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Bedford Memorial Hospital

February 6th, 2013 • by Niki • No Comments

The Bedford Memorial Hospital site badly needed an update. I took a photoshop template created by another designer and turned it into a custom WordPress theme. The new site allows the site administrators to post news, events and to change the look of their homepage by updating content to reflect current advertising campaigns.

A Taste of Therapy

A Taste of Therapy

June 15th, 2012 • by Niki • No Comments

I’ve been making some improvements to A Taste of Therapy. This website was originally built on the twenty ten theme, and there’s no room in the budget to start over, so I’ve been dealing with ~1500 lines of CSS for this very simple site. My tasks were to improve the look and feel of the blog, and to fix the broken registration form. I’ve tightened

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Mourning doves and Buddha

I’m a farmer at heart, but I live in the suburbs

June 1st, 2012 • by Niki • 6 Comments

I’d like to be a landscape architect when I grow up. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money or the time to do what it takes to live that dream, so I do what I can with my yard. When I moved in to my house, there were four Leland Cypress – two of which were diseased. Five years later, we have thirty or so trees, and three flowerbeds.

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Blueberry Marketing

Blueberry Marketing

May 25th, 2012 • by Niki • No Comments

Blueberry Marketing is headed up by Barb Upchurch, and is a small business primarily representing creatives. It was nice to have an opportunity to create a custom WordPress theme that was a little on the fun and funky side! Barb is always busy – she works as a marketing consultant, teaches classes and does publicity for her clients. Barb needed a site that emphasized her

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Karen A. Chase

Karen A. Chase Site Wins eLit Gold Medal for Best Author Website

April 27th, 2012 • by Niki • 3 Comments

I’m thrilled to announce that a site I programmed for Richmond author Karen A. Chase has won gold in the eLit awards! This site was designed by Karen, and Christina Reeser at io studio and I did the programming.

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