Why? Two words: Kill Bill.

We styled the site after the color palette of the movie Kill Bill, which was just too cool. Add to that a very cool logo, and some custom typographical touches, and the X-Factor site came out slick, if we say so ourselves.

Okay, so Adam tried not to geek out too hard that he was creating a site for a well-known CrossFitter (who could forget Breanne’s first place finish in the Catch-22 event of the 2009 NorCal Regional Qualifiers?), but it was hard.

Add to the fact that the B’s are just cool, laid-back folks, they also have great taste in design, and creating their site was a joy.

When my friend Amie told me she was taking over the site updates for the gym she trains out of, CrossFit Seven, I (politely, of course) told her that their time had come to upgrade. Like they say, “friends don’t let friends use free platforms.”

Welcome to The Show!

The folks at the Zen Garland Society were looking, naturally, for a simple, almost minimalist feel for their site. We married their logo and artwork, along with custom typography and some simplifying design touches, to a clean, two-column design, and they were off and running.

Andrew was days away from signing the lease on his space when he contacted me, and told me he needed his site up and running in about three weeks. Whew!

I think the “brand-new-box” energy was fueling us both, because we got the site up in a hurry, along with a fair amount of customizations, and got the site ready in time for the launch of his new gym, District CrossFit. Good luck, Andrew!

Her sense of humor, edgy wit, and nutritional whiz-bang-ness is on full display at Whole9Life, along with her partner in crime, Dallas Hartwig. They wanted a site that was clean and simple, and allowed them to showcase both their business offers as well as the highly information-rich free content on their blog.

They’re tickled with their new site, and so am I.

Well, as it turns out, he was unhappy with the site they produced, and when he asked me to come take a look at something that wasn’t working right, I realized that the glitch wasn’t an isolated problem; the site was a coding train-wreck. I did my best to patch it up on numerous occasions, until finally telling him, “Dude, let me re-do your site the right way. It’ll take half as long as fixing all these glitches, and you’ll have a solid framework you can grow with.” And, I’m happy to say, he did.

When Lisa Taylor of Challenge Factory got in touch with me about her site, I had no idea she had been planning it for the past three years! All that planning sure paid off, though; the entire project took us about two weeks, and only five hours or so on my part.

As they say, “Luck favors the prepared!”

Because this was a brand-new site, and not a redesign, we used a custom placeholder to inform visitors that her site was coming soon, while we worked on the rest “behind the scenes.”

And thanks to the guys at WooThemes—whose themes I use for the jumping-off points of all my designs these days—I got what I was hoping for. A few typography tweaks, custom backgrounds, and playing around with some page templates, and I’m off and running.