Writing, Websites, New Media and More

Web Design

David’s Soundview Catering

DavidsCatering.com Home Page

David’s Soundview Catering is a gourmet catering company in Connecticut that does corporate catering and special events. I redesigned his site in WordPress to feature lots of tasty images, simple navigation, and a blog. The site features a clean design with a nice balance of text and images, as well as a javascript slideshow and custom quote form.

Know Soul’s Language

Know Soul's Language

KnowSoulsLanguage.net is a site for an intuitive healing business. The design is based off the company’s successful Ning site, and I included links to schedule sessions, buy products and services, and learn more about different aspects of the program. I custom-designed a WordPress theme, and added store items from Yahoo! Stores. There is a newsletter sign-up, rotating testimonials, and some video and audio content. I also designed the logo and found the main images.

Urban Essentials 101

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Urban Essentials 101 is a program to help urban school unleash their students’ potential. The site was created the site in WordPress and I designed a custom theme. It features informational pages, a link to buy the Urban Essentials 101 handbook, and rotating testimonials on each page.

DIMWIT

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DIMWIT.com is a site for Inventors to get free inventing information and use the MY DIMWIT self-help application (not yet launched). The coding was done by Kevin Kimani of K3 Design, while I worked on the design elements of the site.

Mom Invented

Mom Invented Home Page

MomInventors.com, the site for Mom Invented, is a magazine-style WordPress site with lots of custom widgets and templates. The theme is built on Mimbo Pro 2, has ad spots throughout the site, encourages a lot of reader interaction and has a custom newsletter for its RSS feed.

Site Features

  • Magazine style home page
  • Reader polls
  • Custom interview submission forms
  • Custom newsletter from the RSS feed
  • Advertising spots
  • Tie-ins to social networking sites
  • Focus on top-level content
  • Encourages lots of reader interaction
  • About Francine

    Francine Kizner

    Francine is a writer, web editor, consultant and designer focusing on bringing great sites to small businesses while teaching business owners about new media and technology. She lives in Los Angeles and paints, draws and takes on other creative pursuits in her spare time... Read More