Full Website: Memory Mosaics
Caroline is a local artist who makes the most wonderful creations – Memory Mosaics. They are a series of small squares that are custom drawn in coloured pencil to capture the life of another person. You sit down with her – a treat in itself, she’s a warm and caring person – and share stories from your own life or that of a loved one, then Caroline turns those tales into pictures. Her art is so personal and it makes a wonderful gift for a significant birthday or anniversary. Caroline needed a web presence as her old site was quite out of date and hard for her to update....
Read MoreFull Website: BellesPlus
BellesPlus is the brainchild and labour of love of Catherine Leteinturier Guissé. It’s a massive directory of shops around the world where you can find the most stylish and most durable plus-size clothing and supplies. She has poured hours of work into searching for stores the world over – as well as online shops – where you can find plus size merchandise of all kinds. Her old site was built on an Access database, making it hard to maintain and impossible to promote using SEO. I ported the data into WordPress and created a new site for her using DirectoryPress, a complex...
Read MoreFull Website: Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith
Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith is an Ottawa-area freelance writer. She’s spent the last two years working on a new non-fiction book, Muskoka’s Main Street, about the history of settlers and surveyors who built the Muskoka Colonization Road. With the release of the book last summer, she wanted a new website to help promote the project and her other adventures in writing. I built Lee Ann an entire site from the ground up, on WordPress. It introduces her as an author; provides tons of information about her new book, as well as her previously published book, Strength Within; and packs in all...
Read MoreFull Website: Edited Interiors
Heather Cameron of Edited Interiors liked her new Facebook timeline header so much, she hired me to makeover her website, too. She was already on WordPress and had lots of great content to work with. I changed her theme and made several theme customizations, reorganized and aligned her pages, sidebar, and portfolio, gave her a social media area, and made all the colours look pretty. See the full website in action here.
Read MoreFull Website: Adorkable Undies
Nadine is a legend around Ottawa, for her hilariously entertaining blog, history as a playwright and actress, and expertise in sex education. It was time for her to move her sassy blog off of WordPress.com, to a place where she could be master of her domain. She wanted something that was very light and bright, with pops of bright colour. Nadine uses images in every one of her posts, making an eye-catching magazine-style layout a perfect match to her content. Using an image of a pile of colourful throw pillows as inspiration, I created a site that brought to life her ideal colour scheme. I...
Read MoreLynn Jatania
I'm Lynn Jatania, founder, designer, and developer at Sweet Smart Design. Here's where you can find elegant eye candy for the web.