Clients

• The Burgess Edge: Website development, graphic and code work.
• Cambridge Engineering: Website and email relocation.
• Capitol Grounds: Website revisions, maintenance.
• ReVisions: Website redevelopment, electronic newsletter templates, application support and training.
• Runs With Scissors: Internet blogging and HTML coaching.
• Stone Environmental, Inc.: Website redevelopment and maintenance, application support.
• The Vermont Yarn Company: New website development.

The Burgess Edge

Kir helped the Burgess Edge with their second Internet incarnation, when they made the leap from a plain, informational site to an e-commerce site. She customized the host's templates to construct a look and feel consistent with Mike's practical view of carpentry and business. We got the site up and running with the basics of e-commerce, using the particular features of a large hosting company.

Kir also assisted Mike with the development of some graphics for banner advertising, providing the final graphic and the code snippet for its implementation to the advertiser.

Cambridge Engineering

Cambridge Engineering sought a way to consolidate and simplify its webhosting arrangements, which included Cambridge Engineering, ReVisions, and Cathedral Arts websites. Kir identified local web hosting packages, worked with Marty Poppe to determine the best system of email mailboxes and aliases, and to relocate the sites to the new server.

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Capitol Grounds

Kir currently maintains the web site for Capitol Grounds, a terrific coffee shop in Montpelier, Vermont. (She doesn't just say this because we work with them; she's a bit of a coffee junkie. Mmm, coffee.) On a monthly basis, she reviews the site for currency and accuracy. She has also been involved in some site redesign (which is why if you click that image, the site is slightly different than this screen shot), site graphics production for product sales, and software training for the shop owner.

ReVisions

ReVisions, a company specializing in organizational coaching, needed reliable templates for both email and print forms of her newsletters. In 2003, Kir crafted custom templates for each application, using software the client was already comfortable with and building on existing skills.

Several months later, Merryn hired Kir back to redesign her website. They worked together to develop an entirely new look suitable to Merryn's known audience (primarily IE browsers) and compatible with ReVisions' existing materials, and launched this in October, 2004. The site is built to current web standards. Kir is especially pleased to have provided for this site some images (under a creative commons license), and stylesheets specifically for screen media and printing.

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Runs With Scissors

In 2003, Kir helped a local writer develop a broader understanding of HTML. We reviewed the capabilities of Namo WebEditor together, while adjusting and customizing his blog. We explored alternative blogging options, RSS subscriptons and embedding, and how to build a deeper site in his own domain; other topics covered included additional user skills on his PC and FTP.

Stone Environmental

In cooperation with Debra Howard Communications, Kir worked with Stone Environmental, Inc. to maintain and expand their site. We upgraded their site several years ago to improve its navigational useability and expand its content. In 2004, Kir and Deb began working with Stone to truly modernize the site, expanding the site to more completely reflect the variety of work Stone does. The look, structure, function, and content of the site were all improved.Their revised site was launched November 2004.This is a fairly extensive application of the Suckerfish Dropdown menu system (for which Kir is very grateful!).

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The Vermont Yarn Company

Kir designed and built a small website for the Vermont Yarn Company. It needed to extend and expand the look of their current marketing materials tot he web, as well as provide a simple, solid web presence. She took digital photos within and outside the shop as needed, used some of their existing graphics, and coached the owner through domain registration and hosting. We're exploring having a more dynamic list of products in future.This site was launched in July, 2005.

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