We recently launched the re-design of the #1 ranked website on Google for "Hawaii Real Estate". Brian Joseph Studios was hired to completely re-design the site, and with our creative professionals we were able to design a highly functional, yet user friendly website.

The use of white space is important to us here at Brian Joseph Studios, and we do not subscribe to the way old and out dated web design companies try to fill in every inch of space on a website page. Our design for the new Adrhi.com is extremely clean and highly optimized, and the results of this can be seen if you search "Hawaii Real Estate" on Google.



The website has many powerful tools on it, including the ability to create an account, save favorite properties, save searches and much more. The interactive Google map feature will be available soon when the programming for that has been completed.



Another high quality website produced by Brian Joseph Studios topping Google for a highly competitive search term. Another example like this proves that we are the leading web development and creative design studio in Southwest Florida.

Labels: new clients, official launch, web design

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Another new site that we launched during the summer months is Sun Palace Vacations. We also created their logo design, business card, lawn signs and car magnet for their new identity and the client is delighted with how their new brand and online image has now helped them to grow tremendously in the past few months.



The new website features a fully enhanced content management system and blog platform controlled by the client, and is optimized to the highest level of SEO to ensure that the site performs well in all major search engines.



Sun Palace Vacations are a leading Fort Myers Beach Vacation & Condo Rentals company, providing a high level of customer service and great rates.





The new website also encourages past clients to leave testimonials on the site, and the online booking form makes it easy to organize your stay on Fort Myers Beach. Brian Joseph Studios highly recommends Sun Palace Vacations if you are ever looking for a wonderful family vacation rental on Fort Myers Beach.

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Another news post, another new site launched by Brian Joseph Studios! The Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce contracted us to give them a new, and innovative online presence and marketing tool, and we are proud to announce the launch of the website, FortMyersBeach.org.

We discussed some of the features in a previous post, and we are always adding more as the weeks go by. The new site also gives the Chamber a great opportunity to increase their revenue by a significant amount through online advertising.



So far, one week after launch, the website has been a huge success. My company and I were recently asked to be the guest speakers at a Chamber luncheon, and it was this event that we initially unveiled the new site to members in attendance.

The Fort Myers Beach Observer wrote a nice article about my presentation and that has also helped to give an early increase in the number of visitors the site receives.



Check out the new Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce website here!

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Here at Brian Joseph Studios, we have had an extremely busy summer. We launched several new websites, a few logos, were guest speakers at a Chamber of Commerce event, and we added a new programmer and a new graphic artist to our team.

So, here is a bit of info on one our recent website launches. The site is Ocean Blue Education and they provide excellent marine science adventures to various destinattions around the world. Their programs are educational yet extremely fun for the students, and all participants have the ability to acquire their scuba diving certification while on board with Ocean Blue Education.

The new website contains a few interesting features. They are:



Latest News and Photos management tool. (can bee seen on their "blog"
page. Using this tool, they can upload photos and information while out
on the water, making it possible for the students' parents to view some
images of the trip.)

- Full CSS-based design and code (this makes the website programming extremely easy to manage and maintain. It also gives the website a high level of optimization so that is performs better on search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. (oh yeah, and who could forget cuil.com!

So far, the new Ocean Blue Education website has proved to be a very useful tool for the company, and for their sailing/marine science programs. The blog/latest news tool was utilized well during their recent summer trip to the Bahamas, and many students and parents communicated on the site. Great to see a client using tools like this to their full potential!

Do you like this website and would like something similar for your own company, products or services? Feel free to drop us a note here and we can get rolling on your project!

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Here at Brian Joseph Studios we are coming up on an event filled few months. We will be launching 5 new websites in the month of August, along with a few new logos.

FortMyersBeach.org - New Website Due To Launch!
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One of the main events coming up is the Fort Myers Beach Chamber website launch, as featured in the Augsut 2008 Gulf Shore Business Magazine. I am quoted as saying that the new FortMyersBeach.org will feature "advertising opportunities and a stunning design, and it will be extremely user-friendly". This quote only touches on some of the features and tools that the new Chamber website will have.

Each member will have the opportunity to have an online account where they can manage their membership information, and business listing and profile information. In addition, each member will be able to fully customize their own profile page where they are encouraged to display any specials, offers, discounts, company news etc.

This new feature will give the members the opportunity to promote themselves much more effectively through the website.

The new website will also have a high level of search engine optimization carried out, and one of the main focuses of the website is to attract an even higher number of visitors each year.

I will create a post about the new site once it is launched. Also, in the coming weeks, we will be posting information on the other 4 websites we are launching in August, along with some of the logos in production.

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Labels: in the press, news

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This week's client focus features one of our international clients, "All Save Energy Solutions" located in Ireland.

Here in America, we are only slowly starting to embrace the green in our lives, but in Ireland, this has been a standard in daily lives for many, many years. A small example of this, is that Irish households do not continually waste energy to keep water heated throughout the day. In Ireland, they have what are called "immersions", where water is heated when the immersion is turned on. This means that they only use energy needed to heat the water when they are actually going to use the heated water. One negative involved in this is that you have to turn the immersion on 30 minutes before you need the water. Most come equipped with a timer so that you can schedule that morning shower!

