Music Website Design Photography Writing Introduction Basic Design Elements Site Elements Clients
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Music Website Design Photography Writing Introduction Basic Design Elements Site Elements Clients |
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Clients Here are some of the sites that I've designed for others. Click any of these clients' logos to visit their website. |
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| Chris and Debbie Mitguard are an excellent musical duo based in Manitou Springs, Colorado, putting their own unusual slant on traditional Americana music. Beginning several years ago with just a standard promotional picture, I've gone on to design a number of posters and other promotional documents for them, as well as doing all the graphic design for their great CD Nobody's Fool, pictured below. One of the most important design elements was Chris's favorite animal, the snake, which I wove through their name above the artwork. (By the way, The Mtiguards' website includes a calendar of their performances. If you get a chance to catch one of their performances, I highly recommend it.) |
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Chris and Debbie liked the print materials I'd designed so much that they also became my first website design customers. I quickly realized that, unlike print media, the internet offers some interesting alternatives to static artwork. Using what's called an animated GIF (a GIF is an image format similar to a JPEG), I was able to get the snake to wiggle its tongue and tail while its color shimmered. Such eye-catching graphics can be very memorable to web surfers. |
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| Pat Musick's father Archie
was a pioneer in the Colorado Springs art community and a successful
art teacher, except for his inability to teach a much younger version
of me how to draw. But Pat and I barely knew each other until she
contacted me to create a website for her. I readily accepted, intrigued
by the prospect of helping her share her wonderful talents--enameled
art, public murals, calligraphy, writing, and much more--with a
wider world than she could reach any other way. She's heard
from friends and relatives from around the country and even as far
away as Ireland, many of whom could never before see the remarkable
depth of her talent. Having a website gave Pat the ability to show her product in full, vivid color. While I can do some impressive things in image alteration, there's no substitute for good images that demonstrate the full beauty of a product. Pat's intriguing enameled piece called "Palimpsest" is highly reflective, so we photographed it from a couple of different angles. Double click the image to see the other angle, single click to return. |
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Bon Temps Creole Cafe in San Luis Obispo, California, has been the home of Southern hospitality and fine Cajun cuisine since 1995. Owner (and my brother-in-law) Phil Lang has created a casual and comfortable atmosphere, with hanging beads and memorabilia covering the walls. Zydeco music (live blues and jazz on Wednesday and Thursday nights) and the wonderful aromas of true southern cooking will make you believe youre in the Big Easy. Businesses like Bon Temps Creole Cafe need not just the usual pages for locating the store and giving some background information, they need a main menu page and then separate subpages for each of the menus. So I set up a hierarchical system to make it easier to find the menu for the meal you desire. I also created a song for the home page of the site as well. Check it out both these things by clicking on the logo. |
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Teresa Meister, like many artists today, holds down a "real" job, but that doesn't dampen her enthusiasm for original bead design. Her husband Jason captured the very nice images for her site on a digital camera. One of the limitations of the internet, though, is that images, being large files, load slowly, so small images are usually used, like the image at left of Teresa's Tiered Drop Necklace. But bead afficionados like to see the details of the various stitches involved, which this small size doesn't allow. The solution? A detailed view of just one portion of the image, which loads quickly but allows the viewer to see much more detail. To see the detailed view, click the image twice. To return to the original view, click once. |
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