Dramatic Design

Want to Win a Custom WordPress Design?

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I am so excited to be featured on The Mom Buzz!  Erin has written a nice review and allowed me to do a giveaway/contest on her site!  So, a special welcome to anyone visiting from The Mom Buzz!  I’m so glad you found Dramatic Design!  Please be sure to look around and leave me a comment to let me know you were here!

The giveaway/contest that I am doing for The Mom Buzz is for a free, custom-designed, 1-3 column, widget-ready WordPress template!  That’s a $200 value!  You can look through my blog and portfolio to see some of my work.  If you happen to have found this contest/giveaway through some other method, you are welcome to enter, of course!  Just visit the post on The Mom Buzz for all the details.

While you are here, I would like to offer you a bonus, just for stopping by!  When you sign up for the Dramatic Design newsletter with this special link, I will send you a link to download the book  “Let’s Talk Social Media For Small Business” by John Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing and send you periodic newsletters about marketing your small business.  I hope that you will find them helpful, but you will be able to unsubscribe at any time, of course.  I never give out your personal information, so you won’t receive any spam from me–ever!

Thanks for entering the contest!  Good luck!

Begin the Transformation – Blog Header

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I had the pleasure to work with colleague, Jessica Colon, on another project.  She needed a blog header for www.beginthetransformation.org.  This is the first header that I came up with, along with how it looked within the site:

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Jessica’s client preferred something a little plainer for this site, though and really wanted a plain white background.  Below you will see the final product by itself, then a screenshot of the site with the header in place.

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This is a prime example of how the vision of the designer and the client can differ.  Neither is wrong–it’s just a matter of taste and direction where the site is going.  The best person to determine the direction of the site is the client.  I never take creative differences personally–in the end, the client needs to be happy with his/her site.

Kim, thank you for all of your hard work. You did a great job in creating a beautiful website header. You listened to my needs and created something that everyone loves.

Which of the above designs do you prefer?

Thornapple Financial Center

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Susan at Thornapple Financial Center took advantage of a special “current client-only” promotional offer to update the look of her website and convert it to WordPress.  WordPress is an easily-to-update user-friendly content management system that Dramatic Design has chosen as a specialty.

Direct Comparison:

tfc-oldtfcthumbAs you can see, the old site (left) looks dated and lifeless.  It was passive and static.  Now look at the newly redesigned site on the right.  What a difference!  The colors draw you in and envelope you–the green and gold play with the type of business the site describes.  It invites you to participate with comments and to spread the word with social networking!  Important announcements are conveniently located right in the sidebar, so you don’t have to hunt for them.

The new Thornapple Financial Center website also includes an email form that invites clients to sign up to receive her newsletter by email, instead of snail-mail, thus, saving her company money and perhaps saving a tree or two along the way.  Category pages allow visitors to look directly at the posts that interest them and an interactive Google map allows visitors to get direction from their location to the Thornapple Financial Center office.  This is a site for 2009!

 

Kim has built our website and it is fantastic!  She is professional, always has insightful ideas and is very patient with ALL of our questions.  Her prices are competitive,and more importantly you get a great return on your investment.

Kris Foote, Thornapple Financial Center

Baton Rouge Real Estate Appraisers

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baton-rouge-real-estate-1I recently created a custom WordPress theme for Bill Cobb at Baton Rouge Real Estate Appraisers.  He needed wide outside columns to accommodate his videos and other information.  He knew exactly what he wanted and was wonderful to work with.

Bill liked his new theme so much that he asked me to create a second theme, very similar, but in blue.  Here is a screenshot of that theme:

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Bill was so kind as to record this video and write the testimonial below. Thanks, Bill! You were great to work with!


“Hi, I’m Bill Cobb Appraiser in Baton Rouge working with WordPress Blogs for marketing help for my appraisal business. I had been searching online for about 6 months now trying a premium theme to use and couldn’t locate a theme I liked. I did find a Realtor’s website I really liked though. I found Kim Smith’s “Dramatic Design” on Ebay under the keyword “Wordpress” and emailed her about my search, the site I liked, my specifications I was looking for and to see if she could assist me. She said she could, so I purchased her Ebay Auction. Kim immediately went into action on my project, asked more questions about my desires for the site and went to work. The theme she designed is located @ https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisers.net/ and I am very pleased with Kim Smith’s Dramatic Design. Her price was reasonable, her attention to detail was superb, and her delivery was rather quick for a Web Design Company. I highly recommend https://www.dramatic-design.com/ .”

Bill Cobb, Appraiser – Accurate Valuations Group FHA Appraisers, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Be The Diva Within – Header Graphic

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I just completed a blog header for Jessica at Be The Diva Within and we were both very pleased with the results.  Jessica is a fellow member of the Mom Masterminds group to which I belong.  (There’s a free 7-Day Preview, if you’re interested!)

I started out with this stock image as she requested something with butterflies and this image complimented her blog colors:

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I worked a little graphic magic, added some text and came up with this:

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When Jessica put this header into her blog, it looked like this:

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The header was a perfect fit for the look and feel that Jessica was going for!  I’m looking forward to seeing what Jessica will be doing with this blog.  It’s exciting to see a new blog grow and develop!  It’s like a blank notebook during the “Back to School” season!  Blessings on your new endeavor, Jessica!