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Out with the old – in with the new!  And we couldn’t be more excited!  2009 has been a really nice year for us over here at E.Webscapes – and towards the end of this article, you’ll find out how you can get 15% off our services from now through 12/31/09 to celebrate our relaunch! For me, 2009 marks the end of a full decade of making things pretty on the web, for myself and my clients.

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Relaxed, Redecorated and Relaunched!

Alison chose E.Webscapes to bring her vision of a calm, meditative blog design to life. With a lotus in mind and a fondness for rich purples, E.Webscapes took her vision and whipped up a creative blog design that is sure to give any visitor a feeling of serenity at her website: Get Unstuffed E.Webscapes tied a floating lotus into a flowing design of coordinating deep, rich purples. Custom graphics with rounded corners and soft gradating overlays add to the calming effect of this pretty WordPress design.

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Get Unstuffed : WordPress Blog Design

Stephen chose E.Webscapes for a fresh updated look for his pharma and biotech blog, Patent Baristas . He wanted to lighten things up with his ‘Coffee Cafe’ theme, and Vivien helped him achieve a great new look for his blog. Using a script font throughout the theme, Vivien developed a light, airy and organic design integrating coffee beans and a fun custom barista illustration that Stephen had created, serving it up at the top of the sidebar.

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Patent Baristas : WordPress Blog Design

Sickenglish.com is an edutainment service that explains American pop culture (movies, music, fashion) to young Asians between the ages of 18 and 24, and features daily articles in Chinese aggregating pop culture content from YouTube and various Hollywood celebrity news feeds. E.Webscapes was provided the logo and developed a cool, hip, vibrant, and American theme for Vincent at Sick English

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Sick English : WordPress Blog Design

When Clayton came to E.Webscapes for his design project, Myrtle Beach Reviews , Leanne was all too excited to get started! Samantha Wise , the illustrator of “Sandie Beech”, created a fun and inspiring graphic illustration for Clayton’s design that Leanne built on, creating a “notebook” look for the entrance into Sandie’s Review area. Highlighting categories and subcategories in the top horizontal dropdown menu, travelers can choose exactly what they’re looking for when planning their Myrtle Beach vacation (or relocation!). Leanne created three main areas of focus on the home page design – Featured Condos, Upcoming Events and, using the Post Ratings plugin, the top rated Reviews from the blog.

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Myrtle Beach Reviews : WordPress Blog Design

Ken selected E.Webscapes for a new design for ChuckleMonkey – where he provides professional and amateur comedians, as well as club owners, booking agents, and V producers worldwide with the latest and greatest news in the Comedy industry. With loads of great content and information to pass on, it was important to him to have a well sorted menu for ease in navigation throughout his blog. Leanne “put the spotlight” on the ChuckleMonkey and designed a three column theme using shades of blue and pulled in yellow and purple through stitched tape and comment bubbles, a clapboard to display the date, as well as a cool handwritten font (using the TTFTitles plugin) to make the look as entertaining as the content

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ChuckleMonkey : WordPress Blog Design

When Giell Beauty Supply decided it was time to enhance their site and customer experience by adding a blog, they selected E.Webscapes to help them achieve that goal. We helped them brand their new WordPress powered blog to coordinate with their existing main website and they were up and running with a new blog in no time! Dino took on the task of developing Giell Beauty Supply Extra! Where consumers, beauty professionals and students who want to learn about our products in the form of articles or reviews, how to’s, tips and techniques go to get all of the latest news. With a smart and clean two column layout, Dino featured the categories in the top horizontal menu and customized this multiple author blog with an Author Profile Photo plugin and custom author template.

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Giell Beauty Supply : WordPress Blog Design

Dylan wanted a slick new look for his Internet marketing blog, and once partnered with Dino here at E.Webscapes, that’s exactly what he got!  Dylan came to us seeking a clean, 3-column layout using WordPress as his platform of choice to power his content management. Dino designed a three column theme, incorporating 125×125 ad space as well as space for Google Adsense and banner advertising

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Dylan Loh : WordPress Blog Design

Dave came to E.Webscapes after picking up the book, WordPress for Dummies . In setting up a brand new site, he decided to launch with a totally custom design for his geopolitical and economic blog, In This Dimension , he wanted to make a bold statement, and Dino helped him achieve just that! Using a dark background, Dino gave the site title a great dimensional effect, taking it even further by using punches of orange and purple to really make a bold impact. Dave launched his blog with great content, complimented by a great design! Thanks for you excellent work and very timely communications … a job well done! Thanks for choosing E.Webscapes, Dave! Permalink | No comment © Lisa Sabin-Wilson; author: WordPress For Dummies Design Portfolio | Design Blog | Request a custom design here! | Lisas Personal Blog Want more on these topics ?

