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Portfolio
These are just a small sampling of the websites that we have developed.
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Important Note: The screenshots below will show you the designs as they were originally intended.
The actual website link under "Go there", if accompanied by an asterisk (*), means that the
client requested changes (to photographs, fonts, or colors) that were not recommended, or that they have made changes on their
own that may not reflect our original work.
Site: DareToEngage.com
Description: The DareToEngage Leadership Programs are designed to help leaders create the results they desire at work and at home.
Creative Direction: The client wanted an energetic design that was bold, engaging, and would inspire visitors to learn more about their products and services.
Features: This site was transformed from a non-engaging "brochure site" into an interesting, fully interactive, and fun website. It features several "Tools of Engagement",
including a "Dare Check" quiz that tallies up and scores visitors' responses to see how ready they are to make changes in their lives. They are given a custom response depending on their score, and
the results are emailed to the site owner. It also features a public Q&A script that asks visitors what being a hero means to them. The site owner can moderate submissions and decide whether to
post, edit or delete their responses. The site also has an opt-in newsletter and autoresponder that delivers a free report and a 7-step audio coaching program to visitors who supply their name and email address so
the site owner can build and maintain a list of current clients and potential prospects. There is also an Audio Acrobat greeting message, randomly rotating testimonials, a weblog with RSS feed,
questionnaires for potential coaching clients to fill out, and a content management system so the client can maintain her own website.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "You are TRULY the
best and I'm so grateful for your flexibility, style and talent!" - Anese Cavanaugh
Go there: www.daretoengage.com
Site: Durham Legal Services U.K. Limited
Description: Durham Legal Services is the largest independent agency in the United Kingdom that specializes in Child Support Act Legislation. DLS provides a viable alternative to working with the Child Support Agency.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a professional makeover and better organization of existing content, including clearly stating the numerous types of services they provide.
Features: This site's design now makes it crystal clear who Durham Legal Services can help, how they deliver results, and why a visitor should
choose them. The site includes an auto-rotating block near the top that swaps out important content and different photos.
The content has been re-organized with a drop down menu for navigation so visitors can quickly find what they are looking for, a printer friendly page link on the bottom of every page, and
a searchable Frequently Asked Questions database.
Involvement: Designed, hosted, and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "We think the design is fantastic --we love the colours and the logo. Since your involvement we get so many
positive comments about the site and we know its professionalism has encouraged people to use our service. We thought you might like to know that we have
now had a chance now to assess the impact of the work you have done and the good news is that currently we have a 57% pick up on
voucher sales. This is over and above the huge increase in business already facilitated by the work that you have done, Candi. Big thanks!" - Mike Smith
Go there: www.childsupportadvice.co.uk
Site: Guitar Ideas
Description: Guitar Ideas sells an assortment wall mounts for guitars, mandolins, and other stringed instruments.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a super clean, fast-loading website to supplement his business on Ebay. Having a real website in addition to his Ebay store has more than doubled his business. We worked very closely with Guitar Ideas to get the most advertising bang for his buck to draw in even more customers.
Features: This site features a full-featured e-commerce shopping cart with categories, subcategories, discounts, coupons, featured items, new items, bestsellers, real-time shipping, real-time payment processing through the Authorize.net gateway, and many other features. This shopping cart is very easy to use-- a 90 minute training session over the phone and he was adding, removing, and editing products with ease. This site also features a Guitar Gallery so that customers can send in photos of their guitars hanging on the mounts.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Wow, what a design! I am very much in love with it. I was so happy my website was up! It is a personal victory
for me. Candi was there for me all the way. She came highly recommended.
She acted as my personal consultant and I loved it. She was funny and
always kind. If I was to do it again I'd do it the same way. My website is
the best website ever. I have her to thank for sorting out all the things
it takes to get that many ideas onto to paper and onto the computer.
Great job. Thank you!" - Kirk Rogers
Go there: www.guitarideas.net
Site: American Association of Dental Consultants, Inc.
Description: AADC's goal is to connect dentists and others involved in dental benefits to identify and promote best practices and to advance education.
