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A sampling of some of the platforms I have designed and developed for artists and creative businesses. Each project is built on self-hosted WordPress, giving my clients full ownership of their platform and the flexibility to grow over time. These platforms often bring together multiple parts of a creative business,  including artwork, courses, workshops, shops, and community,  into one cohesive system designed specifically around the artist it serves. I do not publish every project publicly, but the work below offers a look at the range of platforms I’ve built over the years. If you're wondering how your own work might fit into a platform like this, schedule a Creative Consult and we can talk through the possibilities.

Sampling of Artists & organizations I’ve worked with...

Kate Thompson
Shem (Michael Shemchuk)
Roxanne Evans Stout
Jeanne Oliver
Lorraine Bell
Rochelle Gaukel
Alex Castro Ferreira
Kecia Deveney
Marilyn Radzat

Art Center of the Bluegrass
GLASS National Art Museum
Murrini Café
Fern: Curated Gifts
Rincon Search
Michele Hamida

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I have just launched Kate Thompson's new Platform, KateThompsonArtist.com and Shem's (Michael Shemchuk) new Platform at MShem.com. I will be in soon to update all below when I have a breather. Until then, go check out their New Platforms. Two very different styles, both amazing artists.

Kate Thompson Artist Website Platform by Noelle Mena | The Eclectic Designer

Kate Thompson

After more than a decade of loving Kate Thompson’s work, what a joy it was when she was referred to me and reached out to build a custom platform of her own. Every part of Kate’s platform was custom designed and developed around her art. Her work is woven throughout the entire experience, from the custom graphics and layered layouts to the way her courses, portfolio, workshops, and original artwork are presented. It feels romantic, raw, organic, beautifully layered and unmistakably Kate.

The platform now brings together more than 30 courses and growing, with the freedom and flexibility to support everything Kate can dream up next. This is far more than a website. It is a home for her art, her teaching, and the incredible body of work she has created over many years.

I am beyond happy for Kate. She and her work deserved this platform, and she is an absolute joy to work with.

Complete Custom Platform | Woo Commerce |  Learndash  | Portfolio | Blog |

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Alex castro ferreira

Alex and I met right as the pandemic hit. Her work is just absolutely stunning. She wanted more from her website and found herself a bit stuck.

I came in and restructured the entire site through development, design and function. We have now added the ability for Alex to have her own courses on her site as well. She has had great success in offering her courses. We continue to add as Alex grows in her business. Regularly adding In Person Workshops and Retreats and new courses!

What a difference a professional on your side can make. 

Complete Custom Platform | Woo Commerce |  Learndash  | Portfolio | Blog |

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jeanne oliver

This is a community of almost 50,000. The project starting in 2017, was to move from NING to self hosted wordpress while keeping all members in place including their enrollments active in each of their courses. All aspects of the site as a whole had to be developed and designed out.

After getting the backend where I wanted it, I then custom designed the frontend such as course layout pages, workshops, portfolio, shop, about, press, profiles, all pages from the start of the site through Feb 7, 2020.  Developing and Integrating business solutions for supporting such a large community. 

After I designed + developed JeanneOliver.com I stayed on for 2+ years to continue designing + developing + maintaining the site and therefore took on a very limited amount of new clients.  After finishing the custom development of Creatively Made Business at the first of 2020, I decided I needed to focus more on my own projects and stepped down from JO. 

 

Complete Custom Platform start to finish. 

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the creatives classroom | roxanne evans stout

Roxanne was debating moving all of her courses from her Square Space website to a learning platform such as thinkific or kajabi. When she presented this to me, of course, I said a huge, "Why Roxanne???" Instead, let's create your own personal, branded, classroom just for you! You will have unlimited courses, unlimited students, and unlimited freedom to do what you want. She was very familiar with what Learndash integrated with Wordpress can achieve as she had been part of courses that used it on other sites I have developed. Roxanne was in! We first got the domain name that would be complimentary to her main site that is still on SS. The Creatives Classroom. This is a fully custom website built on self-hosted wordpress. 

