JenTekk Blog

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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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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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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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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Before…

Previous design was warm and inviting, however the church had undergone big changes and wished to portray a fresh new look.

After…

With bright blues, the yellow sun, and city scape, the new design feels fresh and energetic.

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The original design was to accomplish a personal and friendly feel, but lacked the energy and innovative look that Autocoach’s new sales strategy required.

After…

New Web 2.0 look, clean, glossy and open – lends to the exciting and innovative concept of mobile sales.

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