Another service I offer that falls into the because-I-love-to-do-it category is Wordpress theme design. This differs from PSD to HTML coding in that I design the site from concept to implementation. I learn about your site/business/project and we discuss what it is you want to convey with your online presense. From there I build a theme that meets your needs and implement it into WordPress for you.
How’s it work?
The most recent Wordpress Theme Design I did was for Shashank Nigam of Simpliflying — the worlds most popular authority on aviation branding. I learned about what Simpliflying.com was and used the site for a few hours to understand its purpose. Shashank and I then discussed what it was about his old site that he liked and disliked as well as what it was that he wanted to accomplish with a site redesign. I then presented him with a screenshot of the site proposed and we went back and forth to make tweaks here and there. Once we had a look that he was thrilled with I took the design and made it into a full functioning Wordpress Theme. In the case of Simpliflying.com, there were a number of elements important to Shashank that we implemented into the site:
- Show the most recent interview on the index only
- Show the most recent presentation on the index only
- Present a slide-show like element of all news mentions on the index only
- Put a tabbed widget in the sidebar displaying top posts, comments, etc.
- Display 3 full posts, 5 post summaries and 5 links to previously posted articles on the index instead of the normal blog-like list of articles
Since the implementation of Simpliflying.com’s new design Shashank has added several plugins and really taken the design and used it to evolve his site with very little input from me. Simpliflying is a great example of how working together can take a wordpress installation and make it into something completely different.
If you want to build a site with wordpress — or evolve an existing site — all you need to do is contact me to get the ball rolling. If it’s a project with a short deadline, make sure to let me know.