New Website Design By Katie James, Inc. ; Barb's Butchery

Barb’s Butchery New 2021 Website

After several years in business, Barb’s Butchery was ready for Version 2 of their website. Adding to the website whenever she wanted was the #1 priority for Barb. The #2 priority was to have all of her offerings be better organized.

We approached the project with this in mind, and gave each main offering its own designation in the top navigation, so that customers could see what was there.

Specials are very important to Barb’s Butchery, who has been putting out the monthly discount special for years.

We were also able to go in for a small photo shoot, to add new photos to the website and show COVID-19 safety guidelines in place. Teslie Andrade was the photographer on this project.

Photography in the shop while the employees were there, to get nice action and ambiance shots.

We kept all of the content from Barb’s Butchery’s old website, and arranged it with the new photo and type treatment on new pages

Last Column For My Local Newspaper, "Kid Friendly" In The Highlands Current

Helllllo November!

It has been some time since I published to this blog, and rest assured, lots has been going on. Some of which is website production that I can’t share yet because it’s corporate and corporate is complicated, so maybe you’ll learn about it, maybe you won’t! Hope that you do, however.

This blog post is centered on writing. I neglected to publicize my newsletter column for the Highlands Current here (tiss tiss!), so now is my time to tell you that November’s newspaper column is my last. For now. Maybe they will take me back. But I sort of resigned the column. For now.

Here’s the scoop I told Facebook, and I’ll tell you too:

Today is the last time I turn in my newspaper column for the Highlands Current. Writing for them and a printed outlet has been an honor. Honor. Dream. Writing about kids and motherhood can be cathartic for me, but also emotionally draining along the way. So I need the break. However, hitting the deadline got me out of the house to complete writing (usually only client work gets me out of the house). So I'll remember this and book myself to get out of the house to finish work that no one knows I'm working on LOL. Having an editor who can cut and replace has also been new. Luckily, I strategically got my article in soooo last minute every time, that he couldn't edit it much. Muahaha. Look for it on Friday's newsstand of the Highlands Current. Thank you for reading the columns if you did. Hope it helped you.

I did write 14 columns (you can read them all here). So that is a little over a year. I am sad. Not gonna lie. Maybe I’ll be back. Maybe I just need the break.

Article Planning; The Fluid Editorial Calendar

Big prep day for articles. A few deadlines are coming up, that if we want to have timeliness with these articles, we got to hit them. Another opportunity is here for Izdihar‘s Food Pantry article, with the Beacon Community Kitchen fundraiser coming up, and a new Food Pantry/Meals setup in the Beacon Rec on Saturdays that I just learned about. The Olivia Abel article on the new Bathroom at Bannerman Castle (on the island), which is really a disguised lead-in for the public bathroom situation in Beacon. As my copyeditor Catherine pointed out to me yesterday, ALBB published 41 articles in April.

Of this entire table, I only took 2 squares off today. That’s ok. Part of why these take so long is because I circulate them on Instagram, FB, the blogs themselves (both A Little Beacon Blog and Tin Shingle ), and develop newsletters for them both. The articles travel in newsletter packages. It’s a lot. It’s a workout that I teach at Tin Shingle, but it’s very worth it.

I don’t like walking away from this table, but work/life balance calls. I’m a bit of a work-a-holic. I love what I do, and I love when it works.

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