WEBSITE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT
After years of managing project-based websites and a variety of sites for The Ohio State University, I began designing and developing larger professional services websites in 2014.
In 2014, I helped re-design and launch the new M&R website, which went on to win three national website awards in 2014 and 2015.
Later, I was a member of the three-person team that completely re-designed and launched the new MSK website, which won four national awards, including Best Legal Website of 2016 as deemed by the Web Marketing Association. I assisted in making strategic decisions (pertaining to the site setup and administrative portal structure), design concepts, content creation, multimedia production and organization, lead capture, and strategies for webpage development that would best serve the firm’s business development goals.
In 2020, I began co-managing websites for Villa Real Estate, including the main brokerage website and dozens of individual agent websites. Since then I have created over 100 property-specific websites aimed at providing value to buyers & sellers while bolstering Villa's brand as the leading luxury residential real estate brokerage in coastal Orange County. Most recently, in 2022, I was a member of the three-person team that completely re-designed and launched the brand new Villa Real Estate website.
Outside of my full-time positions (past and present), I have created, edited, maintained and managed websites for clients on a freelance basis, such as the website for Laguna Beach-based artist Steve Northeast. In 2022, I also created and launched the website for the newly-formed law firm Blaker & Granet LLP.
With each of these projects, I strategized website structure, written content development, content placement and backend settings with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind. In my SEO work, I set out to complete the most critical SEO tasks: an audit of the existing site, competitive analysis (research on competitors’ websites, practices, and tools), keyword discovery, keyword assignments (assigning appropriate words and key phrases to the corresponding pages on the site), traffic monitoring (keeping an eye on web traffic & visitor analytics), SEO refinement (taking that web traffic data and using it to refine the SEO settings), content creation, and continued reporting and refinement.
These practices, when completed creatively, allow your prospects to find you when searching for (or Googling) key terms relevant to your business. Proper SEO also allows your pages, content, and links to not only look better and operate faster, but become more identifiable and accessible as well. On certain platforms and in most search engines, this allows your content to be prioritized higher in the search and content algorithms - pushing you and your content to the top of a news feed or among search results.
VIEW MY WEBSITE WORK:
10fairharbor.com
(one of over 100 property websites
I've created)
nick-hampton.com
(this website)
COPYWRITING
I have a wide breadth of experience when it comes to writing. I am accustomed to writing biographical text, website text for general services, announcements and other communications for public relations, and text copy for social media and infographics.
My work product includes:
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Various areas of text throughout the Villa Real Estate website.
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Various areas of text through the Blaker & Granet LLP website.
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Biographical text for Steve Northeast, Laguna Beach artist & musician.
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I was the author of many of MSK’s "About MSK" boiler plate variations, such as this one on the MSK blog.
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MSK has a unique bio component for nearly all of their attorneys. It's called a "Spotlight Bio," and the intent of it is to provide the reader with a better sense of the attorney's identity, outside of their legal expertise. I authored many of these bios myself for nationally-recognized attorneys. Examples of those for which I was the sole author include Dima Budron and Robin Gilden.
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I have also written the following news articles/announcements for MSK: