Full redesign of Steampunk Family, a WordPress based site chronicling one family’s journey into steampunk, including projects and original fiction.

Spellbound Project Activities:

• Creation of wireframes of desired changes to interface.
• Refine site IA to improve navigation while not requiring modifications to existing posts and categories.
• Identification of short list of possible themes, recommendation of Caltropis theme to support desired functionality.
• Installation and configuration of Caltropis theme and all supporting images.
• Selection and installation of assorted plugins, including Flickr based sidebar slideshow.

Clean and simple business site for Dr. Marie Brown, an internist practicing in Oak Park, IL.

Launched in July of 2010, I worked closely with Dr. Brown to select and customize an appropriate WordPress Theme. The goal of the site is to provide basic information about Dr. Brown and her practice. Information includes a bio of Dr. Brown, hours of operation, directions, and reference materials for new and current patients.

Spellbound Project Activities:

• Installed WordPress and supporting plugins
• Provided a number of Worpdress theme options to client
• Customized Notepad theme, modifying it to display only pages rather than blog posts

The Looney Labs Fan Club is a Ning based online community for fans of Looney Labs games. Launched in December of 2010, I worked closely with the individual responsible for launching the community and provided the following support:

• Researched and recommended possible community platforms.
• Assisted in customization of Ning platform. Example: changed ‘blog posts’ into ‘event reports’.
• Refined IA with community founder
• Drafted Community Guidelines
• Brainstormed organization of Groups and Forums

Wook Woodworking.com is the portfolio website for a pair of independent woodworkers based in Massachusetts. The challenge of this site was to create a simple enough HTML based site to which the artists could add additional images over time. Collaborated with client-artists to fine tune design and incorporate lightbox feature as seen on accessories page.

CSectionRecovery.com is a resource for women recovering from cesearan sections. I created this website in 2004, updating it over the years to bring it to the state it is in today. This website is consistently returned at the top of search engine result pages (SERPs) for searches related to c-section and c-section recovery.

Website Statistics:

• between 400 and 600 unique visitors a day
• 2009: 170,000+ visitors and 380,000 page views

MarcySeminoff.com is the website for Marcy Seminoff, LCSW.

Spellbound Project Activities:

• Website Design & IA
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO): tuning of home page text, title and description to improve ranking within searches for therapists located in Media, PA and nearby areas.

Discovery News launched in November of 2009. My last major project at Discovery Communications, I contributed the following to this site:

• Information Architecture: Creation of 3,500 tag vocabulary. Tags are used to generate ‘You Might Also Like’ recommendations for articles (example: article page) as well as to generate dynamic collections of content (example: Tyrannosaurus )
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Topic titles and descriptions, recommendations for improved anchor text, SEO research for new terms added to tag vocabulary

Books For Ears is an audio book review website built on the WordPress platform.

Spellbound Project Activities:

• Authoring reviews of audio books
• WordPress installation and maintenance
• Customization of theme to improve suit design and SEO goals
• Category names optimized for SEO
• Recently upgraded theme to customized version of  WPShower’s Paragrams.

CaseyFeldmanMemories.org is a website dedicated to capturing and preserving memories about Casey Feldman. Casey died July 17, 2009 at the Atlantic City Medical Center from injuries sustained when she was struck by a van in Ocean City, N.J.

The site is built on the Omeka open source platform and integrates Intense Debate to support comments.

Steampunk Family is a WordPress based site chronicling one family’s journey into steampunk, including projects and original fiction.

Spellbound Project Activities:

• WordPress installation and maintenance
• Customization of Sliding Door theme to improve both SEO and modify layout based on client requests
• WordPress training for content authors
• Register site with Feedburner and Google Analytics to support advanced analysis of traffic and visitors