Website Design Portfolio
These are examples of the websites I've designed. They range from small informational websites
whose only task is to inform the user, to decidedly for-profit E‑commerce websites
capable of transforming the casual visitor into a satsisfied customer using a state-of-the-art
security system for handling credit card transactions and other private information.
10 Featured Website Designs
DME Shop: Wheelchairs & Mobility Products
This California medical supply company hired me to create this full-blown ECommerce website offering mobility assistance products like electric wheelchairs, scooters, walkers, canes, and other durable medical equipment and supplies. The shop features several categories of products and relies on my Rainbo Cart custom shopping cart software that is easy to operate and maintain. I also designed their logo.
The design uses big bold images of their primary product line of wheelchairs and
scooters, with their toll-free telephone number prominently displayed to help instill trust, along with that touchstone
of online shopping, a free shipping offer to promote sales. Also note the familiar navigation tabs to help visitors
quickly locate the products they want to see.
New Orleans Fishing Charters
Captain Billy was referred to me by another client. The website for his New Orleans Fishing Charter service needed a make-over. I brightened up the design, and added a slideshow to the main page that showcased customer testimonials. His rates are clearly displayed along with details of the acommodations he offers. With some added search engine marketing services I provided, he's doing very well even in the post-Katrina environment.
The main page is dense with content to provide instant gratification to the visitor. As soon as he arrives on the site, he is immersed in the fishing environment with stories and images of people having an exciting fishing vacation experience. Nestled in the right column is the important rates and accommodation information, and the phone number for reserations is right there at the top of the page.
Dharma Objects Yoga & Meditation Tools
This Minneapolis-area company wanted an easy-to-use ECommerce website built on the popular osCommerce shopping cart software in order to sell their yoga and meditation tools. Another client in a related business referred them to me. I was able to build the site and have them up and running, complete with a merchant account for accepting credit cards securely within just a few weeks. They plan to redesign a second site and add my search engine marketing services soon. osCommerce is a great tool for operating an online store because it's well-tested and supported, and it comes with complete administration controls so that you can operate the site on your own.
The page design chosen by the customer is the default osCommerce layout that features a left-side navigation menu, a center display of the page content with a Featured Products display underneath, and the right side column displays shopping information details. Here again, the toll-free telephone number and free shipping offer are highlighted at the top of the page.
Calgary Electrical Contractor
This family-owned electrical company in Calgary, Alberta Canada had a website with several issues. The owner had originally designed his own site. It was visually unappealing and failed to clearly present the critical information that potential clients visiting the site would want to know. Fortunately, they had a professional advertisement created for their Yellow Pages ad, which I used as a foundation to give their site a facelift in a way that improved brand recognition for the company.
To further improve the site's effectiveness, I re-wrote the text on the main page to emphasize their
professional qualifications and to highlight their service areas and payment options. I also repaired several search engine
issues that were impeding the website's performance. Not only has traffic to this company's site increased significantly,
their referrals grew enough that they were able to scale back their Pay-Per-Click advertising budget by 20%.
David James - Abstract Impressionist Art
San Francisco artist David James needed a custom website to
showcase his art on the Internet. He had a very specific method in mind to
do this, using a bold photo gallery on the site's main page that allows users to
browse his art and see both the full image and a detailed close-up of the
textures he employs in his unique use of various media to create his art.
This client recently added my search engine marketing services and has significantly
increased the traffic to his website.
Greg Brown, San Francisco Psychotherapist
Greg Brown has a psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco area. He wanted a
website that would be warm and inviting, and would let him share his approach to psychotherapy.
The site includes many pages of information to help potential clients become familiar with
the services he offers through his thriving practice. As I often do for clients who offer
personal services, I encouraged Dr. Brown to let me prominently display his photograph on
the website's main page. Where the whole web seems to scream anonymity, nothing engenders trust
and confidence like a picture of the business owner.
