Maryliz Smith Website

Just finished up a site for performance artist Maryliz Smith. She wanted it simple and stunning. Her current site used black as a background making it alittle too severe, but since she wanted to keep it on the darker side, we swapped the black out for a nice dark gray with a yellow tone. We also added text and navigation buttons in green. To keep with her organic feel.

Looks good! The beautiful nature images on her site are from flickr. Photo artist Dyrk Wyst. I also added a music player built with javascript and HTML 5. I'm still having issues with it and the current firefox, but hoping to resolve the issues soon!

I am also currently working on a type of e-book for her. Exciting stuff as I can start to utilize HTML5. There are so many possibilities for sound and animation!

M Public Relations NEW site!

After much anticipation I am happy to reveal the NEW website of Vancouver, BC public relations company - M P R. They wanted something clean, modern and androgynous, with a flash of purple. To match their fabulous logo, created by a Vancouver graphic designer. So this is what we ended up with:

http://www.themprfirm.com

We also added a wicked slideshow for the home page and a twitter feed. Looks awesome! SO happy to have been able to work with Morgan and Mieka and I wish them the best of luck on their new endeavour!

M Public Relations - New and Improved!

Well - after talking about how rad this Public Relations Firms site was with it's tres simple user interface and crisp white background they contacted me saying it was time for a spruce up! Stay tuned for the new and improved M Public Relations Website! I'm so excited!

http://www.themprfirm.com/

Tim Eliot Actor Site

Just finished up a site for Tim Eliot an actor in NYC. He had very clear ideas on what the site should look like and pretty much designed it. I just built his vision!  I added a cool slideshow and used google fonts with jquery for his press page, to make different looking fonts. Check it out!

TIM ELIOT WEBSITE

M Public Relations

Just came across my good friends pr site. M Public Relations in Vancouver, Canada. It's so simple and easy and gorgeous! And I can't wait to build something just like it!

As they say - good designers borrow, great designers steal... ;)

Thanks for the inspiration M!

Frances Chewning Site

Just finished a site for funny gal and actress extraordinaire Frances Chewning. She wanted her site be fresh looking, pretty and a little quirky - just like her! ;)

Easy contact forms

A contact form is so ideal for a website. Especially for an actor. It makes you look professional and you can still keep your privacy by not having to show your email address on your site. Also - a contact form is a great tool against hackers, if they can't see your email address, they can't spam it. For extra protection, adding a "captcha" style box at the end of your form, really deters the spammers even more, as a computer has a hard time typing out a specific word.

There are  a lot of ways to create a contact form, you can go the good old php route for ex... But recently I stumbled across a site called JOTFORM. It's free and easy to use. It also has a ton of possibilities,  both design wise and content wise. It allows you to embed your easily created form into your site in multiple ways, as a lightbox, an iframe and more.

Let's hope it lives up to my expectations!