Website

Jackie, (aka: Jacqueline Briggs Martin), is an accomplished author of children’s books. One book of hers you may have heard about, Snowflake Bentley, was the winner of the 1999 Caldecott Award.

I mentioned that I thought she needed a new website and I offered to make it for her. She agreed to let me. I was thrilled to get started, but, knew I had a lot of work to do.

In addition to streamlining and reorganizing the content flow, updating the design to work with mobile devices, we also decided to migrate almost 100 blog posts from an abandoned Blogspot account that we couldn’t access as owner/admin.

In the end, this turned out to be one of my favorite website rescues / renovations…

Read more

The Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission (MVHPC) wanted to update the design and display of their online archives, and Market Street was eager to help.

The goal of these updates was to enhance their ability to tell compelling stories about the local community over the passage of time.  We wanted to connect and engage the modern reader with the past in a visually compelling way.

We also wanted to add a number of important feature and accessibility improvements to the website.

Read more

Nick Walton’s construction company with its main office in Lisbon, Iowa is growing and he wanted to upgrade his website to reflect that growth and attract more commercial and higher end residential work for his firm.

We sat down and hammered out that we wanted to focus on showing that Walton Construction is a thriving and experienced construction company, that it has several employees and is capable of doing high-end work for commerical or residential clients.  The fit and finish of the website had to let the viewer instantly know that they were dealing with professionals.

Read more