I am privileged to work with some very gifted and talented people. It is their gifts that inspire and fuel the designs we create together. Here are some of my latest projects.
Sondra Rose: Pregnancy Coaching for Conscious Parents
Sondra Rose is a gifted coach and healing facilitator who is passionate about pregnancy and bringing forth new things into the world. She specializes in working with pregnant moms to help them clear their fears and their own birth trauma to create the space for a more peaceful and easier pregnancy and birth.
Interesting that our work together in creating her new website very much resembled a birthing process as well. We moved forward, stopped to breath, changed courses a few times, breathed again, and just allowed the design process to unfold in a very natural and organic way. At one point, I simply provided Sondra with the tools she needed to create the look and feel she wanted for her site. Once she had brought this forth, I then created the desired design in the Catalyst framework.
The end result — a warm, inviting, and clean layout that conveys Sondra’s warm and inviting spirit!
Visit Sondra Rose’s site.
Yael supported me in creating the most beautiful website! Her patience and willingness to accommodate my particular way of working made the whole experience a pleasure. She is so speedy in responding–I was delighted to see how quickly I could get my site up & running. I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone who wants a website that truly reflects their uniqueness. ~ Sondra Rose
Desserts Required
Betsy Cohen is an unbelievable dessert chef! And she’s also a wonderful communicator and great photographer. Add all these together and you have an awesome dessert blog.
It was such a joy working with Betsy to design her site and to see her begin to share her dessert gifts and knowledge with others.
I used WordPress for the engine / content management system and the Catalyst Framework to create her site design and page layouts. Besty is now blogging regularly and needing no assistance from me! That makes me happy, both the blogging and that she learned what she needed from me and is now independent.
WARNING: Visit site only if you have a strong will power or a decadent desire to indulge yourself!
I can’t thank you enough for working with me on this project. The page is gorgeous and you have the patience of a saint. I truly hope you have other clients who are much more computer savvy than I. ~ Besty Cohen
Beth Anne Productions
Beth Anne Productions is a music studio in Magnolia, Arkansas. Owner Beth Anne Rankin teaches piano, flute, and voice. She wanted and elegant layout that would highlight her work and reflect her own personal work ethic and musical gifts. Deep burgundy as the base color just came naturally, as it represents the deep and rich qualities that Beth Anne brings to her life and work.
Powered by WordPress and designed with love!
Visit Beth Anne Productions
Reinhardt Realty
Who said real estates have to be ugly? Seriously, most real estate sites are not very attractive. They are generally built only for functionality — how to search and find properties — but with little concern for design.
I wanted Reinhardt Realty to have a sophisticated and beautiful design that included all the needed functionality for a real estate site. So I chose (obviously) WordPress for the engine of the site, customized a commercial WordPress theme, and added a few free WordPress real estate plugins to create a beautiful and functional site.
And all for much less than what many people spend on a simply static 5 page website.
That’s the beauty and power of open source solutions like WordPress!
As Vicki’s listings grow, her website will grow as well. When needed, I will install a fully functional real estate plugin and keep the beautiful design.
Who says you can’t have it all? You can have both beauty and functionality when you combine the right ingredients: WordPress + Plugins + Commercial Themes.
View Reinhardt Realty
Notes on Yoga
Notes on Yoga is a site I did for myself to share my yoga journey with other yoga practitioners. This site design is intended to allow easy sharing of quotes, pictures, audio and video files, as well as regular blog posts called “Notes.” I’m an avid reader and love to share nuggets of wisdom and inspiration when I find them, so this format allows me to do just that.
This is purely a blog — unlike most of the sites I design that are more traditional websites that include a blog — so new blog posts appear on the home page.
I wanted a design that really highlighted the blog posts — the content and the images — so I chose a dark, almost black page background with white content areas. I think the contrast works well and draws the reader immediately into the blog posts and site content.
View Notes on Yoga
Beth Anne Rankin
Beth Anne is a Congressional candidate for the 4th Congressional District in Arkansas, and it has truly been a pleasure working with her and her campaign staff to create and maintain her campaign website. Beth Anne and those working with her are high integrity people so working with them is a pleasure.
This is a WordPress powered site with a customized WordPress theme which makes it attractive, highly functional for a campaign site, and economically efficient thanks to WordPress.
All of my clients become friends during the work process, and I remain interested and committed to their success and growth long after the project is complete. So I’m wishing Beth Anne much success in her campaign and will be watching the election returns in November with much hope for a victory.
