• August 25th, 2008

The site overhaul for the Sunset Nightly Rentals website is complete. This redesign wasn’t too bad. Some minor changes to color, added a Flash slideshow and some new button and tab graphics to soften the color scheme a touch. The previous design had more contrast and the site owner felt it was a little too harsh.

The functionality was not changed too much, other than the fact that we converted it from ASP over to PHP. The challenge though was that the owner did not want to sacrifice authority or rankings during the switch. I’ll take this time to state that it is critical that you choose a designer/developer that understands search engines before you have a site redesigned.

There are potential pitfalls that go along with redesigns and if you have a productive site that needs freshened-up, you don’t want to lose the productivity just to make it look a little better.

• August 25th, 2008

While I’ve been very busy this year with new sites. It seems as though I haven’t made many new site launches. That’s primarily because the clients wanted to be sure everything was all set before giving the go ahead to launch. Which is a benefit to working with a local designer. Often times, large design firms do not always give you as much “tweaking time” as you might like.

Anyway, enough about that. I have two new sites to announce but I’ll only announce one in this post.

Are you looking for a spa to visit while on your trip to Branson? If so, you might want to checkout Aspire Medical Spa, adjacent to the Branson Landing, this Branson spa is very convenient for visitors staying or touring the downtown area.

This project was basically a redesign, but since the owners of the spa want to change the colors and add a Flash intro to the site, I figured I would just do a complete rebuild.

The site got a new Flash introduction that tells what the business is all about, tranformations. The design got transformed to a deeper, richer color pallet with more vibrance.

An admin area was added to give the Aspire staff the ability to not only edit their own website pages, but also to create and schedule newsletters to be sent via email to all client that choose to opt in to the program.

The entire site custom built to the specifications of the business owners!