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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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!

Terri shared with me in detail her website needs, its purpose, target market and functionality. JenTekk happily assisted her in securing the .com and .ca domain name, as well as a reputable hosting company.

To work within her budget, I recommended that Terri preview some Commercial Joomla Templates, which reflected the style, design and layout that she needed.

Terri chose Zeox a boldly colored, yet simply designed Joomla Template. As you can see, we were able to keep the majority of the original template design, which enabled Terri to place the majority of her resources into the content development.

In addition to Joomla CMS, we needed to add a customized application form. After researching a couple of extensions, I settled on ChronoForms – a simple yet powerful Joomla form extension – luv it!

The finishing touches were added to the website only hours ago – so this site is truly “hot-off-the-press”!

Congratulations Terri! It was a blast working with you on your site. I hope that your new venture will prosper as you help people “get on the road again”!

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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.

Once all the preliminary discovery work was complete, I began designing an original Joomla 1.5 CMS template according the website design styles we had looked over together… simple and clean.

During this time, Sarah developed her brand, researched manufacturers, created her skin care line, hired a photographer for product photos, learned Joomla CMS, and moved to the East Coast! Now that is ambitious!

We discussed several eCommerce solutions. After much research and upon recommendation by a local business owner, Sarah identified VirtueMart coupled with PayPal as the eCommerce solution most suitable for her immediate website needs… we learned VirtueMart together!

So here we are today, not even a year later, LIDO Skin Care site launched and ready to do business.

You can already find LIDO Skin Care on Facebook!

Congratulations Sarah on your new Company LIDO Skin Care, on the creation of your fabulous products, and the launch of your Joomla CMS & VirtueMart eCommerce website!

It was an honor and a pleasure to work with you on this. I wish you the best with your product line and much success in the future!

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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.

2003: JenTekk second site – flash

My next design I wanted to implement more color, and a unique style. In addition I wanted to showcase my flash skills. This is what I turned out:

2005: JenTekk’s third site – static

Having wet my feet with brighter colors on the flash site, I decided to take it one step further. I opted for very vibrant colors (I think they actually scratched the retina’s of one’s eyes) and an unconventional site layout & design. This site design borders on being obnoxious!

Each page of this site was another abusive color. I’m not sure if you noticed, but I had changed my logo as well. This site and logo wasn’t going to last long. Most people either loved it or hated it… lol! Not a good thing.

2006: JenTekk’s fourth site – flash

This flash website was made strictly to showcase my flash skills. I also wanted it to be very creative, and was actually quite happy with the way this site turned out, but I still hadn’t secured my identity and brand with this project.

2007: JenTekk’s current website – dynamic

Fortunately, after years of designing websites for other people, I started to get a feel for who JenTekk was, and who my target market was.

My current site design showed my own personal style and philosophy on site design, which is what I wanted to reflect as a brand… it was simple, vibrant, and professional.

I’d finally came up with a logo, a color, a style, and a brand that I could be proud of and hang on to:

This site is clean, has a large band of vibrant color, with subtle hues of the same color (in the menu, footer and page titles) to add some life.

The different images in the header add some interest without being over-the-top, and used to enhance the message of that particular page.

When its time to update my website design (yes I like to keep up-to-date with the latest trends) I can guarantee it won’t be too different from this one.

We’ve come a long way baby! JenTekk is finally in da house!

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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…

It would be my job to create the Joomla template based on this design and the functionality required, as well as install and configure the site, set up the modules, menus, add a sitemap extension and develop the information architecture so that all they had to do was go into the back-end and add content.

This is really fun for me… the directions, expectations and requirements had been defined so clearly, that only just over 2 weeks later the site was set-up and it’s design up for preview.

After a few small minor changes we officially declared the site’s design complete on September 25th!

After – final site design

Here is the final design…

My work comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes – this was such a fun little project for me.

Thanks to all the wonderful people at BCAHC and e-HLbc for bringing me in on this project – all the best!

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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…

Kids SRC 2008, 2007, 2006

	Kids SRC 2008 »
	Kids SRC 2007 »
	Kids SRC 2006 »

Thank You!

Being involved in this BC Kids summer reading program is so much fun, that I just keep making myself available to participate, in conjunction with the BCLA (BC Library Association).

Thank you again to the BCLA for the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful program!

(The SRC is sponsored by the British Columbia Library Association, and the local public libraries with the assistance of the Public Library Services Branch, Ministry of Education, Shirley Bond, Minister)

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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…

After

Donna is so pleased with the new look. And though we’ve not had our training session yet, I know she’s going to love how simple maintaining her site and growing her photo galleries will be.

Its been a pleasure working with you Donna! Next… training! Piece of cake!

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