Sienna M Potts
does website design
and website maintenance

Julia Alvarez

offical website of the author

www.JuliaAlvarez.com

Julia Alvarez is the well-known author of Once Upon A Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA & In The Time of the Butterflies, & many other insightful books. I began working with Julia (a pleasure & a privilege!) when she had the beginnings of a lovely website which I've been expanding, improving &, most often, simply updating for over 5 years now.

Blushin' Roulettes

official band website

www.BlushinRoulettes.com

Singers and songwriters Angela Rose & Kate Stone of the Blushin' Roulettes are very dear friends of mine here on the Mendocino Coast. It has been a delight to design BlushinRoulettes.com, starting with the photographs, from scratch. We've got big plans for its growth but I think the songs say it all.

PaintSmith Company

Seattle Painters

www.PaintSmith.com

Seattle painter extraordinaire, Justin Smith is another close friend & working on the PaintSmith website is creative fun as well. When Justin asked me to join the web team, the website had been designed for Yakima, Washington, & needed updating to show the company's expanded Seattle base. I gave it a quick make-over so that the website looks & works better as is, while a graphic designer creates a whole new look which I will translate into the same style of clean, easy-to-use pages.

Boistfort Valley Farm

Certified Organic Produce

www.BoistfortValleyFarm.com

A website that's been around for several years, BoistfortValleyFarm.com is a joint effort with Heidi Peroni -- when she's not too busy harvesting those delicious organic veggies! I traded the original design of the website (based on their brochure) for a season of the farm's CSA deliveries -- & if I still lived up in Olympia, Washington, I'd still be trading... mmmn!

Heartsong Farm Healing Herbs

Herbalist and Apple Grower, Nancy and Michael Phillips

www.HerbsAndApples.com

Michael Phillips is another author I met through my good friend the publisher Stephen Morris. HerbsAndApples.com was the first website I created, as a collaborative effort with Michael. We've grown quite a website together & it remains a favorite project of mine (o but they're all my favorites!).

Holistic Orchardist Network

Grow Organic Apples

www.GrowOrganicApples.com

Michael Phillips was making such good connections through his apple pages at HerbsAndApples.com, that he thought he'd branch out to make a more community-minded website. We used the same design style, updated with everything we've learned in the last 5 years, & already this young website is taking on a life of its own!

Heather Wood

Freelance Writer in Santa Fe, New Mexico

www.HeatherWoodFreelance.com

Heather Wood, another old friend & joy to work with, spends some of her time as a freelance writer, frequently publishing articles about her hometown in the Santa Fe New Mexican. We archived her articles at HouseMiracles.com (she is the original owner & designer), but when she sold the business, we moved the pages to HeatherWoodFreelance.com.

Wise Food Ways

Jessica Prentice, author and chef

www.WiseFoodWays.com

Jessica Prentice, a talented chef & author in the San Francisco Bay Area, started her website with her New Moon Newsletters, then began to market her teaching & cooking skills as Wise Food Ways. Since then, she's coined a new word, Locavores, helping to give voice to the growing crowds of local eaters, written Full Moon Feast, & gotten too busy for her own website (I think that's a good thing -- there's always later).

Sagewood Herb Farm

Traditional Healing Herbs

www.SagewoodHerbFarm.com

One of the best things about designing a new website is how the result can surprise me -- there's nothing like creating a website that looks like somebody else's creation! Kate & I worked hard to combine her design ideas with my ease-of-use focus for the Sagewood Herb Farm website. I think our work paid off & I especially appreciate the flow of this one-page website -- the more collaboration, the better the website.

Caspar Community

Northern California Coast (my hometown)

www.CasparCommons.org

Speaking of working together, I always learn new tricks when I work with my dad Michael Potts as part of the Caspar Institute web team. He spent many years creating the Caspar Community website before I began to share the work for our hometown website. I am currently giving even the oldest pages of this giant, wonderful website the same centralized, easy-to-use navigation, while preserving the website's rich history.

Casa Milagros Interiors

Transforming life spaces in Santa Fe

www.HouseMiracles.com

The corporate look for Casa Milagros Interiors was designed by a graphic designer, who sent me an image of the website home page, as well as the matching business cards, brochures & stationary. I really enjoyed making those images into this vibrant, easy-to-use website. It has changed owners since then & what strikes me now is how little it needs to keep running!

Cafè Alta Gracia

Organic Coffee from the Dominican Republic

www.CafeAltaGracia.com

Julia Alvarez asked me to help with some occasional updates to the website for the coffee finca she & her husband have set up in the DR. I made the simple content changes necessary & put a small amount of time into improving the site design for ease of use (by visitors & search engines) -- sometimes it doesn't take much.

Canopy Lodge

ecolodge and tropical birding destination in Panama

www.CanopyLodge.com

The website for Canopy Lodge in El Valle de Antón of Panama was another fun project with my dad as part of the Caspar Institute web team. He did the visual design, I created the architecture, & away it flew.

Rosemarie Cereghino

Voice Instructor, Coach, Soprano, Accompanist

www.RosemarieVoice.com

Rosemarie Cereghino wanted a website that would represent her offerings without too great an expense. I created the website look from an image of her business card, trying a few different colour schemes to give her a choice, then we plugged in the content & she had money left in her budget for updates.

North Coast Mediation Group

Alternative Dispute Resolution

www.NorthCoastMediation.org

Fellow Caspar resident David Alden asked me to come up with a very simple website for the North Coast Mediation Group. The website answers many likely questions & makes it easy to contact the Group, & the design allows room for new pages to be added easily.

Lost Nation Builders

New Hampshire

www.LostNationBuilders.com

A very minimal -- & inexpensive! -- website, LostNationBuilders.com answers the important questions (for now) so that builder Michael Phillips can pour all his effort into the Holistic Orchardist Network website.

Sienna Moonfire Designs

my personal playground

www.SiennaMoonfire.com

I used to spend a lot of time learning web design tricks & sharing my stories at SiennaMoonfire.com, but now my personal website stands as a record of its times. Sometimes I do add a new recipe & I still collect links. If I really had the time to spare for my own work, I would focus for a week on revamping this website -- but the truth is that it doesn't really need it. It's simple, rich & (I hope) easy to navigate. I've learned heaps since coding its pages (or since the last time I updated them!), but my basic principle remains the same:
nothing beats content.

thank you, Viggo

my personal art gallery

www.ThankYouViggo.com

Inspired by a book created by Viggo Mortensen, sharing his very personal art, I decided it was high time I tried sharing my own art. I created this website as another learning exercise & playground for new tricks, like my slide show. I was learning to use a marvelous language called php, so this website was my cutting edge in 2004, heh. As they will, my skills have improved & multiplied since its creation (I remain enamored with php, which I combine with css for an easy-to-change look of the page, good clean html, & a MySQL database where it's needed), but when I get the time to spend on this one, I'll be adding photos, not messing about in the background (valuable work though it is).