Solo Practice University™
[column width="47%" padding="6%"]One of my favorite courses during law school was called “How to Start a Law Practice Straight Out of Law School” – an elective taught by Susan Cartier Liebel. Susan and I stayed in touch after my graduation, and I provided her with some technical assistance when she started blogging about issues related to practicing as a solo lawyer. Somewhere around April 2008, we began collaborating to build an educational and networking community for solo lawyers and law students. We launched the website about a year later on March 20th, 2009 – it’s called Solo Practice University™. It’s a full-blown social ...
JenniferTaylorMusic.com
[column width="47%" padding="6%"]This website design relies heavily on high-resolution images to create a website that looks "authentic", including paper and fabric backgrounds, a cocktail napkin, polaroids and a ticket stub. I created the design in Photoshop using some istockphotos that I blended together. The real challenge for this project was transferring the Photoshop design into a website that, despite the high-resolution and transparent images, would not take forever to load and would not completely degrade in some older browsers. [/column] [column width="47%" padding="0"]I coded the design into a WordPress theme and installed some plugins that allowed Jennifer to upload her ...
JasonSlezak.com
[column width="47%" padding="6%"]Traveling around the world to interesting places is part of Jason Slezak's job as a professional kiteboarder. He needed a website that would allow him to communicate with his fans and promote his sponsors along the way. The site features a large photo box that cycles through a few sequences of Jason catching waves with his kite. And because the site is powered by WordPress, Jason can publish news updates or edit any page of the site with his iPhone. But the most interesting thing about the site is the integration of social media, allowing Jason's friends and fans ...
