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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Homedics

The latest project to launch at the Hive is the online presence for Homedics. Homedics sells as an extensive line of personal health and wellness products. You may have seen some of their commercials on TV lately.

Media-Hive was tasked with the visual design of their new website/eStore and integrating that design into the ATG Commerce OnDemand platform. My comrades at the Hive did an excellent job with both the visual design and the implementation of that design into the platform. I had a minor role in the beginning of the visual design process with presenting one of several design directions. While it wasn’t picked for further refinement, you can view my original design direction below.

Homedics

DIANE von FURSTENBERG

Our latest project at Media-Hive has just launched; the website for Diane von Furstenberg. Our role, more specifically for the Hive, was the eStore portion of the website. The eStore is built upon ATG’s Commerce onDemand platform (of which we are an implementation partner). Our task was to implement a new design, created by Sweden Unlimited (who also created the marketing side of the website) into the Commerce onDemand platform. We were integral in creating the base Commerce onDemand HTML/CSS framework so it was a natural fit for us to implement the new DVF design into the platform. My personal role was the HTML/CSS integration of the new design as well as the Scene7 integration which allows for product image zooming and alternate view display.

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Recent Articles

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