Corporate & Small Business Index
I love to design websites for regular businesses too. I usually like to approach these from a functional position creating an outline of proposed pages and navigation. This forces the client to think about what the major goal of their website is. Isn't that the ultimate goal of a website, do all the thinking so that the reader doesn't have to. Then they just blindly go byeing into the message.
“ Thanks again for all your hard work, the site looks GREAT.
P.S. Feel free to use us as a reference if you would like.”
Gareth Thomas, President
Mercury Software
ExperTelligence, Inc.
The first assignment for my new job at ExperTelligence, Inc. was to redesign the corporate web site. It needed to visually convey that we were an Internet technology development firm. I used a theme of grids and forward moving arrows along with a gif graphic that looped a continuous animated binary code.
POTENTIAL CASE STUDY: Conversion from framed to current CSS standards
CATEGORIES: Corporate, Frames
LOCATION: http://www.ilov2dezyn.com/expert/demo.htm
ExperClick.com, Inc.
As the front end web developer for ExperClick - an online auction site for web advertising - my job was to create the "look and feel" to convey to advertisers and website owners that their message reaches its "target." ExperClick (changed to AdECN) was a wholly owned subsidiary of ExperTelligence and sold to Microsoft in August 2007.
CATEGORIES: Corporate, Colorama
LOCATION: http://www.ilov2dezyn.com/experclick/home.htm
Mercury Software Solutions
This client requested 3 prototype examples utilizing a tree photograph, his logo and the company slogan. He provided the high rez photo and line art. Working via email, I customized the design to his preferences. Similar graphics are color-coded for five distinct sections of the website.
CASE STUDY: Design Progression
CATEGORIES: Frames, Small Business, Colorama
LOCATION: http://www.ilov2dezyn.com/mercurysoft/
Babbitt's Cottonwood Trading Post
This was my very first web site design - a class assignment for the Webmaster Intensive course. This was my father's business and I had a four-page color brochure that I could use for content. From a design adapted from the indian pottery he sells, I created a custom-designed navigation bar.
CATEGORIES: Theme, Frames, Small Business
LOCATION: http://www.ilov2dezyn.com/psthome.html
S.G. Consulting
This is a basic small business website design that utilizes a composite of clip art photos to convey "Yes, we got the money."
POTENTIAL CASE STUDY: Composite photo lesson
CATEGORIES: Small Business
TECH: Email contact form - check cgi
LOCATION: http://www.ilov2dezyn.com/sgsite/
ComputerFocus Corporate
Poor navigation and a tired look necessitated the desire for a complete web redesign. The challenge was how to give it a face lift, without an extensive retrofit to the 200+ pages of the "old" site. The inability to print course outlines and class schedules was also a major concern.
CATEGORIES: Corporate, Frames
LOCATION: http://www.ilov2dezyn.com/computerfocus/index.htm
ComputerFocus WebDev
Little did I know that when I created a six page site for the ComputerFocus Web Development sales staff that it would "grow" to become a major section of the corporate site. The challenge was how to make the flashier sales side fit together with the more sedate corporate side. Unifying the color scheme, repeating the backgound grid, and utilizing framed navigation would tie the two sites together.
CATEGORIES: Corporate, Frames
LOCATION: http://www.ilov2dezyn.com/computerfocus/internethome.htm
NP Commercial Printing
Looking for more exposure, the print production division for the Santa Barbara News-Press asked for a small site of their own.
CATEGORIES: Small Business
LOCATION: http://www.npprinting.com/