding Festival, an event built to bring together birding experts, enthusiasts, and curious new birders eager to connect with birds in their natural habitats in the Chicago area.
Squarespace recently launched a new AT content creation tool. It’s still a toy, fun to play with but not to be used seriously, yet.
A new website for award-winning Ojibwa author and speaker Kim Sigafus was a great opportunity to provide a lively website for all of her many talents.
I recently launched a new website for the Illinois Orchid Society on Squarespace and it was a great opportunity to use many of Squarespace’s new offerings, including saved sections, e-commerce, and AI-generated content for mock-ups - plus old favorites such as summary blocks where you can display content in multiple automated formats. Plus a fun error page.
Quiet Souls is a Native-American owned store that sells many unique, interesting products, and it's more than a store, it’s a community where artists can sell their work, and events where people can learn more about Native American culture. The new website helps expand their client base and spread the word on this unique business.
Designing your website can be fun and creative, using colors, images and fonts to share your story. But it can also be scary and intimidating and overwhelming - so many decisions!
As a bird lover, it’s especially fun to design a new website about birds, like this recent one for Audubon Council of Illinois and Bird City Illinois.
There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing a domain name for your new website. If you have a new business or organization, this guide will help you consider all of the important factors to choose the best domain.
Choosing the best website platform is a daunting task - there are so many good choices! Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, Wordpress? And a few bad choices to avoid. This post gives an overview of the top platforms including links with detailed reviews.
You know you need a new site - there are all kinds of reasons for creative entrepreneurs and small businesses to build a website or update an existing site, but before you begin designing, it’s important to identify YOUR specific goals in building a new site.
Like it or not, Facebook is a necessity for small businesses. Building a Facebook page is free and fairly simple - but it’s not intuitive - this guide will help you build a simple page so your business will be available for referrals.
What exactly is involved in making a new website? Whether you decide to DIY or hire a professional, this post takes you through an overview of the 7 essential steps required to build and launch a new website.
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Pinterest, Yelp, Snapchat, Youtube, Linkedin - what are they and what do they do?
An artist's website is often the first and only introduction to their work. Every serious artist should have a website, now more than ever.
Minimal, marketing, just different - here are 7 beautiful artists’ websites to inspire you.
It’s hard to find great artists websites, and there’s a few reasons, I think. First, many artists focus so much on their art that they forget to update their websites.
Putting together a website is like a puzzle - so many pieces! And each piece is important to communicate to your audience about what you do and how well you do it.
Wordpress, Wix, Weebly, Squarespace - how do you choose the web site platform that’s best for you?