Get growing…
Creative ideas are the seeds of success.
Creativity is my passion and it’s my business.
I have a knack for marketing and advertising.
How can I help you grow your business?
(This site contains a small fraction of my work.)
Abuzz with new projects:
The summer finds me busier than ever…
I’m currently working on a non-profit public arts program with founder, Richard Hinger. ESI Public Arts facilitates the creation of public arts installations featuring artwork done by kids. The artwork is done on ceramic tiles which, once fired, last many lifetimes without color fading or scratching making them the ideal medium for outdoor art. In addition to designing and editing the website I also wrote and designed the corporate collateral including two brochures.
Also working on a complete website overhaul for AnyTyme, Inc., as well as search engine advertising and direct marketing campaigns. I’ve been consulting for owner, Mike Montano since 1999 when he had one truck and a hydro-jetter. He now serves most of Southern California…
And believe it or not I still have some free time so I recently started a new band, The Fiesta Island Band.
About this website design:
This website uses a freely available “open source” website management system called Wordpress using a template which I redesigned. By using a system like this, anyone who is reasonably computer literate can manage their own website from any computer with an internet connection. Using an online interface that’s much like a word processing system you can add and remove pages, edit them, add photos and links, and even add things like slide shows, podcasts, and Google ads.
Wordpress is generally used for blogs (web logs) and there are more powerful content management systems, as they are called, such as Joomla and Drupal which are much more powerful. For an example of a Joomla site visit my nonprofit arts program website: esipublicarts.com
To create the website you are viewing now I started with the most basic Wordpress template that exists and designed a new theme for it around the concept of growing a fruitful business using creative ideas as the seeds. I hope you enjoy it. Most of the photos on the site that I didn’t take such as the header image are inexpensive stock photography images.
There are thousands of other Wordpress themes available in all shapes and sizes and configurations, as there are for the other content management systems. These themes are all customizable with your own photos and colors and fonts.
If you’re in need of a website you might want to consider using one of these very powerful and affordable content management systems. Benefits include the ability to make changes and additions yourself without paying someone by the hour to make them for you, there’s an endless array of templates to choose from, and the myriad “plugins” that you can get for them allow you to do things like add shopping carts, podcasting, video, slide shows, newsletters, advertising, and much more.
I can set up a basic website for you using one of these content management systems and teach you how to use it for as little as $250. From there, the sky is the limit. Let’s get growing!
