We recently launched a new web site for a pharmaceutical consultants, Insight Group
The site featured a very clean and simple design and integrated social networking connections. It also featured a custom blog.
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A Website Freshen Up
Can your website accommodate changes in your business? When designing and developing a web site this is an important consideration. Your web site needs to be able to easily change and grow with you without going back to the drawing board.
We practice what we preach with our own website and launched today is a mini overhaul of our site. There is no major redesign just a few tweaks here and there to better serve our visitors and behind the scenes some updates for the search engines to reflect our new Chicago location.
We have added a couple of new pages detailing our branding and social media services.
The entire updates were done very quickly thanks to the way the site is coded. For most of the changes we needed just a few lines of code switched out in the style sheet.
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What internet projects are you planning for 2011?
Happy New Year!
A fresh year ready and waiting for action
Is 2011 the year you?
- Launch a new web site
- Finally redesign your outdated web site
- Update a site with a new product or service
- Improve your search engine ranking
- Begin that blog idea that has been on the back burner
- Get to grips with Twitter and Facebook
- Explore social media as a marketing tool
- Make the most of email marketing campaigns
Whatever you business plans for the coming year if you are looking for a creative partner to help execute your internet or print projects we are here to help. A call, 847 607 8679 or a click away
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Happy Christmas from the Chicago web designer
As much as I embrace American traditions some of my British traditions have yet to fall by the wayside. Every Christmas I make a “Christmas cake” which is a rich fruit cake ( I can hear the gasps from here..but when made properly they are quite yummy) covered in marzipan and iced with royal icing. This battered old Father Christmas (Santa) always sits atop. See here for a previous years cake
Merry Christmas from the Chicago Web Designer!
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Season greetings from the Chicago web designer
I have dusted off my little robot mascot for another season message this year. He made his debut last year
Happy holidays from the Chicago web designer
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Free Christmas vectors
Tis the season so here is a quick freebie of holiday vectors from the Chicago web designer.
Download and enjoy
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The Three Fold Power of Referrals
A fair chunk of my projects come from client referrals. One of my latest projects, Spring Willows Farm, was a referral from children’s author, Cynthia Reeg ( thanks so much Cindy!). What’s not to love about referrals, they are a powerful win-win-win for all concerned.
The New Client
Hiring a web designer can be a daunting task. Where do you begin. A simple Google search for “chicago web designer” yields a whopping 2,610,000 results. Even if you just evaluate companies on the first 3 or so pages that can take a lot of time and can you be sure the companies are a good fit for your project in terms of expertise, experience and even budget. For a new client, a referral, or even a number of referrals can be invaluable time saver and pre-screening process.
The Referring Client
When referring, personal reputation is on the line. The referring client is placing their trust in you to do not only a good, but a great job. Their experience working with you has obviously been excellent and they want the same experience for the “new client” A few years back a client sent me a number of referrals and at the end of each project I’d let them know they were complete. Their response was always “you make us look great”. Mission accomplished.
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A referral is the greatest form of flattery a client can give and is the ultimate validation that you did a great job for them. It is a good solid lead that more often than not will lead to a new project. More clients = more potential referrals.
So there you have it the three fold power of referrals.
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12 Months of Web Design
As the year rolls to a close I like to take a look back at the projects I’ve worked on over the year. On the work front it has been a busy year which has been amplified by relocating from St Louis to Chicago. Moving is such hard work but I am loving Chicago!
Websites have dominated the work load over the last 12 months but we have had a fair number of logo and branding projects too.
Here is a showcase of 2010 web sites
January: zoefeast.com
February: stroco
March: hardscapestl.com
April: Fair Market inc
May: Breeze Law
June: Peter Meder & Company
July: Burns Recovered Support Group
August: Clinical Ophthalmology
September: Zagros Robotics
October: Eye of the Chicago web designer
November: Spring Willows farm
December: Solon Gershman, nearing completion!
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Integrating a New Logo into a web site
A few weeks back I showcased a new logo for Prefix Technologies. The logo has now been seamlessly integrated into their web site.
Switching out an old logo with a new one can sometimes pose a few challenges.
For example
- The footprint is substantially different, wider or taller, and the allotted logo area can’t accommodate.
- Color issues. Too much or too little contrast, color clashes.
- Look and feel – is the look and feel of the logo in keeping with the rest of the site.
In this particular logo switch we had an issue with color contrast as you can see below, the new logo just did not pop against the background.
Adding a dynamic star burst solved the problem.
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