WordPress Blog Portfolio

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If you want a great-looking and well-functioning blog that’s also been optimized for search engines (SEO), you’ve come to the right place! Here’s a sampling from our portfolio of happy campers; learn more about our WordPress blog installations here.

If you’re here, you’ve no doubt seen the home page of our blog, Pajamadeen. It’s nationally syndicated, fully optimized for Google ads and SEO purposes and enjoys high traffic. Pajamadeen has a Google Page Rank of 4 and an Alexa rank of 204,716.

Striking graphics are important in “branding” your website or blog! Did you know that blog readers spend an average of 10 seconds on a blog? If they don’t like what they see, they’re gone. We work with a great graphic artist, who can translate your vision into reality.

This successful website, VintagePostcards.org, wanted a clean, simple blog to show off vintage postcards to best effect, while remaining thematically and graphically related to their website. We designed their WordPress blog and had it up in days. Installing a WordPress blog on your website is good for search engine optimization; this blog quickly achieved a page rank (PR) of 3.

Nuts in NY wanted a graphically striking WordPress blog that would really stand out from the competition. Traffic is high and, less than a month after we began optimizing the blog, its Alexa page rank went from an abysmal 22 million to a very respectable 432,631.

Blog owner David Donnell wrote: “I couldn’t be happier having had Cathy at Pajamadeen help develop my website, and teach me about blogging. She’s been a great hand-holder throughout the development phase — my site’s development and my own!

“Prior to coming up with the Nuts in NY concept, I knew nothing about blogging. I had read a few political blogs—nothing like my site—but I hadn’t given a moment’s thought as to how one sets up or maintains a blog. But Cathy demystified the process and deciphered issues which at first made me anxious; I anticipated it all being far more overwhelming than she made it.

“As sappy as it sounds, there are times now when I’m writing a post or doing some work on my blog when I get a giddy feeling that I want to drop everything and THANK Cathy! (But I get ahold of myself and get back to work.)”

Haley’s Giggle is a Washington, DC-based WordPress blog chronicling the life of a little girl with a rare disease — CAMT, or Congenital Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia. It’s the only blog dealing with this condition from a lay person’s standpoint. Doctors treating Haley use the blog as reference material to see how she’s progressing on a day-to-day basis. Haley loves puppies, heart-shaped balloons and crayons and her mother wanted this WordPress blog to have a childlike, simple yet sophisticated quality to it.

Judging from blog comments, readers love the new design. Liora Greenberg wrote: “I have to tell you how much I love the new website! It’s perfect!” Dana Little Jackson commented: “I just LOVE the new website!!! It’s adorable, just like Haley.” Anne wrote: “This wesite is better than ever!!! Just like our Haley!!!!”

Our client Lauren, also of New York City, wanted a sleek, contemporary theme for LifeStyler Magazine. The versatile Revolution theme had just what she was looking for. The theme is also used by such publishing luminaries as CNN, People Magazine and The New York Times. When you want the best, the Revolution theme is hard to overlook.

Thrilled wrote: “It’s really hard to find the sort of customer service that Cathy provides. It was an absolute pleasure working with her. Her ideas, extensive knowledge and quick responses made this process completely painless — and even fun!”

Basic Installs

If you want a basic install of one of the three WordPress themes, we can do that as well. Here are some examples.

Author and radio commentator Ruth Pennebaker of Austin, Texas liked the classic “Misty” theme and wanted to move from a WordPress-hosted blog to her own self-hosted blog for greater flexibility, while retaining this theme. If you’re graduating from a WordPress-hosted blog to your own self-hosted blog, we can help you find a reliable host at a reasonable price, and walk you through the move. We also offer WordPress backups and WordPress upgrades.

Author Chris Carlsson of San Francisco, California also wanted a clean, simple look for his Nowtopians blog. He chose the Atahualpa theme as we moved his blog from Movable Type to WordPress. Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project Shaping San Francisco, is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. He was one of the founders, editors and frequent contributors to the ground-breaking San Francisco magazine Processed World. He also helped launch the monthly bike-ins known as Critical Mass, which have spread to five continents and over 300 cities. He’s also a co-founder and past board president of CounterPULSE, a San Francisco-based arts organization.

No matter where you live, we can provide everything from basic WordPress installs to custom designs. Just ask us!

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