Creative Direction: The client was looking for a more dynamic, membership-oriented website that was easier to navigate than their old one.
Features: This site features an entirely membership-driven backend database that allows members to join online, pay their annual dues, create and edit their own business profiles, and allow the site administrator to approve members. Once approved,
they can search for other members, send internal private messages to each other, and converse with each other on a fully integrated bulletin board system. The site administrator can also use the built-in newsletter
to send out updates and broadcast messages to all of the members.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Thanks Candi! The new website is leaps and bounds better than the old one! It is SO much more user friendly!" - Michelle Jacobi
Testimonial: "I must say again - you have done a wonderful job. The membership is just going to flip. Well done!" - Tom Limoli, Jr.
Go there: www.aadc.org
Site: ShortRunShirts.com
Description: Short Run T-Shirts offers custom printed tee shirts in unlimited colors with no minimums and zero setup fees.
Creative Direction: We wanted something colorful, upbeat, easy to use, and super friendly.
Features: This site features easy to understand pricing tables, frequently asked questions, a gallery of custom t-shirts, an order upload form to send artwork,
and a "request a callback" form.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: Short Run Shirts and No Hassle Hosting & Design are both owned by me.
Go there: www.shortrunshirts.com
Site: Heartland Harps
Description: Heartland Harps & Music is the collaboration of Dave Woodworth, master harpbuilder, and his wife, harpist Pamela Bruner.
Creative Direction: The client wanted to take their website to the next level with a professional, beautiful website redesign.
Features: This site features all of the fine handcrafted Celtic harp models offered by Heartland Harps, including high-resolution photographs, online catalog, harp features, accessories, and pricing.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Well done!!! It's really a
beautiful site and very easy to use. Every time I wanted something
for navigation (top of page, etc), it was already there. We're both
really excited by it. So thanks very much for doing it!" - Dave Woodworth
"WOW!! It looks fantastic!" - Pamela Bruner
Go there: www.heartlandharps.com
Site: Sprywear.com
Description: Sprywear sells extraordinarily cute and sporty tee shirts to active women.
Creative Direction: The client wanted something fun and quirky, using the same colors her tee shirts are printed on.
Features: This site features a full-featured e-commerce shopping cart with categories, featured items, new items, discounts, coupons, real-time shipping, real-time payment processing through the Authorize.net gateway, internal client mailing list, QuickBooks export, and many other features.
Involvement: Designed, hosted and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Wow! I can hardly believe how great the site turned out! I really had only vague ideas for the design I wanted and gave Candi creative freedom with just a few mandates; clean and uncluttered but fun, easy to navigate, and simple enough for a novice like me to work with. She met all my requirements, and then some! Even since launching the site she has been there to assist and answer questions that have come up. She has a level of competency rarely found, coupled with her outstanding service that has made this normally stressful venture quite enjoyable while allowing me the freedom to focus on other issues." - Tami McManes
Go there: www.sprywear.com
Site: Mid-West Spring Technical Meeting
Description: The Mid-West Spring Technical Meeting is an educational meeting for dental laboratory owners, managers and technicians held in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Creative Direction: The client wanted something very colorful and eye-popping to "jazz up" more of the technical aspects of the site.
Features: This site features the entire program covering every aspect of the Spring Meeting, including the schedule of events, technical clinics, speaker list complete with photos, frequently asked questions, banner advertising, floating testimonials and a downloadable PDF registration forms.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Just wanted to say thank you for getting us out of the dark ages, and for all the hard and lovely work on the beautiful new site!" - Pat O'Brien
Testimonial: "You are terrific! Thanks for getting the new, updated site up and running in such a timely fashion! No-Hassle gives excellent service and provides ideas for improvements to our site. They are thorough and know how to make us look good." - Judy Salisbury
Go there: www.mwstm.com
Site: Spoilers Direct, Operated by Aftermarket Unlimited, Inc.
Description: Spoilers Direct sells top quality aftermarket car spoilers.
Creative Direction: The client wanted an easy-to-navigate, professional website that would appeal to his target audience, and the client also favored the color crimson red.
