Tuesday Evening Concert Series

November 12, 2006

The Tuesday Evening Concert series takes place 6 - 8 Tuesday's per year. Karen came to BA21 looking for a change to the current static website.

The new website features a bold new design. The word 'evening' in the title of the series, brings to mind the night time. So we decided to look for a photograph of Cabell Hall, the location of the Concert Series, at night. We found one on our favorite photographer service, Flickr.

After asking for permission to use the photo, we carefully placed it first in the footer, and then in the header of the site. Together with a pair of clef marks, and a refined gradient background, we feel the site reader really works.

The entire site is easy to manage using Textpattern. Karen regularly makes changes to all sections of the website.

Hosted by Textdrive
Managed with Textpattern
Quicktime VR Tour of Cabell Hall
Site Search

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Country Dogs

http://country-dogs.net/

Launched: June 6, 2006

BA21 has recently launched our latest redesign of Country Dogs. This is version 3 of the website.

From the new homepage: When you go on vacation, send your dog to camp!

Welcome to Country Dogs, All-Season Boarding Camp. We provide a door-to-door pickup and delivery service to DC/NoVA and NYC/CT. We have served over 175 customers with over 400 boardings in 2 locations since July 2004 (DC/NoVA).

About the Redesign

Enhanced navigation / information architecture
New marketing message: targeting New York customers and small dog owners
Enhanced photo gallery of both the New York and the DC facilities
Email list subscription form on homepage -- Campaign Monitor
Web analytics by Mint

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Buffalo2Step Photography

http://buffalo2step.com/

Launched: May 26, 2006

Here are some of the tools techniques used for the new site:

Textpattern blog and CMS web-based site editor. Bill is already blogging!
SlideshowPro for professional gallery presentation—much of the stock features, except the album selector was turned on by default and the gallery was resized. SSPAdmin (which has been surpassed by Director) was used to publish and edit the Flash gallery easily through a php/mysql web-based interface, much like Textpattern.
Mint to follow visits and referrals, as well as search terms and trends.
Fresh design by BA21—2 column layout, simple gradients and fades keep design fresh and focused on the text and photo content of the site. Let the colors of the photos speak over the dark grays of the gradient. This was a natural transition redesign from version 1 of the site.

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C'ville Bike & Tri

http://cvillebike.com/

What a raging success this site has been. Let me just say that Craig and the good folks at Extreme Sports (now C'ville Bike & Tri) are the nicest people to work with.

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