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iDeas 12-19-2010

Introducing Santa Bot!
 
You read it correctly in the subject line, iDesign has come through this year again with a game for you to waste some precious office time seeing if you can beat the high score. Hey, that's what holidays are for, right??
 
Check out Santa Bot and see for yourself.

 
The Year in Review
 
Thanks to everyone on our mail list for helping make 2010 a great year. We launched many sites this year, made lots of other marketing materials and interactive work, and enjoyed every minute of it! We are looking forward to a fantastic start to 2011.
 
iDesign will be closed from this Thursday afternoon until January 3rd. We hope you have a safe and wonderful holiday and look forward to working together next year.
 
 
 
 

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Your Online Presence: It’s either making money or losing money. Nothing in between.

Post by Garrett R. Davis on 02/20/2012
ItÂ’s a very common expression in web design, your site is either making money or losing money, and nothing in between. We say it all the time, but letÂ’s explore that further. Why is that the case??

Making Money

There are many ways a great site is making you money. The easiest is tangibly through e-commerce. You have to have a well coded, great user experience store, and a great product, and you could be making money hand over fist online. You canÂ’t just build it and they will come though. There needs to be a solid marketing plan in place around the site, a good business model, and something that people want and need.

Well, IÂ’m professional services you say, so it doesnÂ’t apply? Not so, professional service firms, you are making money with a great site as well. First off, lead generation. 99% of you service firms are making money with ... Read More.

Special features: Director commentary

Project: Challenge Entertainment
Designer: Bryce
Designer's Notes
This site is for a company that does bar trivia. They already had the cool black and red logo, and wanted a site design that was very fun, to entice owners of bars owners to open up trivia nights at their establishments. I implemented just about every bar/trivia cliche I could think of in the design. From the pencil to the bar napkin, matchbook & coasters to the background with the penants and dartboards. It was a lot of fun arranging and creating these elements. Ultimately, the client was very pleased.