Web Design
The goal of website design is to communicate a message, whether that message is a new product listing, a new idea, or a new project. We design brand images that leave a lasting impression on customers, members, and readers. Every project includes dozens of small contingencies, design decisions that determine the aesthetic quality and usability of the finished product. When we make design decisions, we are guided by the following principles:
- Good design should assist communication and message exchange
- Good design should proceed from problem to solution
- Good design should blend the traditional with the innovative
- Good design is as accessible as possible
Relevant Portfolio Pieces
Amazon Continuum
Boxkite Media has launched the official website for The Amazon Continuum, an Amazon River-based research project led by Dr. Patricia Yager of UGA's Marine Sciences Department. We designed The Amazon Continuum Project to support our content management system which enables researchers to blog about their experience and upload video podcasts from the research ship. We also custom-built our CMS to serve as a secure platform for Dr. Yager and colleagues to privately communicate and transfer files.
Athens-Clarke County Stormwater Department
The Athens-Clarke County Stormwater Department needed a mapping system to track incidents of dumping and flooding, as well as stream quality data. They also needed an interactive way for people to learn about watersheds, runoff, water pollution. We built a system that allows citizens to report dumping and flooding directly on the map. We also built a media room, including audio and video podcasting, an events calendar, a news blog, photo galleries, and a very cool Turtle Girl (designed by Leslie Dallion).
Aylesbury Commons
Aylesbury Commons is a patio home community in Augusta. The site uses Boxkite Media's Real Estate Spool to manage the sales and advertising of available properties in the development.
Chronicle Network
The Chronicle Network is actually a network of news sites serving a large part of the country. They receive more than 30,000 visitors a day. We designed the entire content and user management system from the ground up. The CMS allows the editor to manage articles submitted by over 1,000 authors. The site contains nearly 150,000 articles spread over an enormous number of categories. All management takes place in the backend of the site and is managed by a single person, part-time.
Finca La Bella
Finca La Bella, a collective of organic farms in the Monteverde region of Costa Rica, need a web presence to advertise their produce and ecotourism packages. They grow their own coffee, and make their own packaging from recycled materials mixed with plant material from the coffee growing process. We designed an organic look for the site, as if it were constructed of the farms' produce.
Full Circle Real Estate Group
Full Circle Real Estate Group is an Athens-based brokerage that concentrates on sales and leasing of sustainable or green properties. They're using Boxkite Media's Real Estate Spool, including a new mailing list manager that pulls property information directly from the database and creates HTML e-mails automatically.
Georgia Debate Union
We designed a new suite of content management tools designed especially for debate teams at both the college and high school levels. The first version of this Debate Spool to be launched is for the Georgia Debate Union, the competitive intercollegiate policy debate team at the University of Georgia. The Debate Spool includes management for team members and coaches, press and alumni relations, tournament schedules, and a full featured blogging system.
Mad About Town
Mad About Town is a podcast about Athens, Georgia musicians. Each episode features a different musician interview, and each musician plays records by their major influences. Boxkite Media designed a podcasting and blogging platform, along with the permission system that supports multiple site editors.
Planet Debate
Planet Debate is a content-driven website aimed at high school debaters. Our task was to redesign the look and the content management system from the ground up. Planet Debate has nearly 30,000 users who have subscription-based access to 3,000 research files, 12,000 research links, and more than 80,000 evidence cards. We added in video and audio lectures, mailing list management, and a streamlined e-commerce system that handles file purchases and subscriptions. The front end has a new design, and upgraded account management and search features.
RiverWay South
RiverWay South is works with communities within the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint watershed to preserve the environment while increasing the economic vitality of the region. The website features photos, info, and self-guided brochure, video, and audio tours from a variety of sources. The main feature of the site is an interactive map of the river. Important locations along the river, including everything from state parks to bait shops, are identified. New locations are submitted by users and are added to the map when approved by RiverWay South.
STAR-LITE For The National Institutes of Health
STAR-LITE is a realistic training environment that teaches students about laboratory safety. Developed by the National Institutes of Health with Janus Research, STAR-LITE is a training simulation with the look, feel, and flexibility of a modern video game. We developed the website that delivers the training application, manages support requests and comments, and manages companion material for the educational institutions that use STAR-LITE.
UGA Graduate Student Association
The Graduate Student Association of the University of Georgia needed a website that helped them communicate with their constituency. We used a simple, elegant design that allowed for easy content management. The GSA is able to manage every part of their website, form blogging to posting videos to editing the leadership pages through the Spool, and the system is easy enough that new people can learn to update it every year as their leadership changes.
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