We’ve just launched a redesign of one of our long-time clients, Nstyle Fashion Xchange. They first signed up way back when I was doing all the design work. We’d tweaked their design a couple of times since then, but this is the first time they’ve had a complete make-over.
Compare this to my original design from back in the day, and you’ll be glad I’m not doing the design work anymore:
We will be working with Diabetes Solutions of Oklahoma, the February winner of our free non-profit website. We are looking forward to helping Casey Bottoms and Kim Wilson in the overhauling of their current website.
We’ll be giving away another website in March. You can fill out an entry form on the details page.
TD Automation is an Oklahoma City based home automation and home theater company located in Edmond, Oklahoma. They feature lighting design, energy savings, audio-video installation and much more. A relatively new client of ours, Mark Tatarian at TDA has us maintain his website and recently had us perform search engine optimization on his site as well. You can see in the search engine results to the left that the website appears on the front page for one of his search phrases.
Interested in checking out the site? Click the image below to visit TD Automation.
Ultimately, in any project, we want the client to receive a website that not only works, but is easy to navigate and visually pleasing to them. So let’s say we did our research and cranked out the best design ever made, if the client doesn’t like it, then tons of time has been wasted and it’s back to the drawing board. Clients can help the designer more than they know when trying to research, conceptualize and eventually execute a website design.
First off, we need stuff. Pictures, logos, graphics, movies… anything that can help us in the design process, especially stuff that you want in the actual design. I have designed multiple websites where I didn’t even know what the logo of the company looked like until the design was finished, because the client did not provide it beforehand. Without those crucial elements, your design might not look like what you had in mind.
Another great thing clients can do to help is to let us know what you like. Give us the URL of other sites that you like. Don’t just pick some sites really quick, but actually look around and find out what you like and dislike and tell us. Don’t limit yourself to your field either, elements in different websites are not limited by field. Tell us what you like about them, color, navigation, layout, expandability, movement, theme, texture, mood, fonts…anything you like and even dislike. We can’t know what you want unless you tell us.
By doing these simple tasks, you can help out tremendously in the entire website development process. Take a little bit of time and thought, and we will be able to better understand what you want, allowing you to receive a website that we, and more importantly you, are happy with.
Our good friends (and clients) over at Nstyle Fashion Xchange in Edmond are having a sale during Edmond’s Krazy Daze. The sale is July 24-26. Edmond also has tax free weekend coming up August 1-3, and Nstyle is participating in that as well, though they’re closed on the 3rd.
So check Nstyle out for the latest styles in used clothing, where dressing trendy doesn’t have to be expensive.
Earlier this year we created HerndonMusic.com, a website for four musically inclined siblings who created a CD (pictured on the right) to help support Oklahoma Christian University. Anyway, two of the siblings, Addi and Jala, are currently on CMT’s “Can You Duet.” You can watch episodes online on the official CMT Can You Duet website, or watch the twins make Naomi Judd cry (in a good way).
And be sure to vote for them on CMT’s website as well!