I came across an amazing Flash-based website that pays tribute to the quest for the ultimate cheese burger.  Cheese & Burger is a website that does nothing but dish up 30, yes THIRTY, different recipes for cheese burgers.  We are talking using a variety of beef, a tons of different types of cheeses, different types of buns, and condiments to boot.  This site has some great and quirky voice-overs, a terrific interactive flip-type booklet format and is just plan fun to engage.. || Continue Reading →

Kelli Schonher makes maps.  Geographic Information Systems (GIS) maps to be precise.  While her website, GEObispo wasn’t in need of a fix, she felt that the bare-bones template she was using didn’t really have the character and polish that she wanted. So she recently hired Design 7 Studio to give her online presence a good-sized overhaul, not only in the look but in the content. The result was a big improvement and one that really helps detail what she does.  Hand-coded.. || Continue Reading →

Break out the Elvis wig, the pimp glasses, and your best Rat-Pack getup! The annual fundraiser known as Midsummer Magic is back and it will be quite a party. Midsummer Magic is the annual platform to raise money for the Paso Robles Library Foundation. As part of a sponsorship arrangement, Design 7 Studio was put to the challenge of coming up with this year’s event logo, website and the rest of the materials from posters and refrigerator magnets, to t-shirts and print.. || Continue Reading →

Design 7 Studio just put the finishing touches on a project that was in the works over the holiday. The Cambria Historical Society, led by client Susan McDonald, approached Design 7 Studio to take on the task of redesigning the organizations website back in the Fall of 2009. The project launched and went live on the servers on January 28, 2010. It was decided in the beginning that the website needed an antique, vintage look to help promote the Society’s purpose of presenting.. || Continue Reading →

I stumbled across this website that basically helps place medical personal into remote areas like Nepal, Namibia, and Tanzania. For such a humanitarian organization, Gap Medics method they chose to present the information in the form of a website is fresh, inventive, and unique. With the use of washed out colors, and sort of vintage duo-tone look, and obscure typography throughout, the site has a very innovative approach to its design. http://www.gapmedics.co.uk/

There is a now common web-term referred to the “page fold”. This is the line on a web-page where the typical browser window cuts off the content at the bottom. When designing elements or content that you want to be prominent to the viewer, it is referred to as desiring it to be “above the page fold”. What is funny is that we are a people that have come to ignore the page fold. We are so used to scrolling that it has become second nature. We scroll through.. || Continue Reading →

One of the latest projects to come off of the docket over at Design 7 Studio, the Trumpet Vine Catering Website project was recently launched in mid-December. Jennie Sturgeon over at Trumpet Vine contacted Design 7 Studio after being referred by the good folks at Zenaida Cellars (a client) back in the early Fall, desiring a major upgrade in the look of her (then) current website. Tailoring her catering business to high-end events and weddings, her new site needed a fresh, ornate,.. || Continue Reading →

It has been a long time since a movement, an collaborative effort, or “packaged” pitch has not only caught my attention, but made me really take notice and so passionately want to spread the word about. I am referring to a rather new Web site that has been launched called I Am Second. The purpose of the Web site and group behind it is to solely proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, but utilizing the video testimonies from a wide range of celebrities, all who have.. || Continue Reading →

Leave it to our 44th president, Barrack Obama to appeal even further with the nation and in particular, the Milennial generation. For as soon as he was sworn into office, the White House not only switched the name plaque on the Oval Office, but switched on its all new, redesigned Web site for the White House. This website rocks!  Not only does it flex a clean look, but it has a really nice, well-organized structure to it.  On it for just a moment and I got sucked into reading.. || Continue Reading →