What happens when your hard drive falls over and your backups go pear-shaped?
I've had a pretty wild/busy start to 2018 - between my younger daughter turning 21 a week before Christmas, Christmas, and my elder daughter's birthday a week after new years, there were 3 pretty wild storms that dropped a lot of water and some impressive lightning on...
School of Law and Justice SLJ Research eNews
I haven't done much print work for a while, so it was nice to be able to refresh my Photoshop skills and put this newsletter together for the School of Law and Justice before Christmas. Most of my Photoshop work these days is image enhancement, and much smaller...
Are you organised for Christmas?
I can just see you falling about laughing, unless you're one of those wonderful people who are indeed organised. I try so hard to do this, but have to confess that even though I'm very much a 'list' person these days, I was actually much more organised when the kids...
The Men and Family Centre
A site refresh. Wordpress, customised Divi, Bloom, Ninja Forms, and the usual security and SEO plugins including Wordfence and Yoast SEO. Site released: 1 July 2017 Visit the Site: menandfamily.org.au
Lismore Chamber of Commerce Member Directory
The Lismore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) website has been an evolving thing since I first became a Chamber sponsor, and started working on the site back in 2013. A big overhaul in 2014 was also done after a significant change of name and rebranding...
Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce
This was a site redesign for the Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce, including an online members directory and event calendar. This was also an opportunity to highlight member stories, and generally update all content. The original site hadn't been updated for some years,...
Lismore Bathroom Renovations
Grant from Ranford Construction, aka Lismore Bathroom Renovations, contacted me a few weeks ago about a new website. Three days later, the website was done - no mucking around! It's a simple one-page site, which also benefits from referrals from Echo Bathroom...
Lismore Women’s Festival Workshop
Start a new website or whip the one you’ve got into shape, and how to decide if social media really is the perfect match for your business. Having a professional, comprehensive website is important for pretty much every new business. But getting started can seem...
Bristax … Business Accounting Services
Stephen from Bristax got in touch with me early this year about his website. He's done an awesome job of building the site himself, but realised that at some point he really needed to focus on what he is expert in - Tax / Accounting / Superannuation - and stop...
Aurora Suspended Fires
I've been working with the lovely people at Aurora Suspended Fires for some time now, first on a "help, save my site" job after the original developers caused some issues, and more recently when it was decided that it was more efficient and practical to essentially...
Manage my (your) own Website
A handy little app to help you get a grip on your website! One of my own projects over the Christmas break (yes, I know it already seems like such a long time ago!) was to create an app ... it's been on the list for ages, and finally v1 is done, and published on the...
Flu bugs, fame and getting stuff done!
WOW ... it's been a challenging and busy few weeks ... nothing out of the ordinary really but the flu bug really bit, and that was the thing that made the difference! I was powering along beautifully, getting a LOT of work done, then the universe decided I needed to...
I’ve been absent (from blogging) for a while!
I've been absent, but in a good way! Busy working on many and varied projects, I stopped doing my usual post when I 'released' a new client website. And partly because of that I've not been blogging at all. My bad! The reality is that while blogging comes more...
Stellas … what do you do if …
Hello Stellas, thanks for coming along tonight (May 2016). Here's notes from my presentation which you are free to share. Since posting, I realise I may have inadvertently mailed this out to my list by accident (posts are set to go automatically), so even there's...
When I was two I was nearly new…
When I was one I had just begun When I was two I was nearly new From Now we are Six, AA Milne I'm not quite sure where the last 12 months has gone, but all of a sudden Leumesin Design is two! Last Saturday in fact … 25 October. Woo hoo!! It's actually been quite a big...
A one-page landing site for Ezi-Make™
Ezi-Make™ (Making the bed just got easy!) is a new product, invented by a local business owner - David Martin, who also owns a bricks and mortar store (InStyle Sleep Centre) here in Lismore. I've been doing more one-page landing sites for clients lately, and they are...
A beautiful new website for Market Edge Photography
Update July 2016 - sadly, it would seem that Market Edge Photography is no more. Photography websites are always a little more challenging that some other varieties of website! I know all websites need to look their best, but for a photographer who relies on the...
New website: Catholic Parish of Alstonville and Wardell
Following changes to the Catholic Parish of Alstonville and Wardell, a new website incorporating both Our Lady of the Rosary at Alstonville and St Patrick's at Wardell was needed. At the start of this project, Our Lady of the Rosary at Alstonville had had website for...
Living Communities website – a refresh and transfer to WordPress
Living Communities is a resource site designed to raise the awareness for individuals and communities to the issues of suicide. Matthew, the site owner, is a new client, and he wanted to be able to manage the site, and update information in a straight-forward way. The...
A brand new website for Effective Workplace Solutions
Effective Workplace Solutions is a local business who needed a new website - their first! Greg Arnold, their principal consultant was incredibly organised and could give me a clear brief about what was needed and examples of sites he liked. Greg also had logos in the...
A website refresh: LEXSA – Southern Cross University Lismore & External Student Association
LEXSA - the SCU Lismore and External Student Association - is a new client, already using Wordpress, but needed a refresh of their website for the new academic year. They did have two other sites that had been created previously, and imagery and content from those...
Child Care Centres on the North Coast: 4 sites in one!
When Jen Morrin called me just before Christmas last year, we talked about her four child care centres and the need for a website. and fast! It sounded quite straight forward to start with, but there were actually four mini-sites needed under the one umbrella...
TNT Personal Training: the quickest (WordPress) website I’ve ever done!
Update February 2015: Unfortunately, this business is no longer operating and the website is, therefore, unavailable. I had a call last week from John White from TNT Personal Training (tntpt.com.au) - a brand new small business on the Gold Coast - who had put...
The Newtown Review of Books: from wordpress.com to wordpress.org
I've been working with the lovely people at The Newtown Review of Books (NRB) since the release of their first blog - a wordpress.com site - in March 2012. Last year we began talking about a redesign, but as can often happen, initial designs were done, themes...