We are currently working on a new web site for Goley Insulation
The site will be launched mid summer
Month: May 2008
Eye of a St Louis Web Designer
Fabulous purple flowers on a beautiful late spring day in St Louis
Free Photoshop Book from Sitepoint.
I came across this free ebook a few days ago while visiting sitepoint.com. They publish a really great selection of books relating to the design and development of web sites. One of my favorites is “Designing without Tables using CSS
The freebie on offer, while it doesn’t teach me anything new, it is a great reference to those new to photoshop, so I thought I would share. Here is what they say about it:-
“The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques is the ultimate Photoshop compendium for web designers.
It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a site recently, you need download this book. “
The book is available for download for a limited time so if you want it act fast.
Your web site…is it time to re design?
Re-design is a natural cycle of having a web site. What worked well …say eight years ago, may not be performing up the mark for you today. While many changes can be made by a little web maintenace here and there, there comes a time when only a full scale redesign is going help you accomplish your objective.
But how do you know when that time has come? Here are four tell-tale signs that the time has come to re-design.
- Your Business has grown or changed
While any good web site will be designed so it can accomodate moderate business growth, if your business is booming and you have extended your service offering it is likely that your original web site is not doing you justice. The same goes if you have changed the direction of your business. - Outdated Design
You only get one chance to make a first impression and if the overall look/feel of your site is radically “behind the times” you can lose credibility. If your site features animated clipart, is coded as frames or looks like a “Front Page template you are the victim of an outdated design! - Your information lacks organization
If you have been adding to your site over the years it is likely that your navigation has become a little confused. Making your visitors “think” when navigating will not engage them to the same extend as a well thought out navigation and information structure. - Poor Performace in the Search engines
Poor rankings in the Search Engines can be a result of not optimizing your site well. Poor search engine ranking can also be a result of bad design choices or coding on your site. Make sure that your site isn’t designed using frames and that the text is coded in HTML. Flash sites are also more difficult to optimize for Search Engines.
If any of these senarios describe your web site contact us at info@indigoimage.com to see how we can help bring you up to date in the web world.
Color and mood: A rainy day pick me up.
We are facing another rainy day in St Louis today and greeted by a rather gray sky again this morning it got me thinking about color and mood. For me gray is most definately a mood downer. I like bright vibrant colors and a blue sky with bright sunshine is an instant pick me up.
So if the St Louis weather is not going to cooperate today how about this for a digital pick me up. This was designed using Adobe Illustrator and is currently being incorporated into a dynamic iGoogle theme called color punch. It is not yet in the Google themes directory but you can get it via inthemes
If you are interested in Meaning and Associations of color read one of our previous posts
Our web and graphic design blog
We started our blog in June 2005 and nearly three years later are still going strong.
You may find this blog intresting if you are looking to hire a web or graphic designer, you are interested in web site usability and search engine optimization or are a web/graphic designer looking for some tips and tricks.
Today I am going to talk a little about the sort of subjects we cover here for any of our new readers. Each of our posts are given one or more label to categorize them so I thought it would make sense to talk about our categories:-
- Design Snippets
We cover subjects here that are useful to graphic and web designer. For example Meaning and associations of color, What is Ipsum Lorem and Favicons. - Eye of the St Louis Web Designer
A picture speaks a thousand words and most of the photographs we feature in this section are of something that has given us inspiration, from a fabulous natural color palette to a great texture or pattern. As mentioned thoughtout these posts a designer’s eye never sleeps - FREE
Who doesn’t like free stuff. We cover everything from free custom i google designs, the free definition phase or our projects to our much visited recipe for a garden deer repellant. - Graphic Design projects
A showcase of graphic design projects, from brochures, letterheads, banners, menus, logos, newsletters, greeting cards and packaging. - Indigo Tips
Tips to improve your productivity and internet experience - Internet marketing
The ever changing world of Search engine optimization. - Logos
A showcase of our logo design - Project Progress
We multi task big time and this section illustrates the current projects we are working on - Random Thoughts
I think everyblog needs a section like this..a little bit of everything here..and as the title suggests …random - STL Marketing executive
A category written by our guest writer. He shares perspectives drawn from his experience of branding, global business management and marketing in a B2B environment. - Web design Projects
A showcase of our web design projects - Web Site Usability
Considerations for giving your site visitors the experience you want them to have.