Website Design

I'm a Squarespace designer and content editor who builds websites that work.

I create websites from concept to visual and content design to CSS, HTML and JavaScript coding, working directly with clients to craft user-friendly websites with simple navigation and content organization that speak both for and to both them and their audience.

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Aesthetics & Functionality

I craft both how a website looks and how your audience interacts with it so that both aspects can flow together for a coherent user experience that matches the individual, organization, or business’ brand and messaging across multiple device sizes.

Content Editing

As a web content editor, I will help plan, edit, and design your website content. I will correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors; fine-tune structure, tone, and voice; and ensure clarity, logical flow, and consistency in words, typography, art, and style. I make a seamless marriage of your website's design and content so that both elements work harmoniously to deliver the desired impact.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Your website is designed with an eye to search engine optimization throughout its content and visual design so that your writing, products, and/or information will be discoverable in search engines like Google and Bing. I also prompt search engines to learn your new website quickly and then monitor your site for 30 days once the site is live to make sure that everything is being picked up smoothly.

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I am a Squarespace Circle member, and this is good for both of us.

Circle members get access to tools, education, community, and perks to help them grow their web design practice," and two major perks of my Squarespace Circle membership are handed directly down to you:

👉  20% off your first year of any Squarespace annual plan through my sign-up.

👉  An extended 6-month trial period rather than the usual 2 weeks.

Squarespace

Check out some of the sites I've designed.

I've created sites for nonprofits, arts organizations, authors, bloggers, musicians, politicians, and other professionals. Click through to see them live and in action:

Christina Wallace

Wallace needed two separate versions of a website for her book, The Portfolio Life, to appeal to both the US & UK markets:

And she also needed to have her personal site’s design updated, as it had been over six years since 2017 when we had first created it:

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April Rinne

Rinne needed her personal site updated from the one we created in 2016 over seven years before:

She also required a book website prior to the release of her book, FLUX: 8 Superpowers for Thriving In Constant Change:

a mock-up scene of an iMac, laptop, and tablet with the aprilrinne.com and fluxmindset.com websites on them
a mock-up scene of an iMac, tablet, and phone with the radiantpress.ca website on them

Radiant Press

Radiant Press is small book publisher in Regina, Saskatchewan. We created an online shop where they could promote and sell their books both nationally and internationally:

Rebecca Woolf

Woolf needed her personal site updated from her old home on Blogger with a focus on a robust book page to promote her new book, All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire:

a mock-up scene of an iMac, tablet, and phone with the rebeccawoolf.com website on them

Upper East Health

Upper East Health is a general & addiction psychiatry practice in New York headed by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD. We redesigned the website to update it from its original 2015 incarnation:

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For Healthy Skin

Dr. Coby Demkiw-Bartel needed a professional site to upgrade her clients’ online experience when accessing her services at For Healthy Skin:

a mock-up scene of an iMac, laptop, and tablet with the forhealthyskin.com website on them

GenderAvenger

GenderAvenger is a non-profit organization that works towards the greater inclusion of women’s voices in public space. I worked directly with the organization between 2013 and 2021 to manage website design and maintenance and as the content editor and designer. My final piece of work for GenderAvenger was to redesign the website for its new caretakers when the organization changed hands:

a mock-up scene of an iMac, laptop, and tablet with the genderavenger.com website on them

Barbara Tyson

Tyson is a film and tv actress and a voice-over artist from Vancouver, BC:

a mock-up scene of an iMac, laptop, tablet, and phone with the barbaratyson.com website on them