Jim Barraud web designer

Media-Hive Company Site

A little over a year ago I did a refresh of the Media-Hive company site. Based on the original design direction by Greg O’Keeffe, I set out to tie together loose ends of the previous site and simplify some of the information architecture. This resulted in redesigning the homepage to give more prominence to our recent work; re-architecting the About, Team and Contact pages into a single cohesive Company page; updating the layout of the Work page and creating a more user friendly layout for the individual project pages.

In addition, design flourishes were added to the navigation that utilized jQuery and CSS transitions. Restructuring of the WordPress templates and organization of content was also performed to provide easier site administration.

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LiveView for iPhone and iPad

LiveView is an essential tool for designing interfaces for your iOS device. Comprised of software for both your desktop and iOS device, LiveVew allows you to work on your designs and view the results in realtime on you iPhone or iPad. Best of all, it’s free.

David Sykes Print Store

Renowned British photographer (and friend) David Sykes has branched out from client work and has begun selling prints of his personal projects. His Faux Food project has garnered attention from popular online sites such as swiss miss as well as several print publications. David decided to utilize Big Cartel to sell a limited run of his Faux Food prints, but wasn’t happy with the default template options.

David approached me for help in updating the existing template, but he didn’t want anything too drastic. He was looking for enough of a change so it didn’t resemble a cookie cutter ecommerce template and complemented the presentation of his prints. After a couple hours of CSS updates I was happy to present David what I thought was a good solution given time and scope of the project, and he agreed.

If you’re looking for some great prints to hang in your home or office, I highly recommend these (or anything David produces for that matter). As of this writing he’s currently running a Spring sale for 25% off all of his prints. Take advantage while you can.

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