Building and designing this out was pure joy. Upon opening the new site (or classroom) we had 5 courses to offer including a brand new mini course. We made the decision mid project to not migrate old students to the classroom. They can still access the courses the way they always have. Only students who join a course from within the new classroom, will access the course there. This allowed us to open the site sooner and then take our time to migrate down the road. I wanted to add that tidbit to show that nothing should keep you from making the move. Roxanne is so inspired with the results of the new classroom and the feedback from her students, she is already working on a new course again! I absolutley love this. 

 

Complete Custom Platform start to finish. 

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Art Center of the Bluegrass | Designed + Developed by Noelle Mena

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What an exciting project! I have been working with so many artists the past 5 years, I was so excited to take on the complete redesign + development of Art Center of the Bluegrass. The Art Center of the Bluegrass connects people to art, culture, and creativity.  Bringing 30,000 people through the doors each year for the national glass museum, art exhibits, classes, workshops, retail space, café, events, community gatherings, cultural conversations, and ceramics studio.  The Art Center of the Bluegrass, reimagining what an art center can be.

What an opportunity to create a space that felt + functioned like the premier art center that it is.  Fully custom site, centered around their vast expansion project. Niki Kinkade, the Executive Director for ACB, wanted a vibrant, modern, but elegant approach. I began with the main site,  Art Center of the Bluegrass and then carried it through the 3 new areas of expansion. GLASS National Art Museum, Murrini Café, Fern: Curated Gifts. The 3 additional sites are one page informational sites that we will continue to expand on.

This was the first site that I have started to use my own images in the design. All of the photography and art images are mine. I created each one exclusively for the project. I believe this is a total game changer for bringing a client's vision to life.

*Note that the current version of the main website as of 4/2025 is no longer my design. View my version using the View Project below.

Complete Custom Platform start to finish. 

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Lorraine Bell

Lorraine came to me with her Square Space website that she had outgrown and could no longer get the results she was needing to focus on where she wanted her business to go. 

We started with importing her Square Space site into self-hosted wordpress. From there I was able to build out a site she will never out grow. Custom pages for every aspect of her art business along with setting up the ability to host her own courses and podcast. 

With every graphic I designed, I also put it into Canva along with all of her design elements so she can continue to create new ones, or use as templates. 

Custom tutorials were added the back of her site along with all the tutorials she needs to learn how to use her new wordpress site. What a complete joy Lorraine was to work with! Go check her out.

Import from Square Space | Custom Platform | Woo Commerce | Courses - LearnDash | Podcast | Sketchbook | Workshops | Blog | Flodesk | Canva

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Rochelle Gaukel

Rochelle came to me at a time when I was closing my queue to work on a new project, but her work was so beautiful and she ended up being just as beautiful of a person. Rochelle had beautiful images all ready to go of her work. As an artist that is such a huge step in getting started. Just from her first upload of images, I could immediately see a vision for developing the site around them. Her palette jumped out just as fast. Working in neutrals alongside a pop of color, just enough to not compete with your art is the key for most artist. The font Rochelle chose gives a vintage vibe but with a modern take. Lining up completely with her art, voice, and other design elements but on the site and off. Keeping her brand clear.

Like most clients today, she also included offering courses on her new site. Such a great opportunity to diversify your offerings. 

Complete Custom Platform | Woo Commerce | Courses - LearnDash | Portfolio | FloDesk | Blog | Canva

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Kecia Deveney

Kecia also came to me from her Square Space website that she had outgrown. This happens so often. Square Space will work for you until you outgrow it. 

Kecia had a photographer take images or her, her work and her studio for us to work with. It always makes the beginning steps of defining a client's brand out when you can see such quality imagery mixed with written copy. You want to design from this, not design and then try to fit things in. 

Kecia is an excellent example of not staying neutral. Her colors are vibrant. The key is she uses the colors across all of her work in one or the other so the colors do not compete. 

We expanded Kecia's reach with adding the ability to offer courses right on her site as well. Kecia dove in, like all of my clients and began to learn how to run her business on the backend as well as the front. 

Complete Custom Platform | Woo Commerce | Courses - LearnDash | Portfolio | Blog

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Artists deserve to own their platform.

