Emtwo, LLC - Website Development, Website Design, Specializing in ExpressionEngine Design and Websites

David needed a website for his new law practice.  He wanted something that was easy to navigate and update.  We set him up with Wordpress and created a site that matched his existing logo and brand. 

Gayle has been our client for a few years and we designed her business blog and business website.  When she asked us to give her personal blog a makeover, we jumped at the chance to work with her again.  We gave her blog a fun, vibrant and stylish new look. 

Swirlspice.com was the winner of our Free Holiday Blog Design Giveaway.  We gave her a fresh blue wintery look on her Movabletype powered blog. 

Kerry and Shelagh approached us a few months ago about redesigning their website.  They wanted us to utilize their existing logo and take their content and present it in a professional manner.  They wanted to be able to modify and add new content, when necessary. They didn’t have a large budget, but that’s ok because we’ll try our best to help you stay on budget while also bringing you a highly effective website.

Enter Wordpress.  Free for both personal and commercial use, and also perfect for the needs of Abbottlittle.com (and their budget!).  Kerry and Shelagh can now update all the pages on their site.  They can also add new projects (the newest featured on the main page) as well as update their client list. 

Where to start with this project! Well, first off, this project was a lot of fun for us.  Stephen was so great to work with.  And we love moving sites into ExpressionEngine.  I makes us all warm and fuzzy inside.

We took Stephen’s original blog (hosted on Typepad) and divided it up into 3 niche blogs.  One for his writings on Food and Wine, another about Law and Business and the last an assortment of writing categorized as Punditry.

The main page of his site is a portal of sorts, highlighting the newest content across his network of blogs.  Users can than choose to go directly to any of the 3 blogs.  They can also subscribe to the RSS feed for each one or choose to subscribe to the global feed, which contains all his blogs in one nifty feed. 

We also created additional pages, which Stephen can easily update via the ExpressionEngine Control Panel. 

We created a fun and feminine new blog design for MC at Shibooya.com.  MC wanted something stylish and minimalistic for her Wordpress powered blog.  We chose a serene and muted color palette that kept things light and easy on the eyes.  Her content is the main focus, while the sidebars back up the focus of her blog by highlighting recent crafty flickr photos and her reading list. 

Shibooya.com focuses on crafts, baking, book/film reviews.  Go check her out!

Cincy IP needed an internet presence for their organization.  They provide legal eduction to members to address intellectual property law issues.  They asked us to create a membership-driven website which was easy to manage and update. Of course we chose ExpressionEngine to handle all of this for us.  The site features a simple membership sign up process and the ability for member groups to access parts of the site for maintenance.  It also allows for visitors to search for members based on custom search strings.  In addition we added a blog for news and updates as well as a section for upcoming CIPLA events. 

Azalea Coast Appraisals needed a brand new website.  They asked us to take their original logo and “go with it”.  We reworked the logo so that it was more professional and worked for both the internet and print material.  Than we designed and developed a website that was straight-forward and very easy to use so that Azalea Coast’s customers can order their residential real estate appraisals online.

We designed Gayle’s blog a few years ago and she came back to us and asked us to create a design for her small business website that matched her blog.  We also took Gayle from her old long, tedious, manual updating of pages to ExpressionEngine’s dynamic content management system. 

Toni came to us with a very specific design in mind.  She pointed us to a fabulous illustration of a woman sitting in a cafe which she wanted to use for her new blog design.  We took the color palette directly from the illustration and it followed together beautifully.  Toni is a repeat client so we tried to go in a different direction with this blog design, utilizing the popular three column layout. 

Buzz has been a long time blogger and also our long time friend.  When he asked us a few month back to move his sites to ExpressionEngine we were thrilled.  We love EE, and we are always happy to help anyone make the switch. 

Than he came back and asked us to put together a new look for his blog.  He provided the snazzy image for the header, which features a handsome young guy against a brick wall.  We put our spin on it, and created a very crisp and open design which shows off his content and photos very well.  While we were at it, we streamlined his sidebar and optimized some of his existing code. 

