Web Design - Business Interface Engineering

My most recent project was pro bono (free) work I did for a friend to help him in his career search.

Two positive aspects of the result were the header and the push for a more professional look. Now I'm gonna give my current boss some props ... in our small discussions about sites with a white background versus sites with a colored bg, the white bg in the content area proved a plus. With a simple small site such as this one and a learning experience from previous sites (white text on dark backgrounds and I watched the project dissappear into oblivion), I made a different choice.

The other aspect was the header background graphic - a mistake that turned out better. When doing the background graphic for the header I was going for a simple gradient. In my Photoshop file, I made the image 1 pixel two wide and when I saw the result, it looked better. It added something to it, not sure quite what it was; but it just looked better.

The client liked it and the Google analytics on the site's first day were better than expected. Some of those stats may have been carryover from last night's tweeks, so this next week will tell more. But I can share with the client areas of interest. He had a targeted location where this site was to be primarily viewed from, and although those results didn't show, he made it out of Texas.

The improvement on this project was that I learned I need to get to a design quiker. Although I did work in more of a development process (put the content in and worked the design around the content instead of the other way around), too much time went into finding the right design. I stopeed looking at dozens of templates at one time and just continued to build the site then come back and upgrade the design features to more attractive design.

Here's the remaining pages. All the content, including images within the content, was supplied by the client.

Look Ma! Let's put it on the fridge! Websites - Freako Suave

This job came to me during the process of building my portfolio website, so the both of them became a learning experience. The creativity of this site was motiviating, but also frustrating. In the end - I think it became a litle too flashy even for a musicians site.

This site was also released in 2005, but I think only lasted until 2007. The client played on his own and with this band. The updates didn't get posted too often and the site died. Was it because of the site? This is one of those questions I ask for all the projects that fail. I guess if I didn't care, I wouldn't enjoy working in this field, but I did care.

I had worked on another design for this site which was a little more outside the box, and becuase the client was looking for something different and possibly had hopes of self-maintenance on the site, the web design was toned down. But here are the screenshots:

Look Ma! Let's put it on the fridge! Websites - BHCreative

The first live website I created was my portfolio website. While I created the logo bad in the design of the website, I created the website based of another site I saw which was simple.

I released this site in 2005. By 2008 it was losing it's flare. I was ready fir an overhaul. I wanted to do a Flash website, and haven't yet. I didn't like the address - it was too long. www.bhcreativemediadesign.com. This link no longer works. I let the domain name expire and I am planning to launch my next portfolio site from a new name on a server that allows a little more.

This site was hosted off FreeServers.com. I was satisfied with the service, but I was looking to move my site to ASP, which I didn't have the capabilities for with that site.

I think I'd have to lean more towards some lighter colors and a better, cleaner, look and feel on the next release. Instead of relasing something out there sooner, and being less satisfied with th results, I hope to build something I like, then release it.

Here are some of the other pages from that site: