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Custom WordPress Theme: Jodi Callaway Cole

adesign — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:32:32 +0000

Alyson Design worked with Jodi Callaway Cole, an Austin criminal defense attorney, to create a custom WordPress theme and identity design to help establish her new law practice. Finding a balance between the expected conventions of a typical law firm website and a more creative visual approach was a main priority for this project, and the final result combines both aspects by conveying a clean, professional presence.

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Custom WordPress Theme: Robyn Ludwick

adesign — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:23:37 +0000

Any chance we get to work with local musicians and artists reminds us of why we love doing what we do! Working with talented Austin (or Wimberley, depending on who’s askin’) singer/songwriter Robyn Ludwick was no exception.

Robyn asked us to use Jackson Browne’s 1974 album, Late for the Sky, as the inspiration for her new release’s cover art, so we worked with painter Tom Betts to create the visual theme for Out of These Blues, and carried the concept over to her custom WordPress theme design. Special features of this project include an events calendar to allow her to quickly and easily add tour dates, a Facebook like box and Twitter feed, as well as a featured news item area in the header section of each page.

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Custom WordPress Theme: Pride Build 4

adesign — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:15:12 +0000

We are proud of the relationship we have established with Austin Habitat for Humanity. Since beginning work with them in 2008, we have developed numerous print and web campaigns including appeal letters, newsletters, and online giving campaign projects promoting their home builds throughout the year.

This Pride Build WordPress theme served the purpose of keeping volunteers and fans updated on all the happenings related to this one month house construction project. For this project, we customized a 3rd party WordPress theme for Pride Build, and we have also used a similar concept on several of their builds throughout the year, including the Austin Legal Build and Home for the Holidays. This format is easy for administrators to update and utilizes all the social media connections to help volunteers and fans stay on top of the construction progress and related events.

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Custom WordPress Theme: TrueWind Advisors

adesign — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:12:51 +0000

Alyson Design created a fully custom WordPress website and logo design for TrueWind Advisors, a management consulting firm that specializes in assisting companies in the life sciences, healthcare and technology industries. This project included a jQuery image rotator, individually editable page and sidebar content areas, and a “Perspectives” section where founder Steve Andrade can publish and organize his company’s white paper archive.

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Custom WordPress Theme: Opal’s Divine Mary Mix

adesign — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:36:22 +0000

Building a brand like the Opal’s Divine Mary Mix requires a cohesive look that runs from product, to advertising and marketing, all the way through to the website. For this part of the project, we created a custom WordPress website that not only reflects the Opal Divine’s brand, it encourages participation by fans and users alike! We’re looking forward to more tall tales on the site’s blog from Michael Parker, founder of the Opal’s Divine Mary Mix.

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Custom WordPress Theme: Home Sweet Home Austin

adesign — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:33:08 +0000

Home Sweet Home Austin’s Janet Cloudt is no stranger to the Austin real estate market, and when she decided to create a fresh approach to the traditional realty website, Alyson Design was there to assist. Janet had a number of very specific goals for her new business website, both visually and functionally, and once again a fully custom WordPress theme was the solution.

Anchoring her site is a Community section, which not only serves as a place for Janet to post personal blog entries and informative articles, but also gives users online space to interact and submit their own informative content. Visually, the site takes a big detour from the typical real estate website, and it gives the logo we designed a bright, comfortable new environment to live in. This project also included integrated MLS search tools, a featured properties section and featured neighborhoods pages, all of which can be quickly and easily updated through the administrative dashboard.

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Custom WordPress Theme: Austin Centric Realty

adesign — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:33:58 +0000

Always excited about pushing WordPress code to achieve results way beyond a typical blog, Alyson Design partnered with Austin Centric Realty to create a fully custom real estate website theme. Principal Ross Cole is not new to the Austin real estate market, but his company is, and he wanted to create a fresh website that would set him apart from the typical Realtor crowd. With an ever changing inventory of properties for sale and for rent, the ability to efficiently update listings was a main priority, and the WordPress content management system allows just that.

This custom WordPress theme features extensive information for potential home buyers and sellers, integrated MLS search features, exclusive for sale and for lease listings, news and blog sections, and informative sections for each of the central and east Austin neighborhoods they specialize in.

You can’t miss Austin Centric Realty’s bright blue signs while driving around town these days – check out the identity branding we created for them here!

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Custom WordPress Theme: Watermark & Company

adesign — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:16:19 +0000

Watermark & Company’s owner had some very specific visual goals for their website redesign, and with an ever-expanding project portfolio, the ability to make updates themselves was a priority. Using WordPress, we created a fully custom, functional and easily updatable site with an easy to use CMS control panel. To further enhance the new site launch, we brought a fresh logo idea to life, printed coordinating business cards, and redirected some of their online marketing efforts toward strong organic SEO performance.

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Custom WordPress Theme: Austin VeeDub

adesign — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:16:31 +0000

Alyson Design created a custom WordPress theme for Austin VeeDub, a locally famous mecca (for the air-cooled VW set) known for their veteran Volkswagen mechanics and 8 acre salvage and recycled parts yard. The site launch also integrated our Organic SEO Starter Kit to maximize their position in organic search engine results.

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Custom WordPress Theme: West Austin Neighborhood Group

adesign — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:48:54 +0000

Alyson Design created a custom WordPress theme for the West Austin Neighborhood Group (WANG), a non-profit organization of residents with the shared goal of preserving West Austin and protecting it from deterioration. Project included logo revision, events calendar customization, a random banner generator and PayPal member subscription manager.

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