LarryWilliams.biz
Another great project that has been wrapped up recently includes the new LarryWilliams.biz website. This is the fifth full design project that Larry has contracted us to do and as in the past, working with him has been a very rewarding experience. I always look forward to working with Larry because he comes up with some rather unique and out-of-the-box creative ideas to incorporate into his websites. This particular project was originally based on another design that a mutual friend had implemented with his site. But while the concept is basically the same, the end results are that he now has a visually unique site that sets it apart from the competition.
The project really started coming together though with the professional assistance of Paulina Leyba at The Image Gallery. She did an amazing job with shooting as well as editing a number of poses and backgrounds with Larry. She then also provided the inside shot of an open magazine which was edited a bit further to accommodate the page content. The combination of excellent studio work with expert Photoshop skills resulted in strong material used as the foundation for the actual site design work!
Once the foundation was laid, a design layout was created and forwarded to Larry for his approval. After some minor changes with text position and font styles, we quickly came to an agreement on the finalized layout. Once this stage of the process was reached, it was a simple matter of creating an image map in XHTML and CSS that allowed navigation to the other pages on the mini-site as well as to the other sites belonging to Larry. It was also suggested to Larry that text links of all the image map links be placed at the bottom of the site for better search engine optimization.
With the “cover page” now completed, the rest of the site came together with ease as Larry provided much of the page content. We did do some graphic design for the interior of the “magazine” by creating an ad-like contact banner located on each page. In all, the actually web development project took less than two weeks from start to finish, when the site was put live as well as being promoted on Facebook.
Another point of interest with this design was the inclusion of a customized YouTube video that was reformatted to better fit the layout of the pages. This in turn filled in one of the pages rather nicely, complimenting the rest of the design!
You may visit Larry’s newest site at: LarryWilliams.biz
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