Alana Jade
Alana Jade
Australia + Thailand
Website designer for kind businesses
Services
Squarespace Design and Dev, Design and Strategy Intensives, Squarespace Template, Brand Design, SEO Strategy
Course Taken
Standout Squarespace
Selected Work
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Hi! My name is Alana Jade and I’m a Website designer for kind businesses based in my home country of Australia and a little island in Thailand.
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Outside work you will often find me creating beautiful things (macrame, music and vegan platters, mostly!); drinking loads of soy-milky tea (English Breakfast for the win!); contemplating and reflecting deeply; questioning the status quo and living ‘outside the box’; sauntering along the tropical coastlines of southern Thailand; playing old-timey jazz and swing numbers on the clarinet in my band, Latootz. ( V I E W )
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But on a typical workday, I am usually collaborating with my brand team, dreaming up a new branding kit or one-week website design or building websites for my clients!
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My day usually starts with yoga, meditation, an ocean swim and a big pot of tea
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Most of the time I am working on delivering websites in just one week!
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What is the best part about the process of building websites for you?
Bringing together the talented work of different creatives – branding experts, photographers, writers – into a space that does my client’s gifts and passions justice. I also get a thrill when I see little lines of code on one side of the screen make something beautiful happen on the other side!
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What is your favorite stretch or pastime in between coding?
Chocolate!
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How would you describe your Standout Style in 2-3 words? Editorial. Minimalist. Earthy.
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Which Standout workshops do you find yourself incorporating most often on your website projects?
Pseudo elements, blog grids, sticky sections and elements, the smart coding section techniques so my clients never have to touch a line of code and can easily keep their websites up to date!
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What makes your work standout?
Infused throughout all my web design work, is my passion for minimalist business practices and simple, kind living. This means all my design work focuses on calm, kind, ethical design with minimal distractions, and online spaces that are gentle on the nervous system.
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What are some of your proudest works you've worked on?
Earth ConsciousWebsite →Our Earth one-week website base design made for environmental advocates and non-profits, which we launched this year.
This design was two years in the making! I spent a lot of time researching the types of key pages, sections and functionality these types of businesses would need. In the end, I created our first 'mix and match' one-week website design where the business can choose the exact functionality they need. It makes the design so much more flexible and can be used by a variety of different businesses.
I used loads of different workshops and trainings from standout, including:
• Blog grid
• Pricing tables
• Sliding letters
• Sticky section and words for values on the About page
• Sliding timeline
• Pseudo brand marks in the footer
• Sticky split section in portfolio
• Make entire list item clickable
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What are the biggest takeaways from the Standout programs?
To truly understand code – rather than just copy and paste it from anywhere and everywhere across the internet. And the smart coding techniques have helped me develop my one-week website base designs in a way that makes them easy for me to create and easy for my clients to keep up to date. This has been an invaluable growing point for my business.
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What is your dream website project?
A for-purpose business and / or activist – someone who is focusing on making a difference in the area of climate change.
