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New Website Launch | Adrhi.com

2008-10-10T19:06:00.003-04:00

We recently launched the re-design of the #1 ranked website on Google for "Hawaii Real Estate". Brian Joseph Studios was hired to completely re-design the site, and with our creative professionals we were able to design a highly functional, yet user friendly website.

The use of white space is important to us here at Brian Joseph Studios, and we do not subscribe to the way old and out dated web design companies try to fill in every inch of space on a website page. Our design for the new Adrhi.com is extremely clean and highly optimized, and the results of this can be seen if you search "Hawaii Real Estate" on Google.

The website has many powerful tools on it, including the ability to create an account, save favorite properties, save searches and much more. The interactive Google map feature will be available soon when the programming for that has been completed.

Another high quality website produced by Brian Joseph Studios topping Google for a highly competitive search term. Another example like this proves that we are the leading web development and creative design studio in Southwest Florida.

Website Launch | Sun Palace Vacations

2008-10-10T18:32:00.003-04:00

Another new site that we launched during the summer months is Sun Palace Vacations. We also created their logo design, business card, lawn signs and car magnet for their new identity and the client is delighted with how their new brand and online image has now helped them to grow tremendously in the past few months.

The new website features a fully enhanced content management system and blog platform controlled by the client, and is optimized to the highest level of SEO to ensure that the site performs well in all major search engines.

Sun Palace Vacations are a leading Fort Myers Beach Vacation & Condo Rentals company, providing a high level of customer service and great rates.

The new website also encourages past clients to leave testimonials on the site, and the online booking form makes it easy to organize your stay on Fort Myers Beach. Brian Joseph Studios highly recommends Sun Palace Vacations if you are ever looking for a wonderful family vacation rental on Fort Myers Beach.

Website Launch | Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce

2008-09-07T01:42:00.002-04:00

Another news post, another new site launched by Brian Joseph Studios! The Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce contracted us to give them a new, and innovative online presence and marketing tool, and we are proud to announce the launch of the website, FortMyersBeach.org.

We discussed some of the features in a previous post, and we are always adding more as the weeks go by. The new site also gives the Chamber a great opportunity to increase their revenue by a significant amount through online advertising.

So far, one week after launch, the website has been a huge success. My company and I were recently asked to be the guest speakers at a Chamber luncheon, and it was this event that we initially unveiled the new site to members in attendance.

The Fort Myers Beach Observer wrote a nice article about my presentation and that has also helped to give an early increase in the number of visitors the site receives.

Check out the new Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce website here!

Website Launch | Ocean Blue Education

2008-08-22T08:21:00.005-04:00

Here at Brian Joseph Studios, we have had an extremely busy summer. We launched several new websites, a few logos, were guest speakers at a Chamber of Commerce event, and we added a new programmer and a new graphic artist to our team.

So, here is a bit of info on one our recent website launches. The site is Ocean Blue Education and they provide excellent marine science adventures to various destinattions around the world. Their programs are educational yet extremely fun for the students, and all participants have the ability to acquire their scuba diving certification while on board with Ocean Blue Education.

The new website contains a few interesting features. They are:

Latest News and Photos management tool. (can bee seen on their "blog"
page. Using this tool, they can upload photos and information while out
on the water, making it possible for the students' parents to view some
images of the trip.)

- Full CSS-based design and code (this makes the website programming extremely easy to manage and maintain. It also gives the website a high level of optimization so that is performs better on search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. (oh yeah, and who could forget cuil.com!

So far, the new Ocean Blue Education website has proved to be a very useful tool for the company, and for their sailing/marine science programs. The blog/latest news tool was utilized well during their recent summer trip to the Bahamas, and many students and parents communicated on the site. Great to see a client using tools like this to their full potential!

Do you like this website and would like something similar for your own company, products or services? Feel free to drop us a note here and we can get rolling on your project!