Features: From a design aspect, this site features a simple but effective logo, and high-quality photos of newer cars from the rear angle to showcase the spoilers.
The shopping cart allows the end user to "Browse by Make", then select a model, and then select a year to identify the correct spoiler
for their car. They can then choose to have their spoiler either unpainted or add a factory paint option. If they choose factory painting, they are shown where and how to find the paint code on their particular car, and enter that paint code in the cart. The shopping cart also features bestsellers, new items, current specials, featured items, speedy checkout or account signup, real-time credit card processing, coupons, discounts, and an integrated customer newsletter. The cart is easy enough to use that the client can maintain the site himself without knowing any HTML or programming.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "You nailed it!!! My partners and I are very pleased with your work! This is by far the BEST thing I have ever done for my business!" - Jim Vineyard
Note: This client followed our advice for advertising and within two months of launching the website, it was generating over $10,000 per month in sales.
Due to some diligent marketing efforts, his profits have quadrupled from that original number less than a year later.
Go there: www.aftermarket-unlimited.com/shop
Site: IngridTimbs.com
Description: Clutter relief specialist and professional organizer Ingrid Timbs is passionate about helping people get organized.
Creative Direction: The client wanted an uncluttered website design that was fresh and clean, and she particularly liked 'spa' colors.
Features: This site features organizing services and workshops, before & after photos, and opt-in newsletter with an autoresponder that sends the visitor Free Tips.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "I absolutely love it- it's perfect!" - Ingrid Timbs
Go there: www.ingridtimbs.com
Site: VoteJoeBarbetta.com
Description: Joe Barbetta is running for a seat on the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners.
Creative Direction: The client wanted something more polished than the typical canned political websites.
Features: This site features a clean, official-looking design that is perfect for any political candidate. We have boldly used red, white and blue to symbolize patriotism without being
over-the-top or cheesy. The content contains all of the information relevant to his political campaign; an introductory statement, a biography, an issue finder, campaign news & events with newsletter, campaign contribution forms, a candidate petition form, and local voting information.
Involvement: Designed, hosted and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "The response has been fantastic! Great job." - Joe Barbetta
Testimonial: "I like the site a lot....very clean, concise and easy to click around...well done!" - Athene Grant, Campaign Director
Testimonial: "Candi, as always, you're a pro! I'm so glad we went with you for the
website, the service is wonderful." - John Dowd
Go there: www.votejoebarbetta.com
Site: PamelaBrunerMusic.com
Description: An award-winning harpist and vocalist, Pamela performs across the country, winning fans with her expressive vocals; mastery of the Celtic harp; and warm, genuine style.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a website that was calm and soothing, much like the Celtic harp she plays.
Features: This site features an introduction to Pamela's music, calendar of concerts and worshops, and an opt-in newsletter so fans will be notified of new CDs, books, and workshops.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "I'm thrilled with the look and feel of my website! Candi provided so
many helpful ideas, and had so much knowledge of how things could be
accomplished. She assisted me in creating a look that I wanted, even
when I wasn't clear about it myself at the beginning. She was honest
with me about what she thought would work, given her wealth of web
experience, and still supportive of other directions that I would
sometimes request. The end result is everything that I wanted, and
more. It was an easy, enjoyable process to get this website
designed and running - so much so that I'm already planning for her
to re-design my other business website!" - Pamela Bruner
Go there: www.pamelabrunermusic.com
Site: MindBalancing.co.uk
Description: The quick and easy way to benefit from relaxation and meditation, developed by clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Reinhard Kowalski.
Creative Direction: The client wanted to project balance, simplicity, and harmony.
Features: This site features information on therapy services offered by Reinhard Kowalski, including the MindBalancing Meditation Programme with free sample tracks and a sample chapter out of the meditation guidebook.
Backend lead generatiion and management software asks for visitors name and email address before they can download the free track.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "It looks great! Thanks for all your help." - Reinhard Kowalski
Go there: www.mind-balancing.co.uk
Site: FAOLO.org
Description: The Florida Association of Occupational Licensing Officials, Inc. is a professional association meeting the needs of municipal and county licensing officials in Florida.
