The most interesting part about this whole, very inspiring, and delicious-looking website?  It is a campaign by the Wisconsin Cheese Advisory Board.  Talk about a great way to sell cheese!  Now I have to run and fire up my grill and wipe the drool from my mouth.

Yum!

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 with nothing but XHTML and CSS, her new site will really help put her on the map in the map-making business (excuse the lame pun.)

Below is a before and after and you can visit the final site at www.geobispo.com

Before

After

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 advertising.

The end result utilizes an illustrative touch, a vintage color palette, and a clean site that just shouts “Vegas” baby!

Check out the live site.

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 the rich, local history of the quaint coastal town of Cambria, California. The site need to breath antiquity. From the color palette used, to the wealth of old photographs available, the website really helps visitors take a trip down memory lane into Cambria’s past.

But the site doesn’t use antiquated means. A Flash-driven photo gallery, jQuery-enhanced forms, and a custom Google Map that provided a virtual walking tour help round-out the visitor’s overall experience.

View the site

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/

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 lengthy emails when a friend or family-member has forwarded a forwarded email that was forwarded by 100 other people just so we can get to the content that was forwarded. We scroll our handhelds, our iPods, our iPhones, and our trackpads.

So what’s the big deal anyway? The fact that people are so concerned with the “page-fold” of a website is ridiculous if you ask me. It is a WEB-PAGE. It’s okay if it is a quarter-mile long. That is what gives it certain benefits over the confines of paper.

So what a joy it was to come across There Is No Page-Fold. A website that simply exists to poke fun of people’s aversion to having to scroll and those that preach the page-fold.

Tailoring her catering business to high-end events and weddings, her new site needed a fresh, ornate, and prestine look to it.  While still desiring a main color palette of green and orange to stick to her existing brand-colors, the end result was met with great reviews and applause.  The blog portion of the site was built using WordPress so that Jennie could update that portion of her site herself.

Another satisfied client… Bon Appetite!

View the new site

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 different stories to share about how they came to discover the truth of Jesus and accept Him as their savior. There is a few hours worth of material to watch if you so desire, all through 3 -5 minute snippets for which for each person you could watch further videos, read more about their testimonies, etc.

The video is of extremely high-quality both in cinemetography and editing. The Web site has a slick interface, loads fast, and is engaging and makes you want to prolong your visit.

But the best part is that it truly pitches the truths of the the Bible and a relationship with Jesus, but through a collection of life-stories, of various industries, of various races, of various backgrounds.

Whether you are a believer or not, a skeptic or a seeker, agnostic or atheist – this site is worth visiting. What do you have to lose?… but then again, that is the whole point.

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 about the history of the White House, John Adams, and other particulars about government that I normally would have passed over.

This really helps further communicate why President Obama has the country really relating to him and he to them.  He gets this generation and used new media and a online presence that today’s generation can relate to and want to follow.

I am not sure who was responsible for designing the site, but they did a great job.  And the server is fast.  If you have ever been to a city’s official website, you will encounter a slow, mediocre speed Web site.  I guess it pays to have the CIA’s servers to back your site up, huh?