Dave and Anna are pulling out all the stops for their upcoming wedding. They decided that in addition to sending out the standard invitation, they wanted a website that showed their personalities. They also wanted a place where people could go and get information about the wedding, learn more about the bridesmaids, groomsmen, and Chuppah holders. They approached Pixeldust Films with their ideas and let us roll with it!
The site is an Expression Engine powered site that has been custom designed by Pixeldust Films. The slideshow on the opening page was custom developed and features the randomization of their favorite photos. We also did all the custom CSS work, graphic design, and integrated their Flickr photos using the flexible Flickr API. Visitors can sign up on their mailing list, browse content that’s relevant to their guests, and just have an overall smashing good time.
Just like I’m sure they’ll have at the actual wedding!
The site was launched in March, 2008. Congratulations, David and Anna! Visit the site today!
The High Street Caffe has the kind of food that makes you want to continue to eat long after you’re full. I know, as I do it every time I go there. Don Syracuse, owner of the now-famous West Chester eatery needed a website so he could post all the info that you find on most restaurant sites: hours, menus, directions, etc. But what he really wanted to accomplish was to mimic the “look and feel” of the restaurant on his website. The High Street is straight out of Louisiana Cajun: purple walls, beads all over the place, dimly lit, the constant smell of crawfish, spices, fresh seafood, and all this being underpinned by live jazz or blues (and, in my day, a little classical, as I was the house entertainment for the first couple of years).
Christine Pazdalski speaks dog. No really, she does. She walks into the room and the dogs know they’ve just met someone who understands them. I know from having developed a website for Christine she cares about her subject matter. Christine’s primary business is dog-sitting and dog-training, and she wanted a website that not only outlines her services, but gave away some freebies as well. In this case, we decided the freebies would be in the form of some good advice from an experienced trainer. I did a half day audio session with Christine, which gave me enough material to start producing some podcasts. I recorded bumpers with some other voice talent (Go, Gina!), and we created the necessary containers to house the audio on her Wordpress-driven website.
William “Wild Bill” Guarnere is my grandfather. While he’s therefore not a “client,” he certainly did have some ideas about what he wanted on his website. The idea was to try and create a community where people could learn more about the war and those who participated in it. Of course, there was a lot of content on my grandfather’s own unit, the 101st Airborne Division, 506th P.I.R., “Easy” Company. It absolutely had to be that way.
Collegeville Dental needed a facelift on their website, and when I spoke to Dr. Ryan Estelle, we decided that he wasn’t necessarily trying to sell the practice, but instead he was trying to show the practice. For many, going to the dentist isn’t exactly a trip you look forward to, so Ryan and his staff wanted it to come across on the website that Collegeville Dental is unlike any other dentist’s office on the planet.