Rainbo Animation Art
My first website, started in 1996. This site is my flagship ecommerce website for my side business in Minneapolis selling animation art and collectibles, and as such it serves as the proving ground for all of my e-commerce website design and search engine optimization services. I don't use any SEO or E-Commerce technique for my clients until I've proven it to be successful on this site. My design gave customers in over 20 countries in Europe, the Pacific Rim, and the Middle East the confidence that they could trust us with their credit card information even though they had never heard of us. My website designs include critical steps you need to take to convince potential customers to trust your website.
This site caters to Disney fans and the main page is chock full of information about the art and collectibles available, as well as information about the Disney theme parks.
Pacifica CA Local News & Business Directory
This site offers news and information about my former hometown of Pacifica, CA which is
just south of San Francisco. The site features a searchable directory of local businesses that relies on
my custom content management software. The site also includes a directory of local government offices,
schools, churches, and organizations. It also has a blog for local news and events. This website's growing
popularity is a testament to the ever-increasing numbers of people who turn to the Internet as their primary
source for all kinds of information and is a good example of my Dot-Com Website Design Package.
Rock Collecting Gallery
This was a challenging, but fun website to build. The client is a rock hound who
has been collecting interesting rocks for much of his life. Now in his retirement, he's interested
in sharing his interests using my Rainbo Gallery automated photo gallery software that allows him
to add, update, or remove images and descriptions at any time. He has hopes of possibly creating a rock
museum in the San Francisco Bay area someday, using this photo gallery to attract other collections.
Twin Cities Staycations Blog
The sour economy inspired me to create this blog dedicated to stay-at-home
vacations (ie. "staycations") in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. It's a Wordpress
blog that relies on my custom design template to enhance the appearance and to include
advertising to generate revenue. Wordpress makes it easy for anyone to operate a blog,
and I can design a custom templates to make it appealing to visitors.
Additional Website Design Examples
Diabetic Shoes Minneapolis
This client needed a website for his service offering custom theraputic shoes for people
with diabetes in the Minneapolis area. The design is simple, attractive and easy to navigate, which is important because
the users tend to be seniors, and boldly displays his professional certification so that they're assured that he
has the qualifications required. The site offers information on Medicare and private insurance services that will pay
for the shoes and the service, as well as forms, pamphlets and informative documents for users to download and
read at their convenience. It integrates the PayPal Shopping Cart for the handfull of products that the client
sells directly, and also has a blog where he posts announcements of the information clinics he holds in the
Minneapolis/St. Paul area. It's another fine example of my Dot-Com Website Design Package.
Minneapolis Management Consulting
This management consulting company in the Minneapolis area needed a website
to convey competence, professionalism, and a sense of today's marketing trends to help to
promote their services. The site is simple and clean, but with a bit of sparkle to help
convey a sense of humor and a personalized approach to serving their clients. This client
recently had me redesign his site and add a blog.
48th Avenue Productions - SF Theater Group
This small theater group based in San Francisco asked me to build a
small website for them. As you can see, I took the promotional materials for their latest
production and turned it into a front page graphic. I also added my simple Rainbo Cart Lite
shopping cart software to their site so that they could sell tickets and advertising
premiums on their site. We're still discussing whether or not they want to add a
BLOG. If you live in the Bay Area, be sure to check out their site for news on
upcoming productions.
Wholesale Specialty Packaging Company
Cosmic Company is a leading producer of custom-made specialty packaging. They make
boutique-quality packaging for merchandise of all kinds, serving client companies from
coast-to-coast. They had an existing web site that needed extensive internal software repairs, but their
original design company disappeared. I was hired to repair several problems in the custom version of
the osCommerce e-commerce software that supported their wholesale client and order processing MySQL databases,
and to eliminate nagging problems in their web design and EMail set-up. This project involved moving their entire website - including the web pages,
custom PHP software, and MySQL database, to a new web hosting company without any interruption in
service. I continue to provide them with maintenance and new programming services to
keep this website updated with new pricing and security services, and I recently built a second
website for them to support the company's new product line.
