From the category archives:
Jean Compton deals in folk art, Americana, and antique rags dolls and toys, and she needed a website that would show off the items she finds.
For each item, she wanted to be able to show a few views, along with a description. We worked with her to create a design and color palette for the [...]
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For Allegheny Chesapeake Physical Therapy, we wanted to create a site that could expand with their practice — no small challenge, given their 12 locations, wide range of services, and variety of client tools and content.
We created their redesigned site using the Joomla open source content management system. Their web team can update all content [...]
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EMC2 Nutrition has a great product: protein powder they’ve specially created to provide clients with high-quality protein, using all-natural ingredients.
To sell it, they wanted a website that would explain what the product is, why it’s better than competing products, and how to use it in a healthy diet — all in a fun and friendly [...]
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Some years back, we designed a site for The Atrium, a unique wedding and banquet center in Butler, PA. That site served them well for a few years. Last year they decided they wanted to make greater use of the web in their marketing — blogs, more photo galleries, and so on.
We worked with them [...]
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Sherrie Flick is a writer and a co-founder of the wonderful Gist Street Reading Series. Her first novel, Reconsidering Happiness, will be published this year. In preparation for marketing that book, she needed a website — one that would showcase her published works and promote her other endeavors.
We felt a blog would be a good [...]
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I’ve known Susan Courtad for several years, ever since she enrolled in Fat Plum’s Book Boot Camps to get feedback and guidance on the novel she’d been working on. She’s a smart and funny writer (and a fabulous person), so when she started blogging last year I wasn’t surprised to find she’s a smart and [...]
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Last week we launched the website of Christy Rippel, a talented copywriter and PR specialist.
This was a fun site to build — and not only because Christy is a fun person to work with. The visual look was intended to reflect Christy’s friendly personality, but still convey her professionalism. She suggested a slightly retro look, [...]
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One of the first websites I built, way back in the early days of this millennium and long before I started Big Big Design, was the website of the Gist Street Reading Series. This reading series in Pittsburgh features emerging local and national writers; it’s fun and informal, and I have been excited to be [...]
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My friend and fellow Pittsburgh blogger Mike Woycheck has launched WearPittsburgh, an online store that sells t-shirts with a Pittsburgh theme. These aren’t the typical black-and-gold fare — they focus on local knowledge and humor. The tagline, for example, is “Locally Designed. Locally Inclined.”
We were excited to help with this project. We designed a template [...]
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The Center for Injury Research and Control (CIRCL) at the University of Pittsburgh came to us to redesign their website. They wanted the new site to be more in keeping with the visual look of other Pitt websites, and to be easier for them to update and manage.
Pitt’s Web group provides a template that departments [...]
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