Lisa Boerum’s Website Portfolio
Some of the Websites I’ve Created
I created my first website in 2008 for my child care business, Awesome Beginnings Childcare. It was a simple website and I didn’t use or know anything about HTML or CSS at the time. I created my first “true” and complex website in 2010 for Awesome Beginnings 4 Children, an ecommerce business that I owned. It was actually two website platforms that I designed to match each other. I created it with WordPress and Zencart and learned how to code it with HTML and CSS. I placed the Zen Cart site in a “/store” folder and I linked them together. Users had no idea that they were using two different platforms. I designed them to give users a seamless experience. I have been “hooked” on creating websites, and the content for them, ever since.
I have used WordPress.org, WordPress.com, SquareSpace, and Placester. WordPress.com is a free, hosted service and offers their free hosting in lieu of placing ads on the sites that they hosts. WordPress.com often places the ads right on top of the website content and visitors may not realize that you are not sponsoring these ads.
I prefer WordPress.org to build websites. WordPress.org is free, open source, and flexible. WordPress.org, not to be confused with WordPress.com, allows you to have full control of your site and the ability to modify and edit the source code to build almost any type of website. I created this website on WordPress.org and have coded every page and post by hand. I do not use drag-and-drop editors/website page builder plugins to create my web pages. To ensure full control of the outcome, I write my pages and posts, by hand, in the code editor with HTML and CSS. This also ensures that I keep my HTML and CSS skills up to date.
I have enjoyed creating websites and the content for them since 2008 and I am still “hooked”!
Lisa Boerum’s Website Portfolio
Here are some of the websites that I have created.
LisaBoerum.com
This is my Online Resume, Professional Portfolio & Blog. My previous resume/portfolio site was hosted on WordPress.com which is the free version of WordPress. As I mentioned above, WordPress.com places ads on their sites in lieu of their free hosting, only allows very basic customization, and does not allow access/editing of any code files. This site replaced LisaBoerum.Wordpress.com (shown below).
TwinCitiesHomeSearch.com
This was the main real estate website for my first real estate position as Executive Assistant for a Keller Williams Premier Realty agent. Keller Williams provided each agent with a website but they were using a real estate website and hosting company, Placester, that did not allow complete control of the website’s design/code so we decided to independently host the main site so that we could have complete control of it.
LakeElmoLife.com
This website was the first website that I created for my first real estate position. I created this website specifically for lead generation in Lake Elmo, MN. This niche website organically ranked at the top of the SERPs for a multitude of local and long-tail keywords resulting in a significant amount of traffic and leads. The site is no longer active as we decided to add the content to the main website, TwinCitiesHomeSearch.com, after Ryan decided to stop marketing/farming in the Lake Elmo area.
LisaBoerum.Wordpress.com
Lisa Boerum’s previous Online Resume, Professional Profile & Blog ~ This site was hosted on a free WordPress.com site. It didn’t allow any CSS editing or code access and placed ads on top of my content. It was replaced by LisaBoerum.com, Lisa’s current online resume and portfolio site (listed above).
PristineCleaningTeam.com
I created this website for a new residential cleaning business, Pristine Cleaning Team. It was a partnership and the owners worked in the residential cleaning business for over ten years when they decided it was time to venture out and start their own cleaning business.
AwesomeBeginnings4Children.com
I created this website in 2010 for Awesome Beginnings 4 Children, an ecommerce business that I owned. It was actually two sites (WordPress and Zen Cart) that I designed to seamlessly match each other and then I linked them together to make them appear as if they were one website platform.
AwesomeBeginnings4Children.com/Store/
I created the store section of this website with ZenCart. I placed the Zen Cart site in a “/store” folder, designed it to match the WordPress site and linked them together so they would appear to be one, seamless website.
LGFitnessBlog.Wordpress.com
Our Journey to Fitness and Health ~ This site was originally created in my web design class at Century College. I used Microsoft Expression Web 4 to create it. Rather than paying to have it hosted, I moved the content to WordPress.com, a free hosting platform. I lost my site’s design and layout in the process as WordPress.com does not allow it’s users to access or edit any code files. This site will be replaced by Health & Fitness Transformation. I am currently in the process of designing the site and transferring the content.
HealthandFitnessTransformation.Wordpress.com
My NEW Health & Fitness Blog – This site is a work in progress. I am in the process of transferring content from Our Journey to Fitness and Health to this site. This site will replace that site once I have finished designing this site and have moved all of the content over.
TheCauseTheCure.Wordpress.com
I, Lisa Boerum, had “Fibromyalgia” for many years until I found out that it was a VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY! NO MORE PAIN!!! I have been pain-free since 2007. I created this website/blog, which is fairly new, to hopefully help others who are needlessly suffering. It is a work in progress; however, it will remain simple and to the point.
2012SalemTravelTrailer.wordpress.com
I created this website in 2015 to sell our 2012 travel trailer. We bought this travel trailer new in 2012 and put it on a seasonal site at St. Croix River Resort (formerly St. Croix Haven Campground) twenty-three miles east of Hinkley. Midwest Outdoor Resorts purchased St Croix Haven Campground in 2014. Midwest owns several resorts across the US and operates like a time share. They were no longer going to offer seasonal sites; however, they were grandfathering in the current seasonal campers. A lot of seasonal campers decided to leave and since our schedules had prevented us from being able to go up there as often as we would like, we decided to sell. It was still in excellent, like-new condition; so, I felt that a website with space for all of the features and photos was the best way to sell it. It sold quickly.
KWPRAMG.Wordpress.com
I started an admin mastermind group for our brokerage in 2014 and created a website for our members to communicate and share with each other. When the website was still in it’s infancy, I duplicated it as a “sample site”. Members names, photos, and personal information were omitted from this site. This is the reason for members such as “Perry Pickle” and “Tim Tweety” on the membership page. The original website is a private, members-only site that requires login.