Brian Joseph Studios : In The Press

2008-07-28T16:14:00.005-04:00

Here at Brian Joseph Studios we are coming up on an event filled few months. We will be launching 5 new websites in the month of August, along with a few new logos.

FortMyersBeach.org - New Website Due To Launch!
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One of the main events coming up is the Fort Myers Beach Chamber website launch, as featured in the Augsut 2008 Gulf Shore Business Magazine. I am quoted as saying that the new FortMyersBeach.org will feature "advertising opportunities and a stunning design, and it will be extremely user-friendly". This quote only touches on some of the features and tools that the new Chamber website will have.

Each member will have the opportunity to have an online account where they can manage their membership information, and business listing and profile information. In addition, each member will be able to fully customize their own profile page where they are encouraged to display any specials, offers, discounts, company news etc.

This new feature will give the members the opportunity to promote themselves much more effectively through the website.

The new website will also have a high level of search engine optimization carried out, and one of the main focuses of the website is to attract an even higher number of visitors each year.

I will create a post about the new site once it is launched. Also, in the coming weeks, we will be posting information on the other 4 websites we are launching in August, along with some of the logos in production.

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Client Focus | All Save Energy Solutions | Green Websites

2008-06-19T15:31:00.002-04:00

This week's client focus features one of our international clients, "All Save Energy Solutions" located in Ireland.

Here in America, we are only slowly starting to embrace the green in our lives, but in Ireland, this has been a standard in daily lives for many, many years. A small example of this, is that Irish households do not continually waste energy to keep water heated throughout the day. In Ireland, they have what are called "immersions", where water is heated when the immersion is turned on. This means that they only use energy needed to heat the water when they are actually going to use the heated water. One negative involved in this is that you have to turn the immersion on 30 minutes before you need the water. Most come equipped with a timer so that you can schedule that morning shower!

"All Save Energy Solutions", is a consultancy based firm located in Ireland. Since the BER legislation was passed, each house is now required to pass an energy rating. All Save Energy Solution provides certified professional BER rating assessors to rate your property and to provide energy saving solutions.

Brian Joseph Studios designed a striking logo and web design for All Save Energy Solutions in December 2007. In addition, a strong search engine optimization campaign was added to the strategy and since then, the website has enjoyed much success. All Save Energy Solutions now receives over 80% of all contracts from their website, and most of their website's traffic comes from search engines.

We look forward to growing the website for this client in the coming months, and we will also be meeting with them in Ireland in one weeks' time.

Does your web design company agree to meet with you often? Brian Joseph Studios regularly meets with our clients, whether they are in Fort Myers, or Dublin, Ireland!

Obama versus McCain - Web Design Wars

2008-06-09T20:10:00.003-04:00

Now that Barack Obama has won the Democratic vote for President, it seems like a good time to review both Presidential candidate's websites.

BarackObama.com and JohnMcCain.com

First off, here are the details of these sites:

BarackObama.com

Server Type: PWS/1.2.29 (Personal Web Server)
Width: 960 pixels
Code: CSS and PHP
Color Scheme: White, Shades of Blues, Grey
Design: Light feel, Use of Gradients, Modern, Crisp, Comfortable
Cross-Browser Compatible: Yes
Estimated US Visitors Per Month: 1,568,981
Valid HTML?: Failed validation, 8 Errors (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)

JohnMcCain.com

Server Type: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Width: 999 pixels
Code: Mostly Tables and ASP / ASP.net
Color Scheme: White, Shades of Blues, Grey
Design: Light feel, Use of Gradients, Modern, Crisp, Comfortable
Cross-Browser Compatible: Two notable IE6 problems on homepage
Estimated US Visitors Per Month: 350,340
Valid HTML?: Failed validation, 85 Errors (HTML 4.01 Transitional)

Screenshots from June 9th 2008

BarackObama.com is immediately a striking yet calming website, designed with organization and cleanliness in mind. The main website navigation is clearly defined and the overall usability of the website is excellent. The format of each page begins with a nice page heading graphic, well-designed and interesting. Each page is organized clearly, and a perfect amount of white space and padding is added to each section.

