Website Portfolio & Case Studies

A Passion for Web Design

When I first fell in love with web design, I was employed as an art director at a tech ad agency, designing 99% printed pieces. This was in Newport Beach, CA, at the end of the 90s. It was my introduction to website design. After I left that gig in about 2000, I started Wallis Williams Design and dove headfirst into website development.

Since I’ve always loved technology, I taught myself to build websites with HTML, write CSS, explore JavaScript, and generally enjoy the (sometimes instant) gratification that is “web design."

When I first started building sites decades ago, I explored PageMill, then Macromedia Flash, then Dreamweaver, then WordPress, and eventually, years later, I discovered my beloved Squarespace in 2009. (I am experienced in 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, and 7.1 hosting platforms.)

Most Recently Launched Websites

One of the biggest challenges for most BUSY freelance website specialists is keeping their portfolio current. This is a slowly populated and ever-evolving page

Lonquist

With close to 100 employees and offices in multiple locations across North America, this successful engineering firm is not only my favorite client; they’ve been one of my most loyal clients since they first hired me in 2012. I’ve built multiple websites for their corporate offices and for their subsidiaries as well. I’ve also performed website maintenance and, recently, SEO/AI visibility.

In July 2025, we launched the latest website for Lonquist. They provided me with the direction for this seemingly simple site design. Additionally, the client provided the color palette, the logo, the content and the basic layout (in a PowerPoint spreadsheet).

What made this site solution technically challenging was the requested dual navigation menu opening individual category sections for each service. (Although the second navigation appears to be a basic menu, it is, in fact, a complex, custom javascript solution.)

Each primary service category includes an introductory landing page with a unique background graphic or video.

Screenshot of the LONQUIST website focusing on New Energy Solutions, showing navigation menu and an Earth view background.

Screenshot of the 'Lonquist' website menu, featuring sections such as New Energy, Focus Areas, Project Support, Regulator Support, Sequestration, Geothermal, Battery Minerals, Wind and Solar, and Resources.

The mobile version includes a separate, custom-coded JavaScript pop-open menu for the secondary navigation within each individual service category, separate from the primary navigation in the header

LONQUIST

Chele Mckee

Chele’s website redesign began as a Squarespace 7.0 migration to 7.1.

I had worked on Chele’s 7.0 website since well before Covid. When Chele recently reached out requesting some updates, I suggested we migrate her website to 7.1.

Although I bid her 60-page website as a “7.1 site migration," it evolved into a slight redesign, with multiple additional pages and content.

The site maintained Chele’s design style and brand, her selected fonts, lots of whitespace and multiple photo galleries of her outstanding work.

My knowledge and skills for how to design for the web and for multiple devices melded with Chele’s clear vision of how she wanted her website to look.

chele mckee

Squarespace 7.1 migration

Squarespace 7.0

Bellavia Food & Travel

“We had a dream… a new website. Our wish came true with Sue. Thank you for all your professional and personal support. Sue has incredible communication skills, great experience, and great taste. Grazie per la tua dedizione. (Thank you for all the hard work) Ti abbraccio.“
Stina Sayre

Stina is a very impressive talent. We have exchanged quite a bit of correspondence, and she always writes me the sweetest emails. For example: “Perfect Sue, you are the best! Let’s make it live. Thank you.” and “Thank you for teaching me this. It’s awesome.” and “Thanks Sue! The S on your cape isn't for Sue, it's for Superwoman!” XO Stina
@designREMODEL

“Sue is... Fabulous! Professional! Positive! Knows what and how of websites and more. Very responsive! And a real delight to work with!
And the proof is in the pudding, as they say. The website that Sue built out for my company has bought more projects than we can handle, and we get many compliments on the look and feel of our website.”
Chele McKee Design

Chele is a personal friend who also happens to be an exceptional designer. In addition to her beautiful website, we’ve enjoyed working together on a number of creative community projects. Chele is not only great fun to work with, she also has a terrific style, and provides her unique experiential designs across the U.S.
Lonquist & Co., LLC

I started working with the friendly, professional marketing team at this Austin, TX based company in 2013. Since then, LCO has hired me to build an additional four corporate websites.
It remains my honor to continue to provide web and SEO services to Lonquist & Co. LLC.
Win Knowlton

