Earlier this past year I came across the website of Kim Bruce of Artbiz – bookmarked it for future reference and time went on. I had made the decision to merge my art and business websites and blogs into one in order to allow more time to continue promoting other artists as well as free me up from all the admin work involved in maintaining two sites. This would also allow me the time I wanted and needed to create – so I made the move to WordPress and purchased Thesis. In between the weekly doctor visits, Iron IV treatments and lab work I began pulling the site I had envisioned together. Just as things were coming along I came to a complete hault – my number one go-to guy had his hands full at work and was having unexplained chest pains.
I went back to the Artbiz site I had bookmarked many months earlier and was very impressed with what I saw. I didn’t have time to research and try this and that trying to figure it all out. I needed help with some of the inner mechanics (coding & a gallery plugin) to make things so I could remove the added stress of maintaining two sites. I contacted Kim explaining what I wanted – giving her links to what I had already done. Shortly after contacting Kim, she thought we could work together. This was a few days before I received the phone call that Steve was being taken to the hospital from work with chest pains. The next several days were stressful and there I was in the middle of merging two sites. I sent Kim my admin login information as well as my hosting login info and told her to do whatever she thought needed to be done. While I was pacing the floors at the hospital – Kim was working on my site – pulling everything I had started - together. She added a few plugins and did a little housekeeping so the site would be ready for me to open the doors when I was ready.
Design is Kim Bruce’s background; art, her passion; digital technologies, her tool. Kim is a visual problem solver. With years of experience in presentation and a desire to reach a wider market, she designed her own website. In doing so she found herself opening a veritable Pandora’s Box. Other artists, arts groups and local businesses have approached her to design and upgrade their websites. Through word-of-mouth, the ripple effect widened, and Kim was encouraged to launch Artbiz.
If you are in need of someone to design your site, spruce up the one you have or give you a hand in getting everything pulled together – I highly recommend Kim. The Artbiz website is filled with very helpful information for those working with wordpress and Kim is fast and very dependable. I am a frequent visitor to the site when I want to add or change something – and I know Kim is always available for my questions.
I am not an affliate of Artbiz – just one very happy client – that serendipity brought together. I hope you will visit the Artbiz site and should you contact Kim – please let her know I recommended her – I don’t think you will be disappointed. Don’t forget to follow Kim and Artbiz on Facebook.
Kim, thank you for your help along the way and my go-to guy thanks you even more – you were just what the doctor ordered as far as he is concerned!
Debbie