Features on BarackObama.com are:

User Accounts / MySpace style : Yes (My.BarackObama.com)
Newsletter Sign Up: Yes
Website Blog: Yes
TV Channel and Videos: Yes
Events Search Engine: Yes
Local Grassroots Group Area Search Engine: Yes
State Specific Pages: Yes
People Group Pages: Yes
Issues Pages: Yes
Downloadable Logos, Wallpapers, Print Materials, Buddy Icons etc. Yes
Social Networking Links: Yes
Register To Vote Link: Yes (off site)

JohnMcCain.com's design lacks real organization and a friendly user interface look and feel. The overall design looks contrived and forced together, without any flow or consistency evident throughout. The color scheme....well...there doesn't appear to be a standard organized color scheme at all with different colors, and tones all over the website; Prominent blues, orange/yellow, red, bright green, turquoise blue and dull blue/grey. Font sizes throughout the website differ, as well spacing and padding. An example of this is if you venture between the Campaign Calendar page and the Blog page. The difference in padding and margin at the top left is a terrible lack of real professionalism in user interface standards, especially for such an important website like this.

Features on JohnMcCain.com are

User Accounts / MySpace style : Yes (McCainSpace)
Newsletter Sign Up: Yes
Website Blog: Yes
TV Channel and Videos: Yes
Events Search Engine: No (only events calendar)
Local Grassroots Group Area Search Engine: No
State Specific Pages: Yes
People Group Pages:No
Issues Pages: Yes
Downloadable Logos, Wallpapers, Print Materials, Buddy Icons etc.No
Social Networking Links:No
Register To Vote Link: Yes (on site)

So, after studying both websites, it is clear which one is of a higher quality of web and graphic design standards. BarackObama.com is a modern, web 2.0 website, utilizing the latest in XHTML and CSS capabilities, along with capturing the interests of all ages.

JohnMcCain.com lacks a comfortable and appealing design, and is also extremely narrow in its reach. The only user that will enjoy JohnMcCain.com is a wealthy 70 year old man looking for some new golf gear (4th tab in dark blue in center of page)!

BarackObama.com seems to be reaching out to all ages, all ethnicities, all groups of society. His website has something for everybody, and it is interesting to note that this seems to tie in perfectly with his overall campaign promise; To unite everyone. His website certainly achieves that.

What do you think about the two websites? Do you think they achieve what they need to? Which one keeps you interested to click through to other pages and which one turns you away right off that bat?

Client Focus | Advanced Software Products Group

2008-05-12T14:11:00.002-04:00

In April, we started our bi-weekly "Client Focus" posting here on BrianJosephStudios.com.

Our first client focus was on Snook Bight Yacht Club & Marina. Click here to read this post

This week, we introduce you to a new client, Advanced Software Products Group, Inc. or ASPG.

ASPG has provided the z/OS & OS/390 Mainframe community with cutting edge software solutions, support and services since 1986. With a worldwide network of support, including active partnerships with IBM™ and Microsoft™, ASPG remains a leader in the optimization of data center performance. ASPG offers over 20 innovative software solutions for Data Security, Storage Management, Capacity Planning, System Management, Application Programming and CICS Productivity. MVS Encryption and Mainframe Encryption

ASPG contacted us to help them with their search engine marketing and search engine optimization efforts (SEO). We have completed the setup phase of our SEO services and we look forward to improving the website's search engine rankings in the coming months.

The next client focus will be on "At Your Service Homewatch and Concierge Service" in 2 weeks time.

Logo Composition (Part 3) - Proportions

2008-05-06T17:00:00.001-04:00

Last week we discussed "Symmetry" as Part 2 of our seven part series on Logo Design Composition.

This week:

Part 3: Proportions

The relative size of the elements

Differences in size between the individual elements are often used to create a contrast. However, you should pay attention to not force the smaller element into the background.