If you’re ready to create a platform that truly supports your art, your teaching, and your community, let’s talk about what you’re building. Every project begins with a conversation where we look at where you are now and what you want your platform to become. My queue is usually booked a couple months ahead, so reaching out early helps secure a place in the schedule.

“Noelle Mena is not only an exceptionally talented web designer—she is a true artist. She did far more than create a website for me; she built a beautiful, intuitive platform that brings together every part of my creative work. I had more than 30 online classes that needed to be migrated to the new site, and Noelle handled the entire process seamlessly. She also incorporated my shop, blog, and portfolio, using richly layered graphics and imagery that feel both polished and deeply personal. She understood my aesthetic from the beginning, and the finished website genuinely represents who I am as an artist and educator. Beyond her remarkable design sensibility, Noelle was clear, organized, and extraordinarily patient throughout the process. She kept me informed about each stage of the work, provided helpful directions, and always made time to address my questions and concerns. She also created several personalized how-to videos so that I could confidently manage and update the site as its content administrator. At the start of the project, Noelle asked me to gather examples of websites I loved for inspiration. I can say without hesitation that the website she created for me is now my very favorite. It exceeds anything I imagined possible—and makes me feel like a true superstar.”

Kate Thompson

“Through Noelle’s great inquiry skills, she was able to elicit what I wanted for my website and come up with so much more than I expected. Her attention to detail shines through in creating a timeless website for me. She took the vision I had and turned it into reality. I can’t say enough about her professionalism and knowledge and I am very pleased with my website. I would recommend Noelle in a heartbeat.”

Rochelle Gaukel

Noelle's impact on our network has been priceless. Noelle Mena is one of the most talented and hard working women I have ever had the privilege to work with. When you come to jeanneoliver.com she is the amazing builder of this site. If you ever need a web designer I can promise you that you will find no one better.

Jeanne Oliver

"I struggled for years trying to develop a web site that felt like “me" and represented the Artist I am today. It was not until I worked with Noelle Mena that I found someone who “got me” and was able to pull my vision from my head and heart and translate that into an online home that I absolutely adore. Noelle consistently listened to me and transformed what I scratched onto paper into a perfect site that reflects all I want my customer to experience. Her skills and professionalism made what was a daunting task appear simple and seamless! I appreciated her patience while I tweaked and changed along the way and she didn’t stop until it was ‘just right!’ My site was delivered on time, complete with extensive training and hand-holding through the transition. Noelle not only built a beautiful site for me, but she was also a cheerleader for my business and success. The highlight of my day is when a customer tells me how much they love my new website!" Artist. Wanderer. Dreamer

Lorraine Bell

Noelle is truly amazing!! Not only is she incredible at all things technology, she has a beautiful sense of design and aesthetics and is very creative in everything that she does. Since she has created my new classroom website, The Creatives Classroom, I have had many new students who have purchased my classes, often two at a time, and they are loving the platform! Noelle is patient, kind and very efficient. I am thrilled to have her as a part of my team!

Roxanne Evans Stout

Noelle just completed our main web-redesign for Art Center of the Bluegrass and also created 3 new websites for our 3 new brands. GLASS National Art Museum, Fern: Curated Gifts and Murrini Café. Noelle created beautiful, unique sites for all of our art central entities, giving each one its own energy and identity. Noelle was flexible, fun, and easy to work with. She delivered on time and continues to support us now that the project is complete. We could not be happier with our experience with Noelle and highly recommend her for any project. Art Center of the Bluegrass!

Niki Kinkade | Executive Director

Noelle is a very professional and caring woman. She has a huge heart for helping women and that is evident. Noelle Mena has the heart of a servant, and most importantly is very knowledgeable with videos, audios and technology in general. She is also a wonderful writer and speaker and would be an asset to your company or organization!

Dr. Daisy Sutherland

Noelle is the best web designer I know and believe me, I know a lot! Noelle has this rare gift of being both an artist and technical. She navigates within them at ease. She immediately understands what we are looking for with our site, courses, palette colors, composition... everything. Noelle is a generous, giving professional. Talented and such an inspiring human being and artist. I am so lucky to have her in my creative life.