Elizabeth hired us to give her blog a make-over.  She wanted something “blue” and “summery”, while also being clean and light weight.  We used some blue floral imagery we found online and set her up with a fully skinned weblog in ExpressionEngine. 

We took Shelley from a simple Wordpress blog to a much more enhanced and fine tuned ExpressionEngine Website.  We utilized both the wiki and the discussion forum for her site, as well as the weblog feature which runs all of the different dynamic sections as well as some of the static content on her new site.  Shelley had a specific design in mind, using a filing cabinet icon for the header and than incorporating other icons for each section.  We grabbed this icon set and took her rough ideas and brought them to life in this expansive and easily manageable website. 

Statia been blogging since before blogging was popular.  She’s been through the gamut of blog designs, with 2 columns and 3 columns, and all sorts of illustrations and colors and every little hip blog thing you can think of.  She’s past all that hoopla now, and wants her blog to focus on the good stuff, her writing.  She asked that we take the color scheme from her new son’s bedding and make it work on her blog.  So that’s exactly what we did.  We also used some of the pattern to add a bit of dimension to the blog as well as some block letters, which tied in nicely with the overall theme. 

Misty came to us with a request to redesign her personal blog.  She supplied us with two separate images for use in the header and told us to pick one and “go with it”.  And so we did.  Using the lawn chair for inspiration we gave Misty’s blog a colorful, clean, crisp and fresh new design.  We also adding tagging to her entries and utilized the built-in membership function in EE to allow her to post “private” entries to registered members. 

Metgrrl.com is a special interest blog focusing on all things Mets.  Our client supplied us with the header graphic and asked us to come up with a design that utilized the Met’s color scheme (blue/orange/black) and that allowed her to easily change and edit her sidebar content.  We moved her off of Blogger and into ExpressionEngine.  Now Metsgrrl has full control over all aspects of her site, in an easy straight-forward content management system.

Evan Anderman is a professional photographer who wanted to completely revamp his online presence.  We took his existing logo and reworked it so that it was more current and fit well with the design we created for him.  We used Evan’s own photography in the header as well and left the rest of his photography to stand out on it’s own.  Using ExpressionEngine, we were able to create a public side of the site for everyone to see and than a membership only side where members can create their own “Favorites Collection” of Evan’s photographs.  He also has a newsletter where he can send out information to all of his members and a blog to keep everyone up to date on what he’s doing and where he’ll be shooting. 

Catraggedy is a returning client.  She moved from her old blog to a brand new domain.  With the new domain, came a snazzy new blog design which grew it’s inspiration from the client’s personal story about how she came up with her new domain name.  We kept things simple and stylish for this blog.  We used stock images from istockphoto to create the header image.  We also implemented a registration based setup, which allows the owner of the site to post private posts for only selected registered users.

Our client wanted to move off of blogger and into something a little nicer.  We converted all the entries from blogger into ExpressionEngine and while we were at it, freshened up the design and overall style of the site.  Using stock images from istockphoto along with a fun, inviting, and warm color scheme. 

Author Imogen McCallum contacted emtwo to create a website for her and the novels she is writing.  We used ExpressionEngine to create her site, so that she can easily manage the content on all pages.  Her design utilizes a color scheme which is similar to her custom book illustrations, so everything comes together.  We added a blog so that she can constantly be in touch with her readers and give updates about all of her novels.

Author Julia London and her two author friends Kathleen Givens and Sherri Browning wanted to move their existing blog off of blogger.com and into something a little more user-friendly and versatile.  Immediately, ExpressionEngine became the clear choice of Content Management Systems.  I created the design of Whine Sisters based on info supplied by Julia.  They wanted something fun and lighthearted that utilized a “whine/wine” theme. 

