The Farm House Cafe, one of my favorite clients, has had huge success from day one. We worked very closely with them from the start to help develop the brand look and feel. After the logo process, we designed the web site. A fun, interactive site that immerses the user in the rustic, french, and organic style. We shoot all of the photography for them a few times a year so that we can keep the site always feeling fresh and give the user an accurate expectation of what they’ll see when they visit. In this last year, we have made a lot of improvements to the sites overall ease of use and demographic reach.

as the device or user uses a more sophisticated device, the site ‘enhances’ itself

For example many people think that using a flash site limits the range of those who can view it. Enter progressive enhancement. The idea of progressive enhancement is that you provide the most basic content of a web site on a level at which the most limited devices can view it. Then, as the device or user uses a more sophisticated device, the site ‘enhances’ itself. In other words, you can visit the site with an iPhone and view the menu, get directions, even read reviews, but if you come back later with an average ‘normal’ computer, then you’ll see the more enhanced interactive version of the site. The end result is a web site that is both fun for people, useful for getting quick info, and searchable by Google.

Another fun addition was the video section of the site. “Farm House TV” offers users a window into the Farm House kitchen as chef Olivier Bioteau teaches them how to make some of his famous recipes. For this we built a custom video player that not only plays the video and shows the written recipe along with it, but also allows us to add new videos as time goes on.

Well, that is just some of the technical side to one of our most popular sites. As always we want to create the best balance of design and imagery, usability and attainability. Keep checking back, as we always have new features we are working on. And if you have any suggestions, please always feel free to email us as we are very interested in making the experience better and better.

Who says “green” can’t be cool?  Cool, fun, easy… that was the idea for biomondegreen.com.  We worked closely with co-owners Johnny and Nicole Falco to start with an identity system.  They wanted something that would invoke the idea of “the ripple effect” with a green spin. I think the finished product speaks for itself.  I designed this RIA (Rich Interactive Application) to be clean and slick, but fun and easy to use.  Needless to say, I enjoyed working on this one.  Check out the comical before/after’s on both the residential and business pages.

Mix horse riding essentials with Italian fashion and you have pretty much the most stylish, quality horse riding boots you can get.  Throw in a slick web site to show you some beautiful pictures and voila, milofelline.com.  Did I mention I love photo shoots?  I think its the fact that I’m able to push which direction we’re going from an early on in the project.  If I know I’m working with a good photographer (like Jai Zeta), I know we are going to have an awesome finished site when it’s all said and done.  And the site just show it all off.  I built a completely custom image viewer for this site, that pulls all of the information dynamically.  That means that you don’t have to edit to much to completely change the products offered.  Oh, and it was a good thing I have been learning French for the last few years, as I got to speak a lot of it with owners Sandrine and Christian.  C’est super!

We worked on this a little while back, but I wanted to mention what we did with this one.  Originally, they came to us looking for a new look for their existing website petcoparkevents.com.  They also wanted the flexibility to manage the site, including all descriptions, prices, photos, etc.  I think the end product gave them just that.  The site was built as a Rich Interactive Application.  In other words, instead of just being the normal, boring html list of photos, the site has some life to it.  We used Flash as the base for the site as it offers a lot of control over stylizing, but also works well with dynamically driven content.  At the same time, just about everything is dynamic, meaning that they have complete control over all of the information and images in the site.  I came up with the design of the site as well, using different sliding panels to house the info.  The idea is that you can always see nice big photos of what the page is talking about.  This helps the user to get a good understanding of the venue.  If you’re interested in working with us on a similar project, shoot us an email to get the ball rolling.