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You want your company's Web site and advertising to be unique, fresh and creative. And you want it in hands you trust. That's who we are. We work quickly, we're honest, and we thoroughly enjoy analyzing the needs of your business and suggesting creative solutions. Our combined background in art, color theory, computer graphics, coding and advertising gives you the advantage you need to take your business to new levels. |
Murchison House Bed & Breakfast
Murchison House Bed and Breakfast, just renovated in Wilmington, NC is a beautiful home that was recently the designer's showcase. The owners wanted an elegant website that remained true to the era of the home.
VioletSky Design in conjunction with Venue Communications created an attractive web site with an integrated off-site reservation system.
Coastal Carrier Moving & Storage
Coastal Carrier Moving and Storage came to us wanting a redesign of their current site to make it more attractive, effective, and especially search engine friendly. The site was removed from frames, a copywriter was hired, and an entirely new graphical design and color scheme was created.
Habit Doc
Beverly Hills-based addiction alternatives specialist, Dr. Marc Kern, came to VioletSky Design for a complete overhaul of look, code and content for his HabitDoc consulting business. The site was redesigned, coded to web standards for simplicity of maintenance, and the content was completely reworked. The site uses ColdFusion includes and Dreamweaver templates so that Dr. Kern can do much of his own maintenance using Macromedia Contribute.
A dynamic form was created to page and email Dr. Kern immediately when clients request a 15-minute consultation. A shopping cart was integrated to sell his books and pay for consultations online. An Alternative Addiction Provider database was created that allows people to search for providers in their area. Finally, a blog was integrated for keeping news current on the site.
Brett Knowles Realtor
Brett Knowles is one of the top selling realtors in Wilmington, North Carolina. In keeping with his high-quality print materials, Brett needed a new high-quality web site. There had been many changes to the MLS since his last site was created and it is now possible to search the entire inventory of Wilmington homes. He wanted a web site that would be information rich as well as attractive and easy to navigate.
Several forms were created to allow users to contact him for information and newsletters. A real estate news service was seamlessly integrated into his site to give his clients the most up to date information. Highly accessible JavaScripted navigation keeps the user oriented on every page.
Eden Institute
Eden Institute - A multicultural heritage center contacted us to build an attractive web site promoting their new African Diaspora Concourse. Care was taken to design navigation that is intuitive to the client. More interactivity as well as on line sign up for all their programs is in the works at this time. The client is maintaining their site using Contribute (by Macromedia).
A special Cascading Style Sheet was utilized so that when the pages are printed, there are no graphics to waste customers' color ink. Only the informational text prints in black and white.
Click to explore Eden Institutes's site (which may no longer be in its original condition).
Island Training Solutions
Island Training solutions provides hands-on training solutions for IBM® Rational® developer tools. The Flash site they had when originally contacting VioletSky Design, was blocking the search engines from spidering their site. Thus, their Google and Yahoo referrals were dismal. They wanted a fully indexable site with a fresh new look.
Their new site was coded to Web Standards which by nature creates a site that is search-engine friendly. The Flash logo and wave sound that they loved, was integrated into the new, accessible HTML web site. The site was set up so that daily maintenance could be handled with Macromedia Contribute.
Ken Pope
Ken Pope came to VioletSky Design for a redesign of his current site. His desire was to have a site that is not only accessible using screen readers and assistive technology, but also a web site that is attractive. This site allows those without the ability to change text size and contrast through their preferred browser to have that ability using a server-side style switcher (PHP).
Each section of the site has a different color and image, but utilizing cookies, the user has a consistent journey through the site in their preferred style. The example to the right shows the front page in the default style as well as the high contrast black & white option. Recently, Joe Clark, accessibility guru, mentioned Ken's site as one of eight sites that have gotten the combination of design and accessibility right. You can read the article -- High Accessibility, High Design.
We recently split his original site into four separate sites due to the diverse content that had developed. Because the site was set up using XHTML, CSS with Dreamweaver templates, Ken was able to do much of the new work himself under the supervision of VioletSky Design.
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to explore Ken Pope's Psychology site.
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to explore Ken Pope's Accessibility site.
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to explore Ken Pope's animal information site.
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to explore Ken Pope's rescued animal's site.
SureShot Coffee Roasters
SureShot Coffee is specialty coffee roasting company. Their website is currently under construction. They wanted an Old West look. We created an Annie Oakley, brushed metal and iron logo that is being placed on the website, delivery vehicle and labels. This will be an ecommerce site when completed.
Ms. Fritzie Educational Consultants
Ms. Fritzie creates and sells educational materials as well as speaking at conferences and doing workshops for teachers. She wanted a professional but fun look for her website. The PayPal system was integrated for those that want to pay by credit card online.
Creative Growth Ministries
Creative Growth Ministries needed a new look to portray their ministry more dynamically. They wanted to make their site more informative and interactive. We will be adding new features continually.
Lisa Yoder Boswell :: Fine Art
Lisa Yoder Boswell is an extraordinary artist. From her portraits to her murals her work is beautiful and high quality.
Lisa wanted a site that would compliment her work but not overpower it. We created a simple site, in neutral colors, that has been very effective. A flash introduction was created to allow the surfer a preview of her art and to entice them to enter her web site.
Balanced Body
Balanced Body is a site for a Yoga Instructor & Massage Therapist. She wanted something that had the feeling of the Oriental East, that would be calm and relaxing as her clients and prospective clients explored.
Inter-Pol Special Police
Inter-Pol Special Police is a private police company in Wilmington, NC. Inter-Pol came to VioletSky Design for a professional site that gives users a feeling of safety and comfort while showing their services. The site was coded to Web Standards making it more accessible to users with disabilities as well as search engines. A Flash tagline was integrated into the banner and the home page shows a random banner each time it is visited.
Lebaron Graphic Design Studio
This site was built in conjunction with Lebaron Graphic Design Studio. Lebaron Graphic Design Studio designed the site including the graphics. VioletSky Design implented their design, coding the functionality of the site.
Cheval Noir, Inc.
Cheval Noir needed a classy, quick-loading web site. Simple & informative, easy to use, with the ability to do text updates themselves. We've created a site that can be updated easily using Macromedia's new product Contribute.
Sito Chiropractic
Sito Chiropractic wanted to reach the internet audience by providing descriptions about their business, staff, and specialty in an attractive, informative way. They also wanted to utilize their site to communicate on a regular basis with their current patients.
We created a calm, relaxing site full of information, tips and research. We also created a password-protected "patients only" area with policies, newsletters and articles.
Click to explore the Sito Chiropractic web site.
Pool Parts & Supplies
This site was built around a database of 25,000 products. It has search capabilities as well as a fully functional Miva shopping basket. The client is able to update their own database, select specials and do most of their own administration.
Click to explore the Pool Parts & Supplies web site.
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