All elements combined should result in a harmonical image.

It is often helpful to use a grid. For example, an element's width in the logo could be used as the base of such a grid. To achieve a harmonical image, you could use half the width of the first element as the appropriate spacing from other objects or a scripture.

Another example is the logo's "safety clearance", or the space around a logo that should always be left blank. Considering a logo that consists of a figure part and a text part you could use the width of the figure part to define the safety clearance around the entire logo.

Take care when you design a logo with different proportions of the elements: The smaller part must be easily recognizable or legible also when the logo is used at a small size! Logos should still work down to a size of 2 cm

Next week: Part 4 : Combination

RSS Awareness Day - May 1st 2008

2008-05-01T12:26:00.002-04:00

Rssday.org are trying to build awareness of RSS technology and I am adding my support to the project. Many of us in the web design, graphic design and internet marketing business use RSS technology every day. It is important that our industries try to promote it and get it in front of all general internet users.

Q: What is RSS, and what are RSS feeds I keep hearing about?A. Wikipedia explains RSS feeds as:"RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts.[2] An RSS document (which is called a "feed" or "web feed"[3] or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.[3]RSS content can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader" or an "aggregator", which can be web-based or desktop-based. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.

The initials "RSS" are used to refer to the following formats:

Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.90) Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91). RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999,[4] the RSS icon ("") first gained widespread use in 2005/2006. "

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

One Week After 301 Re-directs

2008-04-27T23:56:00.002-04:00

One week ago, we made the official switch from Aurora Web Technology to Brian Joseph Studios.

Google came by awebtech.com a few times to find 301 re-directs on all pages of the website, leading the user to a corresponding page on BrianJosephStudios.com

After careful preparation for the switch, one week later, Googlebot is starting to figure it all out. At the time of tpying this post, brianjosephstudios.com is the number 1 result on Google for "Aurora Web Technology".

So, what does this mean? Well, it means that the Googlebot has figured out that not only has awebtech.com switched over to brianjosephstudios.com, but important words, names and phrases have also made the switch. The words "Aurora Web Technology" do not feature on BrianJosephStudios.com more than 3 or 4 times. So, evidence shows that Google now knows that old phrases that showed awebtech.com in a search results page, should now apply to brianjosephstudios.com

Googlebot hasn't fully figured this out yet though, as we are still not ranked number 2 and number 3 as we were for awebtech.com for our targeted keywords. We have seen an increase in our rankings however since the initial drop off when the switch first took place.

We will continue to monitor our rankings and the log files to make sure Googlebot understands exactly what is going on here and to get our site ranked number 1 again. I think we still are number one for several of our targeted keywords though. :)

So, as a potential client, these posts will hopefully show you that we have an expert knowledge of search engine marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), and we are SEO leaders in the Fort Myers, Naples, Estero and Bonita Springs areas.

Google Ranking - After our 301 redirects

2008-04-23T12:22:00.002-04:00

Well....the Big G (Google for those that are not internet nerds!), came by our old website, Awebtech.com, and found a whole bunch of 301 redirects all over the site sending users to our new website, BrianJosephStudios.com.

Awebtech.com has ranked firmly in the top 3 for all of our targetted keyword phrases, and we receive a large amount of traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN (Live).

So, for a while we had both websites up and finally we decided to make the full switch over to Brian Joseph Studios as our main company name. Here's where it gets messy!

On all pages on awebtech.com, we had to add a server side redirect to the corresponding pages on brianjosephstudios.com. For example, if we had a page : http://awebtech.com/web-design/ we had to add a redirect to a similar page on our new site...like this http://brianjosephstudios.com/web-design/ .

So, with every page on awebtech.com re-directing the user to brianjosephstudios.com, Google gets a little worried (temporarily) about both websites. This is due to the fact that spam websites, and black hat seo's will use re-directs of all kinds to spam the search engines, showing users something else.

301 re-directs are the correct way to transfer your site over to a new domain name. They are also widely acknowledged as the favored redirect method for all search engines.