Creative Direction: The client wanted something professional but friendly that would make people want to join the organization, as well as an easy way to manage those memberships online.
Features: This site features backend membership management software that allows members to join online, create their own business profiles, and allow the site administrator to approve the profiles. It also has a fully integrated bulletin board system where members from each chapter can talk about issues. The site administrator can also use the built-in newsletter to send out updates and broadcast messages to all of the members.
Involvement: Designed and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Thanks so much Candi for being flexible to work with. Nice job." - Ed Hoefert, President
Go there: www.faolo.org *
Site: Creating Powerfully
Description: Life Coach Pamela Bruner helps you live the life you love.
Creative Direction: The client wanted the same design on this as her music website (featured above), but with a positive, upbeat, encouraging website with a "you can do it" spirit and attitude.
Features: This site features an introduction to Pamela, her workshops, inspiring stories, an opt-in newsletter with autoresponder capabilities, and a free quiz which asks the visitor "Is Life Coaching Right for You?"
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "It was an easy, enjoyable process to get this website
designed and running - so much so that I'm already planning for her
to re-design my other business website!" - Pamela Bruner
Go there: www.creatingpowerfully.com
Site: Stitch On Needlework Shop
Description: Stitch On sells an assortment of fabric, packs, patterns, and other notions for sewing.
Creative Direction: The client wanted to an online store to compliment their brick and mortar store in downtown Lawrence. They also wanted to add and edit products on their own.
Features: This site features a full-featured e-commerce shopping cart with categories, subcategories, discounts, coupons, featured items, new items, bestsellers, and many other features. They preferred to process transactions manually using their own in-store credit card machine rather than automating it online.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
More: The client has not yet finished adding all products to the cart-- the shopping cart may be disabled until they are finished.
Go there: www.stitchon.com/shop *
Site: JadwinLandConnection.com
Description: A small real estate company in Missouri offering land, ranches, and farms for sale in the Ozark, Missouri area.
Creative Direction: The clients wanted a user-friendly website that would increase credibility; encourage potential customers
to contact them by phone or email; and to look up additional information and photographs on real estate for sale.
Features: This site features extended real estate listings with a "print this page" and "request more information" icon, which will ask for the visitor's
name, email address and phone number. The script will then email Jadwin so they can contact the visitor
with additional information. The site also has several helpful mortgage calculators installed, such as: mortgage payment calculator,
How much do I have to earn to afford my house?, How much can I borrow?, Should I pay discount points?, How much will my tax
deduction be? and several others.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "The site looks great! Everybody loves the design you came up with. Thank you so much!" - Kim Jadwin
Go there: www.jadwinlandconnection.com
Site: Homeopathy Resource UK
Description: Homeopathy Resource allows UK residents to obtain homeopathic treatment online.
Creative Direction: The client wanted something using warm, earthy colors that felt professional yet not formal.
Features: This site features information about homeopathy in the form of articles and top tips, both of which
are pulled in to the main page and rotate to keep the content fresh and engaging. Random testimonials are also displayed in the right hand column.
Interested parties can book and pay for
email, telephone, or face-to-face consulations from the website. The site first asks users to fill out a pre-consultation
questionnaire and then redirects them to the payment form. Users can also take a "Should I Try Homeopathy?" Quiz which will show customized responses based on their answers.
Involvement: Designed, hosted, and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Great job! The site is just as you suggested - soothing, highly professional and attractive and looks as if it will be a pleasant read instead of just promoting myself and a service.
It is so much more professional than anything I could have
envisaged. So thank you. You have really taken things up a level - it reminds me of reading a women's health magazine,
which is great market assessment on your part. The whole image takes homeopathy out of the category of "some weird little fringe
medicine practised by earnest people who eat lentils and hug trees" and puts it into a bigger market. What is really clever and skilful
on your part is that I can now see how people visiting this site (who were perhaps just browsing) could in fact find themselves persuaded to try homeopathy on the spur of the moment!" - Linda Lloyd
Go there: www.homeopathyresource.com
Site: Happy Go Baby
Description: Happy Go Baby sells boutique fashions and high-end gear for babies and toddlers.