View Beth Anne Rankin for Congress
Shorashim of the Old City
This is the 4th site I’ve created for Shorashim of the Old City. They were actually my very first client, and their trust in my abilities even when I was just starting out was an inspiration to continue to learn and develop my own skills. So thank you Moshe and Dov for trusting me with that first site.
This site is built on the Frugal WordPress framework, and I created a custom skin for the layout. The site is both a blog and an e-commerce site.
We actually spent months searching for the best e-commerce solution and I believe finally found it. It”s called ECWID:E-Commerce Widgets and it’s an awesome e-commerce plugin for just about any type of site.
They offer a free version for up to 100 products and paid subscriptions starting at $17 per month. The paid version does come with more features, but the support is the same for both free and commercial. And the support is the best I’ve ever seen. I had several questions during setup — mostly related to design as the shopping cart literally only takes minutes to set up — and the question were answered within a few hours every time.
The end result: a well designed site based on WordPress + Frugal and an easy to shop online store.
View Shorashim of the Old City
Praxis, EFT with Lynne Shaner
A small site designed for Lynne Shaner, an EFT practitioner in Washington, DC, who specializes in stress/anxiety, PTSD, corporate/personal success, and pain management. Clean, elegant, minimalist design with very light content management system.
Lynne, as many of my clients, started off with a DIY (do it yourself) solution but quickly realized that she was unable to create the professional, clean, and elegant design that she desired.
We worked together to create an elegant design that is both functional and beautiful. Site also has a simple, lightweight Content Management System (CMS), so that Lynne can maintain the site content.
Site Update: After several months, Lynne decided she wanted a more robust content management system and to add a blog to her site. I converted the existing static XHTML site into a WordPress theme and transferred all existing content into WordPress. Exact site design but now powered by WordPress.
Visit EFT Praxis
I knew what I wanted, but could someone else really capture the image I wanted to convey in my website?”
When I was in management at the Smithsonian and other places, I directed a lot of award-winning design. As I was launching my own business, I wanted an elegant, beautifully designed and developed site. I could not have found a better designer.Kalanit Design Studio created a site that I am so proud of. I have it on view during all of my sessions and workshops. I have received accolades for its beauty and functionality from people all over the world. Perhaps best of all, Yael is a joy to work with; our ideas came together with ease and delight
–Lynne Shaner, MA, EFT-ADV, EFT Cert-1
Carman Communication
Krista wanted to create an online business card but with an elegant and sophisticated design.
A business card layout created a unique set of challenges, as you didn’t have the standard design elements on the page — no navigation or actual content. So we used background graphics and ample space around the design elements to create a visually appealing design.
Although the only content is Krista’s contact information, the design conveys her professionalism and her engaging personality.
When Krista is ready to extend her business card website, we will carry the design theme into a fully functional website.
EFT with Deborah
Deborah Donndelinger is a very gifted EFT practitioner. She brings a wealth of knowledge and several healing modalities into her work, and therefore offers a lot of resources on her website.
She created her first site with an online service that offered ready made templates and did a great job with the resources she had available.
But her site content quickly outgrew the limited options she had for organizing her site. She needed an expanded menu system to make her site more accessible, and she wanted a custom design to reflect her work and energy.
We worked together to create a layout that is both functional and beautiful. We used Joomla as the engine of her site, as she needed a robust Content Management System (CMS) to manage and organize her site content.
This gives her the ability to manage almost all aspects of her site, and Joomla plugins ensure that needed additional functionality in the future is available. This means her site and the engine behind the site can grow as her practice grows.
[Update November 2011: this site how now been converted to WordPress/Catalyst with a new and improved design.]
Visit EFT with Deborah
Working with Yael of Kalanit Design Studios has been a delightful and productive experience. I get comments all the time about how great my site is. She created a beautiful design while also making it highly functional.
Yael is incredibly responsive, responsible, and is committed to both a good looking and a good working website. If you want a web designer who understands you and knows how to reflect your business’s identity in a web design while also delivering high web performance, I highly recommend herl. What else is there to say.”
–Deborah Donndelinger, MA, EFT-ADV, EFT Cert-1
Healing Pathways
David Seltzer has been in alternative healing for over twenty years, and has created a very effective healing modality that he calls Healing Pathways. He not only heals; he also teaches and writes, and so he has a lot of valuable written material.
But the material was only available to those who attended his classes – that is – until we designed a site for him and created a venue for him to share his healing method on the internet.
