My Organizer in Muskoka
Jul 27
My Organizer in Muskoka
Julie Hammond of My Organizer in Muskoka needed a website that would bring her professional image to a whole new level. After a showing Julie a few design variations and colour schemes, we finally nailed it.
BMLSS Music
Jul 27
Click here to visit BMLSS Music
A few years after graduating high school, I was approached by my former music teacher, Jackie Mitchell, to develop a site for her music program. She needed to be able to edit the site herself, and I immediately knew that setting up the site to use WordPress would be an ideal platform.
The design definitely had to have a music theme, since I knew the target audience would be creative types.
One of the most interesting ways Jackie uses the site is for communicating with her students’ parents while they away on music-related trips. She also uses the site to post materials for assignments, and showcase her students’ talent.
I had a lot of fun creating this design, and am proud to be featuring it in my portfolio. Click here to visit.
“Having worked with Joel in our band, I knew he was very adept and creative on the computer and a pleasure to work with. His calm disposition and good work ethic makes the sharing of ideas invigorating. Although I had some clear thoughts on what I wanted for the web site, I knew Joel would create all the difficult added touches and design elements that make a site appealing and effortless to use.
Training parents and students to access the site for information took some repetition. The students and parents now know to look at our ‘blog’ for information regarding changes to our weekly rehearsal or annual trip (due to blizzards, conflicts), in addition to fundraising events and performance details. It has been an added communication asset between the school’s instrumental music program and families. Using it as a daily journal when we traveled to Europe with the band, for a 10-day performance tour, was wonderful for the parents and friends back home–especially when I delegated the task to a couple of students. I also appreciate receiving the monthly analytics to see how often the site is accessed.”
– Jackie Mitchell, Music Director
(Bracebridge & Muskoka Lakelands Secondary School, [BMLSS])
Appraise Muskoka
Jul 27
Click here to visit Jennifer Sebele’s Appraise Muskoka
A few years after I launched Jennifer’s first Appraise Muskoka site, Jennifer approached me to work on a new design. Her business had changed, and rather than just featuring her Appraising services, it was important that we also highlighted her Real Estate and Property Management businesses.
To show visually that she has a three-part business, I used three drop down menus underneath the header. When you move your mouse over one of the items, a sub menu drops down with more pages.
Because I built the site on the WordPress platform, Jennifer has the ability to edit the text on her pages herself. She can even add new pages that will automatically appear in their respective drop down menu. I’m very excited to be able to develop sites in such a dynamic way. As web design technique get better and better, my clients benefit.
Here’s what Jennifer had to say about working with me:
1871 At The Locks
Jul 27
Click here to visit 1871 At The Locks
This was a different site to do, because I was working with mostly a monochrome colour palette (or lack thereof!). The overall design concept was provided by Jenn O’Brien (from Royal LePage Lakes of Muskoka), and I turned it into a functioning website.
Sage Industries
Jul 26
Click here to visit SageIndustries.ca
As with all my sites, this was set up to use WordPress, so that the owner can update the site himself.
