Portfolio Tag: mobile friendly

dutchheritageworldtours.nl

This is the website for a company that offers audio tours in countries with a Dutch heritage, including France, the United Sates, and Poland.

What I Did for This Website:

Using a site design provided by the company itself, I rebuilt their existing website and changed it from HTML to WordPress. I did this to give the company a content management system, making it easier for them to update their site. To this end I created a custom manual for them, which I always offer clients when building a website. Putting all of their initial content online for them to access as needed for their updates presented much of the labor in building this site. It’s also a multilingual site, and these are always a bit more challenging to build than one might expect, but very necessary and ultimately enriching for companies such as this.

Client:

Dutch Heritage World Tours — dutchheritageworldtours.nl

charlie-regina.com

This website I built for my good friends, Charlie Schick and Regina Bartkoff, both of whom are actors and visual artists in New York City. This site was built to showcase their art and facilitate online sales of their work.

What I Did/Do for This Website:

One challenge of building a website like this is for it to have the capacity to feature a lot of images without slowing the whole thing down. So it’s necessary to balance image size with quality. I do the updating of the content as well as the general site maintenance and updates for Charlie and Regina, so I can monitor the functionality of the site for them. For me the major challenge was to give their site design personality without letting it overwhelm the art itself, and we all feel pleased with the result.

The site also features a news page, a page for essays, and a button for donations through Paypal. This was set up during the pandemic to enable people to make donations and to buy artwork remotely rather than from Charlie and Regina directly in their little gallery.

Client:

Charlie Schick and Regina Bartkoff — charlie-regina.com

dorotheealbers.nl

I created this site for the Dutch writer Dorothée Albers. She is the author of the novel Zeemansgraf Voor een kort Verhaal (A Seaman’s Grave for a Short Story) published by Uitgeverij Cossee, and a collection of poems entitled Het Gras van de Donderdag (The Grasses of Thursday) published by Uitgeverij De Muze.

What I Did For This Website:

With her new novel having been translated from Dutch to German, it made sense to create a bilingual website for Dorothée, which I did, leaving open the option to add more languages as the need arises. Because it is a WordPress website, she can easily add to it herself, for posting new books, essays, reviews, or events, any time she likes. I created a custom manual for her to follow, which I always offer to clients when I build a website.

Client:

Dorothée Albers — dorotheealbers.nl

tribalartfair.nl/onlinefair

This site was created because of the Covid-19 Pandemic, which in 2020 replaced the annual in-person art fair, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

What I did for this website:

This project I worked on with a graphic designer named Daniela de Boo. We worked on the site in the months leading up to the launch of the online Tribal Art Fair. Using WordPress, I created a system where every dealer involved with the fair could log in and post photos of the art objects they wanted to list for sale. In essence, I created an online market for more than twenty individual dealers. I made the objects filterable, so that visitors could focus on the origin of the art objects themselves or the art dealers. Each gallery/dealer has their own page on the website where visitors can arrange to purchase objects.

There were two main challenges of working with a site containing many thousands of individual images. The first was to make the site easy to navigate. This I achieved by limiting options, thus keeping the site simple, providing filtering options, and adding an option for visitors to Favorite objects as they browsed. The other challenge was to maintain a fast website, which I achieved by optimizing all the images for speed, and building a custom theme to control loading time.

Client:

Galerie Lemaire — tribalartfair.nl/onlinefair

poetry lab

Particulars:

  • Custom-made educational web application
  • Survey
  • Well-organized educational resources
  • Interactive process of learning

Client:

Special Arts — www.gedichtenlaboratorium.nl

Notes:

This project encourages the writing of poetry for people with intellectual disabilities, both for their enjoyment and for the enhancement of language skills. Through using the methods offered here, individuals acquire skills that allow them to become more confident participants in verbal communication.

The custom-made online component of this project features an interactive version of the steps involved in writing a poem and makes available a significant amount of resources on the subject for attendants, therapists, parents and teachers.

This is a Blindschelders & Raadsman project.

What I did for this website:

In 2021 we decided to reorganize the site to make it more user friendly. With our list of resources continuing to grow, with many new featured projects to display, and a wealth of new articles focused on our subject matter, we needed to make this bounty of information easier to navigate and search through. I used WordPress and a very flexible existing theme to redesign and update the website to accommodate every requirement.

GHF Suriname NL

Particulars:

  • A Dutch website to support the activities of the Green Heritage Fund in Suriname
  • Built with WordPress so it’s easy to manage the content
  • Existing theme
  • Mobile friendly
  • Donation functionality through iDEAL with options for repeat donations

Client:

Green Heritage Fund Suriname in the Netherlands – greenheritagefundsuriname.nl

Notes:

The main objective for this website is to raise money in the Netherlands to support the activities of the Green Heritage Fund in Suriname, so the focus on the website is on what those activities are and the site offers the option to make one-time, or recurring donations.

In the Netherlands iDEAL is the most common way to pay online and we used Mollie as the payment service provider.

studiogearup.com

Particulars:

  • company website with blog and portfolio
  • custom background patterns
  • extensive home page referencing the different sections on the website
  • custom team section
  • table of contents on longer pages
  • related articles on Publications and Projects
  • built with WordPress so the client can update the site themselves

Client:

studio Gear Up — studiogearup.com

Notes:

The design for the website was based on their existing logo and colors and I created the geometric background patterns to pull it all together.

johanvanderkooij.nl

Particulars:

  • A business website for a personal coach
  • A blog
  • Custom color transitions add a gentle playfulness
  • Built with WordPress
  • Uses an existing WordPress theme, personalized
  • Mobile friendly
  • Easy to update for the client

Client:

Johan van der Kooij — johanvanderkooij.nl

Notes:

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MK24.nl

Particulars:

  • WordPress
  • Online catalog of over 50 art classes
  • Classes can be organized by department, by day, by teacher
  • Students can enroll in classes online through a custom-built enrollment plugin that connects to the school’s student administration
  • Several online payment options are offered
  • Custom-built WordPress theme
  • Unusual navigation: mega menu
  • Scrolling effect
  • Optimization of the search function within the website
  • Content of the site is updated by a small team

Client:

Art institute Stichting MK24 Amsterdam — MK24.nl

Notes:

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valimyerstrust.com

Particulars:

  • Extensive artist portrait and portfolio web site
  • WordPress
  • Image gallery
  • Secondary menus
  • Scrolling effects
  • Mobile friendly
  • Contact form

Client:

Vali Myers Art Gallery Trust — valimyerstrust.com

Notes:

Organizing the content and structuring the web site in collaboration with Romy Ashby.

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