Tea Website

I'm assuming that the first page is the home page and the second and third page are sub pages. I really like the home page. I love the picture of the tea and I like how they made the steam into a heart. I think the navigation works better on the side than the top because it doesn't get in the way of the picture. I also like the black/brown box at the bottom. I think it balances the page out-it looks like the tea/table has something to rest on. I might have made the font size a little bigger on the navigation. I noticed that all of the pages has the same black/brown box at the bottom with the same information and pictures. I think that's a good thing to have because it makes the website consistent has a whole. No matter what page you are at on the website you can still see and read the information and the picture below. It's like a mini home page on each of the subpages. I like how on the second page the navigation becomes a long red box to show that you have clicked on it. I also like the wooden table on each page. I think the brown background fits for this page too. The color brown doesn't work on most websites unless it's about nature, baking, or the home. This website has a homey and warm feeling to it.  

Visual Effects Studio

This is an interesting website. I have mixed feelings about this website. I like the torn edges around the background because it creates texture and it's different. I think the logo is a little large. I'm not sure how I feel about the buttons as tabs. My teacher told me not to use buttons/circles for the tabs. I think the buttons are a little distracting to the rest of the page. This is a visual effects studio website by Jeremy Vickery. I like the pictures on the homepage. He has a lot of pictures and that usually wouldn't work, but the way he laid it out I think the pictures work. It looks like the tabs are hand-written or in a hand-written font. Sometimes hand-written fonts don't work on the web, but I think it this case it does. I think it fits the website because it's a visual effects studio. I like the outline around the picture. I like that there is a curve under the logo and then a straight line mimicking the tabs. I think this website still needs some work though.  

Spoiled Cars_Website Services LA

 I really like the header on this website. I love the animated corvette racing towards the audience. I like how they made the car big, but they might have made it a little too big. Some people might find the car distracting and if they do the designers could just make the car a little smaller. I also like the red and gray flames behind it. I noticed that they carried a red and gray color scheme throughout the webpage. Usually tires are black, but in this case they made the tire red in the logo. I think I would rather see the tire in black, but I can see that they were trying to keep with the color scheme. I also think that the navigation works better on the side since there is a lot going on in the header. I do like the flames in the corner, but I wish the flames were the same color. On the left side the flames has red in it and the right side doesn't. They were probably trying to make it different on purpose, but I think they should have kept it the same color to make in more unified. I also like that the pictures in the body area are outline with red instead of the typical black. For the most part I like the design on this website.
Website Services LA (the premier web design agency in Los Angeles) designed this website.
Website Design Services Los Angeles is a full service design and development company intent on creating fresh, innovative, and functional websites in a professional and reliable manner.

Marstudio Inc.

Marstudio, Inc. is a highly qualified and competitive Graphic Design Agency & Creative Marketing Firm, all under one roof! We have extremely diverse capabilities in print design, web design and development, multimedia, and a plethora of other creative disciplines. We possess the professional and technical expertise you expect from a large firm, without the layers of bureaucracy and slow response time inherent to large corporations. Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, we conduct business locally (Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia) and nationwide.

Satori

SATORi needed to revamp their website, and put Marstudio up to the challenge. Their old look did not effectively represent their exceptional Japanese cuisine and the navigation made it extremely hard for their clientele to find the information they required. Marstudio took on the project and designed a very simple, clean and unique website that not only elevates SATORi's cuisine but also acts as a very effective platform for their patrons to find information rapidly.

I really like this website. I think the background fits the restaurant. I think the header and navigation works well. I like that the color theme is red and black. It looks like a Japanese restaurant. They have characters on the side and they have a red circle/O in their logo and the Japan flag has a red circle on it. I think that's a good idea. I also like the picture of the food in the body area. I like that they have 2 tabs. One up top and one above the picture. Everything is easy to read. I think this is a very clean and well-designed website. I think everything flows together well. 

au naturale website

 This website is designed by Lunawebs. It's located in Salt Lake City, Utah.  we service clients world-wide. Half of their customer base resides in Utah while the other half are located in states as far East as Massachusetts & Florida, and West to California. "Our web team has over 30 years of combined web development, web design and graphic design experience. We offer business managed web hosting services to keep everything in house for our clients. As one of Utah's leading SEO (Search Engine Optimization) firms we also provide highly effective internet marketing strategies." LunaWebs.com is dedicated to creating attractive, fast-loading, web site designs that are Clean, Simple and Easy® to use. We keep this motto in mind for all projects whether web, print, multi-media, e-commerce or custom online software.
http://www.lunawebs.com/index.php

Featured Project: Au Naturale

Technology: PHP - HTML - CSS

Type: Website Design

This local health food restaurant needed a new web design to continue with their current branding.
By continuing the brand of their logo with some graphical elements - we were also able to help the user understand the company message of the restaurant through the website design.