The problem with it is though that Google knocks your new site down quite a bit for a short period of time, until it figures out what exactly is going on. So, right now, our website is not ranking as high as it did before all of this was implemented. However, we expect our rankings to come back within a week or two , and when they do, they will come back even stronger.

Website Launched - GoDartFrog.com

2008-04-22T16:51:00.003-04:00

Yet another logo design client / web design client.

We introduced this project when we finished the creation of the logo, business cards and tri fold brochures.

The overall identity of Dart Frog Powerboat Charters is unique, exciting and interesting. There are many boat charter and boat rental services in the market, but with this new logo and identity, Dart Frog really stands out from the crowd!

With the use of some flash animation, the website continues the unique brand of the company, and with a custom interactive map for users to read some local info on all of the areas serviced, the website is much more than a simple online brochure.

Visit the website here

Clients - Tips For Writing Design Briefs

2008-04-21T13:03:00.002-04:00

Over at DavidAirey.com, there was a guest article written by Sharon Hayes of Round Box Design.

10 tips for writing graphic design briefs

Realise that any designer you hire is a professional (or should be) and must be treated as such.

Understand that designers are not mind readers – that class is still under development.

Before coming to a graphic designer, have your business model ready and your plan up to par. No design can save any business that is not well thought out.

Number 3 will allow you to fully understand the goal of your business, the ideas you want to convey and who your target market is for any design.

Understand your product or service and be able to explain it clearly – this ties in with number 4. It definitely helps the designer if you clarify exactly what (if it’s a logo) the design will be developed for. Knowing this ahead of time can prevent any future misunderstandings, in-effective design or troublesome production.

Understand it wont be free. When people post on a design forum and expect a design service for free it is frustrating and (in my opinion) shows how little they think of the process.

Communicate with the designer – dont dictate. If you have questions or concerns, voice them, and return the favour of listening.

Don’t try to design for the designer – you hired them for their knowledge and talent. Let them utilise that to put your company in the best light possible. Of course the designer should also take your opinions into consideration, especially if it deals with an industry-specific issue. This is still very much communication on both sides.

For the designer: Do not assume you know the client industry! Each industry has its own specific requirements, quirks and expectations. LISTEN to the client, their concerns, what they want to play up, what they are truly selling and how they want to present themselves in the market. Ads that are pretty may win awards but they don’t always win marketshare.

Set expectations up-front: Both the client and designer need to let the other know what they expect as far as materials, deadlines and communication. Will you be meeting on a regular basis? Phone? Emails? How are you delivering materials? Are you going to be there for press proofs? How far will you follow the completion of the project. Make sure there are no surprises.

Website Launched - At Your Service SWFL

2008-04-20T20:32:00.005-04:00

Today, we launched another new website (yes, we know it is Sunday!). Another client that we had previously designed a logo for also, just like the site we launched on Friday for Victory Marketing Agency.

The client is "At Your Service", and they are providing a professional concierge and homewatch service for the Southwest Florida area.

The design and development process of both the logo design project and the web design project was enjoyable, and the client is delighted with the end results.

We received some kind and much appreciated comments from the client that can be read here

Website Launched - Victory Marketing Agency

2008-04-18T17:13:00.003-04:00

We started off by creating the logo for this client, and after an enjoyable development process, we were hired to design the website for them also.

Using some nice web 2.0 styles in the design, incorporating some relevant imagery to enhance the overall sense of what the company does, add to that a nice flash animation of the logo, and the site was done.

We also integrated our CMS system (Content Management System) that gives the client the ability to add/edit/delete any page on the website, upload pictures, etc.

In addition, the admin private section of the website also provides the client with a user friendly interface dispalying all contact and sign up forms submitted on the site, along with all information submitted. This tool will be of great benefit to the client when they start receiving hundreds of form submissions on the "Talent Sign Up" form.

You can visit the website here

Awebtech.com is now BrianJosephStudios.com!