"All Save Energy Solutions", is a consultancy based firm located in Ireland. Since the BER legislation was passed, each house is now required to pass an energy rating. All Save Energy Solution provides certified professional BER rating assessors to rate your property and to provide energy saving solutions.

Brian Joseph Studios designed a striking logo and web design for All Save Energy Solutions in December 2007. In addition, a strong search engine optimization campaign was added to the strategy and since then, the website has enjoyed much success. All Save Energy Solutions now receives over 80% of all contracts from their website, and most of their website's traffic comes from search engines.

We look forward to growing the website for this client in the coming months, and we will also be meeting with them in Ireland in one weeks' time.

Does your web design company agree to meet with you often? Brian Joseph Studios regularly meets with our clients, whether they are in Fort Myers, or Dublin, Ireland!

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Now that Barack Obama has won the Democratic vote for President, it seems like a good time to review both Presidential candidate's websites.

BarackObama.com and JohnMcCain.com

First off, here are the details of these sites:

BarackObama.com

• Server Type: PWS/1.2.29 (Personal Web Server)
• Width: 960 pixels
• Code: CSS and PHP
• Color Scheme: White, Shades of Blues, Grey
• Design: Light feel, Use of Gradients, Modern, Crisp, Comfortable
• Cross-Browser Compatible: Yes
• Estimated US Visitors Per Month: 1,568,981
• Valid HTML?: Failed validation, 8 Errors (XHTML 1.0 Transitional)

JohnMcCain.com

• Server Type: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
• Width: 999 pixels
• Code: Mostly Tables and ASP / ASP.net
• Color Scheme: White, Shades of Blues, Grey
• Design: Light feel, Use of Gradients, Modern, Crisp, Comfortable
• Cross-Browser Compatible: Two notable IE6 problems on homepage
• Estimated US Visitors Per Month: 350,340
• Valid HTML?: Failed validation, 85 Errors (HTML 4.01 Transitional)

Screenshots from June 9th 2008

BarackObama.com is immediately a striking yet calming website, designed with organization and cleanliness in mind. The main website navigation is clearly defined and the overall usability of the website is excellent. The format of each page begins with a nice page heading graphic, well-designed and interesting. Each page is organized clearly, and a perfect amount of white space and padding is added to each section.

Features on BarackObama.com are:

• User Accounts / MySpace style : Yes (My.BarackObama.com)
• Newsletter Sign Up: Yes
  
• Website Blog: Yes
• TV Channel and Videos: Yes
• Events Search Engine: Yes
• Local Grassroots Group Area Search Engine: Yes
• State Specific Pages: Yes
• People Group Pages: Yes
• Issues Pages: Yes
• Downloadable Logos, Wallpapers, Print Materials, Buddy Icons etc. Yes
• Social Networking Links: Yes
• Register To Vote Link: Yes (off site)

JohnMcCain.com's design lacks real organization and a friendly user interface look and feel. The overall design looks contrived and forced together, without any flow or consistency evident throughout. The color scheme....well...there doesn't appear to be a standard organized color scheme at all with different colors, and tones all over the website; Prominent blues, orange/yellow, red, bright green, turquoise blue and dull blue/grey. Font sizes throughout the website differ, as well spacing and padding. An example of this is if you venture between the Campaign Calendar page and the Blog page. The difference in padding and margin at the top left is a terrible lack of real professionalism in user interface standards, especially for such an important website like this.

Features on JohnMcCain.com are

• User Accounts / MySpace style : Yes (McCainSpace)
• Newsletter Sign Up: Yes
  
• Website Blog: Yes
• TV Channel and Videos: Yes
• Events Search Engine: No (only events calendar)
• Local Grassroots Group Area Search Engine: No
• State Specific Pages: Yes
• People Group Pages:No
• Issues Pages: Yes
• Downloadable Logos, Wallpapers, Print Materials, Buddy Icons etc.No
• Social Networking Links:No
• Register To Vote Link: Yes (on site)

So, after studying both websites, it is clear which one is of a higher quality of web and graphic design standards. BarackObama.com is a modern, web 2.0 website, utilizing the latest in XHTML and CSS capabilities, along with capturing the interests of all ages.

JohnMcCain.com lacks a comfortable and appealing design, and is also extremely narrow in its reach. The only user that will enjoy JohnMcCain.com is a wealthy 70 year old man looking for some new golf gear (4th tab in dark blue in center of page)!

BarackObama.com seems to be reaching out to all ages, all ethnicities, all groups of society. His website has something for everybody, and it is interesting to note that this seems to tie in perfectly with his overall campaign promise; To unite everyone. His website certainly achieves that.

What do you think about the two websites? Do you think they achieve what they need to? Which one keeps you interested to click through to other pages and which one turns you away right off that bat?

Labels: political web design, web design

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