Creative Coaching Options – Website Design

I’ve known Julie Regan for some time now and was both excited and honoured when she asked us to create a website for her specialist coaching venture, Creative Coaching Options.  As you might determine from her business name Julie is an expert is coaching people to access their most creative self and make that creativity productive.

She was clear with us that she didn’t like really busy cluttered sites and that she wanted a lot of space/white on the site – to make it clean and clear.  With such a clear brief I went to work blending Julie’s existing logo, with her desire for “space”, along with a range of images and graphics that represented her creative client base.

She was over the moon with the result (just as we were proud of the work we had done).  Here are Julie’s insights into working with us:

I have been using the Working Solo team for my all my website requirements since 2006 and there are some wonderful reasons why I do:

• Their services are quick and responsive,
• Leah and her team know what they are doing,
• My website doesn’t cost me a fortune and meets my needs – and as a small business this matters,
• I manage my site and have some control over it myself with Working Solo as my support team – great for a non techie person, and
• Importantly they are fun to work with – they add a laugh to my day.

Check out the Creative Coaching Options site…

Morawska Group – Website Design

Last year Leah had the opportunity to meet Jenny Morawska at a business lunch. They chatted over lunch and then again afterwards about their business interests.

Jenny is the managing director of The Morawska Group. She is a senior executive and consultant with extensive international experience and impressive track record. Her work in areas such as peace building, return on human capital and knowledge economy made her an inspirational client to work with.

For close to four years Jenny had been working on getting up a website for The Morawska Group to no avail. She contacted us in January with an urgent need to “get a website up in the next couple of weeks”. We were able to meet her deadline by building on work that had been done in her intial design phase and add some additional options.

Here is Jenny’s take on the project:

“Leah and her team at Working Solo really live their values – they are innovative, creative and they deliver! I have been extremely impressed by Working Solo’s ability to quickly assess our needs and then to add further value by suggesting simple and manageable technical solutions and offering new ways of approaching our requirements. In addition they do what they say they will do! Working Solo keeps us informed of timelines and are highly responsive. Overall an exceptional client service experience.”

Jenny Morawska
CEO The Morawska Group

Check out the site…

Dream Dancer – Website Design

Recently we completed the design of dreamdancer.com.au, a website for civil celebrant Nancy Battenburg. Nancy discovered that many young couples in NT and QLD were looking for their marriage celebrants online and thus decided to have this website designed as support for her role as a civil celebrant.

Nancy’s core specifications were that she wanted a clean, crisp and professional look to the design. The only other major request was that we include some of her favourite colours, primarily purple. With a logo already available to us we worked with this, using the colours of this eye popping image to highlight key aspects such as high level headers and links. To keep it clean and professional we designed the body of the website on a white background and a bold purple sidebar for the navigation. A key to keeping the website looking crisp and clean is to maintain a consistent design and presentation across all pages.  The use of suitably sized borders creates the element of space, making it easy for the eye to follow.

As with many of our client projects the Dream Dancer site has been designed on a Wordpress platform. This will also give Nancy a great opportunity to share her wisdom and experiences via the blog embedded within the site.

Nancy has been a joy to work with and we would recommend her to anyone looking for a celebrant for an upcoming wedding, vow renewals or naming ceremony in NT or QLD.

Shopportunity – Redesigned Website

Late last year we had the opportunity to redesign the website for our client Shopportunity.  The initial design had used a little too much of the pink and yellow colour scheme of the logo and the target of the redesign was to tone down some of the colour used on the site, whilst still keeping the branding of the logo and colours.

Shopportunity are a consulting practice specialising in helping FMCG companies standout from their competitors by increasing relevance and appeal to shoppers.  They provide insight, strategy, implementation and training services.  The site is a supportive part of their marketing strategy and is used to provide information about the company and services, as well as using the blog to provide useful information to clients, prospects and the industry.

The site is a Wordpress installation and we went about creating a new grayscale theme that would just use the pink of the logo in the highest level headings and insert colour via the images used.  Have a look at the Shopportunity site and see what you think of the balance between the bright colours of the logo,  the grayscale of other elements and the fresh white background.