Creative Direction: The client had very specific requirements for her website, such as user friendliness, ease of use, and most importantly, a high quality design that did not resemble any of the other cookie cutter web designs out there.
Features: This site features a full-featured e-commerce shopping cart with categories, subcategories, discounts, coupons, featured items, new items, bestsellers, real-time shipping, real-time payment processing through the Authorize.net gateway, and many other features.
Involvement: Designed by No Hassle Hosting.
Go there: This site is currently inactive.
Site: Venice High School Alumni Association
Description: Alumni website for Venice, Florida.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a website where alumni could register, post profiles, and communicate with each other.
Features: From a design aspect, this site had to primarily use the school colors, which are green and white. We used existing photos from a former VHS yearbook to create the header, as well as a map of the Venice neighborhood where the high school resides.
The features of the website include a database and script that allow alumni to register and create a profile to be approved by the administrator. The script has advanced search and sorting features: search by name, maiden name, graduating year, gender, location, etc. Users can also email each other with an internal mailing system, and the database is tied in with a discussion board as well. The site has a content management system so that committee members can easily update the pages.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Go there: www.vhsalumni.net
Site: Rotary Futures Program
Description: The Rotary Futures Program provides post-secondary education assistance to students and their parents.
Creative Direction: The client had a drab all-green website before, and wanted something brighter that would appeal to the internet-savvy students that it helps, and was badly in need of consistent navigation and clear organization.
Features: This vibrant, multi-color design is exactly the infusion of energy the program wanted. Their outdated logo was revamped so it did not drag the design down, yet still features the arrow that they wanted to keep. The website itself features a clearly organized listing of services that it provides, as well as an event calendar, an article manager to post helpful hints to college applicants, a frequently asked questions page, a site-wide search utility, and a photo album. A content management system
allows them to maintain the website themselves.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Thank you so much for your patience and hard work! I really like the new
design and feel it really shows what RFP is all about." - Debi Hammett
Go there: www.rotaryfutures.org
Site: Free State Family
Description: Free State Family's primary purpose is to inform, entertain, and connect
parents in Lawrence, Kansas.
Creative Direction: The client wanted the site to reflect that parents are thinking, active,
interesting people who want to talk about things besides pre-schools and
diaper rash. She wanted a colorful website that felt homey, yet sassy.
Features: The website features several weblogs from local parents, articles on everything from movie reviews to books, an Out & About section which features local family-friendly events, Meet the Parents parent profiles, recipes, community links, and a "marketplace" where local artisans can sell their wares. The entire website is constructed under an intermediate-level content management system so the client can maintain her own website.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Thanks for all your good work on the site. I think it looks professional and is very user-friendly." - Eric W.
Testimonial: "The mockups look good. You know there's always this fear that you'll absolutely
hate them, and that's definitely not the case!" - Liz W.
Go there: www.freestatefamily.com *
Site: Guard Flags & Gifts
Description: Guard Flag Sales offers all sorts of yard decor-- flags, banners, windsocks, windchimes, spinners, etc.
Creative Direction: The client has had a brick and mortar store in downtown Topeka, Kansas for over 50 years, and has decided to expand his store to the internet. As such, the site had to reflect the type of products they offer-- bold, bright, and extremely colorful.
Features: This site features a full-featured e-commerce shopping cart with categories, featured items, new items, discounts, coupons, real-time shipping, real-time payment processing through the Authorize.net gateway, internal client mailing list, QuickBooks export, and many other features.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Go there: www.guardflagsandgifts.com
Site: JazzMando.com
Description: JazzMando seeks to promote the mandolin as a sonorous apparatus and legitimate voice in the jazz genre.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a more professional look, yet wanted it to be quite colorful and full of personality. He also wanted an easy content management system to perform updates himself.
