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Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs
Life Coaches
Therapists
Energy Healers
Green Businesses
Educators
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Relieving Some of the Headache
Have you found yourself struggling to make sense of the technical jargon, marketing options, content creation process, and everything else involved in putting a WordPress website together, piece-by-piece?
I did, too, and I am creating the guide that I wish I’d had, when I started designing websites, many years ago. My goal is to make your process clearer, easier & more enjoyable. Ultimately, I hope you end up feeling empowered about it!
Welcome to Web Design Empowerment
My name is Claire Amber. I am a web designer, marketing enthusiast, writer, artist, feng shui master, and teacher. I specialize in creating websites for healing arts practitioners.
I will teach you some of what I know about WordPress, the super popular Divi theme, and marketing, so you can create high-quality WordPress websites and feel more confident about your online presence.
For Beginning and Intermediate Students
I’m am self-taught and I am not a programmer. So, if you’re a more advanced user of WordPress or a programmer, there are other resources that would probably be a better fit for you. But, if you’re a beginning or intermediate student of WordPress and Divi, you feel inspired by what I’m doing, here, and want to learn from me, then carry on!
What Am I Teaching?
Tech Savvy
This is the back-end stuff that’s as basic as creating a blog post, or as techie as changing your DNS settings. A lot of people find it super intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be! I’m going to break things down for you, as simply as I can, and try to cut a bunch of the clutter out of the equation.
Even if you don’t end up working in the back-end, so much, at least knowing about the nuts and bolts can help you communicate more effectively with your web host company and anyone else you might hire to help you with your website(s). At this time, I am mostly focusing on how to use self-hosted WordPress, along with the Divi theme.
Design Skills
Aesthetics are sometimes overlooked, by those teaching web design, because most of the focus is on just how to use the different components. But how do you put them all together in a way that makes sense and is appealing?
I can show you how to create a harmonious color scheme, create a mood or a certain vibe, resize images, choose fonts, lay out your content, and more.
Marketing Magic
Unfortunately, marketing strategy is often overlooked, but it really should be the core of what informs your content and the design of your website. I’ll go over that, no worries! Of course, there are a plethora of choices, re: social media avenues, blogging, creating videos, doing subscriptions, and selling items a la carte.
Let’s not forget about the keyword that on everybody’s minds. SEO. Search Engine Optimization. It should really be called FFD. Fighting for Dominance. Yes, of course I’ll be talking about SEO.
Marketing is complex, but it doesn’t have to be difficult, necessarily. As with everything else, I’ll try to break it down and cut through the fluff, so you can get to the good stuff, faster.
Content Creation
Rest easy! I will teach you some of my best tricks for effortlessly creating authentic content that highlights your unique brilliance and helps you connect with your ideal clients.
Professional Polish
Want to know how to shine on the web? Make your websites stand apart, because they are clean, uncluttered, well-written, beautiful and have professional polish. My goal is to help you create a business website that looks like it was designed by a professional.
Web Design Lessons
If you would like support in designing, planning, and creating your own self-hosted WordPress website, I can help! I’ve been designing websites since 2008. I am self-taught and I know what it’s like to start from scratch. Contact me for a free consultation and we’ll go from there. In the meantime, you can also check out my portfolio.
Recent Blog Posts
Book Review: 50 Biggest Website Mistakes
Checking Out the Competition Lately, I found myself wondering what else was out there, re: web design and WordPress for beginners? So, I picked up some books at my local library. I got WordPress All-in-One for Dummies, another was something about...
WordPress is Hard: Do You Have What it Takes to Master it?
I'm not going to lie. Wordpress is hard. Compared to some other website builders, it's intimidating AF. But, that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't work with it, because it's also powerful software that you could use to create amazing websites...
Is Google Fonts Slowing Your Website Down?
I went to design a header, the other day, and I discovered that many of the fonts I had previously installed on my computer had disappeared, somehow. I still had the files, so all was not lost, but I figured that I would use this discovery as an...
Email Marketing Zen – Why Less is More
So, you know how you find a video on YouTube and it's by someone that you really vibe with? You're super excited to have found out that they GET you and they're saying things that really really help you, on a deep and profound level. A soul level....
Does Your Computer Need Smudging?
I kid you not...I actually had to do some smudging around my computer, to get it to work, today. It's a good thing I had a dream, last night, cluing me in to what was going on. I had a friend, at one point, that had stored my computer, while I went...
Overcoming Resistance: What’s Your Why?
Ah...resistance. I have to admit...of all the things that I could focus on, web design is the one that I have the most resistance to. And that's saying something, LOL. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I always have. It's really complex,...