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Blue Avocado - WordPress

Dream Maker Creative
WordPress, Shopify & Cratejoy

Dientes Community Dental
WordPress & Raizer's Edge

Friends Palo Alto Jr Museum
WordPress & QGIV

Nikon Precision Inc.
WordPress

Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz
WordPress

Signpost Specialists
WordPress with E-commerce

Oral Health Access
WordPress

The Spirit of Water
Shopify

MouseMitt
Shopify

DBKay & Associates
WordPress & Eventbrite

Rebound Energy
WordPress & WooCommerce

Synopsys Science Fair
WordPress

Save Our Shores
WordPress & BuddyPress

Clifford Henderson
WordPress

True Olive Connection
WordPress & WooCommerce

Hot Chalk
WordPress

Elizabeth Van Buren
WordPress & BigCommerce

San Lorenzo Valley Leadership Academy
WordPress

PT Squared
WordPress

Fab to Be Female
WordPress & Learn Dash

Carla's Pearls
WordPress

Sustainable Productivity Solutions
WordPress

Sign Authority
WordPress

Valentino Coaching
WordPress & WooCommerce

Tumbling Tutor
WordPress

Mazik Media
WordPress

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Elizabeth Van Buren

Custom designed WordPress site integrated with matching BigCommerce store

Dates - 2015
Location -
Santa Cruz, CA

Platform/Theme/Shopping Cart - WordPress, Canvas, BigCommerce

Elizabeth Van Buren makes quality essential oils for the retail and wholesale market. They came to us with a functional BigCommerce store that was lacking in aesthetic appeal and that didn't reflect the quality of the brand. They wanted a website that would appeal to some of the bigger wholesale accounts they desired - and wanted additional content features like a blog, ability to display videos, integration with MailChimp, online user guides, and more.

EVB was heavily invested in BigCommerce and it does handle Wholesale better than a lot of e-commerce platforms. So changing wasn't really an option. However, while BigCommerce has some facility for managing static pages and blogs, it really lacks the flexibility of something like WordPress. Additionally, BigCommerce would have had to have much of the special content updated from within the coded page templates. Not an ideal situation for a non-coding staff.

So, a multi-platform approach was decided on. The shopping piece would stay in BigCommerce and everything else in WordPress. The challenge was making the look of the two match and make it as seamless as possible so it's not obvious to the end user that they are jumping back and forth between two platforms. That can be really off-putting, which is why I don't normally recommend this approach. However, we were able to pull it off with about a 95% match between the two.

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Sara’s Side Hustles and Projects

An entrepreneur at heart, I'm always cooking up something on the side. Here's what I've got going on.


Dream Maker Creative - A DIY crafts studio in Bremerton, WA offering classes, parties, events, and a small boutique selling craft kits. It's also where I make my web design "office" and teach tech classes. A multi-purpose space!


Terra Create - Maker of artisan quality craft kits. For ages 10+. Subscriptions available.

Where to Find Me

Sara Lorien Design
PO Box 2161
Kingston, WA 98346
Phone: (360)728-3102
Email: Contact Us
Hours by Appointment

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