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In This Dimension : WordPress Blog Design

Eva was looking for a new design for her personal blog, The Purple Biscornu , when she found E.Webscapes. After thumbing through our portfolio, she decided to take the plunge and go for a fresh new girly blog look, and Joni brought it to life with WordPress, of course! Joni created a flowing, beautiful theme that highlights Eva’s love for cross-stitching in a clean and uncluttered design, while keeping it very feminine

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The Purple Biscornu : Wordpress Blog Design

Sherese came to E.Webscapes looking for a cute, professional site design that implements her custom illustration artwork and gives a good first impression to first time visitors to her site, KissytheCutie . Leanne worked closely with Sherese to create a custom, professional design that includes a horizontal tabbed menu, featured post area, video clip section, both wide and narrow sidebars as well as a “fat footer” for additional links, categories, ads and information.

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Kissy the Cutie : WordPress Blog Design

Nick from Spencer’s Game is a Corporate guy (with a smiley face), sharing stories and insights about work, life and luck in Corporate America. He came to us with a request for a conservative yet high-tech design that we were happy to provide! Leanne created a clean 2-column WordPress theme in shades of blue and implemented a horizontal tabbed menu, high-tech gradients and widget ready sidebar options of both wide and narrow for him to choose from

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Spencer’s Game : Wordpress Site Design

Lew over at Fanboy@50 came to E.Webscapes with a desire to present his site in a fun yet professional way, so that his readership would be confident in his love for and vast knowledge of Anime and Comics. Leanne and Lew worked together to develop a logo for Fanboy@50 that he could implement in his eBay store, as well as his blog design. She integrated that logo into a clean color scheme and provided the professional functionality Lew was looking for by implementing both a wide and split sidebars, all widget ready for ad and subscription placement.

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Fanboy@50 : WordPress Blog Design

Aviv came to E.Webscapes armed with specific ideas for the functionality and design of his Mac news site, MacBlogz . MacBlogz provides the latest news in the Mac world, and in order to provide specific news to their targeted readership, their primary goal was to display the top news from the Mac Community neatly organized on the main page. Dino pulled together that news in a tidy grid format using RSS Feeds from the hottest Mac news sources, keeping the MacBlogz updates separate on their own blog – all with one installation of WordPress! Aviv provided the PSD for us to slice, dice, and turn into a fully functional WordPress design, maximizing the use of this great content management system implementing threaded comments, avatars, and even a separate custom category template for The Rumor Mill

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MacBlogz : WordPress Site Design

E.Webscapes was approached by Beth at Nashville Glam to create a fabulous new design for her insider’s guide to beauty and fashion and fun in Nashville; it’s everything but the music.  The not only did Beth want a new design, but we also switched her from TypePad to WordPress, our favorite, versatile platform! Beth wanted a look that was fresh and fun, and she didn’t want it to look too stereotypical “country” – no cowboy boots or denim!  Of particular note for Beth was the look of her header design.  Beth was very particular about the look she wanted to achieve, and Dino was able to find that look for her!  He was also able to answer a lot of questions that Beth had regarding using WordPress. Dino was also able to achieve a lot of great functionality for Beth through the use of WordPress plugins, including some great Search Engine Optimization, the NextGen Photo Gallery, integration of social media such as MySpace and Twitter, and way to sell some fun merchandise as well!  He even through in a WordPress upgrade for her at the end of the project! Beth’s website sure turned out fun and trendy!  We look forward to all the fun “country music scene” gossip that she digs up for us! Share and Enjoy: Permalink | No comment © Lisa Sabin-Wilson; author: WordPress For Dummies Design Portfolio | Design Blog | Request a custom design here! | Lisas Personal Blog Want more on these topics

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Nashville Glam : WordPress Site Design

Chris had a great concept for a fun layout for his website, ReverseHappyHour , but had one minor problem – he needed someone to implement it and bring it to life.  Enter E. Webscapes! Chris needed us to code his Photoshop PSD file for WordPress, and he also wanted us to make recommendations for plugins and his layout structure.  One of the big pieces of Chris’s website was the set up and configuration of user reviews for the website, and Dino was up for the challenge. Chris was quite excited to learn that Dino would be working on his project, commenting that “I love your clean, stylized graphics design style (your blog is awesome).