Alex Castro Ferreira

Thank you, Noelle!! It has been such a joy to work with you on our three websites. You are very talented, creative and professional and knew exactly what we needed to make our websites "pop"! Not only are the sites beautiful but are functional and easy to navigate. Thank you for making our journey in promoting and enhancing the My Journey of Faith ministries websites extraordinary!

Sandra Hardage

My website needed a relevant design and more functionality for less cost than I paid previously. Noelle's visionary mind, creative eye for design, and expert ability to apply the latest technology to brand and restart my website brought my ideas to life! Organized, efficient, passionate, and productive describe Noelle's work ethic. As for client relations, Noelle is personable, patient, caring, kind--a joy to work with! I'm eager to hire her again and recommend Noelle Mena

Shannon Cochran

Noelle conducts and operates an amazing organization, offers direction when necessary, and encouragement when needed. I thoroughly enjoy the opportunity of knowing her and working with her. I highly recommend her professionalism and work ethic. She is creative, whimsical, and extremely dedicated to excellence.

Julie Gorman

When it was time for us to upgrade our website into the 21st Century, we found Noelle Mena. We have never regretted that decision as she designed, developed, and maintained our stunning website. Noelle is personable, timely, and gives us instructional videos on how to make basic changes on our website (since we are techno challenged). We highly recommend Noelle for creating fresh, well-designed, efficient websites. San Francisco Youth Fencing

Rob + Connie Louie-Handelman

Noelle is one absolutely incredible woman. She serves, leads, dreams, lives with such passion. Her heart to glorify Christ in all she does spills over onto everyone around her. She is a visionary, coming up with ideas that would take people years to come up with. Not only is she a visionary, but she is also a developer, she takes these amazing ideas and develops them into well thought out systems. It's a rare combination to have someone who is a visionary also be someone that can develop the ideas. The creativity, the team building, the leadership skills she possesses make her one amazing woman.

Melissa Mashburn

I started working with Noelle after I accidentally crashed my website. After first I was shocked and panicked about what happened with my website, but then I realized that I didn’t really like it - and now was the time to have a site created that I did like. I started looking at artist websites that I enjoyed and studied them. I found one site that I loved and after searching it, found out that it was created by Noelle of The Eclectic Designer. I contacted Noelle, who immediately put me at ease about the situation. I give Noelle huge credit for being very patient with me and all my questions. I’m easily overwhelmed and she was great with encouragement and doable assignments to help her begin. It’s very hard to pinpoint and articulate ideas swirling around in my head, but she managed to ease them out gently and translated them into pivotal creative components to be used in my website. I couldn’t be happier. She leads by offering direction in ways that I didn’t really know could happen. The girl knows what she is doing. I also love that she is willing to offer input or gently nudge me when she thinks we could do better. I highly recommend her and I love that she offers an option to still be available to help maintain the site. Being able to continue reaching out to her with my virtual needs is just what I needed. I feel so much better knowing that she will always be there to support and help me continue to grow my site.

Kecia Deveney

My husband Peter and I were very impressed by Noelle's efficiency, professionalism, courtesy, and her willingness to catch the vision of this next phase of our ministry. Noelle, is patient, talented and gifted and she cares about the end result being exactly what you desire. I could see immediately God was leading her. My ministry is like my "baby", and just as I did not easily put my own children into the hands of someone else when they were young, so is true with the ministry God has given me stewardship over for 15 years. However, it was with ease I released it to Noelle's creativity and enthusiasm. I highly recommend Noelle and the services of Mena Vision whether your needs are personal or professional. She went beyond what was expected. You will not be let down. I look forward to my next project with Noelle.

Lisa Shaw

I can't say enough great things about Noelle! It would be a pleasure to work with her on any project. Even for a techno-phobe like me, she's made the process easy and understandable. I've also learned a lot from her about stepping out on faith with what God has called me to do. She's always available for questions or just to talk.

Nicole Kirksey

Noelle is amazing! I hired Noelle to help me build a new website from scratch, which to me, seemed like such a big undertaking! However, Noelle made it seem easy. She is so genuine and easy to talk to; she just 'get's it'. She was able to see my vision and has done an incredible job with bringing my style into the web design.

