Jami Mays

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VictoriaMuñoz.com

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You may recall reading about Victoria’s original design that I worked on in late 2013. Well after two years, she was ready for something fresh and feminine. Victoria and I had “done the damn thing” back when we first worked together, so she’s a savvy, independent site owner who knows a thing or two about what kind of content her new website needed. She came to me with a pre-selected collection of images, textures and fonts from Creative Market and gave me creative freedom to pick out something fresh (I love that!), so we went with a scrolling, long-homepage theme, Cafe Pro, and only added a few customizations to make it personal.

Another great feature of this redesign was that we were able to take advantage of Flywheel’s new staging feature which gave us the opportunity to clone her old site to a new, developmental space where we were able to redesign and deploy with the push of a button. Damn, I love those guys from Flywheel!

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CFFatUGA.com

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Buz Amason is the husband of another client of mine, CJ Amason, Executive Director of the Foundation for Excellence in Public Education here in Clarke County, Georgia. Buz also oversees a ministry, The Christian Faculty Forum that had been able to host a very basic, very outdated version of their website on The University of Georgia’s servers for several years.

It was time for CFF to upgrade their website and more effectively communicate with it’s members and prospective members. I built this site starting with Minimum Pro, one of my favorite Genesis child themes. I also used WP Types & Views to create a faculty directory page and used Gravity Forms to make a semi-private submission form to populate the Faculty page with entries that are approved by Buz.

Another feature that I was able to highlight with the WP Types & Views plugin was CFF’s Media page. Many of CFF’s monthly meetings are recorded and these audio clips are now able to be hosted in an attractive, easy to navigate page template.

The final hurdle that we ran into with CFF’s site was trying to get the site that I developed onto UGA’s servers, where the site had been hosted for many years. We ran into quite a few hurdles including limited access to the database, an outdated version of PHP and a lack of understanding WordPress from the tech support desk at UGA. After many months of trying to get it online, Buz finally agreed to go with my gut and we called Flywheel and had the site online and zippy-fast within a day. I can’t say enough about how a great host will make your life easier!

This was a fun project with lots of little layers of complication that stimulated and excited my brain!

 

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Buz Amason

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I needed a total website makeover for the ministry I work for. Jami did a great job of explaining to me the options for my new website, what functionality it would have, and how I could update it. She also worked with me in getting it on a server when I had problems with the server I had been using. Overall, I am very pleased with the look of the website and the support I’ve received from Jami.

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Carly Hanna

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We were so impressed with Jami’s vision and depth of experience! After working with other designers, it was Jami that designed the right logo and branding to fit our company. Jami performed beautifully in branding our company, designing our website and laying out our print materials. Her work ethic is stellar and she is always fun to work with!

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TheLovettCenter.com

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A few years back, I had the honor of working with an incredible woman in Atlanta that was on the ground floor of Brené Brown’s highly experiential methodology based on the research, The Daring Way™. Through this initial connection, I found myself in a delightful referral chain where I have been able to work with several counselors and therapists who have completed or are in the process of completing their Daring Way™ training.

In September of 2014, I was honored to be contacted by Carly Hanna, office manager for The Lovett Center, a community of helping professionals. Given my personal interest in coworking and collaborative work spaces, I was immediately interested in The Lovett Center because of it’s teamwork-makes-the-dreamwork approach to therapeutic work with their clients. In addition, one of the founders of The Lovett Center, Robert Hilliker, served as the Chief Clinical Officer for over three years, working alongside Brené Brown with The Daring Way™.

I was charged with taking over the project after a run with a different designer didn’t work out and I was tasked with branding, web development, social media asset design and print asset design. It was a super fun project and such a cool way for me to, yet again, have a connection with The Daring Way™.

 

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Audrey Ryman

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Where do I begin? How about starting with JAMI IS AMAZING! From start to finish, she was on top of the ball and incredibly meticulous. (Which is IDEAL for someone designing a website) Jami was responsive and intuitive throughout the process and was also open to changing things if I changed my mind. Jami knows her stuff and I highly recommend working with her. Jami is quite informed of the latest in technical design, she has a fantastic eye, and makes it so that your website is user-friendly while matching features to your level of comfort with technology. She is BRILLIANT! I’m not sure if it is apparent enough how grateful I am that she designed my website. [Read more…] about Audrey Ryman

Jennifer Kogan

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Jami did a wonderful job of tapping into what I was looking for before I even knew what that was! I highly recommend Jami for both her creative chops and for her deep knowledge of how websites work. I absolutely love my site! Thanks, Jami! [Read more…] about Jennifer Kogan

MelaniRobinson.com

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When Melani and I first met at the tail end of 2011, our lives were at an interesting intersection. I had just recently stopped blogging about online dating and she was on the cusp of a commitment to one full year of online dating — at fifty years old!

Yes, believe it. That hot babe in the picture below is not 35, like you might have guessed. Melani is beautiful, inside and out and it has been such an honor to be the one that gets to help tell her story.

After a year of dating online and writing about it on her now-offline blog, 1 Year of Online Dating at 50, she spent the following year writing about her life on her personal brand site, MelaniRobinson.com. When she was nearly finished with her book — a retooling of the blog content from 1 Year of Online Dating at 50, it was time to get things set to launch on a new site, with a slicker brand and a better presentation for her content.

Prior to this design, Melani was working with a standard blog-style theme. With this relaunch, we felt like it was important for her to have a “home” page that gave lots of access to different content without the scrolling-scrolling-scrolling. We also wanted something a bit edgier — still clean and minimal, because that’s Melani’s style — but something that just whispered, “New York.”

She got new headshots, I helped her put together a hilarious intro video (seriously, you should check it out!) and I installed the new design. I’m thrilled with how this one turned out and so very grateful to have a client that “gets” me in a way that feels more like a friend than some stuffy, professional relationship.

Here’s the screengrab which shows you the responsiveness of the site as well as the slick Genesis responsive menu that I learned about from Ozzy Rodriguez at WPBacon.com. I’m especially excited about the menu icons that we’re using from TheNounProject.com, too. We also moved her site away from GoSloDaddy and onto the zippy, well-supported shoulders of my favorite folks over at Flywheel.

Since she’s re-releasing the old 1 Year of Online Dating at 50 content as a book with additional content, we pulled the old blog down and redirected the traffic over to a landing page that will, for now, serve as a space to gather emails in anticipation of the new launch and, when it launches, will serve as the sales page for the book.

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AmberMcCann.com

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Amber McCann and I have been friends for, shoot… Going on ten years, I guess! Amber maintained a private practice for ten years as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in the DC area and, just last year, moved to Pittsburgh with her family where she supports families at The Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburgh and she also coordinates their social media efforts. Amber is a sought after speaker and presenter and helps other IBCLCs understand how to support more families by increasing their digital footprints.

It was so fun working on this together because Amber and I have such a great relationship to start with. I designed her signature logo and we built out on the Agency Theme (the same theme as my site!). I’m really excited by the responsive nature of this site, especially the way the footer adjusts on smaller screens.

 

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NeatandPretty.com

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For all the years I probably made my big sister’s life a living hell, I’m making up for it now. Working with my sister on building her website and her brand has been a really interesting process. Our meetings usually consist of the two of us on either her couch or my couch and we’re so in sync with each other’s workflow and design aesthetics that we can usually knock out a month’s worth of work in an afternoon.

Julie is an organizing consultant, compulsive furniture re-arranger and general spacial magician. Her blog, Neat & Pretty has gone through a few different designs but I think we’ve finally found the perfect fit of form + function.

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