Features: From a design aspect, this site features a subtle Flash header with an actual photo of one of his mandolins, and three-level drop down menu to handle the numerous sections and subsections on the site. The content features exercises, techniques, tone concepts, recordings, and articles on jazz theory, as well as spotlights new release artist recordings, new builders, and reviews of various instruments.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Sheesh, this is just amazing. Bullseye!!! Nice work, Candi. You've managed to capture an "edge"
but put me in a whole different plane of "professional and polish." You turned my "High School Yearbook" look from my previous site into a
world-class, professional site. I always felt I had the content, just not the organization. Now I continue to get
compliments on JazzMando.com; I credit NoHassleHosting for truly making me look better than I am! The CMS is working great for me, by the way! It has just
enough versatility to be expressive, but limited enough to get me up and running without a huge learning curve." - Ted Eschliman
Go there: www.jazzmando.com
Site: Weekends Away
Description: Weekends Away offers unique, personalized travel gift sets presented in their signature suitcases.
Creative Direction: The client wanted to bring her website to the next level with a beautiful, professional design that captured the essence of their beautiful gift suitcases. She felt the previous design was lackluster, and also had an issue with potential customers not understanding what it was that they were selling. She wanted a redesign for clarity so she could convert visits into sales.
Features: This site features a classic, clean, and contemporary corporate style, complete with the soothing colors one associates with the spa/travel industry. The navigation is simple yet elegant, and the large photograph allows the visitors to see in great detail what is included within the gift suitcases. The three boxes to the right of the photographs very clearly explain how they can customize their suitcase in three easy steps. Under
the photographs, I created an effective way to explain "what's included" and "how it works".
Involvement: Designed and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Candi, thank you for helping to position our company for fast growth on the
Internet. You were prompt, fast, and professional." - Leah Allen
Go there: www.weekendsaway.com
Site: Weekends Away Valentine's Day Landing Page
Description: Weekends Away offers unique, personalized travel gift sets presented in their signature suitcases. This particular suitcase features a "romantic escape" perfect for Valentine's Day.
Creative Direction: The client wanted the same design modified with Valentine's Day colors and the romantic suitcase to serve as a "landing page" for her Valentine's Day advertising.
Involvement: Designed and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Go there: www.weekendsaway.com/valentine
Site: Dowd, Whittaker & Associates, Certified Public Accountants
Description: Dowd, Whittaker & Associates is a full-service accounting firm based in Venice, Florida.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a professional makeover and better organization of existing content. They also wanted to add the full range of their services, as well as make the site more friendly and fun. Client wanted to avoid appearing as if they were a regular, "staunchy" accounting firm.
Features: Instead of using the standard blue for accounting sites, we made the site pop with an orange and
grayscale design. The site's front page clearly outlines the services provided, why a visitor should
choose them over other accounting firms, and the tagline "Knowledgeable. Responsive. Friendly." boldly proclaims their strengths.
The firm also hired professional photographers and a copywriter to assist with the new site.
Involvement: Designed, hosted, and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "For the record, I'm very pleased with the overall appearance and general
style of the content. I'm really happy with Candi, she's a pro and very prompt. Returns calls, has good ideas, etc." - John Dowd
Design Changes: Client requested the stock photos to be replaced.
Go there: www.dowdwhittaker.com *
Site: iCube Ltd.
Description: iCube is a specialist consultancy offering transport, planning and design services for the urban-built environment in the United Kingdom.
Creative Direction: The client wanted an understated, attractive website that was simple to use above all else.
Features: The website features a simple, clean design that showcases iCube's projects, clients, and the services that they offer. The client can maintain the entire website easily through a browser-based content management system.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "The design has a good clean feel, we
think the mix of blue and green works well and the buttons/icons are particularly effective." - Jeremy Lloyd
Go there: www.icube.ltd.uk
Site: In Commemoration of Burke O'Brien
Description: Burke O'Brien was a young man who was murdered in New York and his case remains unsolved. His family wanted a website to honor his life's work and share information in the hopes of finding the killer.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a vibrant, warm, loving design to honor his son.
