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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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August 28th, I received an email from BC Academic Health Council asking if I was interested in creating a magazine website for e-HLbc – Electronic Health Library of BC. This was to be another one of the many initiatives of the BCAHC.

When I heard that they were interested in using Joomla 1.5 CMS – naturally I said yes!

Before – preliminary mock-up

Attached was a preliminary design…

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JenTekk is pleased to announce the launch of the Kids Summer Reading Club (SRC) 2009 website today!

I am honored to have been invited yet again (my fourth year) to assist with the Kids SRC program.

The Kids SRC is designed to get children reading, with the use of a fun theme, posters, stickers, a reading record, bookmarks, completion medals, and novelty items. In addition each year they have a new designed website: Kids SRC 2009 which offers 7 quizzes (1 for each week of the program) word puzzles, and fun games.

Interestingly enough, some of the kids that participate in the Kids SRC are children of my own friends! That certainly makes it pretty exciting.

As I’d mentioned, this the the fourth year in assisting with the program. You may view the 3 previous website designs by JenTekk below…

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Donna from Fairlawn Labradors had many compliments on her first website with JenTekk, created sometime back in 2003.

Technology has come a long way since then – thank goodness! When I offered Donna an opportunity to convert her static website to a WordPress CMS website – explaining that she would be able to update it herself at her own leisure her eyes lit up.

Photos of Fairlawn’s dogs and puppies were important to Donna’s marketing strategy, so we added a WordPress plugin called NextGen Gallery – a simple, easy to use photo album/gallery generator.

We also took the opportunity to give Fairlawn’s Website a fresh new look, so first…

Before

And now for the new and improved WordPress site…

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Many clients have been asking me what I’ve been up to this spring, as they’ve not seen a lot of action in JenTekk’s portfolio.

Along with assisting Vancouver Community College Library with a new look for the home page content, and developing Sustainable Cities’ home page and Youth-Led pages, here are 3 projects I am currently working on.

Kids Summer Reading Club 2009

We have had the privilege and pleasure of developing the Kids Summer Reading Club’s website for 4 years in a row. The annual Reading Club is sponsored by the BC Library’s Association, along with BC’s local Libraries and the Royal Bank of Canada.

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JenTekk is pleased to announce the recent launch of yet another pet project: cafeyogi.com

I first tried Bikram Hot Yoga on June 25th, 2008 at the Bikram Richmond Studio. I”ll never forget my first class – it was challenging! Between the heat, the postures, and my own demons – it was the longest 90 minutes in history for me.

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Before…

Design Tech Hair Studio is a very successful Hair Salon in Richmond. Its original design (built by JenTekk in 2003) reflected the salon’s brand back then.

Built for 800 x 600 screen resolution, static pages, and in basic HTML (no CSS) it was time to upgrade in a big way and move Design Tech Hair Studio into a Content Management System. We chose WordPress, as the customer’s needs were basic.

After…

Solution: a sexy and clean WordPress (customized template) CMS website – reflecting the salon’s new brand, colors and attitude.

All the best Grace and Yumi. It was a pleasure to assist you with your website make-over!

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