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ReverseHappyHour : WordPress Site Design

Leah, the Executive Director from Midwest Democracy Network , approached us with some ideas she had for redoing their website with a new design, powered by Expression Engine.  Their old site platform was powered by Drupal and they were looking for a change in platform that had more flexibility and was easier for them to use.  Leah brought her design ideas, plan and site architecture specifications to me for implementation.

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Midwest Democracy Network – Expression Engine Design

Back in 2008 , I worked with Grant Friedman from Colorburned to implement his design ideas into a custom theme for his Movable Type powered site.  Recently, Grant approached me again with his desire to convert his MT blog over to WordPress – including a brand new theme design with several innovative features, to boot! He brought his design ideas and specifications and  I was up for the challenge… There were several challenges to this project that needed to be attacked, meticulously, one-by-one. The first was his import from the Movable Type platform into WordPress .  WordPress has a built-in importer for Movable Type, which works beautifully.  However, Grant has been blogging on Movable Type for a year and has a decent page rank for his domain.  The last thing we wanted to do was lose his permalink strucutre, so I needed to make sure that all of his permalinks remain the same.  Some differences between his Movable Type permalinks and the ones, intially, built by WordPress? His current Movable Type permalinks end in .html WordPress permalinks don’t end in .html His current Movable Type system uses the page title for the permalink slug, but cuts it off at 26 characters WordPress uses the full page title for the permalink slug, regardless of its length His current Movable Type permalinks have underscores between the words: eg: follow_me_on_twitter WordPress, by default, places dashes between the words in the permalink slug: eg: follow-me-on-twitter These challenges weren’t impossible to overcome, just made things a little more interesting to get through.  A few tweaks in the WordPress permalink strucutre, .htaccess and some mySQL database manipulation and we were golden.  This article in the WordPress Codex helped guide me through: Importing from Movable Type to WordPress .  With his permalink structure fixed up to match his previously existing (Movable Type) permalinks, Grant won’t lose any inbound link love from Google, other sites and other search engines, social network sites, etc.  This is vital in any platform conversion

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Colorburned – WordPress Theme Design and Implementation

If you’re located in the New Jersey area, you may already be familiar with a pet store called Jake’s Dog House , who supplies pet toys and unique, specialty items for your pet in their stores.  You can also purchase these items from their existing E-Commerce store, online, at Jake’s Dog House.  Jon Stein, the owner of Jake’s Dog House ,  decided he wanted a blog to compliment their existing online identity – I had great fun designing and setting up their new WordPress powered blog at Jake’s Dog Blog.

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Jake’s Dog Blog – Custom WordPress design

I will be attending this years (2009) SXSW Interactive Festival again this year, and I’m really excited! This makes my third trip to Austin for the SXSW Festival and, I have to say, if you’ve never gone and have the opportunity to this year, or in the future – it’s WELL worth the trip! I’m not just attending, however – I am appearing together with ServerBeach to bring you (the attendees) some WordPress Goodies to take home with you!  ServerBeach (powered by Peer1) is an awesome dedicated, self-managed hosting services that we have been in business with for the past 6 years, we lease equipment and rack space from ServerBeach as the foundation for our blog hosting services.  Aside from being an extremely happy customer of ServerBeach – I am also a big fan of their overall philosophy of going to great lengths to satisfy the needs of our core customers, the “Geeks” – people like WordPress users and attendees of the SXSW Interactive Festival.  This may all sound like a huge sales pitch, but it’s not really – - it’s a lead in to some exciting goings on between myself and ServerBeach at the SXSW Festival! I will be appearing at the ServerBeach exhibit booth at the following times: Saturday March 13: 1-4pm Sunday March 14:   1-4pm Monday March 15:   1-3pm WordPress For Dummies: ServerBeach will be giving away free copies of WordPress For Dummies at their booth, and as a bonus – I will be present in the times stated above, to do book signings.  So stop by the ServerBeach booth and pick up your FREE autographed copy of WordPress For Dummies.  Already have a copy?  No problem – stop by the booth to say hi … I love to meet my readers, and I’ll sign your copy! WordPress Q&A: During the times I will be at the ServerBeach booth, I am also available to do a quickie WordPress Q&A if you have any specific questions on how to use WordPress on your site or blog.  I’ll have my laptop ready with a clean install of WordPress open, ready for your questions. Premium themes, anyone??

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Meet me at SXSW 09!