Halfslide Design was recently contracted to redesign the site for Austin-based author and inspirational speaker, Sherry Ransom. Sherry wanted a more modern and user-friendly design applied to her personal site. Her goal was also to make it easy for visitors to get in touch with her and hire her for speaking gigs. Finally, she expressed that she wanted to be able to manage content herself and be able to publish articles on a regular basis without getting a web designer involved.

Halfslide Design built her site on the WordPress CMS platform.  This allows Sherry to manage the content on each page and article completely on her own.  In addition, Halfslide extended the WordPress administration area to give her the ability to manage the events listing on her site so that she could easily alert her fans to the fact that she would be speaking in their area in the near future.

We also built the site to highlight the articles that she has written in an effort to increase her search engine optimization around her topics of expertise.  Visit the site and let us know what you think about the new design.

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Storage Strategies Now, an Austin, Texas based storage analyst firm, recently requested Halfslide Design perform a renovation of their website www.ssg-now.com. The stated goal behind the redesign was to both provide sample content to those who are new to their service as well as provide a protected area for content that requires a subscription to access. The client also wanted to improve their search engine optimization by providing more content targeted around their service in html format rather than in pdf or doc attachments.

Halfslide Design redesigned the site to run on a customized WordPress platform similar to what the Halfslide Design site currently runs on.  We had to make several changes based on some specific business logic.  First, we had to update the customer registration process.  On SSG-Now, users who register get access to the full site the first time they visit.  Once their visit ends, their account is disabled and can only be reactivated after working out a subscription membership with SSG-Now.  This allows users to get an in-depth look at the content published by SSG-Now before they subscribe.  Halfslide Design modified the customer registration process so that all users were set as inactive after their session ended and also built-in functionality for SSG-Now to update customer accounts once a subscription had been initiated.

In addition, Halfslide Design reorganized the site so that all content published by SSG-Now that was public would be easily indexed by search engines.  Sitemaps of the site are automatically updated daily so that search engines are always aware of new content within 24 hours of it being published.  This has resulted in a dramatic increase in visits to the SSG-Now site since launch.

Finally, one last requirement from the client was that they be able to manage and update the site themselves.  In the past, the client was providing new content to Halfslide Design that we would then post to the site.  The client is now able to manage all site content, pages, links, and pages themselves.

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Halfslide Design recently finished the construction of a new site for a condominium and villa management company located in Cabo, Mexico. The site’s graphics were created by Graphic Designer, Barry Link. Halfslide Design took the design and built the site on top of the WordPress content management system.

The site utilizes lists condo and villa objects that the client can manage themselves.  In order to provide this functionality, we modeled the villas as wordpress posts and built them out with custom post fields.  This allows the client to manage all of the page content and villa objects through the single wordpress interface.

Halfslide was extremely happy to work with Playa and the client continues to be easy to work with.  If you are interested in visiting the Cabo, Mexico area some time soon, I would highly recommend checking out the site and giving the crew a call to inquire about possibly staying in one of their condos or villas.

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