JenTekk Blog

We really enjoy designing sites for kids. It demands color, energy and a certain playfulness.

That is what we feel we’ve accomplished with the BC Library’s latest Kids educational project: Express Yourself: The BC Kids Writing Contest.

JenTekk was contacted June 1st with an opportunity to design a small site for the BC Library Association in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, providing Kids with an opportunity to showcase their writing skills. The only catch was, they needed it done yesterday!

Unable to resist a challenge, working with the BC Library Association again and finally for the love of our kids – I took it on! Fortunately all the preliminary work was ready: basic content, site objectives, and functionality requirements.

Here it is 2 weeks later and launched!

Thanks once again to BCLA et al for the opportunity! May the “Express Yourself” writing contest be a huge success for you, and for our kids!

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JenTekk is pleased to announce the launch of the Kids Summer Reading Club 2011 website themed “Savour Each Word!”

We have had the pleasure of creating the Kids SRC website for the past five years, with this year making it 6!

Thanks to BCLA and the great people who also contribute to the Kids SRC – as always, it was a blast working with you!

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JenTekk is pleased to announce the launch of the new Richmond Shares website.

The Richmond Shares website promotes community giving & sharing above and beyond the peak seasons of giving to a year round practice by providing a place for the Richmond Community to post donated items, or receive needed items.

The previous site – while for the most part meeting Richmond Shares needs – required the commitment of a PHP programmer to volunteer site maintenance. With their generous PHP programmer volunteer unable to continue helping out, Richmond Shares found themselves in a difficult situation.

Old site below:

As a volunteer for the Richmond Women’s Resource Centre (who operate Richmond Shares) I recommended we convert the Richmond Shares website to a Joomla CMS site, giving the Richmond Shares independence & sustainability.

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JenTekk is pleased to announce the launch of the 2010 Kids Summer Reading Club website themed “Reading Rocks!”

We have had the pleasure of creating the Kids SRC website for the past four years, with this year making it 5!

Thanks to BCLA and the great people who also contribute to the Kids SRC – as always, it was a blast working with you!

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It’s been a busy Spring so JenTekk is pleased to announce the completion and launch of a second website this week: Terri Howie (dot) com

Terri Howie’s services include Specialty Auto Sales and Auto Financing for credit challenged customers.

Terri came to me late last fall, knowing exactly what she wanted, expediting the process of getting her website up and running. Joomla CMS was a perfect match for her!

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JenTekk is pleased to announce the launch of LIDO Skin Care – an eCommerce website solution developed with Joomla 1.5 CMS and VirtueMart.

I met Sarah, A smart, sweet and ambitious young lady, at Bikrams Hot Yoga.

Before and after classes we discussed her goals of one day starting up a company and selling her own line of 100% natural skin care products.

As a friend and business owner myself, I was excited to help Sarah make her dream a reality.

Side by side we took the journey together… discussing what it took to start-up a business, registering her business name, her .com and .ca domain names, securing a reputable host and finally strategizing the development of her website, including the use of Joomla CMS, her site’s look & feel, and possible eCommerce solutions.

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I was surfing through JenTekk old site design folders and came upon the original site design – from back in 2001, and several others that followed.

They were experiments in color and style, but mostly reflected the fact that I really was still trying to find my own identity and my own personal website design style.

I will post them from the earliest to the latest, its been quite the journey. Enjoy!

2001: JenTekk’s first website – static

Not bad for a first try, but after a while I felt it was too conservative, too blue.

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