Websites Archives | Steve Vorass

Bucyrus Museum

Goal The Bucyrus Museum is dedicated to preserving local industrial history of South Milwaukee and the history of the Bucyrus company. The new website needed to have a way to feature a sampling of their over 20,000 historic artifacts, documents, and photographs as well as give users a way to donate to the museum and purchase tickets as well as other items in the gift shop online. How I achieved it I used WordPress to create the website with archival photos from the Bucyrus Museum as design elements. A section of the website called "Our Legacy" is also hosted inside......

The Jewelry Collectors

Goal The Jewelry Collectors are dealers of the most luxurious collections of fine jewelry in the United States. The problem is that their collections were spread across various platforms including EBay, Etsy, and Google. How I achieved it I used an application called Sellbrite as a way to automate listing, syncing & shipping across all sales channels into a single website hosted on Shopify. I used a modern design style that fit the luxurious jewelry that is featured within the website. The site has done extremely well and the client keeps adding inventory on a regular basis. Visit The Site...

Johnny Cee

Goal Johnny Cee is a musician in Milwaukee, WI who I first heard on the album Dog Eared Dream by Willy Porter while I was in college. The drums really stood out to me as being unique and expressive. I actually had to learn one of the songs as a cover for a band I was playing in at the time and ended up playing along to the whole album just for fun. I was instantly a fan of the band, and the drummer and have been ever since. Many years later, I have come to know John and his......

Liv’s Drink Emporium

Goal My sister asked me to come up with the branding for her new business, "Liv's Drink Emporium". My sister and her husband have five kids and they know how expensive it can be for a meal out. With that in mind, they keep our prices low. You can get drinks and snacks for your family at a price that would normally cost the price of a single meal at an upscale restaurant in town. I wanted to present the Emporium as an upscale establishment and not portray it as a budget shop. Just because the food is cheap doesn't......

Hello Cello

Goal Hello Cello wears a lot of hats! Thea Vorass (my wife) offers cello lessons, studio sessions, band promotion, booking, and social media management. With all of these services, her website needed a cohesive look and easy to use interface to display her many services and talents. How I achieved it I talked to Thea about how she wanted the site to look and feel. The lines of the cello are fluid and curved and we wanted to portray that throughout the design so I used this as the main design feature. I had created her logo last year and......

Put Yourself In Their Shoes.

Growing up, a lesson I learned very early on was to “put yourself in other people’s shoes”. This basically means to have empathy for other people. The ability to feel empathy is a great asset to have when it comes to creating websites and user experiences. As a developer, you can tend to get buried...

Instant Car Offers Logo and Website

PROSALE Nation LLC I created an identity for PROSALE Nation LLC where you provide your vehicle information, and they give you our offer on the same day. I made the form as easy as possible to attain customer information keeping the site essentially one page. Easy peasy. I was also tasked with creating the identity for the company which I played off of the owner's military background, being that the mark resembled a peace symbol with an obvious automotive nod and you can't forget the happy face :)...

SoJo’s Donuts

Today I launched a new website for https://www.sojosdonuts.com/. If you’re in Mesa AZ please do yourself a favor and check out SoJo’s Donuts! They’re opening soon. For now, you can check out the menu (these donuts look amazing!) or order one of their cool t-shirts. Need design or development work done for your business, please...

Earn With A Purpose

I LOVE being able to work with such amazing people. Peter is a young entrepreneur with a mental handicap who started a business with his brothers distributing hand sanitizer. I worked with his family to create this Shopify store for them to sell their products at https://earnwithapurpose.org/. Peter wrote to me this very kind note...

Urban Autism Solutions

Goal The previous website was built with Wix.com. The challenge was to learn the ins and outs of Wix and then improve upon the layout and user interface keeping consistent with the branding and overall established look of the Urban Autism Solutions materials. The main focus of the website is to gain private donations as this is how the organization survives. It's a non-profit that serves young adults with autism through integrated community programs. How I achieved it I was really impressed with the flexibility and the ease of use of Wix.com. I was able to create custom post types......