Flash Animation

Flash animation and Actionscript, Flash's unique programming language are often used in delivering rich media content online. Most of the video seen now is most likely delivered via the Flash video format (FLV) through a typical Flash "movie" (SWF). Flash can be used in many ways and is very engaging because it produces very fluid animation. On the flipside, it can be overused and becomes annoying or done poorly. If there is animation on a web page, it is probably Flash.

The Research Network on an Aging Society

Responsive Website Design in Saint Augustine

We work with The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York, and they came to us for this special project funded by a MacArthur Foundation grant. We were privileged to work with Dr. John "Jack" Rowe on this project and were successful in providing the Content Management System requested in a look and feel that was fitting for the subject.

The site was awarded a 2009 Big W from the Advertising Club of Westchester in the non-profit website category.

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Charles Griffin Intelligence, LLC

Communications are not necessarily literal when it comes to marketing and advertising. We like to call it "atmospheric" in the case of Charles Griffin Intelligence. There was a "feel" our client was attempting to evoke with photography and left it to us to put those in position and set them in motion. We were more than happy to assist.

Collaboration with our clients is important to the success of our work and we are always open to their ideas and concerns. We will act as your experts, giving you honest appraisals based on knowledge and experience. We will not shy away from a difficult critique when we feel something could be better and vice versa, we are not primadonnas and can take direction.

This "Website in a Day" began as one of our Smart Site products and played out very well for our client. Once the initial site was built and online, we were called back to improve upon the styling. That is the scenario we envision for some of you- need for a very professional site, and then build onto it as the business grows and budgets allow or needs dictate. Our client had their content ready to go, and we literally built out a CMS site in 24 hours.

Site was redeveloped as a responsive design in 2015.

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Drupal CMS

Responsive Website Design

My Venus Smile

Heraeus Kulzer is a Fortune 500 company based in Germany. Their South Bend, IN headquarters is home to the U.S. marketing staff with whom we work closely on a regular basis to design, develop, and maintain four separate websites.

This site, "My Venus Smile", provides consumers ways to locate a Venus Dentists and request appointments online. The locator program covers the U.S. and Canada. There is also a Venus Professional site for dentists that allows a Venus Dentist to create a profile and post availability. The Venus Virtual Smile website is a fun makeover application where visitors are able to upload their photo and perform a makeover for a beautiful Venus Smile.

We provide design, development, database integration, and marketing support to Heraeus online. We maintain SEO for all sites targeting a national audience in a highly competitive marketplace for cosmetic dentistry.

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Flash Animation

2009

Smile By Venus

There is a site that provides their dentists with the ability to offer appointments to clients online and inclusion in a locator program that covers the U.S. and Canada. There is also a consumer based site that acts as a vehicle for people to find a Venus Dentist in their area. The Venus Virtual Smile website is a fun makeover application where visitors are able to upload their photo and perform a makeover for a beautiful Venus Smile. The fourth site is focused on dental labs that provide services specifically to Venus Dentists.

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Flash Animation

2009

The Bird & Bottle Inn

One of the Hudson Valley's well known fine dining and unique lodging experiences is now well represented in this newly released website. The Bird & Bottle Inn located in Garrison, New York is only a few miles north of northern Westchester county. Once known as Warren's Tavern, it has been there since 1761, operating in the colonial days.

Our assignment was to accurately portray the warm and welcome atmosphere visitors experience when they enter the historic inn. We provided a CMS application that allows events, press releases, menus, and other content to be added, organized, and edited simply and easily by the Bird & Bottle staff. In addition to the design and development of the site, we also provided location photography.

We worked in collaboration with The Gold Standard who provided writing, photography, and direction on overall navigation and page flow.

Visit the site online at www.thebirdandbottleinn.com

Paramount Center for The Arts

On screen graphics, St. Augustine Graphic Design

Our good neighbors, The Paramount Center for The Arts, have an incredible amount of talent coming through their doors each month. We created the layout, programming, and method of delivery behind their lobby display screen. It keeps patrons informed of upcoming shows, fundraising events, and film series.

We were happy to create this ongoing stream of animated slides as an alternative to a sinlge local file on one of their in-house systems that had to be overwritten each time there was a change, we devised a way of delivering this to their screen via the Internet. All updates are made remotely which makes for a very efficient operation. If you are looking for some innovative advertising, motion graphics, or both, please let us know, we love a good challenge.

Experion Design Group

We collaborate with many people and we are sought out many times by consultants that need a reliable, expert source for website design and development and SEO. We can jump in at any stage of production and make it better.

Experion Design was in the process of putting their site online and were concerned with SEO and marketing their businesses to all audiences whether it be potential clients or employees. There were many meetings to discuss the direction of the site and eventually we covered every possible detail while continually refining the look and feel. The sight is successful in delivering the company message within the desired look and feel.

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Flash Animation

2008

Venus Virtual Smile

Venus Virtual Smile is a custom built online web application using Flash, PHP, and MySQL to provide a fun online experience and the abiity to make your own cosmetic dental makeover.

Visitors can upload their own snapshots into the site and use specially built tools to either drag smiles, or mask out their teeth and position pre-set "smiles" into position to see what they would look like if they had a "Venus Smile".

What a great marketing tool for the folks at Heraeus Kulzer and all of their Venus Dentists. It has provided may potential makeover patients with a fun glimpse of what "could be"...

We also recreated the entire application for a trade show kiosk where an imbedded camera was able to provide a "live" snapshot for visitors.

Lori Lustig Executive Search

There are some websites that make fantastic examples of how less makes more impact. We worked with Lori Lustig on this site closely and it was relatively easy because she was so decisive, knowing exactly what she wanted. We are both extremely happy with the results.

This site contains examples of some very elegant Flash animation. We are of the opinion that a Flash intro should be engaging and not invite a visitor to "skip" it. We will typically argue to build the intro directly into the home page to increase usability, allowing visitors to navigate from the very first screen.

Lori's logo won a Big W Bronze award in 2008 since it was completed prior to the launch of the site, and we were honored twice with this job when the website was also awarded a Big W Silver in 2009. Visit the site online.

Our clients say...

"I looked over the site again and the only feedback I have is positive. I really love it...look of the website is exactly what I had hoped for. It is professional, yet inviting and warm and has the same feel as the brochure which I like."
—Alexandra Laufer Lobo, M.S., CCC-SLP

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