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Winston Salem WordPress Developer
When you’re looking for a WordPress developer in Winston-Salem, we’d like to be your first call. Why?
Since 2001, we have designed and built websites, ezines, and blogs that get you clients. With so many years of experience, and several hundred successful projects under our belt, most of our business is by referral or repeat clients coming back.
This kind of success means we often have a wait list. But, don’t let that put you off! We’ve designed a complete Knock Knock Welcome Basket for our new clients chock full of everything you need to get started with the WordPress development process right away. (This welcome basket ensures your website design will be professional, polished and compelling–and you’ll also find it a lot of fun!)
We have a reputation for being reliable, easy-to-work-with, talented, and for genuinely understanding the ins and outs of WordPress so that you get the best website / blog possible. Our specialty is creating big personality websites your clients and prospects will adore visiting.
Our founder, Jessica Albon, had a successful career as a direct mail copywriter before establishing Thrive Your Tribe. Copywriters tend to be very bottom-line focused–meaning, they’re always interested in beating the control (the piece that’s gotten the highest conversion rates in the past) and are very competitive.… Keep reading
How to pick a font: Curly Quotes
While working on an html email design for a client, I was playing with curly quotes to add some extra interest. This made me wonder which fonts other people love for their curly quotes. So I asked on Twitter and got great replies on how others pick a font for curly quotes. Yay.
I wanted to share some of my own favorites with you–so, here you have it, five great font choices for curly quotes. These are great if you’re designing inspirational business quotes, for instance, to share on social media (where such art is very popular). Curly quotes are also especially popular for pull quotes (those fancy “Here’s part of the article, set apart, for decoration” quotes you often seen in high-end design and magazines).
Garamond Bold curly quotes
Academy Engraved LET Thin curly quotes
Headline One curly quotes
Pigiarniq curly quotes
Guanine curly quotes
Whether you’re designing a motivational business quote to share, a pull quote for your website or in your email newsletter, or something else entirely, the font you choose for your curly quotes you use can make a big difference in your design–you’ll notice no other details changed (the colors and typeface of the quote itself are the same for each quote in the above images), and yet each quote has a different style.… Keep reading
Lori Boothroyd
Wellness Coach Lori Boothroyd had a beautiful site, but there were some drawbacks. It was frustrating to make changes to individual web pages and next to impossible to make changes to the design itself.
She had outgrown the old site’s tag line, but wasn’t able to change it easily. She felt the “Subscribe NOW!!!” language on her banner was too pushy for her audience. It was also important to her to be able to add new features like audio (using Audio Acrobat). All of this was impossible with her old site.
So, we came in, made the changes she wanted, and coded the site for WordPress. This gave her an easy-to-use admin system and updates are now much easier to make. What’s more, the site is search-engine friendly, the navigation is streamlined, and she’s saving herself both time *and* money (the old admin system was a monthly expense; WordPress is free).
The entire process took about a month, and ultimately meant that Lori had a great site that she’s really comfortable updating.
Visit Lori’s site and see for yourself.… Keep reading
Newsletters in Focus
Newsletter archive website, we designed the two-column layout to offer both advertising for sale (directly from the site publisher) and to run Google ads. Site is updated weekly and makes use of several excellent plugins and decorative drop cap functionality.
The site is popular with readers and advertisers alike. Though in many ways the site is a traditional WordPress blog, comments are nearly always closed at this site. That serves two purposes for the publisher–the first is that it routes all comments through email which is easier (for some people) to manage. The second purpose is that it ensures that when comments *are* opened, there are typically more of them which really facilitates conversation among readers. When comments are always open, business blogs sometimes find that community-building impact diluted over the entire blog instead of concentrated on certain posts.… Keep reading
The Brand Dame
The Brand Dame is Lyn Chamberlin’s branding blog built in WordPress. She connects with readers on a regular basis delivering news related to personal and professional branding.
Lyn wanted an unique illustrated header, so we worked with the illustrator of her choice to have something she absolutely loved created. She also wanted to make good use of social networking and bookmarking along with Twitter, and Flickr, all of which found a place on her website through WordPress plugins.
The site isn’t based on a pre-existing WordPress template so Lyn can be assured that her blog and header are both one-of-a-kind.
Read what Lyn had to say about working with us.… Keep reading
skyePR.com
Brand Dame Lyn Chamberlin needed a new identity. She was ready for a professional website, blog, and email newsletter design–and that’s exactly what we gave her.
The new skyePR.com site makes use of her brown and orange color scheme and provides a fresh, clean showcase for her branding work. Using an event calendar plugin, Lyn’s able to easily deliver an up-to-date speaking event calendar to her website visitors. The site also generates an updated, random list of posts from her blog to ensure there’s up-to-the-minute content for her website visitors.
The site also reinforces the design we developed for both her email newsletter and blog–creating an integrated online identity for Lyn Chamberlin and skyePR.
Read what Lyn had to say about working with us
Like the cobbler children who have no shoes, I realized that I had outgrown my brand. Here I am, being sought after as an expert in marketing and my number one piece of web real estate no longer reflected my business or who I have evolved into as a professional services provider.
GNE Journal
One column theme designed in WordPress. Made extensive use of plugins to protect against spam and to facilitate commenting and social bookmarking. Site made several thousand dollars in sales in the 30 days that it was active (with about 100 readers).
The site was very popular with readers and often had 10+ comments per post.
Lessons learned from project include: 50/50 advertising content mix will seem like too much to some readers, but won’t bother others. Daily updates isn’t too frequent as long as you make good use of stories. Having multiple products to sell saves posts from being overly repetitive. Live products (teleclasses, seminars, etc) are an easier sell than pre-existing products (books, reports, class audio recordings).
Site was designed for a 30-day project and is no longer active.… Keep reading
CJHayden.com
C.J. Hayden wanted to create a hub site for all of her projects. She planned to use WordPress as her CMS as she had for other sites in the past.
She had an illustration for her front page and asked us to complete the WordPress coding and design a layout for the internal pages. She wanted something that made use of layers and had a textured appeal.
The biggest challenge, programming-wise, was that she wanted some internal pages to make use of an additional scroll sidebar. We created a special page template for those pages that would have a scroll, and layered the scroll image over the page template. By attaching the scroll to a widget, C.J. can easily update each scroll’s content.
C.J.’s Feedback
Jessica is a delight to work with. She’s helped me create three WordPress websites. Most recently, she built a customized site for me completely from scratch.
What I love about working with her is that she is not only technically proficient and has a great eye for design, she is as meticulous as I am about getting things just right. Throughout the process of building my site, she was responsive, patient, and upbeat. The end result is exactly what I wanted.… Keep reading
