Websites
Selected websites that show the variety of sites we’ve created.
Selected websites that show the variety of sites we’ve created.
Below is a 12-page website that we designed and for which we created concept, logo and content. Live since March 2009.
http://www.resumebio.com
Below is a website design that is being evaluated by one of our clients. The logo and content of this site has been obscured to protect their privacy.
Design treatment
Below are three layouts for a website design upgrade currently under construction for one of our clients, an opera revue touring company. The design concept is a theatre stage built from elements of the client’s brand (logo, colors, textures, stage sets, etc). The feel is operatically opulent with a dash of humor and theatrical flair in line with the website copy. The entrance page will have a brief Flash animation of a stage curtain rising; below, one can see the animation’s “before” and “after.” The design layout for the website inner pages is also shown, followed by an alternate version that has an additional menu at page bottom (for ease of navigation on the internal pages, most of which are scrollable).
Design for Entrance Page “before” curtain rise animation
Design for Entrance Page “after” curtain rise animation
Design for Internal Pages
Design for Internal Pages, with additional menu at bottom
Below is a landing page for a website under construction.
http://www.geezergurus.com
Below is a 38-page website that we designed and built based on client-supplied photos, graphics, color scheme and copy for a spare and sophisticated look. The site features thumbnails, a technique that makes for an attractive layout and which was in fact necessary in the pre-broadband era when dial-up connections with their slow download speeds were the norm. For this site we also did the photo cropping and resizing as well as some retouching. Live since 1999.
http://www.dgarch.com
Below is a 5-page website purpose-built for a specific project. The site contains slide shows that use Java script; it was live for the duration of the project in 2004.
http://www.dgarch.com/madison
Below is a 9-page website that we designed and built to have a theatrical, baroque-comic feel. The site includes some Flash animation; audio- and video-clips that are subject to change every performance season (currently, all video clips are on YouTube with a link); and performance schedule information that is subject to change regularly. For this site, we did: logo design; extensive original as well as collaborative copy-writing based on branding assets that we created for them; copy-editing; photo editing/cropping/resizing; audio- video-clip editing where needed. Live since 2006. After the site went live, we monitored for our client the domain name they originally wanted to have, which was at that time owned by a competitor, and determined the scenario that was most likely to allow our client to acquire it at a favorable price: an anonymous-buyer purchase at the right time. Upon client approval, the domain name was successfully purchased anonymously for our client at their price in early 2008 and we turned the URL into a second entrance to our client’s site.
http://www.duellingdivas.com
Below is a 6-page website that we designed and built with Flash-based slideshows. Live since 2006.
http://www.7841seton.com
Below is a 2-page website that we designed and built to have a rich feel with clean lines. Using photo, audio and CV received from client, we did collaborative copy-writing; copy-editing; photo-retouching; minor audio-clip editing. The site uses hidden text, a technique which in this case enables Google and the other search engines to find the site using either the client’s married surname, or her maiden name (with a few words of biographical update attached) without altering the legible copy of the site. Live since early 2008.
http://www.thebirgit.com
Below is a 10-page website that we designed and built for our own IT-consulting firm with a short, clear, can-do look. Live since 1999. Current site design is less than a year old and features a fixed-size page with self-contained scrolling sized for the range of screen resolutions typically in use today.
http://www.handsonit.com
Below is a 48-page website with a bold look that we built entirely from client-supplied graphic images. Each webpage consists of a single large graphic image, which the client had created so that each page would display exactly as he had laid it out. These graphic images, most notably, also hold all the text, meaning that, in effect, the text is a part of the graphic and so the computer does not recognize it as being text. We recommended the use of actual text, but the client’s preference was to use his graphic images at that time. Advantage: the pages look exactly as the client wants them to. Disadvantages: text that, as a graphic, cannot be read by search engines; text blurriness that varies by screen resolution; slower loading speed, due to large graphics, that varies by bandwith. Because the site has no text other than its meta-tags, the client has recently inquired about making the site more searchable by the major search engines such as Google – which (among other things) reads through a website’s text content as part of its proprietary method of providing Google-search results. Live since 2006.
http://www.boparkerphoto.com
Below is a 35-page website that we designed and built to give a charming effect using graphics and copy created by Anne. The site contains thumbnails and enlargements, some animated graphics (as animated GIFs), and printable forms (as PDFs); it also features a secure e-commerce on-site store where greeting cards can be securely purchased using PayPal. Live since 2001.
http://www.woodhillhome.com