Website Launch: RideFlyReservations.com
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
We’re continuing to expand our footprint in the online travel sector with the launch of the newly redesigned RideFlyReservations.com. We’ve been working with the fine folks at RideFly for the past two months on developing the site’s front-end/user interface, which was then coded by their in-house development team for deployment. Click here to check out the newly redesigned site.
Website Launch: Vanessa Minnillo
Monday, January 28th, 2008
We’re very pleased to announce the launch of the new official website for television personality Vanessa Minnillo. Ms. Minnillo, the former host of MTV’s TRL and a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, has been working with Bainbridge Studios over the past year on developing a new online presence, which is now live. We’ll be working with Ms. Minnillo over the coming weeks and months on expanding the site and its content.
Website Launch: Crossbeam Capital
Friday, January 11th, 2008
We’re proud to announce the launch of a new website for Crossbeam Capital, LLC, a Bethesda, MD-based real estate investment firm. We partnered with one of our regular collaborators, Crossbow Group, to design and code the site, which went live earlier today.
It’s Been a Busy Week
Friday, June 1st, 2007
Despite the short post-holiday work week, we’ve managed to get a couple major projects wrapped up. Yesterday, we launched the new website for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth, and today we went live with a new site for Sunridge Medical Wellness Centers in Scottsdale, AZ.
It Was Just Inspiration, Right?
Friday, April 27th, 2007
As broadband Internet access, in the form of DSL, Cable, WiMax, etc., continues to proliferate, former 800-pound gorilla AOL is struggling to define itself and its identity in the 21st century Internet. Their solution? Copy Yahoo!
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, among others, is reporting on the striking similarities between the new Beta version of AOL’s web portal and Yahoo!’s homepage. For all intents and purposes, the two are one and the same. The new AOL layout, first introduced by AOL Senior Product Manager Frank Gruber, is apparently even referred to by many at AOL as “the Yahoo portal.”
Now, granted, there are only so many ways in which to organize and present essentially the same basic mix of news, entertainment, sports and weather into a single-page portal format, and websites and companies are constantly “borrowing” design elements, features and the like from one another, but there’s a difference between being inspired by another and simply ripping them off.
Brand New Site for California State Senate Candidate Mark Leno
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
We’re proud to be involved in the kickoff for California State Senate candidate Mark Leno, as we’ve been working feverishly behind the scenes in recent days with his campaign team on the launch of a brand new website. The site, MarkLeno.com, went live this morning, shortly after his official candidacy announcement.
In the coming days, we’ll be rolling out a range of new interactive features on the site, including forums, personal/user logins and customization, online chats and more.
Homepage Backgrounds That Will Make Your Eyes Bleed
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
From time to time, media or consumer-oriented websites have sold their backgrounds (the area visible outside the main content of their homepage) for advertising. NewsDesigner.com points out two particularly painful-to-view examples today as retailer Kohls purchased ad space on the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Boston.com’s homepages. Bright, migraine-inducing red…
Flash vs. CSS Web Design
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Web design blog Fadtastic has an interesting editorial from a former Flash web developer on his reasons for moving from Flash-based website design to standards-compliant CSS design. Some of the points covered are fairly common points of argument in the Flash v. CSS debate (e.g., search engine optimization, accessibility issues for visually-impaired users, etc.), but the author goes on to make a number of interesting points.
One particular statistic of interest is his challenge to Adobe’s standard argument of 96%+ adoption rates for the Flash Player (Adobe, Flash’s publisher, contends that the vast majority of Internet users worldwide have the Flash plugin installed on their computers - allowing them to seamlessly view Flash-based content on websites. The author sites one particular German study of Internet users that suggests that little more than half of users (53.9%) have the Flash plugin installed on their computers.
Click here to read the full piece at Fadtastic »