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Expansion happens when you allow new possibilities to exist
Expansion happens when you allow new possibilities to exist in your vision, in your mind.
In your mind, remove the obstacles, the hurdles. Welcome the best version to exist with ease and without resistance.
Like and artist’s blank canvas where anything is possible, let the most miraculous, joyful and beautiful version of yourself and your life take form.
132: Designing an Online Summit Landing Page on Squarespace
Squarespace has versatility in its uses. Recently, I designed a summit landing page for a client on his existing Squarespace website. In this video, I walk you through the site and share some tips on how to design a summit landing page.
131: How to link main navigation to section on the page (anchor links on Squarespace)
The main navigation of your website are usually pages. But in some cases you might want to link to a section on your page instead of a separate page.
130: New Artist Website with Shop on Squarespace 7.1 for Stephanie Ruble
Fresh off the website oven! Last week, I was on a two day project to create an artist website for Stephanie Ruble. The project was over Monday, Tuesday and because of some unexpected scenarios, I needed an extra day to complete the project. Through it all, Stephanie, was calm and composed and readily supplied any new materials or info I needed for the project.
129: 15 Ways I Use Zoom to Run My Web Design Business
There was a time back in 2018-2019 when I was running my live Squarespace Fundamentals workshops, that I had to explain to my participants what Zoom was. Once they registered, I would send them links to tutorials on how to download Zoom and how to troubleshoot if it was not working. Plus, I would ask them to come 15 minutes early so I could help them with any technical difficulties on Zoom.
128: New Website for Dog-Friendly Vacation Rental Listing on Squarespace 7.1
A few weeks ago, I got an opportunity to serve dogs through my web design service. Actually, I got to serve travelers who want to bring their dogs along wherever they go. I created a directory of vacation rentals that welcome dogs (and cats) along with their human companions.
127: Website In A Day - Video Production Company Website on Squarespace 7.1
In early September, I had the chance to create a website for a video production company run by Christopher Nuut of NYC. It included a Squarespace 7.1 walkthrough training (recorded) and moving the domain from his old 7.0 site to the new one. This project involved a lot of gifs, multiple video embeds for the portfolio as well as a full-bleed video on the home page banner.
126: On a personal note - Celebrating my mom
I don't usually share my personal life on social media, blog or here on the newsletter but today I am sharing on a personal note
125: Website In A Day - Foundation Website for Tim Howard Foundation on Squarespace 7.1
Recently, I had the chance to create a website for a foundation that serves youth development in our communities through soccer. This foundation has been started by US Soccer legend Tim Howard and aims at bring mini-soccer field into communities where there are no such resources.
124: Idaho = potatoes?
Whether or not you like potatoes, can we agree that Idaho sums up to more than that?
Maybe, maybe not. But why am I talking about Idaho today?
123: Website In A Day x 2 - Artist Website for Theodora Miller on Squarespace 7.1 (Using Fluid Engine)
This week I got to work in a completely new way. Most of my projects are done either via my Website in A Day workflow or my Two Week Website workflow. Theodora Miller, a fine artist in Richmond, Virginia suggested a third way: Website In Two Days! Wednesday and Thursday of this week, we collaborated on moving her 7.0 artist site to 7.1 and up-leveling the design and functionality in the process.
How I Found My Lost Wedding Ring Using Visualization
Creative Visualization is highly powerful for manifesting your dream life and this website is all about using this method for creating our future. But one area where visualization is very useful is in finding lost items.
In this other article, I share with you the one question I asked to find a lost nail.
In this post, I want to share with you another incident where I was able to retrieve a lost item using visualization and inner-guidance.
How Creative Visualization Can Be A Tool For Finding Lost Items
Creative Visualization is useful tool that I have begun using for everyday problems. An aspect of creative visualization is tapping into your intuition or your inner-voice or higher-self to get guidance on day-to-day issues. This is especially useful when we feel confused or two-minded when it comes to a decision or a choice. And it’s also useful for solving an immediate problem such as finding out things like “where is the nail?”
Let me expound on that.
122: Website In A Day - Squarespace Website for Actor and Voice Over Artist (Using Fluid Engine)
This week, I had a lovely opportunity to build a Website for an Actor/Voice Over Artist built in a day!
Jennifer purchased my Website In A Day package to get a lovely site that serves a digital business card for her acting and voice over work. We presented her voiceover demo on the Media page along with acting clips as well as a separate page for all her headshots. With everything in one place, she can send the link to this website to potential clients, agents and post it on her profile.
A New Chapter Begins: Reflection Pond is now Queen of Visualization
Many of you have followed my journey with Reflection Pond. Some as far back as 2010 when I first launched reflectionpond.com.
Now, as of July 2022, reflectionpond.com is queenofvisualization.com.
Below is a bit of the backstory of how this change has come to be.
121: New Squarespace Website for California's Regional Association LACFDA
Recently, I had the opportunity to create a website for a non-profit organization out in California. It's not very often that I get a request from an organization of this nature. So, when the President of the Los Angeles Count Funeral Directors' Association contacted me to rebrand their existing website, I was intrigued.
120: A beautiful new way of scheduling clients with DotCal
I love being a web designer. I have a design business which allows me to help people with an online presence that they love and that helps them grow their business or spread their message.
I started my self-employed work in 2016 when I was focussing mainly on email marketing with ConvertKit. Then in 2018 that I began building websites professionally. At that time, I tried a lot of different things to get booked. And it was not easy. I had the skills and I knew I could do excellent work. But I didn’t know how to convey that to my potential clients.