We just deployed the new website for Global Quality Alliance, a pharmaceutical and bio-tech quality consulting firm in Colorado. GQAconsulting.com v2.0 features a redesigned logo and a custom, fresh, clean website design which fits within industry norms. The site is built on the WP platform.
I started my graphic and web design career by way of photography. I shot for my own clients, worked as a studio coordinator for photographers I respected, and assisted on as many gigs as possible, everything from small editorial shoots to national advertising campaigns. Here are the three most important … more
WordPress automatic updates are awesome. When they work, they’re as easy as a click of a button. When they fail, however, you’re left either reconciling yourself to an eternity of manual updates, or troubleshooting your host–a process that routinely takes much longer than applying the update manually would’ve. In this … more
My name is Alex and I’m a a reality TV addict. Hi, Alex. I admit my guilty pleasure and embrace it. My favorite show is Project Runway, because it neatly sidesteps most of the Real World-esque drama and focuses on the creative process. Truth be told, I’m probably more of … more
We just deployed humanisticcapitalism.com for a Colorado-based, start-up, for-profit organization with the goals of redefining the way we view capitalism, corporate culture and profit. To keep within budget, we selected an appropriate template and customized it with original graphics and content. The site is built on the WordPress 3.0 CMS.
We just launched healthpragmatics.com for a Boulder local public health consulting firm. This site is built on the WordPress content management system with a from-scratch, custom front-end design. The site features and integrated blog and custom project templates.
A VPS is the standard upgrade when conventional shared hosting won’t meet your needs. The catch, and most hosts try not to make this clear, is that you’re then on the hook for all configuration, upgrades, and maintenance. And as an added bonus, many hosts offer default VPS installs configured … more
We just deployed a the new website for UCAR’s Community Building Program and handed over control to their in-house webmaster for maintenance via Adobe Dreamweaver.
We just launched flxxrainwater.com, a new product line website for Front Range Precast Concrete. The site showcases all of the rainwater harvesting systems and equipment now offered by FRPC. We designed the site in Adobe Illustrator, built out the site in Adobe Dreamweaver and transferred control to FRPC for in-house … more
We just launched FallFrenzy.com V3.0, a completely overhauled site for their Colorado triathlon event. For this project, we happened to be redesigning our own site from 2006. While the visual appearance of the old site was still acceptable, the maintenance of the table-based design was becoming more taxing each year. … more
We just deployed the new website for CriticalSystemsTesting.com, a Boulder-based firm that works with national companies to improve the reliability of their critical facilities. CST’s projects include data centers, command and control centers, network operation centers, laboratories, medical centers, etc. We redesigned their logo and branding. With that complete, we … more
We just signed a contract to implement the redesigns of BolderStaffing.com & BP2recruiting.com for the well-established recruiting and staffing company based here in Boulder, Colorado. In addition, we will be designing a new product line website (FLXXrainwater.com) for Front Range Precast Concrete, another Boulder-based company with 50 year old footprint … more
After two months of design & development we finally deployed the new version of silverbackimaging.com. The new site features a public front-end website, a custom-skinned version of the CS Shopping cart, and a wordpress blog. In addition, we developed a custom flash video player to showcase product demos and how-to … more
It will be interesting to see how design, particularly website design, evolves over the next ten years. Couple of hopes/requests/wishlist items: Get CMS systems to play nicely with custom databases & custom applications Figure out way of unifying user login/accounts across multiple website applications Clean URLs system for customs sites … more
After several months of content-wrangling, we finally deployed greeneagledevelopment.com, a brochure-style website designed to showcase “green” home development projects for the Boulder / Niwot based company. We will be expanding the site over the next couple months with new projects & properties.
We formally launched flatironwindowfashions.com for a Boulder-based company specializing in Windows & Blinds. For this site, we implemented the Adobe InContext content management system to allow the client control over most content text across the site. In addition, the site is AJAX-heavy, containing slideshows, collapsable panels and dataset-driven galleries built on the Adobe … more
After a few weeks of final tweaking and beta testing, we just handed over control of CyriumTechnologies.com to their in-house webmaster. We completely redesigned the front-end of the website, and battled with the Drupal Content Management System, to bend it to our custom design.
We just launched the overhauled version of SusanEriksson.com, featuring a custom front-end design by Malowany & Associates, and a wordpress driven back end. Uniting these features allows the artist the ability to update and manage her own galleries without having to learn any HTML.