The site was built using a modular structure, so that each contributor can update their recently published books as well as what they are reading and listening too.  We also used the EE Poll module, which allows them to easily add fun polls to their site.

Jason came to me with a very specific site in mind.  One where he had complete control over all content.  His site is geared toward school age children and he wanted to make sure that it was a safe, friendly environment, one where children could learn about our history while having fun.

He supplied all of the graphics on the site and let me work my creative magic to bring it all together in one uniform package.  Using ExpressionEngine, Jason is now able to update and maintain all aspects of his site.  The commenting system allows for registration-only commenting, which is first approved by Jason before going live on the site.  This is helpful in maintaining a child-friendly safe site.

Aaron was looking for a completely new look for his multi-author site.  He also wanted to move away his site from Movabletype to ExpressionEngine.  Aaron sent me a few different images from istockphoto, but the mannequin image we chose was his favorite.  He wanted something that was clean and simple and more streamlined than his former site design.  We chose a three column fixed width design that is easier to read.  With ExpressionEngine it was easy to add some additional posting features, like “Email”, “Digg” and “Print” each entry.

I created this design for the Pink For October Breast Cancer Awareness event.

Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research.

I created this design for the Pink For October Breast Cancer Awareness event.

Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research.

I created this design for the Pink For October Breast Cancer Awareness event.

Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research.

Martie asked me to give her personal wedding website a complete new look, using Expression Engine.  She had an existing blog, but she wanted an entire “site”, including a home page, with excerpts from multiple areas of her site, including her engagement, her wedding and the honeymoon.  She had a fall wedding and wanted the look and feel of her site to reflect their wedding theme.

We also utlized EE’s powerful Gallery Module to bring together her personal family photos.  Through the use of EE, Martie and Patrick can easily update and add to their site as the future unfolds. 

Snidget asked for a brand new design to correspond with the rebirth of her new blog.  She asked for something simple, with clean lines, crisp fonts and different then the previous designs she’s had for her blog.  I found a feminine simplisitc tree illustration and instead of overpowering the design with additional images, I incorporated her flickr feed into the header, for contrast.  Each time the site is loaded, different random photo thumbnails are shown. 

Alisa changed domain names, and wanted to update her site design to reflect her new home.  She told me she was partial to blue’s and once I found this image, I thought it was perfect.  I sent it off to her and she agreed.  Then I built the rest of the design around the header image.  She also asked if she could have a little section on the side which shows her most recent recipe posted and also her outstanding movies from netflix.  Both are easy to achieve with a content management system.  Now she has a new home and a new look! 

Danielle came to me with some illustrations she had made and asked if I could create a new site design based off of these illustrations, but with a feminine, inviting feel.  While she loved the original look, which used a bold red, white, black color scheme, she wanted this new design to reflect her personality and style a little more. 

Wedaholic.com is a site where Elle Brown publishes many questions she receives from engaged couples on all sorts of wedding issues.  She wanted to develop a site that would become a bride’s best friend.  This site is run by MT, and created as per the clients specifications for a clean, soft, welcoming design.  Soft blue tones, with highlights of pink are seen throughout.  In addition, a custom logo was created.

The Broad asked me to create a new design for her blog which was a little clean, a little sexy and a little bold (or in her words: “bring the stank”. I used some dark colors and subtle accents to create the style she was after.  And then we switched here from Movabletype to Expression Engine.  With ExpressionEngine’s built in spam control and user-friendly interface, Broad is happily blogging along with her new skin!

Everything that is needed to maintain First Baptist Churh Kings Mountain is immediately available with ExpressionEngine. The webmaster of FBCKM came to me and asked me to build ExpressionEngine into his site, so that it was quickly and easily maintable by him. Every little bit of information on this site is dynamically updated through ExpressionEngine. The easy to use control panel let’s Brad go in and add and delete events from the custom event calendar. He can add new contact’s to the contact page, or update the lists of sermons whenever he wants. The list goes on and on. That’s the power of ExpressionEngine!