These come with high resolution images and may include custom coloring to match your website or color scheme. Need more customizing? Ask for a quote!

More to come as I finish digging cleaning out my archive of files! Spring cleaning, the digital version!

Check out all the pre-mades here.

When creating a web site its ideal to have the same look and navigation throughout the site. Changing the look or navigation on each page can confuse your customer and make them more likely to leave your site to shop somewhere else. The only exceptions are catalog pages that may utilize categories to help make browsing easier, as long as the customer can still access the rest of your site too! Preferably you want to be able to get to anywhere on your site in 2 clicks or less and direct access is even better. The more accessible your products are, the more likely the customer will spend time browsing your site and finding an item they want to purchase. If your customer has to click “catalog” and select the “category” they want each time they want to look for another item, they will quickly become frustrated and shop elsewhere.

Web designs, especially those on cart systems, are built and coded in a template system. This means one or two files run the entire site. The content is the area within the template that changes depending on the page that the visitor is looking at. Generally I wont design for content because that will change on every page, instead I design for the over all look of the site. If you do have pages that need alternative navigation or design that requires another template to be made and not included in my design packages. Please ensure to specify that you require more than one look, or template before your project begins so that you are not surprised with the additional design fees associated with them.

Below are a couple web site examples that may help you understand the parts of the web layout and template.

Its important to note that web sites may include all or only a few of these. Each business is unique and the design should be unique to the needs and goals of the site. Another example screen grab is shown below.

1. The Logo. Your logo might be a square, simple text or cover the entire header. Logos vary greatly depending on your needs.
2. Header/Horizontal Navigation. Usually includes your global navigation. These are the links you want your visitors to have access to no matter where they are on the web site.
3. Sub Navigation. This may include important links, sub categories or other links that fit near the top.
4. Side Bar/ Side Navigation. This is a common place for links that help with navigating categories, sub pages and other handy links. May also include important information that you would like displayed on every page.
5. The Content. This is the meat of your site. The dynamic area that changes on every page. This is not part of the template and not part of the mockup. The content may have examples shown on the mockup as placeholder information.
6. The Footer. The bottom of the page that may include another set of horizontal links and also any copyright information. Anything could be included here from simple links to social networking icons to messages and updates.
7. The Background. Computer monitors now vary in size from very large to tiny mobile phone screens. The background is the color or image used to fill the space behind the web site in the browser window. It could compliment the site but not distract the visitors.

From Jamie:

The General Manager of Your Universe is not another how-to-be-happy book. There are plenty of those on the market. It’s about facing your responsibility to create the life you desire. This includes recognizing how you have contributed thus far and how you can do so much better from this point on. It’s time trade in the victim card and replace it with the empowered, confident you that you are meant to be. This book has straightforward language and sometimes shocking examples. It is not going to stroke your ego, it’s going to lead you to the inside of you and that might not always be easy to look at. But it’s time to stop searching for external influences to make you happy and feel good. Make yourself feel good. Live authentically, joyfully and empowered. That is the journey this book will lead you on. Only read, if you are certain you are ready to be you.

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Just recently I decided that it needed a face lift. I designed the site back when I was in school for design, so it was a bit dated. As the story with most designers, we do everyone else’s sites first and often neglect our own! I decided that I needed to just jump in and do it and stop procrastinating!

Well, the new site is ready for everyone to see! I decided that if I was going to do it, I wanted to do it different! I broke every rule that I have for web design and decided to stop thinking rationally with this one. I told myself I’d never create a horizontal site; well I guess its true, you can never say never. When you visit the site, you’ll see what I mean. Most will either love it or hate it, and my feelings will not be hurt if its just not your style. Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think!