Juxtaprose blog

We’re rolling on a few big website projects right now, so we’ve been a bit quiet on the blog here. But, we’ll have some good things to talk about and new sites to show soon.

One of our non-web projects this past month, that we’ve just completed, has been to officially grow from being just Juxtaprose to being Juxtaprose Inc. That extra ” Inc.” is not much to look at, nor is there much interesting to say about it. Nor does it change what we do, here.

But, suffice to say, behind-the-scenes, Juxtaprose Inc. is even more Juxtaprose now, and that little Inc. is like our official business name exclamation point: Juxtaprose? Why yes—you know, Juxtaprose Inc.

I just finished training a Seattle-based consultant, Gary Ford, on the in’s and out’s of using WordPress to update the site we just finished for his business GLFord Consulting. We custom-designed and built his site using WordPress as the content management system. I was happy to see how easy it was for him to use and learn how to make changes and add articles and news stories to the site himself.

So many of our clients are in locales outside of Seattle, and it’s been great to have face-to-face meetings with Gary during the process of designing and building his site, and to be able to train him in person.

Thanks to Ilana Guttmann for the referral, and good luck Gary with the new site; it’s been a pleasure working with you!

We just finished and launched a new site for San Francisco-based photographer Terry Turrentine. Terry has created an artists’ book of 15 of her incredible photographs of Great Egrets; the ones in the book (and shown on the site) were taken in the last five years, but she’s spent 25 years taking photos of them. She describes in her bio how she’s traveled to the egret rookeries in different states and how sometimes she will get no usable shots on any day or season (they’re very sensitive birds). Be sure to read her artist’s bio as she has a very interesting history of how she came to photograph the egrets. Just a hint: her great grandfather was the firearms designer John M. Browning.

We’ve really enjoyed working on this site with Terry, and wish her great success with her book.

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new site we created for author Richard Louv to showcase the new edition of his book Last Child in the Woods.

We’re big proponents of getting kids out in nature so we’re not only excited because it was fun to design and create this website, but we also hope this site helps even more people realize the importance of getting kids outdoors. There’s a great resource guide with activities, other books, and links to useful websites.

Be sure to check out Richard’s tour dates; he’s a great speaker and I’m sure his events this spring will be interesting.

We recently worked with another local businessperson, consultant Ilana Guttmann on her website. She’s a friend of a friend, who came to us wanting help with both the visuals and technical implementation for a new website, as well as help with communicating her unique consulting services and approach.

We met with Ilana in person and found out more about her business, and then worked closely with her to find ways to communicate that on her website—through both visuals as well as words.

The end result, we feel, represents her business well, and shows her open and interactive style.