Rob is a professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU. He wanted a more polished web presence than what was provided by the university. Again the focus here was on content - a place to list Rob's CV, classes taught, and publications - and it was important for the look and feel to not detract from the site's purpose.

We also created a TypePad blog with a similar look and feel, where Rob could write about his area of expertise, corporate strategy.

This was truly an extreme site makeover for a Manhattan boutique law firm specializing in small business; we completely changed the look and feel of the site, while moving it over to the Squarespace platform and adding a blog and other CMS functionality. Firm partner Nina Kaufman worked with a copywriter to overhaul the content as well.

The end result was an elegant, understated look with the emphasis on content (as it should be). It's definitely one of my favorites, with the use of white space and the splash of color - and my favorite color at that.

The Life's Work Group site was developed in parallel with iMilitaryCoach.com.

The focus in this area of his business is "coaching and consulting to corporate leaders and entrepreneurs in professional and personal transition."

It also serves as a sort of umbrella for all of Matthew's endeavors, as evidenced by the portal page I created to provide a central point of access.

In addition to the portal and the hybrid site-blog, I also created a virtual cover for his upcoming book project, and an ezine template (header banner shown below).

iMilitaryCoach.com was part of a series of sites I developed with Matthew for his wide-ranging coaching business. This particular niche "provides guidance and practical tools to service members in transition from the military to the business world."

Once again, Squarespace provided the perfect platform. This blog/hybrid site works well on its own, as well as in conjunction with Matthew's other sites.

In addition to the imilitarycoach.com site, I also created a virtual cover for his upcoming book project, and an ezine template (header banner shown below).

I developed an advanced TypePad blog template for Kay Cannon, the current president of the ICF.

Once it is formally launched, this will actually be two almost-identical sites, with the second being a members-only site.

Laura has a number of new projects on the horizon, so this was the ideal time to finally put together a portal page to create a central launching pad for her different sites.

We had already established a fairly coherent look and feel across several previous projects, so for this it was a matter of making the portal a perfect reflection of current and future "joyful" initiatives without each item simply repeating the one before it.

The City of Seattle was launching a new site at SeattleCenter.com, to mark the mayor's Century 21 Committee for future of Seattle Center, but they needed some help integrating their new site's design with a TypePad blog.

That's where I came in...I took the look and feel that had already been developed for the new site and made it work within TypePad. CenterBlog is now integrated with the rest of the site, and it serves as a new way for residents to ask questions, pitch ideas and learn the latest news about this important gathering place in the heart of Seattle.

Author L.Y. Marlow approached me several months before she actually needed my services, because she really wanted to work with me. That's pretty darn flattering!

When we were finally ready to work together, I developed a web presence (a hybrid blog-site) for her upcoming book, Color Me Butterfly (to be published March 2007). The resulting site is both flexible and aesthetically pleasing. I honestly have to say it's one of the prettiest sites I've ever developed!

Rick Amato hosts The Rick Amato Show, a weekly radio show in San Diego County, where he covers "real people, real issues, in real time."

Rick had initially launched his blog earlier in 2006 with TypePad, but sometime in the summer the site was relaunced on a Joomla platform. Rick immediately realized that was a big mistake, as he was unable to make many of the changes he was able to easily make with TypePad.

When he contacted me, he was ready to move back to TypePad, but with a more polished look and feel than he had started out with there. This is another great example of using TypePad's advanced templates to create a blog-hybrid site. While some of the ease-of-use of TypePad is lost when that switch is made, the end result is a much more custom web presence.

This was a challenging project - I was unable to find a way to port his entries from Joomla into to TypePad, so it was a lot of heavy lifting on my part that I didn't anticipate. I also had no experience with Joomla when I started.

The amazing Glenda Watson Hyatt won the Mega Marketing Makeover earlier this year. My part of the prize package was to set up a blog to support her upcoming (now recently published!) book, I'll Do It Myself: A Collection of Memories from a Woman Living with Cerebral Palsy.

This was a definite challenge for me because I had never done a WordPress template before! I seriously considered hiring someone to do it for me, and then I realized I would be missing the point by doing that.

I gave myself a crash course in WordPress (ok, definite trial and error, with an emphasis on the error). I learned from Glenda that WordPress is rated very highly in terms of accessibility, so it was important to keep her blog on that platform.

The look and feel was set by the banner provided by another participant in the contest, so my task was to create the template per Glenda's wishes and set up the blog...and that I did.

Professor James Forest is an Assistant Professor and Director of Terrorism Studies at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Teaching Terror, his own site, is "dedicated to the supporting the study of terrorism and counterterrorism."

Professor Forest had developed his own web presence some years ago, but he realized he needed a more professional look and feel that he could still easily maintain himself. In this case, I developed the template and its HTML, and implemented the Javascript for the sub-navigation.

Bettina Desrochers is an End-of-Life Coach providing support and guidance to those facing the death of a loved one. Her insight is wonderful, and I was happy to work with here bring this wisdom to a wider audience through her blog and a virtual cover for her ebook, Death: Embracing the Journey.

Linda needed a newsletter template to go with her new business venture, NuStar NutRxtion. After a lot of back and forth about the look and feel she wanted to offer to her targeted readers, we finally arrived at a design that was feminine but not too "girly."

After successfully implementing a new ecommerce system last year, I now had the opportunity to update the look and feel of South Tex Organics' web site. The previous site, developed by another web designer, was very dark, and many of the text items were actually graphics...not exactly ideal for building search engine rankings.

I played off the design of a print ad they placed in Texas Monthly magazine - very clean and bright. I put emphasis on a very few pictures of fresh produce, as well as making the content more relevant.

This is different than just about any other site I've done, but I love it. It's perfect for the needs of South Tex Organics and their site visitors.

Anne has a lovely existing web site by another designer, but she now needed a look and feel for her blog for parents of teens.

I took the same colors from her existing web site and created a new look for her TypePad blog. I also helped her out with an explanation of blogs as a reference for her clients and site visitors, most of whom were unfamiliar with the concept of a blog.