Sample Projects

Laurel has designed, redesigned, set-up. and/or maintained a plethora of blogs, websites, and Social Media Accounts.  Laurel can work with various website development platforms, including industry-specific web builders.  This list is by no means comprehensive, and it most likely does not reflect current projects.

http://twobytennessee.com/

This site is an HTML based website, with style-sheets for both desktop/web versions, and  accompanying Facebook and Twitter Accounts.  As this site was for an Equity Production, Equity-specific guidelines had to be followed.  It is a "mobile responsive site," and most of it was coded by hand.

Although the production has now closed, the Producers have decided to keep the website "live" for a potential revival.  It is also archived by "The Wayback Machine" at http://web.archive.org/web/20161228233413/http://twobytennessee.com/ .

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inostrakans.com

Unfortunately, this site has not been live for a number of years, but it is still accessible through The Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org/web/20130602140335/http://inostrakans.com/)  It is an HTML-based site, and again, is mostly hand-coded.

Laurel developed this site as a companion to a site that hosted Live Chat during episodes.  It also had an accompanying Twitter Feed.  Back in 2011, blogging was still fairly new, and Fan Sites were just becoming a big thing.  This site was designed to echo the look of these brand new Blogs. At the time, it was the #1 Fan Site for The Event TV Show.  

This site is interesting in several ways.  It's archived Twitter demonstrates its use as a tool for engaging your audience, as well as how to "live tweet" an entertainment event.  It also serves as an example of Laurel's TV recapping skills.  EVERYTHING on the site was designed by and written by Laurel.

Laurel originally built the site in response to requests from the Chat Group.  She basically threw it up in about 48 hours. Thus, it is also an example of a simple site that can be done very economically.

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http://save-dollhouse.blogspot.com/

This was Laurel's very first Blogger site.  It was also Laurel's very first Fan Site.  The blog was originally started as a part of a Fan Campaign to avert series cancellation.  When a second season was announced, Laurel converted the blog to a recap site.  Again, these articles were all written by Laurel herself, and serve as writing samples, as well as content development samples.

The site remains live, as it was developed under a "free" blogger account, which does not require the expense of domain name fees.  Although it utilized a dot com while the show aired, it was easy to revert back to a free account when the domain name expired.  

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http://www.longboatkeyfinancial.com

Longboat Key Financial uses an industry-specific web development package, and has done so since first developing a site.  This system is template and widget based, similar to WordPress.  Longboat Key Financial wanted to modernize their website, and accomplish things that the design software was not designed to handle.  They initially hired Laurel to troubleshoot their office PCs, and subsequently, hired Laurel to try to adapt their software to meet their desired web site goals.  They basically wanted her to put a square peg in a triangular hole.

 After several conference calls between Longboat Key Financial, the platform developers, and Laurel, laurel was able to edit the template and completely overhaul the style-sheets to give the site a look and feel the development platform did not necessarily support, as well as adapt the templates so that the formerly non-compliant base code now validated with no errors. 

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http://hartelawblog.blogspot.com/

These clients were locked into a contract with Findlaw, and they were not at all happy about it.  Their search rankings were slipping, and they found out that the "blog articles" Findlaw had sold them were not unique to their own site, but rather sold to all lawyers utilizing their platform.  They decided to write and develop a separate blog to improve their rankings.  They wanted original content in various areas of the law to establish the attorney's perceived expertise.  They wanted to experiment with adding several new practice area.

This Law Office hired Laurel to ghostwrite a blog. as well as to help with re-writing some of the content pages for their current site, as well as the new site they were planning once they left FindLaw.  Later, they asked Laurel to develop a course on Land Trusts, a new area of Real Estate Law they were now involved with.  Again, this blog is an example of both design and maintenance, as well as content development and writing. 

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This list represents a very small sample of sites Laurel has developed.  It is meant to reflect a variety of different platforms. subjects, styles, etc.  It is by no means comprehensive.

Much of Laurel's work is uncredited.  As Laurel built her first site in the late 1990s, a lot of the sites she developed have come and gone.  However, many "dead sites" are still available for viewing through The Way Back Machine at Archive.Org.

Many of the examples above have "associated services" (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, forums, etc.) that Laurel also recommended and developed.  And of course, THIS site's Facebook Page serves as a live example of Laurel's Facebook Page Management Skills.  It also represents the current possibilities of a Blogger based site.  (Yes, you CAN have a multi-page Blogger site, and no, WordPress is not the best selection for everyone.)

Feel free to contact info [at] techlaurels dot com if you'd like specific samples, or you think Laurel can help you in any way.

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