Chelsea and I recently designed and developed Vintage or Instagram, a cute little game that tests your ability to distinguish between photos actually taken in the 70′s and 80′s and those altered by the Instagram app to appear vintage. The gameplay mechanics (switching between photos, evaluating answers, keeping track of scores) is done with Javascript and jQuery. We decided to use WordPress to manage the photographs and other content.
Summary: Custom WordPress website design, identity, and collateral for Ethelind Coblin Architect, a Manhattan-based firm specializing in residential architecture and interior design including lobbies, apartments, and country homes. The firm asked us to design a website that functioned equally-well in browsers and on mobile devices, so we had to design a flexible and fluid layout that would adapt to changing screen sizes and resolutions. [Visit site]
Summary: Custom WordPress website design and collateral for Recycle-A-Bike (RAB), a Providence-based organization that connects people with refurbished bikes, provides practical bike knowledge, and advocates bicycle use by safer, more confident cyclists. After a decade operating as a volunteer co-op, RAB needed us to develop and maintain a consistent brand as the organization transitioned into an official non-profit. [Visit site]
Choosing the right URL is a very important decision to make for any new internet venture: not only will it be the first chance you have to present yourself to a new user, but it will also have a deeper effect in shaping your presence on the web both in terms of reputation and your SEO results. Choosing a URL is compounded by textual challenges, limited inventory, and confusion about extensions.
It seems as though every time we begin designing a new WordPress theme, we quickly have to make typographical and layout decisions that promote good screen readability. These decisions can be very broad and influenced by other layout factors (such as text column width), but quickly work their way down to the minutiae of text color, size, and leading (line height). All these choices work together to influence the site’s readability.
