Who is Cath Hughes?

Cath Hughes | Live By 5, Phase Creative & WP Elevation Cath Hughes is a Sydney-based web designer, WordPress consultant and WordPress tutor, speaker, mentor and an active member of the WordPress community here in Australia, and online.

Cath is also a coach at WP Elevation, where she trains and mentors website designers and web development professionals in business.

Cath founded her first business, Phase Creative, back in 2013, and launched Live By 5 with the aim of bringing quality sites to the freelance, consultant and soloist market.

She loves helping clients hit the ground running with their new sites and is passionate about producing quality designs with measurable results.

Cath’s enthusiasm for making technology accessible to everyone is contagious. She has infinite patience and revels in breaking down the barriers between tech and business, enabling people to concentrate on what they’re best at.

She’s also a mum, a boss lady, a roller skater and a member of several creative freelancing groups that like to call meetups to drink wine and expense their uber rides.

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Live By 5

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Rachel Wilkinson

22:37 11 Jun 19

Cath has been amazing to work with! She has been so patient with me as I really know nothing about websites. I am so happy with the website and the service Cath has provided.read more

Hannah Malcolm

05:52 14 May 19

I recently had a general consultation with Cath from Live By 5 regarding a new business and I can highly recommend her services. She's very insightful and has provided me with a wealth of knowledge, as well as a pathway forward. Thank you so much for your help!! :)read more

Phillip Johnston

22:17 11 Oct 18

Cath did a fantastic job of training me to use WordPress and activating my web site when it was ready. She was a patient and articulate teacher who really knows her stuff! She was also patient and flexible, and was able to work with my ongoing changes in goals. She has a gift for making things that feel incomprehensible more understandable, and she is both knowledgeable and up-to-date., and has a strongly-developed aesthetic sense. A true pleasure to work with - thanks, Cath!read more

Lillie Brown

01:46 17 Aug 18

Cath has held our hand through the web development phase and was calm and endlessly patient when showing us the ropes. She is always able to be reached when we are unsure of what to do and is more than happy to help us out! I highly recommend Cath at Live by Five for all your web development and training ideas.read more

Lisa Patroni

01:20 09 Aug 18

I have recently had a one day wordpress training course with Cath at Live by 5. Not only did she do an amazing job on my website, she was also a very patient and kind teacher. She has given me the skills and confidence needed to continue to develop and improve my website independently. I would highly recomend training with Cath at Live by 5.read more

Eban Pollard

04:20 16 Jul 18

Cath was great to work with! I was amazed at how quickly she put our website together. She has a very streamlined process and helped us get to a website that we were really happy about with minimal fuss! Eban from NSW CID and the Team Up project.read more

Cathy Smith

07:14 22 Jun 18

Had a great session with Cath today, highly recommended. On topic, very knowledge, she was great. If you are thinking about doing training with Cath, either online or in person don't hesitate. She provides tailored training that is specific to your need. Thank you Cathread more

The Accords

04:07 22 Mar 18

Cath from Live By 5 did literally create a beautiful, functional, SEO-driven website for me in a day. She was incredibly organized, and had built in systems to get me organized too! I also left with the skills and confidence to actually run the website as a dynamic platform. The site’s “back end” is a pleasure to use and the user side has set me apart from others in my field. I’ve definitely won work as a result of my Live By 5 site, so it’s already paid for itself in my mind. Cath is genuine, passionate and above all, authentic. I would highly recommend Live By 5 to any start up or small business, it will take you to the next level.read more

David Peff

06:17 17 Aug 17

Cath did a great job in coaching me in Learndash to stage where I was confident to take the training wheels off. Cath also provided great resources that I can refer back to when I hit a roadblock - Thanks again Cath for your help !read more

The Wedding Architect

02:21 14 Aug 17

I recently had a website strategy session with Cath to give my website a much needed update, content and technology-wise. Firstly, she puts you at ease and gets to know how your business works, both on and off the web. After that, she took me through all the parts of my website that I could optimise and improve, as well as the sections that needed a complete overhaul. She's a knowledgeable specialist and I felt very confident moving forward. That and she provided a great support document to get me started. Thanks Cath!read more

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