XOXOXO is an accomplished designer of useable blog sites with embedded photogalleries for a range of people.

Splash page for She's Me Too (http://www.shesmetoo.com)

A great example is the ‘She’s Me Too‘ web site — it has not one but two photogalleries (a portfolio and one for mature audiences) featuring the work of a published and working glamour and fashion photographer, that, and also a living blog updated nearly every day and read by hundreds of people for its content.  All of this is accomplished using free and open-source software — WordPress and Shadowbox.  Page creation doesn’t require specialized software, as it is part of the WordPress package, and even though it was not implemented in this particular site, so is the automatic inclusion of advertisements and other revenue-generating functions.  You could, for example, have a fully-featured subscription site that has credit-card processing from a third party.  That’s how powerful WordPress is, and having a beautiful site running it won’t cost you an arm and a leg.  Contact us for more information!

In 2007, XOXOXO Designs (then Ausoleil Designs, prior to our recent merger) created a solid design for an emerging artist’s webstore. That e-commerce effort is still online today, with its original core code intact, with the site owner managing all content and making styling changes to it as she needs

When she started, the artist was working in a spare room in an apartment shortly after she got married. Today, after a lot of hard work, she sells her jewelry to customer all over the world using her web site and also in stores in the United States and in the UK, thanks in part to the professional and functional website she used to launch her enterprise. The site, she says, provided legitimacy in the beginning because of its appearance and its ease-of-function.

During the initial site development, XOXOXO Designs also provided photography services to the client at an exceptionally low cost, because her budget could not afford an expensive studio session with a professional model. Instead, we located an attractive emerging model who was interested in working for trade: her time in front of the camera, for jewelry in return. A deal was struck, photos were taken and they were used in the first season’s iteration of the site. Now that the store has grown and budgets with it, the owner provides her own art (she has added photography to her list of many talents) and adds it to the site when is updating it for a given season. The current edition is the 19th edition of this growing business’s platform.

She paid less than $1000 for the turnkey site, which was not only developed and linked to a database of products, photos and descriptions, it also also had a fully operational shopping cart linked to a credit card processor that handled payments. At the conclusion of the sale, the site generated and mailed a receipt to the customer and also created and mailed a shipping order to the jeweler. On the back end, there are management pages that handle items, categories, descriptions and prices, along with tools to estimate sales for a given product or group. In short, it was a legitimate store that worked right the first time.

This e-commerce site is typical a XOXOXO Designs success story, and one that proves that not only do we provide what a client wants and needs — and we delivered this project early, too — we also build websites that are going to last for the long run. And when you take your site live, we’ll be there to make sure it works right not only for you, but for your customers too. Guaranteed.

Our client recently told us that her growth will probably require her to finally upgrade her web presence to meet her needs, and when we asked her if XOXOXO Designs was going to be asked to bid, she told us “you are the only one that’s going to be asked to bid.” That’s a vote of confidence that we don’t take lightly. We earned her business in 2007, and in 2011, we will earn it again by giving her the same exact client experience: fast, right and reasonably priced.

It is the only way to do business.

A Sample Sales Page

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That leads to a question: are your data being properly backed up?

How do you know?

Did you test your backups to ensure that you can restore it and be back online in minutes rather than days?

If not, you may well be like the 4800+ customers in Australia left with nothing.  And that leads to a second question: can your business take a hit like that?

How much would it cost you to rebuild — from scratch — all of your web site?

I bet it costs more than $50.

$50?  That’s what it costs for XOXOXO’s certified system administrators to install a nightly off-site backup system onto your WordPress installation and to conduct an annual all-out-disaster test onto another server to prove that it works.

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Some photos from early Sunday AM on May 15, 2011.  I had just returned from going out to a drag show and decided to snap a couple quick pics.  My favorite (and you can click it to see if full size):

"Fierce" Tina Thompson in Red May 15, 2011

From the old Skin Group, which is now XOXOXO Design