Archive for the ‘website design’ Category
Feb 15 2010
This past weekend, Nashville Interactive launched SpenshaOnline.com; the online home of inspirational musical artist Spensha Baker. The website design and development was handled completely by Nashville Interactive. I've said it before: creating an artist website design is always a fun project to work on. The creative freedom and ability to work with less "traditional" layouts allows the opportunity to stretch the creative muscles a bit.
The site was built using an Open-Source Content Management System so that the client has full control over their own online presence. Using open source software also means that there are no monthly licensing fees of any kind which often come along with bulkier proprietary systems.
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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 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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Oct 3 2009
Nashville Interactive recently completed a custom Flash design project for the world-renown Gaylord Entertainment. The client wanted a Flash-based landing page that was tied in with email marketing campaigns. The end product was a completely customizable experience that included a photo slideshow with accompanying text for each image. The all-Flash landing pages are easily "re-skinned" with xml and image replacement making them extremely flexible and quickly edited. While I've become an advocate of more "traditional" methods for web development, I always enjoy diving into some custom Flash Design.
Tags: freelance web design, graphic design nashville, nashville website design, web design agency
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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 10 2009
I normally hate exclamation points though I couldn't help but use one here. Internet Explorer 6 user rates are down to 13% according to w3schools.com. The number of IE6 users has been falling by about 1% per month for the last year or so which is music to my ears. I'm officially stating that I will not support IE6 once the number falls below 10%. I've spent many, many, many hours dealing with version 6's inconsistencies and I feel that it's time to move on. That being said, I think it's only right to offer IE6 support and testing for a nominal fee. (since I can't collect that money from Microsoft). By my calculations, IE6 should be off of my books by early 2010. Not a bad run for a browser released eight years ago.
Tags: IE6, Internet Explorer
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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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