Archive for the ‘nashville website design’ Category
Feb 5 2010
For those Nashvillians who enjoy the finer side of spirits, there's finally a group for you: BoozeCamp Nashville. What is BoozeCamp Nashville you ask? Well it's a bit of an old-fashioned social network that revolves around great wine, liquor and beer. Events are held around Nashville at various venues and include tastings of great "adult" beverages as well as the company of good people.
Nashville Interactive designed, developed and is hosting BoozeCampNashville.com. A rather simple site overall but one that I've already grown very fond of. Perhaps it will even make the web design portfolio in the near future. Once again an open-source content management system was used for the backend of the site, allowing various administrators to control the content from anywhere with an internet connection. The site is an ongoing project with many improvements in the works so check it out and come back often to see how it's going.
Tags: beverage website design, open source content management
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Jan 27 2010
Are you into horse racing and/or fantasy sports? If so you should check out the Winstar Fantasy Derby. Nashville Interactive handled the User Interface design and also had a hand in the development of the Fantasy Derby portion of the Winstar site. Once again, this project entailed working with some great people on a cool site. So, even if you're not a horse racing aficionado, you should check out the contest. It's completely free and you might even win a trip to see the 2010 Kentucky Derby! Mint Juleps and sun hats anyone?
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Jan 27 2010
The Nashville Interactive designed and developed scripture-lullabies.com has officially launched! This was a great project to work on. The site design is one that definitely made the web design portfolio and the development portion of the project is a perfect example of how open-source software allows for all the power and flexibility of a proprietary CMS. The site has an e-commerce aspect that allows the client to sell and manage their products directly from the site. The project also included a promotional marketing video created in After Effects. The video and the site have already become some of my favorite work of late but there's much more website and graphic design work on the horizon so stay tuned!
(oh yeah, and if you have kids, this CD is a great one to play at bedtime so check it out.)
Tags: christian website design, custom website, freelance web design, graphic design, graphic design nashville, nashville website design
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Jan 6 2010
Nashville Interactive recently designed, built and launched alwayssisterforeverbrothers.com. This website for the 2010 Always Sisters Forever Brothers Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, proved to be a great project to work on. The site design awarded Nashville Interactive the opportunity to use some pretty cool javaScript and front-end development techniques. The website features a scrolling "homepage" that creates a nice, cohesive experience for viewing the top-level content. Much care was taken to ensure that the browser back and forward buttons would work with this design and more importantly that deep linking to all the top level content within the scrollable sections would work across all the major web browsers.
The site utilizes Wordpress as a content management system which allows the client to take full control of their website and in-turn the message they want to put in front of their audience. Empowering clients to control their website's content is good website design, and this sort of self sustainability is part of Nashville Interactive's primary mission.
Tags: christian website design nashville, conference website, freelance web design, front end development, nashville website design, web design agency
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Nov 7 2009
Being in Nashville means that country music website design is a fact of life for most web professionals. This is definitely not a bad thing. Designing band websites is always a fun project for me. The nature of the work dictates that the aesthetic and layout can be a little outside the box. Although I love creating a nice clean small business website and as great as corporate website design is, having complete creative freedom every now and then is good for the soul. I recently designed a website for up-and-coming country music artist Jamie Tate. (Just the design work on this one). Most of my other projects at the time required a cleaner more "business-esque" look. This site design allowed me to step back and appreciate the occasional break from the norm. Creating unique, non-templated website layouts also allows me to subtly integrate some of these creative and unique elements into more "traditional" designs as well. The bottom line is that creating unique layouts for musician websites helps me keep the creativity flowing in other projects.
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Sep 14 2009
Nashville Interactive is proud to announce that we've developed and re-launched richardmarx.com. If you aren't familiar with Richard Marx's music (you probably are even if you don't know it), He's a Grammy Award-winning, #1 song-writing (13 of them), multi-platinum album selling artist.
The Richard Marx camp was in need of a new provider for website design and development services and Nashville Interactive is flattered to be able to help out. Richard's website was less than one year old when the need arose to redevelop the established website design on a new platform. Nashville Interactive was called in to rebuild the site. In order to avoid the all-to-common scenario of being locked in to a proprietary system, open-source content management technologies were implemented. Don't get me wrong, proprietary systems have their place but open-source is the preferred solution is this type of situation. The site is controlled and owned by the client and they can do with it whatever they wish. This is just one of the advantages of using open-source content management systems to develop websites.
