January 15th, 2010
The new site for Stand Sound marks the third site in a row that I have made use of the powerful Flutter plugin for WordPress. Stand Sound is a company that offers post-production sound packages to film and tv productions and their new site needed to showcase information in ways that went beyond what the typical WordPress page is capable of.
For their Projects, Personnel and Facilities pages, we needed a way to display images, information and links without being confined to the normal block of text. To accomplish this in a way that added …
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Categories: Blog, Custom Blogs, Web Design.
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January 14th, 2010
Teen Truth started as a video documentary by Horizon Intertainment, created by handing teens video cameras to get their take on school violence shortly after the Columbine massacre in ’99. It has since grown into a series of documentaries and Teen Truth Live, a live motivational speaking event that has now spoken in front of millions of students across the country.
Their website had been a static HTML site, difficult to update and lacking the ability to comment or interact in any way. Producers JC Pohl and Erahm Christopher asked their original designer, David Richards to update …
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Categories: Blog, Web Design, WordPress Development.
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January 13th, 2010
One of the great things about working with talented people is that the end product is something you wouldn’t have been able to accomplish on your own. I have worked on several sites now with the talented brand and identity designer Ellen Petty of Identity Kitchen (see previous post with examples), all custom blogs designed by Identity Kitchen and programmed by myself using WordPress. But the site for Studio Diana is an all-in-one portfolio site and blog, …
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December 4th, 2009
Over the last few months, I have done several projects in partnership with the talented brand and identity designer, Ellen Petty of Identity Kitchen. It has been a great change of pace to have someone else provide the design, allowing me to focus on the programming and coding of the site.
With all of our sites, we try to incorporate some level of social media interaction. Custom blogs generally get a Twitter feed with a custom design and prominent links to any other sites the client wants to feature. This could be Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc.
Here is a look …
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Categories: Blog, Web Design, WordPress Development.
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November 25th, 2009
This is a look at the custom blog for Plum Tree Studios, a photographer from Houston Texas. Once again matching an existing portfolio site, I was pretty contained for design options. I used some screen captures of her existing site to manufacture a background that resembled the one on the site. The color scheme was set as mostly black, with the few colors from the logo as highlights for text, links, borders around images, etc.
A Look At the Site
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Categories: Blog, Custom Blogs, Web Design.
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November 25th, 2009
Here is a quick look at a blog I did for Andrena Photography. Based in Los Angeles Andrena is an amazing photographer, best known for her Indian Weddings. As proof, you will notice amongst the list of referrals on her blog, a listing for Elephant Rentals.
With an existing website and a strong brand and logo already in place, I simply had to adjust colors and fonts to match the existing site. For the background image, I had to create a new image using the background of the current site, filling in the middle portion …
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Categories: Blog, Custom Blogs, Web Design.
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November 25th, 2009
One of the most complex and intricate custom blogs I have put together so far was for Jules Bianchi Photography. Like most of my photographers in need of a custom blog, Jules had an existing and well established brand identity with a portfolio site already in place. Her blog however had been on Blogger, where customization and options are limited.
A while back, I had also done a custom splash page for the main site, with links to all of her sites and the blog.
A look at the Splash Page
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November 6th, 2009
Most of the websites I have worked on over the last couple years have been built using WordPress, one of the best Content Management Systems available. It is extremely flexible and powerful, with great tools for Search Engine Optimization already built in.
For a new user, however, it can be a little overwhelming once they log in for the first time. The WordPress backend is a little bit heavy and offers so many tools that it can be confusing for those new to the system.
At first I was spending a lot of time on the phone talking clients through the same …
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February 14th, 2009
Just a quick screenshot for now. I’m off to Vegas for the WPPI convention, where we are introducing abrand new JulesCafe.com.
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October 19th, 2008
Yesterday I put up a new splash page for wedding photographer, Jules Bianchi. We worked together on the look as she had an existing site and blog that the page needed to match and she had a very specific idea of what it should look like.
Here is a screen capture of the new page:
And the old one:
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It gave me a chance to use a new …
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