Last month, we launched several new websites: AccountantExchangeInc.com, A Denver-based company who helps match businesses with tax professionals. In addition, we posted a starter site for: FlatironWindowFashions.com, A Broomfield-based company specializing in residential windows. In addition, we have moved several active projects into final beta testing stage, including: CyriumTechnologies.com Website … more
We just signed a contract with Cyrium Technologies Inc., a Canadian tech company that is developing high-efficiency solar cells using proprietary breakthrough technology. Over the next two months, we will be redesigning their logo, branding and website. Here is a screenshot of their current website and logo:
We just launched AllenGlass.com V2.0, a redesign of theoriginal ASG website. The site features a clean & modern layout, flash slideshows, and Ajax-driven sliding panels, and photo galleries. In addition, we created two unique inquiry forms to allow visitors to upload design sketches for review by the ASG team. We … more
We just launched SpruceCanyon.com V2.0, a full site redesign, along with a new branding package (logo, business cards + graphic standards). See the full project in our client portfolio.
Compared to WordPress’s automated self-updates, Drupal’s update process is something of a chore. This chore isn’t made any easier by Drupal’s documentation (also here), which at the time of writing takes up nine pages, is self-contradictory, unnecessarily time-consuming and somewhat paranoid. And it never offers a canonical pragmatic checklist. After … more
We just lunched the redesign of Niwot.com, a cleaned-up and modernized site to showcase activities and businesses in and around the town of Niwot, Colorado. The site graphic layout was designed by Malowany Associates, and implemented by us. The technology features AJAX, Jquery, PHP, and Spry Datasets to enable some animation, transparency tricks, … more
After several months of design and development, we officially launched the SOARS website redesign for the NCAR/UCAR protege program, here in Boulder, CO. We worked with Malowany Associates on the design, and implemented the site with a variety of web technologies and modules. The templates are locked down with dreamweavers … more
We spent some time trying to remove a nasty bit of malware code from one of my client’s servers today. On their windows server, this virus used javascript to create a list of invisible links (in an i-frame) to bugged websites in the page footer. On their Unix/Linux accounts, the virus added … more
Just a quick update to show the new business card set we are working on for Marine Express, a sail and power carrier service based in Florida. Since we are under a tight deadline with this project, we are keeping the design clean and simple. Here are the final card … more
We received another inquiry this week regarding Drupal website maintenance — that was enough to get us motivated to learn the basics of the CMS system. We installed Drupal on our new testing site: www.websitedesigndenver.com, and we will be experimenting with the application over the next couple weeks. Feel free … more
After three months of monitoring the OfficeEvolution website traffic and user behaviors, we decided to redesign their landing page to reduce the bounce rate. The new layout features a set of six custom service icons, a new service map graphic, and a restructured code formatting for SEO improvements.
This is just a quick update to discuss the new sidebar widget added to our design blog. The widget loads a set of random designs we have created, many of them dating back to 2001. These designs are not featured in our current portfolio set, but we think they are worth showing … more
We have booked quite a few new website projects for the month of May. Starting off, we will be redesigning the website for Allen Scientific Glass, a Boulder-based, family-owned, scientific glass blowing business. Also, we will be working with Malowany Associates to redesign the website for the town of Niwot, … more
We are reworking / rebuilding the website for Susan Eriksson, a boulder-based materials artist. The upgrade will have a new gallery features, streamlined CSS, and an updated PHP and template structure. Should be a significant improvement in usability and back-end design when we are done.
Making progress on the new website for Green Eagle Development. We have finished the template, debugged the contact form, and placed the scratch content. Once we have the final picture set and text updates, we will be ready to launch — hopefully by the end of the month.
We just wrapped up the photo shoot for the new precision van graphic. We are now done with the project, and awaiting the final product from the printers. concept sketches mock-ups photography layout design prep for press We worked with DotFotDot photography to get this shot, and sent the files to … more
After two long months, many late night, we finally launch www.officeevolution.com, their sixth formal website.
There are no great solutions to any of these problems/limitations yet, just a series of hacks and work arounds … CSS issues Multi-column layouts in CSS Vertically-centered content in CSS Active Links tag Cross-browser compatibility issues Rounded corners Embedded fonts Rotated text PNG image files CSS Vertical Collapsing Margins Table … more
From Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 – awesome package InContext CMS – great way to upgrade static sites to allow for basics client CMS Spry Datasets – fast way to create a mini-database. tragically, not readable by search engines Flash FLV player – quickly stream most media From others WordPress – fast, simple, powerful … more
Just a quick update today to show progress on the OE website redesign. Site will launch at the end of February, so stay tuned. (Why would any one respond to a phrase like “stay tuned”? I don’t know why I even wrote that.)
As most web designers know, there is a debate raging over the use of HTML Tables (ie. table, tr, td, etc.) in the construction of web page layouts. The main issue is that CSS offers no simple (and supported) solution for the creation of basic, vertically flexible, columns. In fact, … more
Making some progress on the OfficeEvolution redesign — above is the first mock-up design. This will need plenty of reworking, but we are on our way . . . .
