Poet, playwright and novelist Michael McClure and the late Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The Doors, met at The Doors' third recording session. Their spoken work / jazz collaboration spanned thirty years. During that time they performed together throughout the United States, and released several CDs and a DVDs. I took charge of their website over 13 years ago. During that time, the site has had several different incarnations. In 2014 we unveiled a radical new design, which you can see here. This site neatly organizes information about Michael and Ray individually, as well as their … [Read more...] about Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek
Empty Mirror
Empty Mirror began its life in 2000, as a bookselling site. Since then, it's grown by leaps and bounds as its focus grew away from selling books, and more toward discussing them - and art and music, too. Every few years we've rolled out a fresh design, but in 2012 Empty Mirror re-launched it as a full-fledged online magazine. In October 2014, we once again redesigned the site. The Empty Mirror site features include grid-based archives pages, advertising, social media integration, and an email newsletter as well as over 700 hundred posts. The site now is updated several times weekly, … [Read more...] about Empty Mirror
The Diartspora Gallery
The Diartspora Gallery is an extensive privately-owned collection of art by and of artists of the African Diartspora, with many works by African-American artists. Most of the collection was collected in and around the Greater Philadelphia area over a twenty-year span, with an emphasis on self-taught and Outsider artists. It tells a fascinating and important story of the Diartspora and its people, spanning over 100 years. This WordPress-based site features a gallery of well over 100 works from the collection, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper. A blog is … [Read more...] about The Diartspora Gallery
Lenita Sheridan, Author
Lenita Sheridan's debut novel, Guardian of the Gauntlet, is a children's fantasy novel, with a Christian basis, and an empowering message for girls. Lenita needed a simple website which would spotlight the book, share an excerpt, and make it easy for her site's visitors to buy it at their choice of online bookstores. The site also features Lenita's author biography, and a space for readers to share their comments and reviews. The design is light & airy, and coordinates with the book cover's theme and colors. Lenita is currently working on the sequel to Guardian of the Gauntlet! … [Read more...] about Lenita Sheridan, Author
McLafferty & Dunn Genealogy
The McLafferty-Dunn genealogy project was inspired by the chance discovery of a very old family Bible. Containing birth, marriage and death records for several generations dating back to the late 1700s in New York and New Jersey, it also included family photos - and inspired a wealth of further research. The WordPress website we created for the McLafferty-Dunn project includes photos, family history drawn from the Bible and elsewhere, and links to further resources. The photos provided to us were rather small, and soon, when new ones are available we will be adding a new, more … [Read more...] about McLafferty & Dunn Genealogy
Susie Flaherty, Singer-Songwriter
Susie Flaherty is an award-winning singer-songwriter. She needed a simple website to spotlight her collection of heartbreak ballads and blues songs, Raggedy Man." This one-page website was designed to present the essentials about Susie and her music, and to give her fans a way to contact her. The design reflects her signature flower - the Tiger Lily - and has a rustic, homemade feeling. Visit Susie's website. … [Read more...] about Susie Flaherty, Singer-Songwriter