Ready made logos and templates are here again! I’m cleaning out my computer files and adding more ready made logos and templates for purchase. All ready made images are one of a kind and only sold to one customer.

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.

During the mockup phase you’ll receive a full size rendition of your web site design. When we discuss your layout it’ll help if you understand the parts of your design that we are focusing on and I’m hoping this blog article will help.

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.

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Really. Check out Jamie Roth’s new web site (designed by Web Savvy Mama, of course) to get more information about her new book. I’ve worked with Jamie on a few projects now and have had a blast creating web sites for her because we often have the same vision of what it should look like. I kid that she is my easiest client ever. Design aside, her web sites are also fun because of the content. Jamie is definitely not afraid to speak her mind and tell it how it is! This is why I highly recommend taking a look at her new book currently available in eBook format. I did get the pleasure of not only doing her website but designing the cover for her book as well.

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.

Buy the book online at Smashwords.

I’m updating my web site, its been a long time coming! In this update I’m doing away with the old portfolio and going with a more updated way to manage it. All items will be featured on the blog area of my site rather than a hard to update portfolio page.

Here are some older logo designs that date back pre-2008 that I wanted to keep in my online digital portfolio.

Not see what you are looking for? These are a small sample of the many many logos and designs I’ve done, ask for more examples if you have something specific in mind!

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Just a few sites and logos that I worked on over the winter. More will be added for the spring ones soon.

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Check them out! dessandj Wrap a Bye Baby Lindsay Lane More to come!

I thought I’d take a few moments to walk through the request a quote form to help answer any questions visitors may have while looking for web design services.

The request a quote form is located on the contact page.

Why do I ask potential clients to fill out this form? This helps me get an idea of the project and get several basic questions out of the way in the first email so subsequent emails can contain more of the nitty gritty of your actual web design needs. This helps to ensure that I understand the scope of your project and answers many of the common questions clients have when they first approach Web Savvy Mama for a web design. Read More…

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