2008-04-17T02:41:00.002-04:00

We finally made the official switch over to the new site (the one you are on right now reading this!)

After a year of rapid and exciting growth for our company, we have re-branded ourselves and along with that came a new domain name!

Awebtech.com has been performing in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions on Google, Yahoo and MSN for about a year now and when transferring over to our new domain, we had to be extremely careful with how we carried this out (to keep the search engines happy).

New pages were created here on BrianJosephStudios.com, some strong internal linking, an update to the sitemap file, almost 100 re-directs and we were ready to let our rankings slip away! (Well....for a short while anyways.) Why will our rankings fall? Well....anytime a big change like this happens to a website, the search engine bots get a little scared and decide to knock the site down a few pegs for a week or so. After they come by and get in for a deep crawl of the new website's files matched with the re-directs from the old website, the new website should be back up to where the old one was within about 2 weeks.

Sometimes, this temporary drop in rankings will not happen at all, and we would be pretty fortunate if we came out of this unscathed!

So, Aurora Web Technology is now Brian Joseph Studios! It's Official!

Sneak Peak - New Websites Almost Ready!

2008-04-16T00:40:00.000-04:00

Just a quick post this evening to give you a quick look at some of the websites we are about to launch for new clients.

1: Dart Frog Powerboat Charters

2: At Your Service - Concierge and Homewatch

3: Victory Marketing Agency

These new web designs include the following features:

- Custom Graphic Design

- Professional Stock Photography

- Customized Private Admin Section / CMS System (so the client can have total control of the website)

- Flash Programming (Short intros, header presentation and navigation)

- Full CSS layout for high quality, clean and organized code

- Browser Compatibility - our web designs are tested rigorously in all major browsers and browser versions. (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4+, Firefox 1+, Safari, Opera)

- SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - each page is uniquely optimized to make the overall websites perform extremely well on search engines and to rank highly.

- Online contact and registration forms.

- Website Statistics Package with client access to great pieces of information to review daily if desired. (Where website visitors came from, what site, what city, what keywords they typed into a Google search etc)

- The care and passion of Fort Myers Web Design and Naples Web Design leading designers and developers!

Logo Composition (Part 2) - Symmetry

2008-04-11T15:49:00.003-04:00

"Originally posted on BrianYerkes.com"

Last week we discussed "Format" as Part 1 of this 7 part series on Logo Design Composition.

Part 2: Symmetry

Humans perceive symmetry as harmonical. Visual things that are symmetrical provide a calming effect, and we recognize them more easily. Symmetry signalizes a form of stability. This is why we often use symmetry unconsciously in logo design.

Symmetry can be utilized in many kinds of ways:

Fourfold - that is, three times at angles of 90° - to create a symmetrical logo. You can also just mirror an element horizontally or vertically, so the elements occur twice.

Sometimes, symmetry is used to create an effect of reflection, e.g. the reflection on water or a shiny floor.

Next Week, Part 3 : Proportions

Logo Design Composition (Part 1) - Format

2008-04-11T15:45:00.001-04:00

"Originally posted on BrianYerkes.com

We start with Part 1 of this 7 part series on Logo Design Composition.

Each week I will write a small post for each part to help those of you unfamiliar with logo design composition and the overall importance of this logo design aspect in the creation and development process of an identity.

Logo Design Composition is the organization of the elements contained within the design, and how they are used in their surroundings. Each part of this series will deal with the following: Format, Symmetry, Proportions, Combination, Distortion, Colors, and Spacial Design.

Part 1 : Format

The fomat of the logo can provoke certain impressions and associations. As with most design work, there is a basic grid outlined for a logo, and from the original grid there are 3 standard formats that a logo can be formatted in.

1. Portrait
2. Landscape
3. Quadratic

The aspects that can determine which format you choose for your logo design depends on the intended use of the logo (print, online, interactive etc), and the area around the logo (the elements that interact with the design).