I like the design of this website. I like that the title is in a talk bubble. It is a modern website and it fits with their slogan... "A Modern Eatery." I like the two-toned background. I also like the side tab bars. Most navigations are on the top of the page. I also think the 3 pictures add a lot to the home page. I like when websites have pictures of their product on their home page. I also like the blurb that says "Order Online Now." The green is a nice pop of color and it also grabs the viewers attention. This is a very clean and simple website and I think it words for an eatery.

Glassware Website

Offering website design, website development, and web applications, The80Port is a web design company in Washington DC that specializes in providing affordable web design and development. A full service dc web design company, we coordinate all the elements of your web presence. We preserve your brand and identity by offering custom web design and layout. With over 10 years of experience, we have a proven track record of providing quality websites at great prices.
http://www.the80port.com/DC-Web-Design/Portfolio.aspx




 This is a glass company website that a DC Web Design Company designed. It's called the "The 80 Port Web Soultions." This company is a fairly new company. I think this is a very elegant designed website. It fits perfectly for a glass company. I like the blue box behind the information. I think the blue box is a nice pop of color since everything else is either gray or white. I think it's a good idea to put pictures of their products on their home page. I really like the header. Even though the header has negative space in it I think it works in this case. I like their logo and I think it fits their company. This website is very clean and elegant, and that's what I think of when I think of glasses. Their tabs are simple and to the point. I also like the gray bar that goes across the top of the page. I think DC web design did a nice job of designing this website.

LimoTaxi Website

I wouldn't think of most limo service websites to be designed like this. I think of limo websites has more formal and classic websites. I like this website because it's different. I like the road in the background. I didn't notice it at first, but the yellow bars and the taxi driver hat hanging off the side of the yellow bar reminds me of taxi service. They took taxi service and made it flashy. I like how the title is designed and I like how "Taxi" is in yellow because most people think of taxis in yellow.  I like the photo of the 3 limos and one of them is pink. I also like how the hummer limo is coming into the page. This web page has continuity because it kept the dark, flashy, and new feel to it. I think it's a creative website.

Midwife website

 This is a midwife website designed by StecTech Industries located in Phoenix Arizona. They design professional looking websites. I really like the colors on the website. I think the purple and green work together well. I also like the earthy green for the body area. I like how they have everything laid out. I think the header works well. I like the picture of a mom (midwife) and the baby. I'm pretty sure this website is about hiring a midwife and finding out what they can offer. The whole website has a soft feeling to it and it also has a nice flow to it.

Born 2 Camp_Finer Design

 This is the new "Born 2 Camp" website redesigned by the design firm Finer Design. They are located in Michigan. I think they also redid their logo. I'm not sure what their logo was before, but I do like this logo. It is a little big, but I think it works. I like how the made the brown shape goes around the words and I like the tent and trees. It makes me think of camping in the great outdoors. This website seemed a little boring at first, but then I realized that it was a shopping site. I wish it had some more color or something else, but if it did have that then it might be too distracting while people are trying to shop. I do like the brown and orange color scheme. You see those colors a lot in nature. I like the brown search bar and the word "Quick Find" in orange. It is a very clean and easy to read website, which is good for a shopping website. I like how the shopping cart is visible on the right side. Everything flows together fairly well.

Accept Jesus Website....

http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/

I just have to blog about this website. It's so bad that it's funny. There are so many things that are wrong on this website. The font is terrible. It looks like they used word art to make the font pop out like it is coming towards you. The rainbow background just has to go! I don't think a moving rainbow background is appropriate for any site, but it would be more appropriate for a music/rave site not a Christan site. The music doesn't go along with the site either. When I think about church music I think of pianos and soft music, not this type. When you first open the website a cat meows and then it goes into the music. I don't think having a warning sign bar at the top of the page is a good way to have a link to another page. Usually when the warning bar pops up it usually isn't a good sign. Some of the pictures and words are links to other Christan pages. I have no clue why they chose to have a cat running across the bottom of the page under buildings and ladders. This is a horrible designed website. Nothing makes sense and nothing on the page goes together. This has absolutely no continuity in it. This page needs to be deleted or seriously redone. I am designing my first website and this website showed me what not to do!   

I took this picture on my iPod. I know it's not the greatest quality, but I also provided a link to the website because you have to look at it yourself.

Virginia DMV Driver Improvement Program Website

http://www.5safepoints.com/

I am currently designing my first home page and 5 sub pages in my web design class. I am  researching good and bad websites to see what other people have done.
This is a horrible website. This is the Virginia DMV Approved Provider of Classroom & Online Driver Improvement Program Courses website. They have this very annoying and unnecessary box that floats across the page no matter where you are at on the page. It is a green sticker and inside it says +5 Points Award for Successful Completion of course. Their page is very crowded and not organized at all. They have pictures and information randomly put on the page. They don't even have a navigation. The website takes FOREVER too load. There is the long scroll bar and I scrolled down to the bottom of the page and there is nothing there. I have been on this website for at least 5 minutes and it still hasn't finished loading. The thing is... it doesn't even look like it's loading. It looks like the page just stops and then there is a bunch of blank space. Either they need to redo their website so it loads faster or they need to make the scroll page shorter, so it's not misleading. The website needs a lot of work and attention.

