Archive for the ‘CDS News’ Category
Posted on June 17, 2009 - by CDS
Custom WordPress Blogs Now Available
Well, this isn’t really breaking news since we’ve been doing them for some time now. But I just realized we never announced it anywhere. We’re now offering custom WordPress Blogs and CMS’s. We’re offering two services: 1) Custom WordPress application from scratch, and 2) Customization of your chosen theme (from just about any source, including www.themeforest.net, www.woothemes.com, and www.elegantthemes.com).
Custom Blog Overview:
The popularity of blogs is a relatively new thing in the world wide web. Over the past few years, blogs have grown in functionality and usefullness, to the vital role they play in search engine recognition and social networking today. Corvus Design Studio offers customized WordPress blogs and content management systems to bring your site into the world of Web 2.0!
WordPress offers highly functional and flexible blog systems that can be transformed into complete websites, content managment systems, and even e-commerce applications. WordPress blogs are very useful to network, bring traffic to your site, create a repore and communication with your viewers, and build backlinks to your site.
WordPress blogs and applications can be used to augment an existing CSS website, or comprise the entirety of your website.
Why would you want a blog? Invaluable SEO Benefits
Not only are blogs made for ease of information sharing, but they are extremely effective organic search engine marketing tools. Blogs are ranked and indexed by Google quickly, and accessed by networks of bloggers where a standard CSS website would not be found. WordPress blogs inherently use several key search engine optimization methods, including tags, image descriptions, priority HTML tags, and static page names. They have built-in seo features, and the more you use your blog, the more effective these features are. The SEO and networking benefits of a Blog are invaluable in today’s Web 2.0.
For the complete description of our Custom WordPress Service, please see: http://corvusart.com/custom-wordpress-blog-design.shtml
Posted on May 10, 2009 - by CDS
Corvus ranked 2nd Most Elegant
A-Ron over at Code Vigilante has ranked Corvus Design Studio this week’s #2 most elegant, www.codevigilante.com. Thanks A-Ron!
Posted on April 4, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: Bewley’s Rerun Productions
www.rerunproductions.com
This is probably the fifth or so website we’ve done for Rerun. We just love working with them and we love their recycled products. This new version is completely XML powered, with lots of awesome features, including a PayPal cart, mp3 player, galleries, inertia content scrollers, draggable “specs” cards, customizable background patterns and more. We’re very proud of this design and interface, http://www.rerunproductions.com. The CSS version is still available as well, at: http://www.rerunproductions.com/index_css.shtml. Hope you enjoy this site and find it entertaining!
Posted on March 25, 2009 - by CDS
Corvus Awards & Recognition
We wanted to thank everyone for the great feedback to our new website. We submitted it to all the award and recognition sites and got great feedback. Instead of doing a single post for all of the additional recognition we’ve received, we’ve put together a list below with links to the award and compilation sites. The admins of these great sites were kind enough to add us, so we’d like to return the favor by linking to them and maybe bringing a little traffic.
Award & Mixed Sites:
Web Design Awards, Design of the Day, view our award
My Design Award, view our award
RGB Garden Garden of the Day, view our recognition post
HTTP Artist, view our recognition post
The Design Gene, view our recognition post
CSS Sites:
CSS Star, view our recognition post
Creamy CSS, view our recognition post
CSS Mania, view our recognition post
CSS Design Yorkshire, march 2009 entry
CSS Style.me, view our recognition post
One CSS, view our recognition post
CSS Based, view our rcognition post
CSS Burst, view our recognition post
CSS Scoop, view our recognition post
eCSSited, view our recognition post
Swell CSS, view our recognition post
CSS Illustrated, view our recognition post
CSS Impress, view our recognition post
Your Site is Valid, view our recognition post
CSS Elite, view our recognition post
CSS Heaven, view our recognition post
I hope I didn’t leave anyone out, but if I did, this list will be ammended accordingly. Thanks everyone for the positive feedback!
Posted on March 21, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: SC41 Furniture
We’re happy to announce the launch of SC41’s revamped website, www.sc41.com. SC41 is located in Santa Cruz, CA, and specializes in environmentally-friendly furnishings and bedding. SC41 really epitomizes what is means to be truly eco-friendly, from organic linens and low-impact manufacturing, to reclaimed wood and bamboo furnishings… even the floors and paint inside the showroom are eco-friendly. In addition, most of the furniture at SC41 is simply beautiful…. just see for yourself at www.sc41.com.
The design was inspired by the texture of organic fabrics, with the contrast of rich colored woods. We wanted to do something elegant, but trendy, and that incorporated the modern feel of SC41’s branding. This site includes valid CSS and XHTML, WordPress Blog, email signup, Flash goodies here and there, and tons of useful eco information.
Posted on March 12, 2009 - by CDS
CDS on The Best Designs
We’ve had some of our work featured on The Best Designs in the past, but our own website was always passed up. We’re happy to say that our new design made the cut today! Please have a look at all of the amazing sites on The Best Designs… there are some simply phenomenal websites out there. All designers have that one coveted award or recognition they always strive for, and this site is mine. It’s been in existence for quite some time, and I’ve been following it for years.
Posted on March 11, 2009 - by CDS
New Site Design
Hello fellow bloggers and design freaks, you’ve probably noticed the new site design this week. We received quite a bit of kudos for the last design, mainly for its use of bold colors and giant header. We wanted to keep that appeal with this new design, but add a bit more “organic” feel to it. I’m a big fan of the watercolor look and wanted to do something like that for a long time. It’s always risky to change something that has been received so well, but after a year or so we get the itch for something new. Hope you like it!
Posted on March 11, 2009 - by CDS
CDS Noted for Creative Header
We’re happy to see that we’ve been added to Vandelay Design’s list of 30 Creative Website Headers. Although it is for our last design. Hope you guys like the new design just as much 
Posted on February 8, 2009 - by CDS
Corvus Takes 4th in Top 100 Designs of 2008
We’re happy to have learned that Corvus Design Studio has been placed at #4 in the top 100 CSS designs of 2008, according to Nerd Business.
Source: Nerd Business Top 100
Posted on December 21, 2008 - by CDS
Latest Project: Baxter Clare Website
Although it’s not completely finished, we’re excited to launch the new www.BaxterClare.com, a website for author Baxter Clare (aka Baxter Trautman). There will be a standard XHTML version for slower connections, but for now the flash site live. This site includes everything: custom photography, graphic animations, custom mixed sound effects, XML data utilization, fullscreen options, and more. The most noteable features include:
- Alternates between a nighttime and daytime scene at 7:00pm and 8:00am
- Viewer can toggle between day and night at will (click the clock)
- XML (RSS) feed from Baxter’s blog
- XML mp3 player disguised as a vintage radio
- Sql/PHP/Flash Guestbook
- Fullscreen mode
- Scales to fill any resolution
- Custom mixed soundscapes
- Lots of hand drawn and photo manipulated animations and effects
- Actual imagery from Baxter’s writing space
Hope you enjoy, and please note that this is a rather large site (nearly 2mb included sound), and although it’s optimized as much as possible it is best viewed on a widescreen monitor, and a computer with high speed internet access and at least 1Gb ram. (there will be a non-flash site coming very soon)
Link: BaxterClare.com
