For Nutsupply.com I translated the whole webshop from English/Dutch to French.
The webshop sells nuts and dried fruits.
Webshop Text Corrections of Machine-Translated French Texts
Illustrations – Baby Clothing
For a webshop, I had to design a serie of colourful lamas in Illustrator for a new baby clothing brand.
The theme was Peruvian and Alpaca clothing.
For my client I drew in Illustrator a base of 4 lamas with colourful accessories. I delivered my design in Illustrator on well labeled and organized layers so that she will be able to use it easily for printing T-Shirts and other baby clothes.
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Catalogue – Packaging for the Flower Industry
This summer has been veeeery busy!
I became part of the KoenPack Design Studio in Alsmeer voor almost the last 3 months. KoenPack is a marketleader in de B2B packaging business for the flower and plants farming industry.
In connection with the Annual International Flower Fair (Royal FloraHolland in Alsmeer), I reinforced the team and helped with the making of their new catalogue, over 200 pages of products.
It was great to experience the Dutch working week of such a model company, next to nice collegues, professional designers, experts in packaging and not to mention being part of the volleyball team at the staff party!
Thank you KoenPack B.V. for this opportunity!
Website translation
For Playseatstore.nl I translated the whole website from English/Dutch to French.
The webshop sells gaming products.
Why Regular Website Maintenance is Key to a Well-Performing Website
Maintaining your website yourself can be a tedious task
Just like any software, websites require maintenance to keeping the site working properly. Avoiding website maintenance is like not having regular oil changes on your car. You wouldn’t drive your car very long if you didn’t look after its maintenance, would you? Well, the same process is true for your website. Your website should always be live, ready for customers and presenting your business at its finest.
A website is a living creation
If you don’t have website maintenance carried out monthly, you may actually be throwing money out the window. When visitors go to a website and find things wrong with it, they often don’t stick around. Many website owners never check their website to see how it’s functioning. Missed website issues or downtime can lose you potential customers.
Why a regular maintenance program is beneficial?
Many people don’t realize the benefits of site maintenance:
The website performance, it’s load time, downtime and uptime, is all dependent on the WordPress software and plugin functioning as they should (and on the recent version).
The website growth, it’s fresh content, analytics monitoring and design changes, is all dependent on you having someone making sure all updates to the website are done in a smooth and error-free fashion.
The Maintenance Workflow
At OUI Dizajn, we take great care to first backup the website, and check the website after our updates for any issues. Our software keeps a record of plugins we update so if there is ever an issue we see what plugin version was changed and revert back. Also included in our monthly maintenance report are the performance and security scans. If in the event we ever catch a plugin issue, it becomes a support ticket and we address it before you ever know there’s a problem.
Doing it yourself and saving money?
Maintaining your site yourself could cost you more than you may think. If you just update from your WordPress admin, you wouldn’t have a record of what was done. If an update to a plugin created an issue a couple weeks later, it would be difficult to know what changed and how you should revert back without restoring a very old backup (and possibly losing content changes, sales orders, contact entries, you name it).
You could also ask for help the son of your neighbour or that friend who built the website for you in his/her spare time. But when emergency arises, the website is down or something else is not working, he/she is not available or you wait for ages…
Cheap or free is not the best long-term solution!
It Costs More to Fix Than to Maintain
Inexperience and neglect can damage the look and functionality of your website. When that happens, you have a choice to make. One, you try and fix it yourself, in which case you may do further damage. Or two, you can then pay the (sometimes hefty) price for someone experienced to fix it. Just like your car, it costs more to fix it than it does to maintain it properly. Regular oil changes help keep your car running properly, regular site maintenance helps keeps your web site running properly.
Call in a professional
Why not deal with what you know best and let us deal with what we know best? Would you try to fight that court battle without a lawyer? Then why try to maintain your own website if you’re not a web professional? By securing an experienced web professional to update and maintain your site properly you are actually saving potential lost sales and visitors.
If you’re interested in securing a maintenance contract for your web site, contact us to learn how we can keep your site in proper working order.
Brochures
This is a brochure I designed when living in Slovenia, for the local Culture Centre.
It is about a project for herb garden planted by the Rahjenburg Castle in Brestanica. Castle Rajhenburg
Size: 16x16cm,
24 page, 4/4 colours,
offset 5000 copies
Client: Kulturni dom Krško
Printery: Kolortisk Krško
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Logotypes
Speedway Museum Exhibition Design
Exhibition Design of a small Museum
We designed and layout in only 2 weeks one room from the local library and transformed it in a mini-museum in 2009 relating the history and champions of Speedway in Slovenia and over the World. I designed all informative panels and modernized the retro Speedway logo. On the special opening day full of emotions came former legends of Speedway from all over Slovenia to cut the ribbon and celebrate this small part of Slovene history, for which I had the privilege to bring my creativity.
The Museum is still open and can be visited on request.
Check out the result: Speedway Museum in Krško, Slovenia
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Translation Shoe webshop in Amsterdam
The Brief
My client had a good running website and an online shop selling a unique American brand of leather shoes. I was asked to translate all content from English to French, not only the products but also the blogposts. In this way he could reach the non English-speaking French (potential) customers. He aims to the long term and plans to expand to other countries outside the Netherlands as the unique and official reseller in the whole Europe.My Approach
I was new to the shoe industry and leather goods but I could feel the passion and the dream that my client was living so far when starting his shop 7 years ago in the heart of Amsterdam. That is what brought me to accept the challenge and dive deeply into the shoe jargon I needed to study to perform my translations. Luckily the website was built with WordPress and was running well. I could immediately add value to my services by processing all translation texts into the website directly. Saving indeed a lot of time to my client! After months, there was even no need for him to prepare and send me the texts in separate documents, just mentionning what had been added was enough, I could see new articles and products directly in the WordPress administration dashboard of the website.The Results
The whole website is running fully in French, alike the original English site, and each item can be ordered entirely in French language. Minor typos, and dead links that I see in the source pages are also corrected. All blog stories are in a very short time translated and published in French on my client’s request. It is rewarding to have created such a long-term collaboration. Check the website here: US Shoe Shop in Amsterdam
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Business coaching translation website
The Brief
During a family visit in Montreal, Canada, I met Stephane and we had a good talk about our respective work. I went back to Europe and he contacted me shortly after about his need to translate his website in English.
For those who have never been to Montreal, it is surprising to see everything and everywhere translated in 2 languages, I mean also advertisement in the streets and packages from products which are in Canadian French and in English, the labels are designed with double space for texts and slogans. Even famous names of fast-food chains are localized in French!
My Approach
I read Stephane’s website entirely in French and as usual did my reseach in his field of expertise: Coaching and Consulting for Corporates. I then performed my translation in English and delivered the texts for the deadline agreed. He then processed my texts onto his website.
The Result
My client has a bilingual website perfectly synchronised in English and French.
Check out the result: Business Coaching
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