If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
~Vincent Van Gogh
A realtor in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho contacted me asking for a website that combined homeschooling and real estate. She also wanted a look and feel that conveyed the natural beauty of northern Idaho. We came up with an animated .gif slide show banner and a real estate search page that utilized the national MLS data. We ended up with two pages, Homeschool North Idaho and Idaho Homeschool Living.
One of our most recent jobs has been to design a unique website for the family-owned business Wonders & Delights in Anaheim, CA. The site included several custom animated graphics, an original css style template and client-managed merchandise pages.
We have also designed a website for Nick Harrison, author and editor for Harvest House Publishers. His site includes a booklist, purchasing page, blog, family photo album and a quilt display page for his wife.
Nick says: "I contacted Erin and within hours she had a draft of a webpage that I liked. She's worked on it some more and I think it's about ready to go. So if you want a website, I heartily recommend Erin. She's creative, quick, and reasonably priced. I'm VERY pleased.
One of our ongoing web jobs is developing and maintaining the site for Palouse Suzuki Strings. For this site, we designed several original graphics and we do regular updates to the calendar and information pages. Teachers submit additional content at regular intervals to add to the site.
In January of 2008, Erin did Terri Routh's Photography site. Although it started out using a css template, the template later was scrapped and a css style sheet written from scratch. This site contains a lightbox gallery, purchasing page and numerous individual images and original graphics. It also delves even further into the glories of dynamic web development. Extras included an animated .gif banner ad.
The Auditorium Chamber Music Series at the University of Idaho has employed Matt for several seasons to develop and maintain their informational website.
Some smaller projects include designing logos for A Christian Worldview, Second Chance Baptist Church and Hardee News incorporating their style into the chosen style sheet.
For many years now we have maintained our own respective sites, Beautiful Banners and Moscow Coffee Review in which we showcase our various interests and addictions. Beautiful Banners also contains our family photo blog.
For fun, I (Erin) helped modify one of the skins used by a forum I frequent. I did a custom header as well as modification on all the buttons and backgound images.
Aspects of good web design include the flexibility to work within various frameworks as well as the ability to write well, a sense of style and an eye for detail. Our blogs tend to serve as our practice arenas and sounding boards. Erin's blog lives here and Matt's blog lives here. We have done a lot of work on developing custom blog templates and header images. Braillebanshee is one such site we have done. Erin also keeps a myspace page.
Initial Setup fee: $200*
OR
Initial re-design of existing site: $150
Domain and hosting fees $30 yearly
Updating and maintenance $100-300 yearly depending on the amount of work needed
Additional Charges:
1. Purchasing page using paypal $20
2. More than two custom graphics: $10 per image
We accept paypal, credit card or money order
*For informational purposes, $20/hour is a very reasonable going rate for web designers.
The initial setup includes personalized one-on-one time via email or chat to determine your style, look, layout needs and choice of colors. It also includes two free custom graphics, such as a header and navigation buttons.
We also re-design outdated sites. Please contact us for a quote.
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