Last week I launched a redesign of this site. I started developing it in late November, and wanted to revamp the site completely from design to content. I got some feedback from my students during one class when we were talking about the importance of a small business’ website, and I wanted to integrate that, as well as some of the new things I learned over the last two years. I’m planning on making this a multipart series, and in today’s installment, I want to talk about the most important part of a website: The Homepage.

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I’ve added a new website to the portfolio! Jenlis needed a full e-commerce site for their new product, HOPR. I took their design (a supplied Photoshop file), made it a WordPress friendly theme, and used WP-Ecommerce to take care of the catalog, shopping cart, and payments using both Authorize.Net and Paypal. Visit the site.

Last week, Manifest Development launched a new website- The Caitlin M. Hammaren Foundation. The foundation had a pre-existing website that they wanted to convert to a content management system (CMS) to make it easier for them to update themselves. Manifest Development converted the site to WordPress and organized the site to make it easier for visitors to find information.

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Yesterday, I launched my most recent project, LadderWrap. LadderWrap came to me with the need for a simple website that showcased the many uses of their product, provided the ability to contact them, and of course, allowed people to purchase the product.

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Brittain and Matt of I Love My Bike Book wanted a website to help promote the book, their tour, and add some photos of people who follow the mantra stated in the title. As with most of the solutions offered here at Manifest Development, I used WordPress to give them a quick, easy to use, and easy to update site.

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The latest edition to my portfolio (and last one of 2009!) is Holy Shepherd Church. I was approached by designer Lena Mulenburg to convert her Photoshop design into a CMS friendly website. She provided me with a mind map and a single PSD and I set out to make it a fully functional WordPress driven website.

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I’ve added a new site to my portfolio: Wallkill Body Shop. They are a mom and pop body shop located in Wallkill, NY  and run by Carole Ann and Mike Paquette. They came to me looking for a clean, informative site that they’ll be able to keep up to date and easy to use.

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I just took some time and updated some of the content here at Manifest Development. Not a lot has changed, but I rearranged the blog a bit as well as the services page, and created a new, more in-depth section for the WordPress Services I offer here at Manifest Development.

If you notice anything wrong, please contact me. Thanks!

Recently I had the good fortune of working with Brian Kaufmann at Tipping Media, who contracted me to do the programming end of the website for a program called 50 Ways 5o Days. My job was to convert Tipping Media’s design to a WordPress theme, write two custom plugins, and integrate Facebook Connect. Overall, this was a really fun project to work on- I got to do some pretty cool stuff.

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I hadn’t realized it, but next month will be 2 and a half years since my last blog redesign, which is considerably longer than my previous time between designs; I was young and impressionable and didn’t know what I wanted. But now something is different. My needs in 2007 were different than my needs now. Then, this was just a place for blog entries (and the occasional trying out a new web dev trick). Now information sharing has increased 10 fold. I have shared thoughts and links on Facebook, Google Reader, Twitter, and here. The new design needs to reflect that, especially since my day-to-day blogging has decreased with the advent of Twitter. I present to you: Info Overload.

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