All The Good Stuff


All The Good Stuff is a former client from the nearby Gun Lake area. Unfortunately, the store had to close, which brought the end of the website along with it.

I particularly liked the vibrant coloring of this site. It was very rich looking–much like the amazing fudge that was sold in the store! The full shopping cart enabled visitors to choose their product selections and checkout using a credit card through the third-party credit card processing site,
Paypal. Paypal has always been a safe and inexpensive option for small businesses and I recommend it highly.

Sharon comments, “Wow! Thanks Kim. I went to a site called [removed] because I thought they had the ultimate basket site – not anymore! You are doing a great job for me. I really love the corporate image and all that purple and gold is really impressive.”

Sharon, the owner, also maintained a blog on this site. Since her in-store customers were fairly seasonal, she was able to keep them updated during the winter months about the new products in her store, as well as continuing to sell them fudge and other goodies through her online store.

We also utilized a sub-contracted photographer (Kris Foote) to shoot pictures of Sharon’s wonderful products. The results of this collaboration turned out nicely.

Testimonial:

I would like to highly recommend Kim Smith with Dramatic Design for the construction of your wonderful web site. Kim took me under her wing after a long year of trying to get my web site up and running. Everything that could go wrong went wrong with the original web designer I used. I had Kim’s business card in my file and decided to give her a call. We met. She understood exactly what I was looking for. When I told her I wanted a corporate appeal to the website, that is exactly what I got. Kim never gets frustrated with my indecision (that I know of anyway). I probably drive her crazy but she is understanding and compassionate and as long as I pay for these changes at her very reasonable rate, we get along fine. She knows how to take your ideas and put them in a simple format that makes the site very easy to use. Please feel confident in using Kim’s services. She is highly skilled and I have appreciated her helping me through this process.

Thanks Kim, Sharon for All the Good Stuff.

P.R. Builders

Located in Hastings, Michigan, Paul and his team of builders are in the constuction and remodeling business.

The P.R. Builders website was built with a large, non-scrolling, non-repeating background, with the foreground being a semi-transparent base for the content of the site. The content scrolled, while the background (the house) remained still.

The photo gallery shown in this screenshot shows thumbnails of P.R. Builders’ work. What you can’t see in the screenshot is the dynamic slideshow that opens when you click on any of the thumbnails. It was a very nice effect.

This site also had a News blog, so the company could easily update viewers on projects, as well as advertise properties that were available to rent or purchase.

Testimonial:

I think that home page looks great! I think it goes along with a nice clean look. Not to fancy or anything but pretty simple and straight forward. Keep up the good work.

Exciting month!

It’s been a fun and exciting month for Dramatic Design. Lots of fun, new projects in the works. Wendy emailed, “I just have to tell you I am doing the happy dance. I was just contacted by a lady who saw my website, YEP you read that right, website (that YOU made), and asked for information about TAC and might be interested in signing up with TAC. WAHOO!!!!!! Look at all your hard work working for little old me. I thought you might like to hear about this. I will have to let you know what becomes of it.” This happened within only a week of posting “real” content on her site, which was a real encouragement for her.

I have been working with a couple of new clients on their blogs (web logs, in case you’re not familiar with the term). Lois has been blogging for a while, but has just taken a couple of big steps–her own domain and private hosting. She has purchased the domain SoCloseToReal.com (formerly “Ruminations of a Headless Horse[wo]man” hosted at the Blogger free hosting). We found a perfect picture to use on her blog. Special thanks to Dave Shields at Devilgas Photographic for the use of his artwork! Jeanette is a brand new blogger, but is very excited about keeping an online journal. We decorated her blog with yellow roses–one of her favorite things. Much of the site is still under construction.

Jenni also has some great new drawings posted. Be sure to check her What’s New blog to read all about the Featured Print for January.