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  • Bringing Visions to Life: Photos, Reviews, and What’s Next

    Bringing Visions to Life: Photos, Reviews, and What’s Next

    This week marked a big step forward in developing both Joe’s and Sam’s websites. I focused on integrating their photos and editing key sections to improve both the look and overall user experience. Adding Joe’s pictures and Sam’s pictures really helped bring personality and authenticity to each site. Visual content makes a huge difference. It…

  • Bringing the Vision to Life: Refining Sam’s Gallery & Finalizing Joe’s Website

    Bringing the Vision to Life: Refining Sam’s Gallery & Finalizing Joe’s Website

    This past week has been all about refining, experimenting, and getting closer to the finish line and two important parts of my project-showcasing Sam’s work in a more professional way and wrapping up the final parts of Joe’s website. One of my main focuses this week has been finding the best way to display Sam’s…

  • Final Stretch Mode: Content Coming Together & Sites Taking Shape

    Final Stretch Mode: Content Coming Together & Sites Taking Shape

    This week felt like a big step forward as everything starting to come together. I spent a good majority of time this week reaching out to Joe and Sam to gather more photos and information for their websites. Sam was able to send over quite a few pictures which was a huge help and made…

  • Building Connections and Bringing Client Visions to Life

    Building Connections and Bringing Client Visions to Life

    During this past week of internship work I continued to make great progress in communication and technical development. I spent a lot of time working with Joe. We focused on the expectations I have for him to send over customer reviews by the middle of this week so I can add them to the website.…

  • Laying the Foundation: One Site Paused, Another Takes Shape

    Laying the Foundation: One Site Paused, Another Takes Shape

    This week has been a big step forward in my web design work—even if part of it involved hitting a temporary pause. I made great progress on building Joe’s website and got a really solid foundation in place. The layout, structure, and overall feel of the site are coming together very nicely, and it’s exciting…

  • The Secret to Great Websites: SEO + Smart Client Conversations

    The Secret to Great Websites: SEO + Smart Client Conversations

    This week I put my focus heavily on developing SEO for Joe’s website. I am still waiting to receive some pictures and additional content from him. I focused on creating keywords and adjusted how the website pages would appear in search. For most of the websites I used keywords such as “auto-repair, Eau Claire, Local…

  • Patience and Progress

    Patience and Progress

    Throughout these last couple weeks, I have been talking more to Joe about his visions for his auto mechanic website. We discussed colors and logo, project expectations, offered services, and preferred contact information for website visitors. Over the last few days, I worked hard on finding a good theme on WordPress for Joe’s website. I…

  • Conversations and Creations

    Conversations and Creations

    I had another amazing conversation with Joe this week. We talked more about expectations not only from me but also from him. I mentioned to him that finding photos and receiving reviews from his current customers will be great additions to his website. I started to create a schedule of pages that he wants, expectations,…

  • Mishaps, Conversations, and Moving On

    Mishaps, Conversations, and Moving On

    This past week was a roller coaster for me. I ended up not taking the internship I had previously mentioned due to more requirements of the job that I did not know about. However, I did have a great conversation with our family friend Joe. I am going to be working a website to help…

  • Interviewing, Networking, and Hoping

    Interviewing, Networking, and Hoping

    Coming into week two I had my interview with the Borgen Project today. They are a non-profit organization who focuses on fighting global poverty. Their work focuses on using their large social media presence to educate people on poverty in not only our country but other countries. They use their platform to connect with congress…