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BEN is a great gallery of good looking email newsletters and guessed who’s just had a submission approved!? — Yes me!
The first of our new look email newsletters for Armitage Online was added to the gallery recently. You can have a look and rate it by clicking here.
Be sure to have a browse around the great BEN site and check out some of the other emails you can view.
So here’s the new site, look at it all kind of splendid. I’ve been playing around with it for ages, various designs and iterations and choices and to put it simply I just can’t seem to decide on anything anymore! Sometimes I open it up and think hey I like this, and others I think no it’s no good I should redo it all!
But I wanted to get a place up and running for me to get blogging and also get a few more portfolio items showing beyond the old holding page that has been around for a while and so here is.
My Great Design Experiment
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Yes they’re a dirty little web trick but clearing breaks can come in quite handy in these troublesome cross browser issue ridden days.
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Already an existing Armitage Online client Dreamcatcher were seeking a redesign for their website. They had strong ideas as to what they wanted with a big focus on a large splash screen type image.
The main aim of the site was to easily showcase the dresses and ranges on offer at Dreamcatcher.
The site was mocked up in Fireworks and then put together using CSS and XHTML. It features JavaScript lightboxes and carousel scripts to allow better utilisation of space a simpiler layout.
http://www.dreamcatcherbridal.co.uk
Fellinis Ambleside is a vegeteranean restaurant and independent cinema based in Ambleside in the Lake District. The owners run Zeffirellis cinema and restaurant who’s site Armitage Online had built.
We were asked to put together a site with a look and feel more appropriate to the new Fellinis restaurant whilst also offering integration with the Zeffirellis website to enable management of cinema listings across the two websites easily.
Zeffirellis had been built on ExpressionEngine and Fellinis was integrated using the multi site manager system.
The website design drew inspiration from the already existing menu and logo and the newly decorated Fellinis restaurant, giving a more mature classical style that was a better fit for Fellinis.
The site also has an introductory flash animation showcasing various images from the restaurant and cinema.
http://www.fellinisambleside.com