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Proactive Solutions UK

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Buck Design Ltd. wanted a single page website developed for their new client, Proactive Solutions. This single page website would act as an online business card which would just contain the contact details about the company.

The Challenge

Overall the project was a simple single paged static site but the design team had a particular specification about the design. They wanted the blue abstract box in the design to be exactly at a certain distance from the logo when the page loads and they wanted it to touch the right edge of the browser at all time.

The Solution

The design of the webpage was made for a particular resolution. But web pages can be viewed in a variety of screen resolutions. Now if the screen resolution of the computer was higher than the one designed for, then obviously the abstract blue box would move away from the logo as it needed to be attached to the right edge of the browser.

After discussing it with the design team, we came to the conclusion that the first impression of the site should be such that, the box is at that much distance from the logo as it was in the design. The only possible way to achieve this was to reset the browser window to a size which would bring the blue abstract box closer to the logo. This fulfilled their first demand of the blue abstract box being near the logo when the user first opens the site. If the user increases the web browser’s size, the blue abstract box is always attached to the right edge of the browser which satisfies their second demand.

Tags: CSS, PSD to xHTML/CSS
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J Guevara Novels

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Joe Guevara is an author who wanted a clean yet classy site. His main requirement was to display his featured novels, poetry books and also a blog to discuss his writings or just blog about his thoughts and future ventures.

The Challenge

To keep a site classy and yet attractive to make it stand up from all the other author sites out there on the web. It had to be a content management system so that the author can easily update his existing novels, the upcoming ones and poetry books. The other goal was to revolve the site around marketing the novels in a proper way to boost the sales up. Joe was about to launch his new book The Twain Shall Meet Again and hence the deadline of the launch of the book, along with the site, was very short.

The Solution

We planned out the whole concept of the site and broke it down into four major modules as per Joe’s requirements. These modules consisted of the landing page, the novels specific section, a blog section and the about the author section.

The main page would give an overview of the whole site to the user, as in, display the latest blog posts, the coming soon novels and specifically stress on the released novels along with the portals where they are sold. The novels page would contain a list of the novels, details about them, related reviews and the links where the user can go to buy them. Each novel would have a detailed page dedicated solely to it. The blog page would contain the blog posts and other related news stressing primarily on the social networking of the author and passing the information on to other networking sites. The whole content management system was customized to properly handle the novels and the related minute details.

Tags: PSD to Wordpress, PSD to xHTML/CSS, Wordpress
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O’ Brien and Carr Website

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

O’ Brien and Carr website is a clean professional brochure website which also consists of a PHP based gallery. BuckDesign Studios wanted their design to be transformed into a fully working website which would load pretty fast and would be user friendly when it came to uploading images in the gallery. We achieved the target with loads of time to spare and a very satisfied client.

Tags: CSS, PSD to xHTML/CSS
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