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Sometimes I wish for a third-party to remind my potential clients of what they need so that my advice makes more sense. Freelance Folder has posted this nearly perfect list of things that every web site should have. I highly recommend considering all of them for each project…
I appreciate reading the blog of Seth Godin (along with half the world, apparently). Today, he blogged about the fact that “small is a weapon, not an excuse” and spoke of the power of the web to level the playing field between small and large businesses. I couldn’t agree more. Read the rest of this article »
Visit Site: www.storeofthecommunity.com
Logo designed by Jeff at Cre8ive Solutions
Store of the Community offers various promotional items for retail displays and events to stores. The project is rather small in scope – merely a splash site leading on to an ecommerce site provided by a company specializing in this niche.
Here’s a simple tip from the marketing aspect of web site design – keep your bread and butter front and center. Many sites are crowded with extras and bonuses, but the main business of the site is overshadowed. You must determine what a “sale” is in your market, then arrange your design elements around it. Read the rest of this article »
Visit: www.mobileconcepts360.com
(Logo by Jeff at Cre8ive Solutions)
Mobile Concepts 360 is a firm located in Northwest Arkansas that helps people get into the mobile entertainment industry. The site is static css, xhtml, and php and incorporates the Smooth Gallery by jondesign. The design of the site revolves around the logo and borrows elements from it. It’s meant to convey kind of a techie-gamie feel, hence the color scheme and the cool mootools accordion sidebar elements.
I’ve been re-designing this site since I first launched! In fact, I have a hard drive full of designs with “potential” that just never really crystallized into the right design for me. I’ve finally settled in on one that I believe reflects my personality and tastes quite well. Let me share the thought process with you… Read the rest of this article »
Visit: www.highschoolsportingmemories.com
(logos designed by Jeff at Cre8ive Solutions)
I serve as Chief Information Officer for a new company called High School Sporting Memories, which is the parent company of TeamFlix.com (currently under development). In short, our goal is to film every high school sporting event in America so that family and friends may watch free clips on line and order full game DVD’s. This corporate site was built primarily for investor and advertiser relations. It is built on WordPress for easy updating of content.
Flash designers amaze me. I thoroughly enjoy making graphic mockups, slicing them up and coding them for the web, then integrating them into a content management system. But those who can take a blank canvas and turn a movie into a website baffle my mind. However… Flash-based sites can also be the most annoying in the world. Read the rest of this article »
There is a huge debate today over whether design is essential. With the clean-look, minimalist, web 2.0 surge, the web has become far less about your basic css/xhtml look and feel, and far more about programmatic functionality and application development. Personally, I think this is a good thing. Read the rest of this article »