Features: This site features information about the unsolved case, including the police sketch, reward, his
memorial fund, and various wilderness programs that Burke supported. It also includes a weblog for the family to easily post news articles, stories, comments, and new developments in the case. The photo
gallery script enables the family
to easily upload photographs of Burke without any photo editing knowledge-- the script automatically resizes images and generates thumbnails.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting. The site features a content management system that allows the family to edit the pages and all of their content via a web-browser without any HTML or FTP knowledge.
Testimonial: "Awesome, awesome, awesome!!! We have received nothing but positive feedback on this site!" - Mark O'Brien
Go there: www.burkeobrien.org
Site: Acoustic Art Productions
Description: Acoustic Art Productions is developing a network for the production, presentation and propagation of acoustic music in the North Texas region.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a friendly, folksy site representative of the type of music they promote.
Features: This is a simple site featuring information on the company, the artists that have been promoted, and upcoming events.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "I absolutely LOVE IT! In the words of the Hawaii 50 guys: BOOK'EM DANO! I
really like the softer more rootsy look about it. Thanks." - Dr. Brian Hull
Go there: www.acousticartproductions.com
Site: Quantum North
Description: Quantum North specializes in biofeedback and homeopathic therapies.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a colorful site that was would enable users to
understand the complex nature of treatment presented in layman's terms, with color-corresponding links in a chakra column.
Features: This site features information on a wide range of programs and homeopathic therapies offered and enables users to schedule appointments and request home visits.
Screenshot: The screenshot is the original design concept; the site itself has been changed per the client's request.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "It doesn't matter where you are in the world, No Hassle Hosting
can provide a full and tailored service that more than meets the customer's expectations. Candi's keen
understanding of design and customer personality has ensured that my new website is stunning,
appropriate to my work, and incorporates some of my own ideas. From a few thousand miles away,
she was able to give me quick service (the website was live within 2 weeks), excellent design
ideas and very friendly advice - by email. The whole process was painless, fun and exciting!" - Rasma Bertz, Aberdeen, Scotland
Go there: www.quantumnorth.com
Site: Planet Redhead
Description: Planet Redhead is a dating site for redheads and those who prefer redheads.
Features: This site is a fully automated dating website where users can post and edit their own profiles, upload photos, upgrade their membership to have access to paid features (such as messaging other users), and search for other users by any criteria. The site ties in with PayPal as the payment processor.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Go there: www.planetredhead.com
Site: Byamom.com
Description: Byamom.com is a mom selling products intended to make life easier on other new mothers, such as bibs that will stay PUT.
Creative Direction: The client specified that the look she was going for was "elegant whimsy".
Features: This site was originally developed using soft pastels (first purple and green and then purple and pink), but the client chose a more monochromatic
purple scheme in the end. The logo and adorable stock photo of a mother with her baby clearly indicate what the site is about, and the whimsical
Flash animation header catches the visitor's eye and informs them in a fun way that Byamom.com is the home of the Patented Stay-Put Bib®.
The shopping cart allows the end user to browse by category (bibs, Gund accessories, gift sets, etc.). The shopping cart also features different pricing for wholesale providers and retail customers, bestsellers, new items,
current specials, featured items, speedy checkout or account signup, real-time credit card processing, coupons, discounts, and an integrated customer newsletter. The cart is easy enough to use that the client can maintain the site herself without knowing any HTML or
programming.
Involvement: Designed, hosted, and maintained by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "I love the colors now and the picture and you are right - I DO love the flash you did!!!!! Whether you are aware of it or not you are reading my mind and pulling ideas and colors out of it that I wasn't aware I had." - Paula Duhn
Go there: www.byamom.com *
Site: Bluett Brothers Violins
Description: Bluett Brothers specializes in hand-crafting stringed instruments.
Creative Direction: The client wanted a site that was classy and elegant, yet old-fashioned, like the instruments they build.
Features: This site features information and photos of custom violins, mandolins and guitars that Mark Bluett has lovingly created, as well as a testimonial script that randomly displays customer feedback.
