Empty Mirror Arts Magazine

September 26, 2014, 1:48 am

≫ Next: Michael McClure: poet, essayist, and playwright

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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 recently we relaunched it as a full-fledged online magazine.

The Empty Mirror site features include grid-based archives pages, advertising, social media integration, and an email newsletter as well of hundreds of posts. The site now has well over 100 contributors, is updated several times weekly, and has tens of thousands of visitors each month.

We also fully manage Empty Mirror’s Twitter account which currently has over 13,000 followers. [...read more...]

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Michael McClure: poet, essayist, and playwright

October 29, 2014, 3:07 pm

≫ Next: Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek

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We’ve been building websites for Michael McClure for over 10 years now. But, when we set about redesigning his site this time around, it had been several years – and he was ready for a big change!

Michael, a renowned poet, playwright, essayist, and performer, whose work has been published since 1956, has a lot of content to present. Michael’s new 80-page website is clean and modern, and presents his published work from 1956 to present, which includes books, DVDs and CDs, as well as current appearances. Despite the great volume of information, the site is organized so you can easily find what you’re looking for.

There’s also a newsletter signup form at the top of every page, so that readers can stay informed about new publications, upcoming appearances, and other news and events.

This site is built with WordPress on the Genesis platform, which offers extra features, is super-fast and search-engine optimized. [...read more...]

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Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek

October 27, 2014, 3:16 pm

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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 collaborations. It also includes writings by some friends, and features a mailing list so that visitors can be notified of upcoming events, as well as additions to the website.

Visit McClure-Manzarek.com.

(And be sure to also check out Michael McClure’s site, Michael-McClure.com!) [...read more...]

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Beyond From Within – Psychedelic Band

February 24, 2015, 12:52 pm

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Steve Andrews’ band, Beyond From Within, had a website that had been online a few years. It wasn’t mobile friendly, and didn’t have the flexibility that they wished for, as they grow their fan base.

This redesigned website was built to showcase the band’s music and videos, and to share the ever-growing number of reviews and other press that they’ve been receiving.

I added a custom music player, so listeners can preview the band’s eponymous album, “Beyond From Within.”

The color scheme and graphics were carefully chosen to convey that vintage psychedelic aesthetic – and to coordinate with the band’s album cover.

Steve wanted lots of movement and asked for images that would replicate a 1960s-style liquid lightshow. This was added in the header of all pages, and in the sidebar on selected pages.

See the new site at BeyondFromWithin.com. [...read more...]

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Edwin Romond, Poet

April 29, 2015, 3:58 pm

≫ Next: Coming Summer 2015 – Surrealist Ted Joans

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Award-winning poet Ed Romond has had his own website for many years, but finally, it was time for a change. Ed wanted to more elegantly present the growing amount of information on his website, which includes books, readings, his biography, photo galleries, songs, and more.

He also wanted a fresh, minimalist design to replace his current site, which had a dark wood theme.

More and more people every day are visiting websites from their mobile devices such as cell phone and tablets. So, it’s become increasingly important for websites to be built to be easily viewable on mobile devices as well as on laptops and desktop computers. This website, like all new websites I build, accommodates the entire range of devices people might use while visiting.

In the past, Ed had to contact his webmaster every time he wanted to post a new poem or event. Now, it’s also easy for Ed to log into his new website to update it himself, anytime he wishes. [...read more...]

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Coming Summer 2015 – Surrealist Ted Joans

June 7, 2015, 4:02 pm

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I have an exciting new project – a website for the late poet and artist, Ted Joans.

Ted (1928-2003) was a poet, artist, and musician, associated with both Surrealism and the Beat Generation.

This new website will offer a bibliography, pages devoted to each of his books, as well as biographical material, videos, a filmography, photo gallery, and resources for further exploration.

Want notification when it launches? Sign up at TedJoans.com [...read more...]

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Gregory Ormson, writer

July 24, 2015, 6:02 pm

≫ Next: L.G. Hertz, Poet

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Gregory Ormson writes about yoga, motorcycling, writing, and music. He needed an elegant new website which would help him to keep in touch with his readers, and to share his articles and news.

It needed to neatly organize his blog posts on various topics, convey his expertise, and portray his personality. It also needed to present him in the best possible light as he sends out his yoga book proposal to agents.

The background is a photo taken by Greg. The visual design is carefully balanced and blends a strong red with softer shades of sky and earth.

Visit GregoryOrmson.com. [...read more...]

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L.G. Hertz, Poet

August 23, 2015, 3:52 pm

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This website was created for the estate of the late poet, L.G. Hertz, in order to share poems drawn from his four published collections of poetry and increase his readership.

The original website was built over 5 years ago, before the advent of tablets and smartphones. The time had come to modernize it, making it mobile-responsive so that it’s easily viewable on any mobile device, as well as on desktop and laptop computers.

L.G. Hertz’s poems often reference or are inspired by classical themes. To reflect this, he owners of the Hertz website asked for a combination of modern and ancient design elements.

The modern design includes much white space, a carefully chose, easy-to-read sans-serif font. The classical design comes in with the incorporation of an eighteenth-century painting, “Modern Rome,” by the painter Giovanni Paolo Panini. The painting depicts many facets of the arts, as do L.G. Hertz’s poems.

The Hertz website features dozens of poems, many with explanatory notes, as well as Hertz’s biography. [...read more...]

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Lenita Sheridan, Author

September 25, 2014, 9:14 pm

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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.... [...read more...]

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The Diartspora Gallery

September 26, 2014, 1:56 am

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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.... [...read more...]

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