Russian Hill Bookstore - San Francisco
I created this site for one of San Francisco's treasures, a used bookstore that
features much more than just books. Like many retail stores, this client needed an online presence
to help potential customers find concise and accurate information about her store - its location,
driving directions, and contact information, as well as providing an attractive display of all
of the different product lines she offers. The site's simple presentation is complimented by a news and information
BLOG that keeps everyone up to date about new arrivals, special events, and other promotional announcements.
Lewiston Hall Guest House
I made this site for a recently-built hotel in the Gulf Shore region of
Alabama. The client took some nice photos for the site that I edited and enhanced. Then I added a custom-made logo, and
did some research on local amenities to create this site that advertises their comfy resort
hotel. It was a rush job contracted for the local manager who wanted to have something impressive
for the corporate representatives who were due to visit. The site was up and running within 48
hours of confirming the order, and it was complete within 5 days.
Valcouie-Couture Custom Dress Design
This small evening gown and wedding dress design company needed to establish a
presence on the web. They were competing with the largest dress design companies in the world by
focusing on the fashions for juniors niche. They purchased my Dot-Com Website Design Package which included a photo
gallery so they could showcase their designs. The site allows them to keep the content fresh
by updating the stock dress styles in the photo gallery.
Online Document Management Software
This New Jersey-based computer services company needed a website to promote it's document management
software package. Based on the Ruubik Content Management System, the website offers information about the company's
product and allows potential customers to request a demonstration or to download a demonstration version. The design
is constrained a bit by the CMS package, but the Content Management System allows the client to add or remove content
at any time, including images and videos.
Rainbo Online Book Reviews
Rainbo Electronic Reviews is a site that publishes reviews of popular books, books
on tape, children's books, cookbooks, computer books, software, and DVDs and home videos. It's a great
example of my Dot-Com Website Design Package. With its hundreds of pages holding the back-issues of the
reviews in each category, the site is easy to maintain using a custom Content Management System package I developed,
with a straightforward and logical structre so that readers can navigate it easily. If you want to create
an information portal website, my 30 years of experience in creating user interfaces combined with my website designs
insures that your audience will spend more time absorbing your offerings and less time
figuring out how to find the information they're looking for.
Senait Agonafer Ethiopia Ministry
This client had a specific design in mind and provided all of the
graphics, so all I did in regard to the design was to handle the technical aspects of
making the site precisely replicate his design ideas. He knew exactly how he wanted
his website to appear, and that's what I delivered. I always tell my clients, "It's
your site, not mine." I certainly do my best to suggest attractive design elements,
but I never let my ego get in the way of the client's preferences. The reason I am proud of this site is that it
relies on multimedia features that required transferring audio recordings from cassette
tape into digital format, as well as transferring a video on VHS cassette into
a digital media for online presentation.
Agonafer Marketing Services
The above client liked my design so well that he recently had me build one
of my Business Card sites for his newly-formed marketing service. The site is in it's early
stage of development with just enough content to establish his business' presence online. He
intends to add more details about his services and experience in direct sales to consumers in
the home improvement industry.
StopSPAM.inPacifica.com - Stopping SPAM
I created this simple site to help people find information on combatting some
of the plagues of this New Age of Technology. It contains information on stopping SPAM in your EMail,
stopping telemarketers, stopping computer viruses, identity theft, spyware, and adware. Its a perfect example of
my Business Card Website Design Package. It only has about 8 pages. It doesn't need any sophisticated support
because it just publishes helpful information on a handful of specific topics and links to other valuable sources
of region-specific information.
The Serenata Company
This independent film producer needed a simple website to showcase his company's latest
productions. The goal was to present an urban background with a philosophical flair. I was happy to accomodate
the client's request for specific design elements - like the film border for the top logo and the quotations -
to make the site of his dreams become a reality in just 2 weeks. The site is also a platform for sales of
videos of the company's films.
5405 Cumberland Road
Minneapolis, MN 55410
