The end of our first quarter in 2010 is approaching and web design trends are piling up! This is a great year to reexamine your website and ask, "how can I grab more attention?" There are many great attention-grabbing sites out there. Here is a great link that highlights some popular trends for 2010.
Jammer Yama and Monika Dunlap of Kari Group LLC hired Axis Creative Group to give their website a face lift.
Kari Group is the first and leading medical travel company in the American market cooperating exclusively with the best Polish clinics. They cater to individuals who are interested in having a cosmetic surgery abroad but wish to avoid the medical uncertainties of third world countries.
Silverback Towing, established in 2006 and located in Paradise Pennsylvania, hired Axis Creative Group to create a professional, attractive, and interactive website. Silverback was interested in working with a local PA Web Design firm to develop his high-end website. Silverback Towing specializes in Heavy Duty Towing and Recovery, Diesel Repairs, RV/Motor Home Repair and Repossession and Asset Recovery. Through the use of modern technologies such as Flash, Ruby On Rails and a few others, Axis Creative Group was able to create a fun and interesting website for this Lancaster Towing, Repair and Recovery company. For more information please visit their new website at: www.silverbacktowing.com — Don’t forget to check out the dynamic photo and video galleries. –
Guerrino Dentistry, a three-office Dental Practice in New York has a long-term standing with Axis Creative Group. Dr. Guerrino and Dr Vasquez requested a fresh new design that incorporated new media-types to liven up their practices website. Using a CMS system so their office staff can update the website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, animated Flash, Flash Slides Shows and soothing music, Axis Creative Group was able to provide a website that is much more interesting to browse than their previous site.
Alexander Reedy, a Lancaster County REALTOR® with the Shreiner Group and Prudential Homesale Services Group commissioned Axis Creative Group to design and develop an online resource. This site includes an MLS Real Estate Listing service as well as a custom Blog for Alex to share his thoughts and experience with the world. For more information please visit Alex’s new website!
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After several months of hard work and fine tuning we achieved perfection! Whitmore Printing, a Lancaster County commercial printer, proudly launches their new website. Axis Creative Group used their years of experience and professional web design and development skills to produce a stunning new online home for this client.
For more information please visit: http://www.whitmoreprinting.comContact Us today to find out how we can redesign your website or create a new website for your business.
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I stumbled upon a website, www.colorsontheweb.com, that is dedicated to — you guessed it, color. In particular, the website focusses on colors related to the web. Not only does the site educate you on color theory, color physics, combining colors (how and why), but it has an extremely easy to use feature that lets you “spin” the color wheel to select three colors that go well together.
What is color?
Simply put, color is the way our eyes and brain interpret electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths between 350 and 750 nanometers. The image below of the color spectrum shows the range of 350 to 750 nanometers. To the extreme left, or less than 350 nanometers, is Ultra-Violet. Likewise, to the extreme right, or greater than 750 nanometer, is Infra-Red.
Is a color just a color?
No colors can evoke emotion, actions, thoughts, and more. Based on the colors you paint your office or the colors you select for your website we can determine the preconceived emotions and thoughts of visits.
“Red is the color that provokes the most physiological responses. It has been shown that red causes the human heart beat and blood pressure to rise and to aid the interconnection of brain neurons. It has also been shown that people working in a red environment work faster, but they also make more mistakes. It increases restlessness and nervous tension. Also, red is commonly regarded to increase appetite.
Combining Colors
Combining colors can be difficult. Which colors go best together, which colors are best for a background and for contrasting text, which colors should be used to evoke a predetermined emotion? For the most part selecting colors that go well with each other is a personal preference. There are some guidelines that you can use when selecting colors but always select what looks good to you and don’t be afraid to ask for opinions.
For more information on how to select colors for combined use please read this page: Combining Colors
Quay Vodka by Bravado Imports, Inc. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania launches their website. Although this website is a temporary web presence it captures the essence of their product and makes product information and contact options available with a click of the mouse.
For more information please visit their website: www.quayvodka.com
Admit it. At one point in time, you became curious, even a little interested. You want to know why people are so hooked on this tech-savvy social networking site people call “Facebook”.
Well, Facebook is free and what have you got to lose?
Sign up today! Here are some ideas to get you started.
More is more. Relationships are at an all-time high. At first glance it may not seem to matter, but it does. Your Facebook friends are your connections. The more Facebook friends you have, the more connections you are exposed to – thus the more opportunities. If you are managing your own business or are thinking of starting one, you may want to consider taking advantage of the endless possibilities that Facebook offers.
Facebook friends may not only be that; they can also be your future contacts or investors, or customers. It is a business tool that’s both cost-effective (it’s free!) and relatively convenient. Launch your companies, create jobs for people, introduce new industries, make a world of difference, the list just goes on and on. Now how good does that sound?
Facebook friends go beyond the word “friend”. We don’t mean just because you have the name of someone on your friend’s list does not mean that he or she is someone you are really close to. Some of them are just friends of your friends or someone you met casually at some place you probably have forgotten about already. The word here is “connection”. You connect with anyone and everyone in the World Wide Web. But at any rate, you may never know when that connection will come in handy someday.
Photos make you. It is never debatable to say that the photo application of Facebook is by far one of the most popular applications on the said social networking website. It is always recommended to show your own picture on Facebook. The whole point of social networking websites is to socialize, not to hide. People might think that you are concealing yourself and your identity by putting photos that are not exactly relevant to you (or that’s not you, simply put). It is also a good idea to change your photos and by changing we mean updating them or adding to them from time to time. Updating them gives the impression that you are dynamic and you like to move forward.
Facebook, surprisingly, can accomplish as much as your Rolodex can do. Sometimes, business executives won’t have time to communicate through phone calls and emails, but with the advent of Facebook, they found themselves making more room and time in their schedule to check their accounts. A message sent through Facebook provides a more refreshing change from the stiff business emails business executives get all the time. Take advantage of this and you might make more business deals than you normally do the traditional way.
Update your status, people care. Another tool made available in Facebook is the status of the account user. The status lets people in on your feelings and the current status of your life. This is mostly useful in terms of expressing yourself; but is also helpful for other people to know you more. Once again, use good judgment. Make it a point to express yourself simply and without much detail. It is possible to express yourself without losing your privacy.
Relationships are currency, so they say. There’s nothing wrong with thinking along these lines as long as one continues to be responsible and honest with his dealings with other men and women. Use it to build good and honest relationships, whether platonic, romantic, or business-related. Beyond the idea of not having a social network being ‘uncool’, it all boils down to being able to keep up with technology. Anyway, the whole point of technology is to make people’s lives better and more meaningful.