“Sue, it looks fantastic! And good, too, on the iPhone. Thank you for the instructions on how to edit. You have made this a very nice experience. Thank you. xx”
Win Knowlton
New York, NY
Alyn Rose

"Sue, everything looks so beautiful! Thanks so much. I love the website and the logo and the catalog. I love it... all of it!"
Laura Ryner
Alyn Rose
Laura’s beautiful clothing line, Alyn Rose, is no longer active, which is a shame because her dresses were 100% fabulous.
George Walther

“Website designer par excellence! I rarely rave about vendors, but I can’t say enough good things about Sue Wallis Williams. Sue created my design, is very careful with details, has a terrific aesthetic sense, and communicates superbly. Her fee was more than fair, and she over-delivered on her commitments. If you want a Web designer who’s competent, communicates superbly, and is a true delight, contact Sue.”
Debonaire Dancers

“Sue is very knowledgeable in all the ways needed to help you have an impressive presence on the web. She is easy to work with and very informative. I highly recommend her if you want your business to look professional. She has a great eye for the perfect design on your web page and all things related to marketing.”
Shari Fortino, Owner
In The Groove

“Wallis Williams design services are outstanding! Sue is professional, creative, and timely. She walked me through numerous design questions and delivered a first class web site that I am so happy with, I can't wait to show everyone I know! She is not only a great designer, but she also teaches as she works through the design process. I will use her services for all my design projects and recommend her highly to all my clients as well.”
Cuyahoga County Board of Health

“Our agency’s experience with Wallis Williams Design has been outstanding. The services Sue provided for us included site design and maintenance, on-demand troubleshooting, logo design, branding, social media, annual report design and more. I truly appreciate Sue’s ability to listen, collaborate, and produce results in a timely manner.”
Kevin Brennan, CCBH
Michele Roest

Michele was such a delight to work with. Together, we created a simple logo and a brochure-style website for her interpretive planning service. Her exhibits can be seen across the Central Coast. “Thanks, Sue ! I really like working with you ! It’s a relief to work with a real professional. I appreciate your knowledge and experience in these matters.” :-)
Esteem Dream Network

"Everything is absolutely magnificent. It has the feel and the size and the balance we hoped for, and it's everything I ever wanted it to be. Thank you so much."
Keith O'Neill
I loved this website, but it is no longer live. You can learn more about the Esteem Dream Network on Keith’s LinkedIn page.
Moms on the Spot

“OMY GOSH O MY GOSH!!!!! Sue!!!!!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! I'm sooooooo excited. You are amazing! I love it! ALL of it! It's totally PERFECT! =)”
Joey Fortman
(I sure wish this website was still live. It was so much fun… just like Joey!)
Bridges to Japan

“Love what you've done with it! :) I think the watermark totally makes it. Good call on that one. I also like the black pattern you chose for the background. How very Japanese of you! Also think the inverse colors on the logo look sharp. Very pleased. Well done!”
Jennifer Jakubowski
Bee Cave Ragdolls

I built this adorable website for a very dear client who continues to provide me with much larger websites where she is employed as a marketing VP in Austin, Texas.
Brain Science Podcast

Ginger has had this podcast since 2006 and was inducted into the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2022. She continues to host one of the most fascinating podcasts on neuroscience. Ginger currently maintains her website, and I’m so proud to know her. This is the 3rd website she’s hired me to build.
Paula Radke

Paula is a successful jewelry designer in Morro Bay. She was very particular about everything on this website and successfully markets her handmade beads through effective email marketing that she does herself.
Paula recently remodeled the website I designed for her, although many of the design elements remain.
SKYMAUL

“I love the first-site option! This is gonna be great. Your videos are awesome, and I'm bookmarking them as you suggested.”
Kasper Hauser has performed on the BBC, HBO Digital, and “This American Life.” SkyMaul’s website was built in 2014 on the Squarespace hosting platform, using the FIVE template and taken down in 2022.

Just for the fun of seeing how much website design has evolved over the 26 years I’ve been building websites, here’s a selection of some of the many websites I’ve built for businesses from sole practitioners to large corporations.