Designing websites for musicians and bands is always a fun project for me. Seeing the response and interaction on artist and band websites puts a lot of things into perspective because the target audience is so engaged with the artist. I'm happy to provide the tools for the interaction and see my work bringing fans and artists closer.
Tags: Designing for Fans, freelance web design, graphic design nashville, nashville website design, web design agency
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Sep 1 2009
The Nashville Interactive-designed, SinkPositive website launched today. The project entailed website design and development as well as logo design. The product is of the "green" variety and thus the design has a friendly and soft feel. The SinkPositive brand prior to this redesign was lack-luster at best. There was no real graphic design, no memorable logo and a website that left customers wondering about the quality of the product. The new site design helps to create consumer confidence by portraying the company as the reputable brand that it has always been.
So what the heck is a SinkPositive? Well it's a multipurpose accessory sink that fits on the back of your toilet. It's the kind way to clean up after using the bathroom. The sink allows you to use the fresh-from-the-wall water which then fills the toilet. You can get all of the details via the environmentally friendly website design at SinkPositive.com.
Tags: green web design
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Aug 6 2009
Because I want your clients basically. Good customer service in web design seems to be some sort of elusive creature that few people get to see in their lives. A majority of people who contact me about web development or design, often tell stories of how their last guy took forever and the final website wasn't what they were expecting and he or she wasn't very professional etc. Well I'm here to let all of you non-web people out there know that it's not always like that and you don't have to put up with slack, unresponsive designers.
I've worked a lot of different jobs over the years: caddie, mason's assitant, shoe salesman, waiter and so so many others. One thing you learn from all that "real-world" experience is that you need to treat the customer with respect or they'll go else where. (except for the masonry job. There, you just watch out for falling bricks and try not to die of heat stroke) Website design should be no different. Although you need to have a good, open dialog with your designer, in the end, the client is always right (as long as the check clears).
On the other side of the coin is the fact that most of the time you're hiring a professional for his or her experience and that experience should not be taken for granted. Hopefully your website designer and developer is professionally trained and has at least several years of experience dealing with and acheiving client needs and goals. I've often argued my design choices until I'm blue in the face but to no avail. So the bottom line is, if the logo needs to be bigger, then the logo needs to be bigger 
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Jun 27 2009
Everyone has been hit hard by the economy lately. With lean budgets, people want to get more out of their advertising and marketing dollars. What better way to do this than with online advertising and a great web presence. I don't have to tell you that the Internet is really hot these days. (this website uses the Internet as a matter of fact). Although online advertising and marketing efforts overall have pulled back a bit, the web is still a great place to sell your brand. With resources like Google it's very easy to thoroughly track your efforts and perform A – B testing to see what's working and what's not. When used in the proper manner, Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization will help achieve your goals and are very cost effective.
Having a strong web presence coupled with your online marketing efforts is also a key to successful advertising in a recession. Getting people to read your ad is only half the battle. Potential customers need a comfortable place to land when they click through. A well architectured and designed landing page is the part of the equation that really seals the deal. Having a savvy website designer who knows the turf, is well worth the money. Mostly because you can tell exactly how effective your advertising efforts are.
So what I'm trying to say is, don't pass up the opportunity to monetize your web presence in these tough times through quality web design and online marketing.
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May 11 2009
Remember the good old days of x-acto knives, marker comps and rubylith paper? I don't. These ancient design techniques are something that I only had to experience while I was in college. They went along well with the professor's general "when I was your age" spiel. None the less I feel I'm a better designer for having experience at least some of what my kind had to do on a daily basis back in the day.
I was recently working on a logo design and kept finding myself right back behind the computer without having done my prefered dozens of thumbnails with pencil and paper. I have a tendancy sometimes to gravitate back to my digital safety blanket before working through ideas on paper. But, generally, I find the best technique for myself to be:
1. brainstorming words and simple ideas
2. 30-50 quick thumbnails on paper
3. working out a few roughs of the better thumbnail concepts on paper
4. researching visual treatments for those concepts
5. putting pixel to canvas on the computer via Photoshop and Illustrator
6. presenting comps to the client.
Most of the time if I follow the tried and true methods that have worked for years, I get much better results and everyone is happier in the end. While I'm not using x-actos and rubylith paper, starting designs on paper is definitely the way to go with both graphic design and website design.
Tags: designing on paper, graphic design nashville, nashville website design, vintage design techniques
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