Jennifer C Beetem

Art Caregiving + Website Services

 Web Design | Jennifer C Beetem

Web Design

Core web design principles

  • ease of use
  • accessibility
  • efficiency
  • function across devices

In the late 1990s I began coding HTML in a text editor. Since 2004 I have built and maintained websites for clients as a professional freelance web designer.

I enjoy using themes to create custom designs and adapt existing designs. My experience building and migrating websites spans CSS, Wordpress, Squarespace, Jekyll, Bootstrap, and authoring an online exhibition in Omeka Classic. My preferred development stacks include Markdown and static site generators.

Current Website Portfolio

My web projects have included websites for cultural heritage specialists, musicians, restaurants and university departments. At present I maintain a few websites with copy and image updates, event listings, photo editing, inventory changes and maintenance updates:

Landrieu Conservation

Screenshots of the Landrieu Conservation website in full width and mobile-optimized layouts. The website features photos of a female art conservator with short dark blonde hair working on indoor and outdoor objects conservation projects.

Corine Landrieu sought a brand new website for her conservation and art portfolios. We selected a Bootstrap-based Jekyll theme and color scheme together. Custom code loops and XML pseudo-databases streamlined the update workflow for this image-rich static site.

Lisa Duncan, Art Conservator, LLC

Screenshots of the Lisa Duncan, LLC website in full width and mobile-optimized layouts. The website photos show a female art conservator with curly brown hair working on paper and photograph conservation projects in a studio.

For Lisa Duncan, Art Conservator, LLC, the client asked me to transform a multi-page Wordpress site into a static single page design. I used the opportunity to practice building a Bootstrap website from scratch. The result is a simple, elegant design that requires minimal maintenance.

Savannah Baroque

Screenshots of the Savannah Baroque website in full width and mobile-optimized layouts. Several small photos show a group of men and women with classical music instruments posing outdoors, teaching in a classroom, and performing in a small church.

Savannah Baroque was my first mobile-first website project. The website was designed to showcase a group of musicians with clean modern lines to neatly frame the Baroque flourishes of promotional graphics and bright colors in performance photos.

Anne Acker Early Keyboard Instruments

Screenshots of the Anne Acker Early Keyboard Instruments website in full width and mobile-optimized layouts. Several photos of harpsichords and virginals are displayed in categories in a shopping catalog style.

The Anne Acker Early Keyboard Instruments design was inspired by the covers of bound reprints of Baroque sheet music. The business owner and I developed the logo together. The site began as a blend of static pages and a WordPress blog, then was later overhauled to run fully in WordPress and look great on mobile, while preserving the elegance of the original design.

Software Experience

Static site generation with Jekyll GIMP, Photoshop
CSS Inkscape, Illustrator
HTML Omeka
Bootstrap LibreOffice, Microsoft Office
Squarespace, Wordpress C++, Java, Javascript
MySQL GitHub

Rates

My hourly rates for web design work start at $80/hour. Discounts may be available to clients working in the arts and humanities. Please inquire with the contact form on the Bio page.