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  • KPACT

    KPACT

    Project Overview

    I worked with Essie and Cindy from LifeWorks Psychotherapy to redesign and develop an expanded event and professional membership website.

    Emily is a delight to work with. She is professional, knowledgeable, and committed. Her timely communication and organizational skills provided important scaffolding for our project, and the end result is clean, accessible, and user-friendly.

    Essie Shachar-Hill, LCSW – Programs Manager, LifeWorks / KPACT

    We used Advanced Custom Fields and Advanced Forms to create a member registration form which populates a custom post type for the Provider Directory. Once published, the member can login to the site (front-end only) and update their profile page. Member subscription payments are handled through Stripe.

    Design in the browser

    We created some basic explorations of palette and patterns based on the existing logo. All design happened in the browser.

    Preliminary design concepts explore palette, typography and patterns (element collages).

    This is a hybrid theme using _S (Underscores) which takes advantage of many of the newer site editor features such as theme.json and template parts.

    Project Details

    Launch date

    2024

    Website

    kpact.xyz

    Services

    • Custom WordPress theme development
    • Content strategy
    • Art direction, design
    • Membership subscription portal
    • eCommerce for event registration
    • Accessibility guidance
    • Copy editing
    • Photo editing
    • Project management

    Tools

    • WordPress
    • WooCommerce
    • CSS, PHP

    Emily Rapport

  • McAlpine Consulting

    McAlpine Consulting

    Project Overview

    lmcalpine.com - responsive screens

    McAlpine Consulting needed help with an existing (not responsive!) WordPress website c. 2009. I rebuilt the site based on existing brand assets. WordPress development allowed for connected content and dynamic custom post types.

    Collaborative design process

    Iconography followed the earthy, education-focused ethic of company.

    We chose to use images of animals on service pages to reflect the playful, creative aspects of team-building and strategic planning.

    A dog and a pig play with a ball

    Project Details

    Launch date

    2021

    Website

    lmcalpine.com

    Services

    • Custom WordPress design and development
    • Copy editing
    • Photo editing
    • Art direction
    • WordPress training
    • Project management

    Tools

    • WordPress
    • CSS, PHP, HTML

    Color overlays and vertical text add a dash of whimsy to corporate elements like a grid of team photos.

    Emily Rapport

  • All Saints’ Episcopal Church

    All Saints’ Episcopal Church

    Project Overview

    All Saint's homepage shown on different devices

    Originally, this was a Joomla site sorely in need of an update. All Saints’ approached me for a redesign (having heard of me through the Ravenswood Community Services project). We migrated their content to WordPress and created opportunities for a more dynamic and maintainable website through custom post types.

    In 2023, we made some updates to include newer features available through blocks and the site editor.

    • Custom design and development of WordPress powered website
    • Brand palette update for web use
    • Custom post types
    • Content design, site architecture

    Project Details

    Launch date

    2019

    Website

    allsaintschicago.org

    Services

    • Usability testing
    • Site architecture / planning
    • UX / Design
    • WordPress Development
    • Migration from Joomla
    • Image editing
    • Project management

    Tools and applications

    • WordPress
    • CSS, PHP
    • Spreadsheets

    Emily Rapport

  • Ravenswood Community Services

    Ravenswood Community Services

    Project Overview

    Ravenswood Community Services - screen and device views

    Working with Emily to care for our website has taken all of the stress out of it! When we hired her, we got much more than we could have hoped for. She’s incredibly responsive and easy to work with, proactive and reliable, and reacts with patience and grace when helping us navigate the technology involved with keeping our website in shape to support our work. It’s a relief to have a partner with technical know-how AND people skills. There aren’t enough stars for this review! Highly recommend.

    Lori Gee, Executive Director, RCS Food Pantry and Community Kitchen

    Investing in a Redesign

    Ravenswood Community Services was facing some serious technical debt with a website running on an older version of Joomla. A pressing need to provide the best possible experience for their clients let them to decide to invest in a redesign.

    Choosing a Content Management System

    In considering whether Joomla or WordPress would be the best fit, we looked at who would be responsible for using the tools we recommended, the pros and cons of each CMS, and the current hosting set-up. We decided that WordPress would be a vast improvement for both editors and clients.

    • We migrated all content to WordPress from an aging Joomla site
    • Consolidating content spread across multiple thin pages to create more useful and readable information that could be found in one place
    • Added some privacy-minded analytics to the site
    • Added a robust site search functionality

    Project Details

    Launch date

    2018

    Website

    ravenswoodcommunityservices.org

    Services

    • UX / Design
    • WordPress Development
    • Migration from Joomla to WordPress
    • ConstantContact integration
    • Project management

    Tools

    • WordPress
    • CSS, PHP

    Emily Rapport