Screenshot: The screenshot is the original design concept; the site itself has been changed per the client's request.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Mark & I love the site. You have done an incredible job and instead of it being painful
it was actually enjoyable!!!! I just wanted to let you know that this morning we sold a mandolin. The customer had done extensive research on the internet and was very impressed with our site, which led them to visit the shop and make a purchase! We can't thank you enough." - Karen Hook
Design Changes: Client requested the stock photos be replaced.
Go there: www.bluettbros-violins.com *
Site: Realm of Redheads
Description: Community membership site especially for redheads with over 2,000 members.
Features: This site features individual profiles and photos of over 2,000 redheads, photo galleries, password protected members area, interviews, book reviews, poetry forum, phpBB bulletin board, and a shopping cart selling specialty redhead tee shirts.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Go there: www.realmofredheads.com
Site: Acoustic Music by Linda & Dan
Description: Linda Thomas and Dan DeLancey are award-winning players who have performed together for over twenty years, gaining the attention of fans and reviewers worldwide. The duo has recorded twelve albums together.
Features: This website features an easy-to-use shopping cart selling CDs, instructional books and videos, a soundbooth to sample songs in MP3 format, photo album, and tour calendar.
Involvement: Designed, maintained and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "We've gotten MANY compliments on our new site design and business has been good...we are really glad we found you!!!" - Linda Thomas
Design Changes: Client requested the stock photo replaced.
Go there: www.lindadan.com *
Site: Project STAY
Description: Project STAY is a multi-disciplinary team that provides assistance to schools and families in Northeast Kansas struggling with children exhibiting challenging behaviors.
Creative Direction: This project was not so much
about having a spectacular design, but an accessible one. It was also important to them to be able to maintain the website themselves.
Features: The challenge
was to redesign the site so that it was both AAA Bobby Approved and 508 Bobby
Approved. The State of
Kansas has issued Web Accessibility Requirements that the site must pass. There
are currently two primary sets of guidelines/standards for developing accessible
web content. The first is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0),
developed by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Access Initiative (WAI); the
second is the Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards
developed by The Access Board as required by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act Amendments of 1998. That includes dozens of objectives, such as making sure documents are
organized so they are readable without an associated stylesheet, providing a
text-only version of the same content, setting up access keys for
easy navigation without a mouse, and many more features that are designed to
assist people that may be using adaptive technologies such as screen readers or
text based browsers, have their browser graphics turned off, or may not be able
to use, or have access to a mouse or keyboard. The Project Stay website also
features a content management system so that they can update and maintain the
website themselves with an easy-browser based editor, as well as a
groupware script with many collaborative features-- it allows all team members within the organization to add
events to a group calendar or keep their own events private, address book, internal email client, private messaging system, and private
message board.
Involvement: Designed and hosted by No Hassle Hosting.
Testimonial: "Our team of consultants was needing an easy, manageable system to maintain our website, and No Hassle Hosting did just that. In a very short time, Candi Best was able to put together a new, and much more manageable system for us to use, which is critical for the work we do in the public schools. Our information needs to be frequently updated and easily assessible to the entire education community of Kansas, and within a very short time, Candi created a system for us that is much more manageable and user-friendly, just as she promised. Candi was in frequent contact with us, throughout the duration of the project, and responded positively and immediately to all of our questions and concerns. We would highly recommend Candi to anyone in the field, and we plan to continue using her for other projects, as well. Thanks!!!" - Kim Harrison
Go there: www.projectstay.com
Site: Mandolin Cafe
Description: A site dedicated to mandolin players.
Creative Direction: This project was challenging in the sense that the client had very specific ideas of what he wanted. Among the restrictions-- the predominant colors needed to remain yellow and white, the title font was to remain the same, and he wanted to continue using a three-column design.
Screenshot: The screenshot is the original design concept; the site itself has been changed per the client's request.
Involvement: Designed by No Hassle Hosting.
Go there: www.mandolincafe.com *
Proposed Designs Not Online
Here are a few screen captures of websites we have designed that you cannot currently view online. If you really like one of these designs and might want to use
it for yourself, please contact us. It may be for sale, and we can customize it to your tastes!
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