He’s also a very colorful and creative soul, and the design definitely reflects that. The really cool branding image you see with the little wooden signpost and the country roads surrounded with flowers was his idea!
We used WordPress as his content management system, as David’s goal is to share much of his teachings and material in his weekly blog posts. A custom design to match a custom, one of kind alternative healer.
Visit Healing Pathways
Heliotrope Holistic Health Clinic
Dr. Shoshana Savyon was too busy healing folks to invest in getting a website. But she finally saw the value in getting online and being able to share her knowledge with a much wider audience.
Since Shoshana wanted to add regular posts and articles to the site, we decided to use WordPress as the engine of her site.
I created a custom theme that reflects the heart and energy of Heliotrope Holistic Health Services and taught Shoshana how to add all her wonderful and inspiring material.
With only a few hours of instruction and some educational screencasts, she’s now a happy blogger and is continuing to learn her way around WordPress.
Visit Heliotrope
Law Offices of Stephen M Cohen
Stephen M. Cohen provides an extraordinarily varied professional background, which includes the honor of serving as a Palm Beach County Judge from 1993 through 1999 before choosing to re-enter private practice. When he re-entered private practice, he wanted a custom website to communicate with current and prospective clients.
Stephen had spent some time looking at other legal sites and knew that he didn’t want the standard “legalese” type website. He wanted a unique site that conveyed his way of practicing law and his way of life.
We worked through a few trial layouts before finding the colors – light soft blue and a stronger, dark blue – to convey both strength and calm.
A small site with a small content management system, but with a very clear, calm, yet strong presense.
Visit Stephen’s site
Women’s High Tech Coalition
Women’s High Tech Coalition brings together professional women in high tech with policy makers in Washington, DC. to facilitate the exchange of ideas among leaders in the public and private sectors. As such, they needed an attractive site that would grow with them as their organization grows. They are also a membership based organization and needed to automate the management of their membership list.
So, we used WordPress + Catalyst Theme + YourMember plugin to create a beautiful, high functional, membership site.
WordPress is a powerful blog/content management system, but Catalyst gives you the ability to create awesome page layouts and themes for your site. And the YourMember plugin both automates membership and payments and allows you to create restricted site content for members only.
Visit Women’s High Tech Coalition
Personal Ponies
Personal Ponies believe in magic, and I do too after working on this project.
Personal Ponies offer children that are specially challenged the life use of a small Shetland pony to love and care for. There is no fee for leasing their ponies and there are no charges for any of the services thye provide.
Despite the national scope of the Personal Ponies program and the many people who help, no one is paid a single penny. Not one penny goes for salaries nor care for ponies because taking full responsibility for the ponies they are assigned, is part of what their volunteers do. Their administrative costs are only a tiny fraction of their annual budget and virtually all contributions go to the real work of expanding the program by helping their volunteers and by importing breeding stock from the United Kingdom.
This foundation of unconditional giving permeates the organization, as you will see if you spend any time on their site. The stories of the ponies and the children are deeply moving and inspiring.
This is a fairly large site (over 70 pages) powered by WordPress. For the design, I customized a theme from WooThemes and created a bright, clean, and professional layout. Most of the site pages use a single column layout so that we could include large pictures of the ponies and the children. And these pictures really do tell a beautiful story.
Visit Personal Ponies
TLC Bookkeeping
A brochure site for a small bookkeeping service in Texas.
Dolly offers bookkeeping services to local farmers, ranchers, and small businesses, and needed a way to share about her services when she met people and prospective clients.
What better way to convey TLC than by a heart! This design was easy to create for Dolly, as she really loves both her work and her clients.
I installed a very lightweight content management system – that took all of about 30 minutes to explain – so she can easily update the site when needed.
Visit TLC Bookkeeping
BW Construction
Bill Wier recently opened his own construction company providing aggregate material, trucking, and bobcat work. He wanted a small site that described his services and introduced him to prospective clients.
Using drop down menu items that include content, we created a one page design that provides users company information, pictures, and contact information.
This site will eventually expand into multiple pages, but having all the existing content on one page makes it easy for the user to find information.
Visit BW Construction
And some older sites
That I still need to write project description for…
Bebchick Law – Small content management system
Aviad Realty – Joomla based site
Snorkel and Study – Joomla based site
Bais Chana – Joomla based site
Jewish Uncamp – Joomla based site
Jewish Quarter Jerusalem – Joomla based site