I finished up the new design for Barb’s site at Feels Like Magic this week - in all it’s purple, green and blue sparkley glory! Barb had her logo completed by illustrator Nola Cooper of Classic Creations Design - once the illustration was complete, I tackled the rest of her design work, including a special E-Commerce Shopping Cart solution integrated into her WordPress blog . . .

Barb had a lot of great ideas on what she would like for her new blog design, including Flickr integration, an E-commerce solution for her jewlery sales and the vivid color sheme of purple, green and blue. It was great fun to complete, and a bit of a challenge as this was the first time I integrated a full E-Commerce solution into a WordPress blog using a PayPal shopping cart solution and the E-Commerce plugin for WordPress. Now, Barb can sell her jewlery straight off her blog, using the full features of WordPress to help her organize her inventory! Her design includes the use of WordPress Widgets to make it very, very easy for Barb to update and arrange the information contained in the sidebar of her new design.

Barb had this to say about her new design:

There are so many little design aspects (look at the header!) that Lisa created, and they all add up to a beautiful, magical, and unique - yet not over the top (I hope ) - site design.

When I contacted E.Webscapes about designing the site, I asked for an “expansive feel” for the design, and imagined a lot of white. I wanted the site to feel a bit like the previous (free) theme… kind of like being in a big room.

The design does give an “expansive feel”, but instead of feeling like I’m in a huge room, I think the design brings the reader in to the posts… kind of like reading a letter from a friend - up close and personal.

Yes, I’m very happy with the design.

Thank you so much, Barb - I had great fun with it!