Wood Street Inc

Wood Street, INC. web design development is a design and development firm located in Fredrick, MD, which is less than an hour from where I live.


Objective
Advanced Urgent Care is comprised of board-certified emergency physicians who are available when your primary care physician isn't. Unfortunately their old website was not designed or developed in the best way to instill confidence in their top notch level of care. They needed something that started the patient's experience off right.
Solution
Wood Street designed and developed a clean and easy to navigate website. The patient can now easily find out more about their services and qualifications as well as how to get there and what to expect from their visit. The site also directs them to a third party service where they can access their patient profile online.

Project Tools

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Fireworks
• HTML/CSS
• JavaScript

http://www.woodst.com/portfolio/details.php?client=advanced-urgent-care&pid=130

 

 This is the home page of Advanced Urgent Care. Urgent Care places are very important. I would know because this past year I have been there at least 4 or 5 times. People go to urgent care when it's serious enough that they can't wait for Monday for a doctor's appointment, but not life threatening that they have to go to the ER. The great thing about Urgent Care is that people don't have to make appointments, but it is first come first serve and that can take up to 2 hours.

I would have liked to see the website before they redesigned. I think for the most part this is a well-designed website. Going to urgent is never fun and can be scary, so you want soothing colors that aren't too bright or black and you want them to be calming. I like the orange and the green on this website because it grabs people's attention, but it's not over the top. I really like the curved design beneath the navigation. It looks sharp. I like that they kept the navigation simple and down to only 3 tabs. A lot of people want to know what to expect when they go to a place like this, but they usually don't find out until they get there. The only thing I don't like about this website is the background. There are 2 feelings that I associate with this background. The first feeling is that it's a dark background (scary place), it reminds me of metal medical tools, and it reminds me of a factory rather than a medical place. On the other hand, they might have made it that way to show people that they are professional (and it makes the website clean). Personally I don't like the background. I think a soothing color should be the background color like maybe a tan or off white color.

    This is the About Us page. I like how they kept the same curved designed up top. They definitely have continuity throughout their site. I finished designing my home page for my first website and now I have to design 5 sub pages.  

Blue Fountain Media

This was the NFL youth player websites before Blue Media  redesigned it.
Blue Fountain Median is a digital agency in NYC. They design logos, branding, mobile app development, and much more. They have received press coverage from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smart Money, and more." Some of their clients are at&t, NASA, NFL, Walt Disney, Nike, Girl Scouts of Greater New York and more.
Blue Fountain Media designed and developed the website of the NFL Youth Player Development program.  


This is the NFL youth program website after Blue Fountain designed it. This website looks so much better than the old one. It looks more professional while still focusing on kids. It is a lot easier to read and it is more visual pleasing. I love the background that they chose for the website. The old website was having trouble with getting people to sign-up for the program. People should have no problem finding how to join their program now because it is right in front of them. I also like the little sidebar picture slide to show different views of young football players. They also simplified the navigation and added a few things. The made the tab "High School Player Development" (old site) to "HS Player Development" and it saves room. I also like how they have a search bar in the header because the old site didn't have that. I am in intro to web design class and I am researching various websites and design firms.

The Results were...

The NFL Youth Player website's traffic increased by over 22%.

Time on Site increased by 150%

The bounce rate dropped by over 40%.

Q&A with Coach Miller provides readers with insider access

The content management system collectively saves the organization hundreds of hours per week.

A full-featured site provides young people a chance to see what the NFL can do for them, not only as athletes, but as productive adults.

Ping Pong!

This is a ping-pong website based in England. I feel like the target audience of this website is young kids to teenagers. It has a fun and colorful feel to it. This website mainly focuses on ping pong. I like how the colors are dull down. It reminds me of colors back in like the 1980's. I really like the header. I like the bouncy line going from the word ping to the paddle. It definitely has a old feel to it. Either this is an old website or it just has that 1980's feel to it. I also like how everything is lined up. I like the sponsors in a light blue color at the bottom. This website has contitunity throughout the page. I am currently making my first website on Dreamweaver. I probably wouldn't make a website like this, but I like this website because it's different.

Disney Website (UP)

 This is the Disney website. I think this is a older version of the website because it's not their current one. When people design websites they have to think of who their target audience is. I have been focusing on websites for teenagers/adults, but there are a lot of children's websites out there too. Disney is definitely a kid-friendly website. Disney alters its theme depending on what product is being promoted (right now it's Wreck-It Ralph). I like that they have small images above the words in the toolbar. I think having the search bar under the title is a good idea because it's central and kids can find it easily. I know central things are usually bad. They are obviously promoting the movie UP. I like the Paradise Falls background. It makes children feel like they are actually there. I like how they have a featured video and they also have another sort of toolbar at the bottom. This website has continuity. I think this is an effective website. I know this website is way too complex for me to design since I'm only in intro to web design class, but I still like the website.