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WordPress Project: Book Launch Video Blog

This project was launched in December 2010 to coincide with the publication of Diana Mercer’s new book Making Divorce Work. Diana is an attorney who specializes in divorce mediation. Her mediation firm Peace Talks already has an established website and identity. For this companion site to the book, Diana wanted something that carried some of the same colors, but with a fun, hip and much more casual vibe.

I creating the site using WordPress, starting with an existing theme that she had seen used by someone else at WordCamp LA, and customizing the design with the colors and feel she was after.

Check out Diana’s Making Divorce Work blog, and I think you’ll agree: her personality and sense of humor shine through the site and her video posts. And Diana has done an amazing job of consistently posting content.

 

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U.S. Speed Sport Goes Live

One of my latest projects went live this weekend. U.S. Speed Sport is devoted to the memory of one of the pioneers of hot rodding, Ted McMullen and his company U.S. Speed Sport.

It’s a WordPress powered site using a custom theme I built on the Studiopress Genesis framework. Why build on the Genesis framework? Genesis provides strong search engine optimization out-of-the-box, dead-simple WordPress upgrades and a great set of core widgets. Now the client can add pages, customize menus and change images on the homepage or headers without requiring a developer.

U.S. Speed Sport also uses Gravity Forms for intelligent form design and handling, and Slickr Flickr to integrate photo galleries hosted on Flickr.

Check out U.S. Speed Sport.