The format of a logo determines how the logo will be used in the various media. Often, the identity takes on two different forms depending on the medium it is published on. The logo is created in both a portrait format and a landscape format.

Next week, Part 2: Symmetry

10 CSS Web Design Resources

2008-04-07T23:29:00.003-04:00

Tables are like that annoying fly that won't leave the room. Many web developers are still coding their html using tables. When will the fly leave the room?!

CSS coded websites are high quality, professional websites.

Table Layout are low quality, unprofessional websites.

It's that simple.

There are many advantages to CSS based layouts for web design, and here are a few links that will detail this better.

http://www.basictips.com/tips/article_92.shtml

http://www.drostdesigns.com/top-12-benefits-of-using-css-for-web-pages/

The website's coded by BrianJosephStudios.com make it to the top of Google, Yahoo and MSN because we create high quality code. Clean, organized code.

Here are 10 CSS Web Design Resources to show you the beauty of CSS based design and some information on how CSS is implemented:

1:

CSS Beauty

2:

CSS Container

3:

CSS Drive

4:

CSS Import

5:

CSS Mania

6:

CSS Reboot

7:

CSS Vault

8:

Echo Echo

9:

HWG

10:

Best Web Gallery

Do you have any other favorites when looking for some CSS based design inspiration?
Let us know!

Business Card Design | Victory Marketing Agency

2008-04-03T16:57:00.003-04:00

Just a quick post to show you how easy a professionally designed business card can give you the confidence to hand it to everyone you meet!

It is vital in your network building that you are proud of your business card and that it stands out from the rest.

We just recently completed a business card design for a client of ours, Victory Marketing Agency, and we are very happy with the results.

Client Focus - Snook Bight Yacht Club and Marina

2008-04-02T11:07:00.003-04:00

Every 2 weeks we will be featuring a past client of ours right here on the Brian Joseph Studios blog. We will discuss a little about the client and outline the ways in which we have helped the client enjoy online and print marketing success.

This week, we feature Snook Bight Yacht Club and Marina, located in Fort Myers Beach, Florida.

We have had this client for over 3 years now, and have enjoyed a lot of growth together during that time.

The modern, upscale logo got them underway with a perfect identity that would allow for future business growth and diversity. Brian Joseph Studios began a to develop a strong online and in print brand for Snook Bight, with a high quality, interactive website launched in June 2006. http://www.snookbightmarina.com/

We were also repsonsible for their print marketing campaigns and below is a few examples that we designed:

The marina's growth from their advertising and from our designs can be seen in the level of increased revenue generated from tourist activity like boat rentals, rackominium purchases and service department clients.

The property is currently undergoing a $20 million facelift and some images can be seen here

Some videos that have been created promoting the new property can be seen below:

In addition, a recent television campaign received great response.

Rap Video About Website Design and Coding

2008-03-31T16:58:00.002-04:00

As I am reading thru all of my daily RSS feeds, blogs etc...I came across this video that I have not seen before.

Extremely entertaining just because it's a pretty cool way of talking about something so nerdy like web design and HTML coding! Haha!

If you can understand the lyrics, it is extremely helpful if you are someone looking to hire a web design company. The words in this rap will provide you with some good information about the elements of a website.

Logo Design Naples | At Your Service

2008-03-29T16:47:00.003-04:00

We have just completed a logo design project for a new client, "At Your Service". We enjoyed working with the client and we are all happy with the finished product.

The brief was as follows:

We'd like a logo that is modern and catchy, and gives the client a sense of strength and trustworthiness. Strong and bold.

This logo design project was slightly more challenging than a normal project, as we needed to incorporate a lot of text into the overall full logo design. After many sketches, we came up with a few concepts:

Our immediate favorite was the first one. It was modern, clean, and professional. The use of the bow tie imagery seemed to capture what the company is all about; Concierge and Homewatch Service.

The client chose the first one, and after a few revisions from them, we ended with a nice logo that gives the new company a strong, trustworthy identity.