Lisa Osborn

Noelle designed and maintains my website (tomyyounger.me). I love how the website turned out. She has been maintaining my website for 4 years. It requires updating every two weeks. She is a joy to work with on an on-going basis. She displays a careful attention to detail, and is responsive, positive, and makes great suggestions for how to improve the website. She works well with the rest of my team. I recommend Noelle without reservation.

Sara Holtz

A passionate heart for excellence as she pays attention to detail and managing multiple people from all walks of life. Noelle is a trainer, a teacher, a mentor, and an encourager as well as an organizer and administrator and manager. Her energy is apparent as she undertakes each new avenue; her unbelievable ability to multi-task is apparent as she works non-stop to achieve her goals. It's been a pleasure and an honor to work with Noelle.

Jan Ross

Noelle's knowledge of design, building a website, integrating multiple platforms and attention to aesthetics was so important and appreciated when I was looking to rebuild my website last year. She not only brought knowledge and skill, but helped me gain confidence in my decisions.

Melissa Auclair

When I think of Noelle, I think of a fun, energetic, motivated, driven and powerful world changer. She is absolutely, hands-down one of the most dedicated women I know. As a Webinar Host for CWA, I had lots of questions for her while learning how to set up webinars through her system and how to do it so that my audience would get a ton of value with as few technical glitches as possible. She was not only a great coach because of her patience, but she was also creative and gave great ideas that I could easily run with to make my webinars stand out from the crowd. If you are looking to partner with an amazing, fun and energetic God's Girl, then you must meet Noelle. I am honored to be in her space day in and out.

Maruxa Murphy

It has been a joy to work for Noelle. She is kind and helpful, while calling me to learn new things. She requires excellence and holds the bar high! Working under Noelle's refreshing leadership has helped me to grow as a writer and business owner. No matter what task or adventure lies before her, Noelle has the confidence and abilities to get the job done!

Meredith Curtis

My two-week summer project involved a lot of complex parts and Noelle’s support and skills were invaluable in executing the faith-based wellness program. She was forward-thinking which helped circumvent problems in advance. In addition, she was very enthusiastic and motivating to provide much needed support during critical times. Overall Noelle provided an exceptional value for her services. I firmly believe anyone that teams up with Noelle will benefit greatly.

Coach Liz

Noelle Mena was a pleasure to work with before and during our campaign. Not only was she very responsive to our questions in a timely manner, she also provided valuable input as to how we could get the best results from the campaign. I highly recommend working with Noelle and support her in what she does for Christian Women worldwide.

Debra Mazda

We had been part of a "build your own" website for our industry where you filled in the blanks. No one ever mentioned our website and it was boxy & boring. My life coach suggested I contact Noelle. We met  and within that hour she understood I wanted personality, class, flare... and there was NO WAY I was going to get there without help as I am "website silly". She talked about things from Mars. But I could feel that I could trust her. I put it in her hands and just picked out pictures I liked. Which most of my pics didn't even work as I really don't get this process. BUT...our website is FABULOUS and she did a great job crawling inside my head & expressing my vision online. Thank you Noelle... we are not finished. I will be in touch after the New Year!! I want more of your magic.

Jill Hostetler

God truly gives us what we need at the right times, and our connection was very much a gift for both of us! Noelle’s knowledge of social media and how it all connects amazes me!

Alice Klitz

Noelle's goal setting bears the mark of both a great starter and finisher. Personally, I have been challenged and encouraged by her enthusiasm, encouragement and empowerment.

Tara Sloan

Noelle is a creative and personable business woman. Noelle has detailed knowledge of what it takes to make talk radio a success. She came highly recommended to me and hasn't disappointed.

Rita Schulte

I have found Noelle to be one of the most knowledgeable, positive, encouraging, and inspiring women I've met online. She is an expert in webinars, and is an excellent speaker, writer, and teacher as well. She is a woman of integrity with a strong faith in Christ and has a huge heart of love. Her devotion to her family is evident and inspiring. I highly recommend working with Noelle for your webinar or other online business needs.

Beth Jones

Noelle has passion for her work and to bring out the best in everyone she works with. She has clear vision, focus, and meets goals on time and beyond expectation.

Julie Arduini