The start of the new year is often a time for planning and can be the trigger to jump start ideas that have maybe been on the back burner or tasks that have been put off.
Does your business have a web site, is it about time to have a professionally designed logo to give your businesss the image it truely deserves, are you looking to hire a graphic design company to give some ommmph to a stale brochure?

Finding a company to work with to accomplish tasks like these can often be rather daunting. Here at Indigo Image our professional approach makes executing your design projects easy. Give us a call today at 636 273 6746 to see how we can help you.

One of the aspects I consider when designing a web site is how best to build redundancy into a design template. In short the design must be able to accomodate changes in the client business..whether it be the addition of 3 new services or the incorpoation of a new logo.
Designing sites with those thoughts in mind will ensure that a client will not have to back to the design drawing board if changes are required. It saves time and money and is a very common client request

We understand the importance of keeping the content on our web site fresh and regularly showcase one of our latest projects.
Our most recent featured project is a web site we created for Sarah Grus Weddings

Getting married is big business and many modern day brides turn to the internet to find and research vendors, to guarantee their big day is just right.

Sarah Grus Weddings, a St Louis based wedding coordinator company, understood the importance of having a web site and wanted to ensure that their information was available 24/7 to brides looking for the perfect wedding planner. They wanted a very stylish sophisticated design which appealed to women of all ages, whether it be a bride or mother of the bride.

We started by creating a custom logo and then worked from a palette of soft dusky colors during the design of the web template. It was further enhanced with sepia photographs.

A clean site with intuitive navigation it serves as the perfect medium for the business it serves.

Visit the site at:
www.sarahgrusweddings.com

It is gift season and all I can say is “How did I ever survive without online shopping?”

I have purchased everything from live rose bushes to magazine subscriptions, historic maps to the computer which I am sitting in front of as I type!

This Christmas season I have found some pure gift nuggets …and all online! Now as long as the estimated shipping date hold up I am all sorted!

Thanksgiving is upon us and today millions of these delightful birds will be consumed.
This stunning example will be spared however as it lives in England!

As a web/ graphic designer one of the best compliments I get from a clients come in the form of referrals.

Simply put if a client is not 100% happy with my creations and service they will not risk their repulation by referring their clients to Indigo Image!

As a graphic/web designer, resolution for me is defined as dpi or dots per inch.

The medium used to publish detemines what resolution used to design in. For web it is typically 72 dpi while for print it is 300dpi.

This huge difference in resolution means that what is created for the web can’t be magically turned into a beautiful 300 dpi image ready for print .. and what happens if you try? You end up with a jagged, dotty, blurry print.

During meetings with prospective web or graphic design clients I always make a point of finding out how they heard about us. St Louis has an abundance of web and graphic designers so it always of interest where our clients are being directed from.

A quick calculation revealed that in the last year:-

• 29% of our clients found us online
• 41% come from direct referals from exisiting clients or our strategic alliances.
• 30% come from our networking efforts

There is no contest for this one …
GOOGLE

They are the biggest, best, you can still get web sites listed for free and they are constantly developing innovative ways of the making the searching experience, well an experience.

Take Google Earth

“Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.”

You can download a free version at http://earth.google.com/