Welcome to My New Website!
November 1st , 2009
Hey there everyone! Wow, it’s my first blog post on the long-awaited (by me, at least) OFFICIAL Magnetic Webworks website!
You see, for the longest time, I had this silly old site I called my “online business card” since I was (thank heavens) too busy with my clients to create a proper online home for myself. You can see that old site here if you care to.
Thankfully, I have been blessed with even more clients than when I started, but over the past couple of months I’ve been putting in as much time as I could between projects to complete this site, which hopefully gives a good picture of what I do, and embodies the passion I have for what I do.
Of course, like all websites, this one is a work in progress. And that’s the beauty of doing things online.
I will get “all Zen” on everyone for a moment and remind them that just like nothing in this world is exempt from change, a website needs to be a living and breathing organism constantly changing to reflect all of the changes going on in one’s business as well as one’s view of the world. In fact, one of my favorite bloggers, Johnny B. Truant writes a great article about this very topic.
Category : Blog & News and Updates
Joe Settineri
LML Music recording artist Joe Settineri needed a website to coincide with the launch of his new album “Stay.” Joe had a very specific look and feel he was going for with his website which required a fixed-height layout and a different photographic background of nearly all of the pages. The challenge was to create a site using the ever-popular and simple-to-manage WordPress platform to build a site that looked very different than most WordPress sites.
Additionally the site required:
- A signup form for Joe’s email newsletter
- Links to purchase Joe’s album on either iTunes or Amazon.com
- The ability to make regular news updates
- A photo gallery easily update-able and sortable by Joe
- An audio player to preview Joe’s music
- A link to Joe’s Facebook profile
- Various informational pages easily editable by Joe
The end result was one that Joe totally hated it…KIDDING (of course), he was very happy with it and got lots of great feedback. You can read more about the final result on the Testimonials page.
Click here to peruse the rest of my portfolio.
Rent.com Moving Center
Rent.com (an eBay company) is the #1 most visited website in the United States for rental properties (apartments, condos, houses, etc). One crucial part of Rent.com’s website is their moving center which helps renters with their relocation efforts.
This project involved taking the designs from Rent.com’s design group and implementing them using XHTML, CSS, jQuery, and HTML Mason (PERL). For you non-geeks, that probably means nothing, but suffice it to say that this was a very complex project that receives a high amount of traffic, since Rent.com receives millions of visitors each month. Because of this, any code that’s developed on the website must be of the very highest standards of excellence, since multi-browser compatibility (Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Firefox 2&3, Safari, etc) and fast-loading times can make the difference of tens of thousands of dollars per month. It was an honor to take on the responsibility of building such an important part of one of the internet’s major players.
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J.Perlman R.Lutge Photography
This particular project was a WordPress photo blog built with Magnetic Webworks partner Shona Lepis of Eye Design Studios (who represents the design arm of Magnetic Webworks). Shona worked with the client to create a photo blog that would be SEO-friendly (in other words, no Flash), very attractive, and easy to update with no FTP’ing necessary. In this case, Shona submitted her gorgeous PSD layout and I translated the design into clean, to-the-pixel, semantic XHTML and created a custom jQuery plugin for the homepage image rotator. Also modified the WordPress back end to allow client to easily select categories and photo collections to feature on the homepage. Created smoothly-sliding comments box for each blog entry, also using jQuery.
This project required:
- A customized Flash-like homepage image rotator with accompanying caption text
- An easy way for the client to feature any category the wanted to feature on the homepage with accompanying text and description
- A Twitter Feed
- Link to Facebook
- Multiple social media and email sharing links
- Various informational pages easily update-able by the client
- Various SEO plugins
- Automated site backups
Fortunately, both Shona and the client were super-happy with the outcome and Shona and I continue to collaborate on projects for both Magnetic Webworks and Eye Design Studios.
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Mary Kay Cocharo
Reknown Los Angeles marriage and family therapist Mary Kay Cocharo needed a website that she could easily update to highlight her popular workshops in addition to easily updating every other page on the site. She also needed something that would be SEO-friendly and match her serene and nurturing brand.
The site also required:
- A relationship quiz that Mary Kay could easily update herself
- An audio greeting
- A homepage slideshow featuring images that added life to the site and illustrated her brand
- A signup form for Mary Kay’s email newsletter
- A section for regular news and informational updates
- Various informational pages easily update-able by Mary Kay
- A contact form
The result was that Mary was able to fortify her email newsletter with a living-breathing organism of a website that was current and appealing to her target market. You can read more about Mary’s experiences on the Testimonials page.
Click here to peruse the rest of my portfolio.
