Thursday, May 26, 2011

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!


Monday, May 23, 2011

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! ;)



Tuesday, May 17, 2011

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!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sharing

Free hosting!

When I build sites for clients, I like for them to see the progress as we go along. Instead of using their url,  I set up a temporary site for them to visit.

There are a bunch of free hosting sites out there, but I have often found that they tend to be quite buggy and annoying. Zymic is a great one. I can add multiple sites to my account and they always connect fast and easy. Only problem with free hosting is that it has limited space, so if you happen to have a big image file on your site, chances are your free host won't be able to carry it.

Here is an example of zymic at work - Frances Chewning's Temporary website.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Harvardwood Actors Network

Just started work on our Harvardwood Actors site! This might be our new logo...


Harvardwood

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Cushy CMS

I found this great site that allows the web designer (me) to make any site editable for the client (you).
It's super easy to use and best of all it's FREEEEEE! So far no bugs, we'll have to wait and see...

CUSHY CMS

Link above.