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Posted on September 27, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: The Flexcraft Co.
The Flexcraft Co. in Asbury Park, New Jersey, manufactures plastic products for a wide range of industries, including medical, science, industrial, novelty and more. Flexcraft contacted us because they needed a revamp of their current website. They were unhappy with the design and process and wanted something higher quality and more flexible to reflect their manufacuring business. We revamped the site, added new features, and lots of fun, dynamic content. Flexcraft also has an online store that we’re in the process of customizing to match the new design (will be available very soon).
This was a fun website to work on because every page has a little something extra. The homepage has a mixture of dynamic content, including two flash apps and a jquery content slider. The first flash app is a rotating carousel, which I’ve never done before so that was pretty cool. The jquery slider is a simple panel slider that displays several different “panels” of information. Jquery is so great for so many reasons. It allows for dynamic content, often with animated transitions, but without sacrificing SEO. In fact, a panel slider or similar script actually adds to SEO because you can add more XHTML content to the page! But I digress…
Ben Smith, who I worked with to develop this site, is more than a pleasure to work with. I’m positive that Flexcraft shows the same courtesy and professionalism in every business endevour, so if you have the need for custom or stock plastic products, don’t hesitate to drop them a line at www.flexcraft.com.
Posted on September 25, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: The Josiah Fund
Completed in world record time, The Josiah Fund officially launched today.
The Josiah Fund is a non-profit organization/project headed by Derek and Renee Loux, and aims to create a healthy and restorative living environment for 30 adopted children with special needs. The Loux’s are amazing people, having already adoped 8 children in addition to their two girls. Just looking at all of their smiling faces is heart-warming and you can see immediately the difference they’ve made in their childrens’ lives.
On to the specs: This is a relatively simple valid CSS / XHTML website with a flash slideshow and detailed SEO (still in development at time of publication).
launch project: The Josiah Fund
Posted on August 23, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: Brassworks
Located in San Luis Obispo, The Brassworks creates beautiful reproduction radiators for Model T’s, Model A’s, Dodge Bros., and more.
This is a revamp of their current site, with the addition of a Shopping Cart. We basically redesigned the layout with new graphics, with content modification. We also converted it from ASP to standard XHTML and updated the structure and CSS.
launch: www.brassworksradiators.com
Posted on August 8, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: Tiyoweh Hypnotherapy
We just finished a package deal for Tiyoweh Hypnotherapy for a new logo, business cards and website.
The arrows in the logo, conceptualized by Alicia Allison, represent the inner-person aspects of hpynotherapy, and the outer petals elude to the blooming, or awakening aspects of hypnotherapy. The icon, coupled with the name Tiyoweh, which translates to “stillness” in seneca language, sum up the transcendent and posivite effects of hypnotherapy.
Double-sided horizontal cards with a simple, yet different design and variation of the logo.
Standard CSS website and WordPress blog. The concept is purposely emphemeral with hints of sunrays and clouds, as well as imagery representing inner peace and stillness, and emphasising the name Tiyoweh, which means “the stillness” in seneca language.
view site at www.tiyowehhypnotherapy.com
Posted on July 28, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: Loomis Tank Centers
The new Loomis Tank Centers website and logo are finally live! This is a revamp of their previous site, with comprehensive SEO, WordPress Blog, Twitter Updater, site search function, and all around updated look. We also updated the Loomis logo with a modern touch.
launch: www.loomistank.com
Posted on July 26, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: The Design Gene revamp
The Design Gene needed a revamp to bring uniformity to the gallery, showcase, and blog sections. We developed this WordPress ”Module Theme” and validated the CSS/XHTML. I’m haven’t decied yet, but I may offer this theme for sale on www.themeforest.net (I own The Design Gene, so I can sell it ). 
Posted on July 3, 2009 - by CDS
Latest Project: Symbol Photography
With every project, I gain a little more knowledge and experience about my business. Sometimes it’s technical stuff, sometimes it’s philosophical, sometimes it’s just getting a glimpse into a profession that I previously had zero knowledge of. In the case of Symbol Photography, I got a little of everything. This was a fun project, albeit, challenging at times. I needed to learn a new technology (Simple Pie RSS Reader), learned a little about the Wedding Photogrpahy industry, and most importantly, I realized that I can be more flexible in my methods of doing things and still produce killer end results. Could it be that there is more than one way to do things? It’s a hard one to admit, but I think so!
On to the technical stuff. This site has it all: a gorgeous design, sound xhtml/css, and lots of extra goodies. Features include:
- Simple Pie RSS feed
- Flash/XML powered calendar
- Flash/XML powered slideshow
- CSS drop down menu with opacity, image rollovers, and rounded corners
- Contact form with CAPTCHA, form validation, and autoresponder
- Custom WordPress Blog made to match the site seamlessly
- Flash/XML Galleries (credit to Brendan at Symbol Photography)
- Organic Search Engine Optimization
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!
