Located in downtown Royal Oak, Michigan, St. Paul Lutheran needed to update their site to gain an increased Web presence that would reach a broader audience, and be a go-to resource for members and guests. The site redesign also acted to join together the previously disjoined church and school sites into one cohesive site.
Chester Limbaugh is a retired Chrysler designer of nearly 40 years, and is now a fine artist concentrating on landscape paintings. Having a vast library of archived sketches, drawings and paintings, he needed help redesigning his site to showcase his expansive collection, and promote it to the online community.
The LightTable Image Viewing Application is an XML-driven Flash application built for viewing photos, designed to loosely mimic how a handful of photo slides would be viewed on a light table. The movement is 100% dynamic, moving and rotating to dynamically generated coordinates.
Chevrolet
(Site no longer live)
The Race To Win Corvette site was designed by Campbell-Ewald for their client Chevrolet. The site is a sweepstakes site that enters users for the chance to win a Corvette and trip to LeMans in France. After designing the site, CE needed help with the site build, JavaScript and Flash development, and registration form logic.
Alkar Steel is a steel and processing company who needed help revamping their website design and online presence. Among the list of needs for Alkar were an updated and modern design, improved search engine optimization, and consolidating the previously 12+ page site into 5-6 pages.
Tom Limbaugh is a guitarist and guitar instructor in the Metro Detroit area of Michigan. Having an outdated version of his site up for a number of years, he needed help redesigning and re-architecting the site to match his vision for the site – a place his students and the general public could visit to watch instructional videos, listen to sample music clips, and purchase full length music clips and accompanying guitar transcriptions in PDF format.
Aladdin Steel, a steel tube and pipe distributing company, needed help revamping their website design. In addition to a fresh look and feel, the site was created with chunks of dynamically written content for ease of updating. This included the excess inventory page, the main contact form, and the staff page.
Center for Michigan
(created for Brogan & Partners)
Brogan & Partners of Birmingham, Michigan, needed help programming a Flash widget they designed for their client, The Center for Michigan. The widget was programmed with custom PHP logic that queried the petition signature tracker database to tabulate and display the total number of supporters in the main counter. It also includes links to download the petition, as well as a section that reads in and displays an RSS feed. Lastly, it contains Gigya logic which incorporates the ability to share the widget across a variety of social networks, as well as offering code to embed the widget in your web page.
The Crossword Puzzle Application is an XML-driven Flash crossword puzzle application, generated dynamically from an external XML file. It includes answer check functionality and can house an indefinite number of puzzles.
Wanting a more interactive way to show a multiple-choice quiz for online e-learning courses, Deloitte needed help designing and producing an interactive Flash Jeopardy trivia game that would better capture user attention than the default quiz. The game board is generated dynamically, based on the number of categories and questions defined in an external XML file.
Arts at Michigan
Arts at Michigan, a program dedicated to connecting students to the arts, needed help designing and producing a set of promotional postcards for distribution among new students and faculty as a way to raise awareness of their group and the variety of arts available at the University of Michigan.
Questar Capital Corporation
Looking for a different direction in their advertising, Questar Capital came looking to break away from stereotypical finance ads involving stock photos of business professionals. The series of ads produced featured such non-traditional stock imagery, and focused on using slightly more conceptual imagery that tied into the messaging of the ad.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Thrivent Financial came looking for a professional, quick and inexpensive solution for a set of internal postcards needed for a sales incentives program among its financial representatives. The end result was a set of postcards designed to print either professionally, or on their internal laser-jet printers if they were in a pinch.