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Be More Not Less Website Design and Logo

Brian Evans — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:53:06 +0000

This was a new start-up company I helped build from the ground up. After we all went back and forth on a name, making sure the .com was available, we first worked on getting a logo.

I helped Be More Not Less work with another website to get a great logo for them. While I can do the work myself, I do like to save time and money for my clients. So we setup an account using another service and got them a lovely unique and flexible logo at a great price, $150 if I recall.

Once we had the logo I went through a couple different website layout ideas before coming up with our final draft. We set out to have a wide range of colors through out the entire site. Each section of the site though would keep with a similar colored theme to let users know they are still in the right place. This was a task by itself as most sites have 1 template to base all future pages off.

We all wanted something a little more and talked about some ideas for turning the logo into an animation for the header. We went back and forth over several meetings tossing around ideas. I thought of the idea of the outer portion of the logo to be spinning. I did a few quick mock-ups and there was 1 that was stood out. I spent some more time tweaking and modifying the animation to get it just right. We ended up with a wonderful animated logo that was in the spirit of the website.

bemorenotless.com

Smart Womans Club Website Design

Brian Evans — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:58:32 +0000

Smokie Sizemore had an idea for a new website she wanted to start. She came to me with no real idea what she wanted, just knew she needed a website.

I ran with the idea of using the symbol for female in the logo and within the design, Smokie wanted something a little simpler. She made a remark about wanting it to flow like the ocean. With the previous concepts being to overpowering I went with a simple logo design. Made a very clean header with a little swoosh motion, going with her ocean comment.

We still wanted to get something in there with the female symbol though. I chose to add it to the end of the navigation items and that worked out nicely.

smartwomansclub.com

Henrico Schools Website Design

Brian Evans — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:49:45 +0000

Henrico county schools gave all their students macbooks to use during school hours and then can take home to do schools work. Henrico county schools wanted to promote a service to students and parents to make sure they all have Internet availability at home. The previous company I worked for was offered that opportunity and sold dial-up for the macbooks under the name Online@Henrico.

I created this simple website for this service and to help current customers if they had any issues. I tried to make it as clean as we could but also make it easy for the users to navigate throughout the site for exactly what they want.

I also worked up this logo to mimick the logo the company uses for it’s other service for VCU, being sold under the name Online@VCU.

henricoschools.org

Walter Builders Website Design

Brian Evans — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:59:03 +0000

Bill Walter (owner) wanted a newer and fresher website. The problem at the time though for him was he didn’t know what he wanted. He just knew he didn’t want to spend a lot of money on it. No problem I told him.

I looked over all his current marketing and promotional material to get some ideas. I noticed he also did not have a logo either. So what I did was come up with a nice, clean website design and integrated a logo that he could use for other stuff as well.

I setup different area for his site so he can promote the different aspects of his site. He wanted to promote homes that were currently under construction and ready to be sold. We included construction pictures, design plans and other photos to give potential buyers a lot of different images. This was the focus of the website.

I also added a sinple newletter sign-up form that saved e-mail addressed to an Access database using ASP programming. I coded a simple backend page that listed all the sign-ups that he could copy/paste into other software for mailing a newsletter.

I originally did this website in 2003. It seems they’ve taken a downward spiral and had somone redo the site. walterbuilders.com