You may recall a website I made for Skata Products about a year ago. It was a lot of fun creating a website for such a cool product. This time around the client wanted to add some videos to their site to help convey how their Decorative Wall Stamps can really transform an interior space. read more »
Category Archives: web design
High-Five, Ravelry!
I’m sure many of my fellow lovers of needle crafts out there in internet-land have noticed that ravelry.com has a new and improved log-in screen. It’s pretty ridiculously adorable and well done. A big improvement over their previous log-in form on the right side of their busy homepage. This change makes the site look a lot more user-friendly and clean… and less intimidating for new knitters and crocheters.
What is ravelry? Well to those of you who are unfamiliar… you need to get with it! Just kidding. Or, half kidding. Ravelry was started a few years ago by a gal with a vision and a guy with great programming abilities. Together, they made Ravelry, a community of knitters and crocheters where you can interact, search for and download patterns, or purchase them. It’s a really great resource that I’m sure many of us would be lost without… or our projects wouldn’t be as awesome. I’ll have to post photos of my latest ravelry pattern purchases once I’ve finished them. I’ve been working on a lot of gifts lately… hopefully I’ll be able to get back to working on items for my shop soon. Anyway, I hope you’re all having a great weekend. Is it Monday tomorrow already?
Adventures in Web Design: Skata Products
I was recently commissioned to redesign the website and look for Skata Products. They’re a fairly new company that specializes in eco-friendly wallpaper-free solutions for beautifying any interior space, particularly with their Decorative Wall Stamp.
Thursday Inspiration
Yogi tea is pretty much amazing. If you don’t drink it already… what the heck is wrong with you. Just kidding. It’s a little early. I think it was my old roomie Kate who introduced me to the wonderful world of Yogi. I think the first tea I tried was Women’s Moon Cycle. I am now a regular drinker of the Detox and Kava Stress Relief varieties. Good for the body and mind. I decided to find their website the other day to send my mom some info, and I was pleasantly surprised to find what I believe was a BEAUTIFUL site for their products. Simple, elegant, and peaceful. Really great, detailed illustration, and nice flash animation on the first page. Not overwhelming with motion graphics, just simple and effective.
Also… a quick tip I received from my coworker the other day. If you use Firefox (and you should, as it is the superior web browser), you should download this plugin, FireShot: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648 It’s a quick and easy way to capture screenshots (like the one above). It’s as simple as clicking a button in your web browser, it then opens a preview window, and then you can edit and save the screeshot. Pretty awesome. I recommend.
Happy Thursday everyone!
Get Up, Stand Up! Don’t Give Up the Fight!
A good friend of mine works with FACTS (Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes), and asked me to make a site for their tenth annual benefit. This was a pretty exciting project for me. I made the site in Flash, which was really good practice, and I absolutely love doing work for non-profits and small businesses. It makes me happy to help them achieve their goals, and I feel like my time will, in the end, help better someone’s life. I know it’s a stretch, but non-profits just make me feel all gooey inside.
I just emailed my files to Radical Designs (who are hosting the site). Ahhhh, I’m so relieved that this project is finished. On to the next one!
