Corvus Design Studio Blog - San Luis Obispo, California » wordpress http://corvusart.com/blog San Luis Obispo Web Design Firm, Grahpic Design, Graphic Art and Corporate Identity Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:07:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Rerun Productions Redesign http://corvusart.com/blog/2011/08/10/rerun-productions-redesign/ http://corvusart.com/blog/2011/08/10/rerun-productions-redesign/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:55:01 +0000 CDS http://corvusart.com/blog/?p=480 We just completed a revamp and upgrade of Rerun Productions, one of our very first clients. We’ve worked with Rerun for years and just adore their whole idea of functional art made from recycled items. Anyway, we upgraded their previous flash site to a simpler Wordpress site with more emphasis on search engine optimization, networking and traffic generation. This new site is also a complete CMS with video integration, Ajax features, automatic photo resizing, lightbox popup, built-in “simple forms”, and more. The idea was to create something minimal, simple, user-friendly that just shows the artwork, plain and simple. I’m a huge fan of the grid/masonry layout and was very excited to create this automatic-resizing masonry site. We’ll eventually be developing an integrated Wordpress online store, too.

Take a look at www.rerunproductions.com, and feel free to tell the folks at Rerun how much you love their creations via the comment forms!

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Colorgorize, http://colorgorize.com
Categorizes websites based on color scheme and provides a color chart for every website. Very useful to find ideas when selecting color schemes for projects. Users can search by adjusting a hue and saturation range, which I find especially neat.

Footer Fetish, http://footerfetish.com
Clever name and clever concept. This is a gallery of great footers. The footer is often overlooked in design, but it doesn’t have to be.

Type Inspire, http://typeinspire.com
Showcase of inspiring and unique typography in web design. Lots of awesome designs that invoke all sorts of ideas for text effects.

Blog Design Heroes, http://blogdesignheroes.com
Gallery of great blog designs. Categorized by platform, and includes Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress and even some of the newer and less commonly used platforms.

Cart Frenzy, http://cartfrenzy.com
Showcase of outstanding ecommerce websites. Categorized by shopping cart software. Great website to get ideas for shopping cart features and layouts.

Illustration Toolbox, http://illustrationtoolbox.com/category/websites
Showcase of illustrated websites. Also includes an illustration showcase, tutorials, freebies, articles and more resources.

Folio Focus, http://foliofocus.com
Gallery of portfolio websites. Mostly web designers. Good place to get some ideas for creating galleries and portfolio type websites.

Minimal Exhibit, http://minimalexhibit.com
Minimalist type websites, lots of negative space and uber clean designs.

We Love WP, http://welovewp.com
Collection of sites powered by WordPress. Not just blogs, but CMS sites as well.

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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

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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

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