About Michelle Jones
I'm a photographer and writer in Louisville, Kentucky. I'm also a freelance web geek. For a couple years I ran a small blog design effort called the Blog Body Shop. A lack of time due to a full time job and a dedication to photography prompted me to close the Blog Body Shop down even though for a one-person very part time gig it was doing well.Now the full time job has gone the way of New Coke and I'm focusing on work and projects that I enjoy, including blog work. Blog work is a small part of what I do so it will mostly be a small scale, one project at a time effort.
A Note About Movable Type 4
Movable Type 4 has gotten me really excited about blogging again and I'm really interested in any projects involving it. If you've used Movable Type in the past or are currently using one of the older versions I can't highly enough recommend an upgrade to MT4. If you'd like to hire me to do that upgrade for you or implement your current design into MT4 that would be awesome. If not I still think you should upgrade to MT4. You won't regret it.
What I Can Do
Get You StartedPart of my job over the years has been to write and edit tutorials and technical documents to make sure they are easy to understand. I take that same approach for people who are new to blogging. I can help you pick the best tools for your blog, install or setup those tools for you, give your blog the look you want and explain everything to you in as much or as little technical detail as you want.
Basic Stuff
Maybe someone else setup your blog or maybe you're using a standard template but you have one or two small things you'd like to change. I can take care of those things for you at a rate that won't make you scream in pain.
Design/Styles
I can customize standard blog templates, integrate your blog into an existing design or create a design from scratch for you.
Advanced
Maybe you've been blogging for a while but want to move to an entire site driven by Movable Type or you want to pull in content from other sites and sources. I can help you with the more advanced blog goodness as well.
Movable Type
I've been with Movable Type since before Movable Type was cool. That is to say I started using it only a couple months after the original version was released and I donated money to Ben and Mena long before they moved out of their spare bedroom and into the corporate world with Six Apart. So I've got plenty of Movable Type experience.
I can install, setup, customize and add bells and whistles (plugins, feeds, etc.) to Movable Type for you and integrate your design so you're ready to start blogging immediately.
Movable Type 4 has gotten me really excited about blogging again and I'm really interested in any projects involving it. If you've used Movable Type in the past or are currently using one of the older versions I can't highly enough recommend an upgrade to MT4. If you'd like to hire me to do that upgrade for you or implement your current design into MT4 that would be awesome. If not I still think you should upgrade to MT4. You won't regret it.
Although I ued to work with WordPress I've decided to only work on Movable Type projects going forward. There are lots of great people out there who are WordPress experts who can do better work for you than I can since my blogging heart belonds to Movable Type and other Six Apart projects.
Work I've Done
A lot of my old work is now offline or has been redesigned while I've been out of blog work (bloggers like change when it comes to designs) but here are a couple I've worked on.Arouet.net Installation of Movable Type, design and implementation
A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania Photoblog design many moons ago
Consuming Louisville Design
For more information about my services or rates please contact me: mj AT michellejones.net DOT net