Custom Website Designs | Customized WordPress Sites
Each website commission by Susan Kurtz Graphics is approached uniquely and is custom designed. When working on a site, Susan's design goals are to reflect the client, appeal to the target audience, and to organize and design the navigation and content for optimum effect and usability.
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Warm earth tones, and transparent nature images on a custom background make this site’s environment perfect for Bonnie Thompson’s clients. She received this feedback on her site: “I love the design of your page. It feels healing. It sounds like you have a lot to offer to HSPs, that cannot be found in mainstream.” Bonnie wrote to me that this feedback was: “Exactly the goal and it's been achieved. I wanted a site that felt healing and you created it.”
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Pamela and I work together often on design projects for her marketing clients. For her own website design, it was very much a collaboration achieving this crisp, modern, yet warm business presence.
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NY based Nonduality Institute states: “Our scientific research into the neural correlates of nondual realization contributes to the understanding of the nature of consciousness, and the brain’s functioning in optimal states of wellbeing.” This site is rich in substance, and the design was a pleasure to create--very much a showcase for the beautiful paintings by Mary DeVincentis.
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Flowing River Resources offers holistic healing education for special needs children. It was a true collaboration working on this with the school director, and videographer who produced the impactful opening video.
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The design of this website for Hidden Lake Retreat in Oregon emphasizes the beauty and color of the environment. Three different color templates were used for the multi-paged site, featuring gorgeous photographs by the owners.
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This website for the renowned spiritual teacher Adyashanti is viewed daily worldwide. Designed by Susan Kurtz Graphics, this site features striking environmental banner images by Steve Kurtz and technical engineering by Ken Stilwell Consulting.
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Illuminated Wisdom is a site for Sonya Amrita and her healing work. This design has a luminous quality and showcases Sonya's own photos and mandala by Prema Akasha.
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This site for Viki Markham, Ph D, MFT, promotes her teaching, consulting and counseling. This design reflects Viki's personality with its pastel color palette and curved, organic shapes. Animated photos are by Viki also!
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Rich color, Flash slide shows and striking rollover effects are what pop out with this design for Schmitt Photography of Bend, Oregon.
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This website for Kurtz Photographics features rollover effects, Flash movies and the wedding, portrait, fine art and stock photography of Steve Kurtz.
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Alan Strachan, PhD, commissioned this site for his psychology practice in Santa Cruz, California. Three colors are featured in a rotation, complementing the banner images personally chosen by Alan with Susan's guidance. This is one way that clients can bring their own sensibility into their site's design.
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This site for Wisdom Paintings has a strong, three-dimensional depth and features beautiful, inspiring paintings by Anna Coulter. Check out the "Words of Wisdom" or send an ecard free of charge from this site.
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This bilingual site for Marga Vaquer, MFT, will be expanding in the future. The bright illustration by
Christine Martell, along with the lively color palette of purple, yellow and red/orange all speak to Marga's style andpersonality.
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There's a simple, masculine approach to this site for Sacramento based business, Classic Garage Door. A gallery of garage doors, and clear, consise information completes the site.
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The site for Tom Thompson, spiritual teacher and counselor, has a warm, earthy feeling and a custom parchment background. The site also features stock photography of Steve Kurtz.
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Purpose Quest Coaching is the site of Bonnie Thompson, wife of Tom Thompson (site directly above). They wanted a similar look/feel to their sites. This site also has a very warm and earthy look, with a parchment background and several stock images by Steve Kurtz.
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Using the inspiration of Regina’s logo and the rivers of Pittsburgh, PA, this site's look-feel is welcoming and tranquil. RHA is a “safe environment ...empowering those who desire inner healing to explore and achieve goals, release emotional trauma, re-story their lives, transcend life stages and passages with ease, and attain well-being through gentle, nurturing guidance.”
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Customized WordPress Sites
WordPress sites are a viable and highly flexible content management system, offering a multitude of added functionality. These sites below illustrate the unique customization that is possible through the services of Susan Kurtz Graphics.
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With this customized WordPress site, Alan Strachan first asked me to hand-color the illustration (by David O'Donaghue). Taking elements from the banner, I continued the design into the site to create the dimensionality that Alan was looking for. This book (in progress) promises to be very thought-provoking.
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Please visit the recently redesigned website for PondMagic Landscapes and view the many slideshows of the wonderful water features and landscaping.
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I created the custom, rotating banners, and worked with Andrea of Ah Yes Creations to build her brand and web environment showcasing her wonderful organic skincare products she formulates on her farm in Canada.
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