Kevin Chappell

Top Rope Belts – New Gallery

Kevin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:58:45 +0000

Changes have been made to the championship belt gallery over at TopRopeBelts.com. The gallery changes offer new ways to browse and share the belts while providing links back to their owners. This is a great way for a company or wrestling league that bought a belt from TRB to get incoming links to their organization’s website. The previous gallery featured a page of thumbnails with a description of the belt. clicking a thumbnail would bring up the large view and the user was forced to navigate from page to page to view all images. The new gallery condenses the entire gallery to a single page which makes browsing the images faster and reduces the bandwidth usage. Discussion is also kept to one page making the comments easier to follow too.

Podiatrist NYC

Kevin — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:40:33 +0000

Podiatristnyc.com is the Advanced Footcare Group website for renowned podiatrist Dr. Howard D. Zaiff, DPM, FACFAS.

Dr. Zaiff was particularly fond of flash websites so my approach was to add animation an AJAX content retrieval for any areas that could use it. This meant content that did not require a layout change such as the Services and Treatments sections. To keep the site quick to load the makes heavy use of cache, popular external libraries and maintains a small footprint despite large images. The AJAX functions help also by only loading about 15kb-50kb of data (depending number on images) on some clicks. Other unique items about the site are 2 custom plugins to that allow users to make appointments and a gallery plugin that extends the default WordPress gallery. The gallery plugin, Z-Gallery, can handle local and external video sources, uses AJAX and has modal popups.

Key Features:

Small footprint
Fast load times -(despite GoDaddy hosting and large images)
WordPress
AJAX content
Custom plugins

Blade User Group

Kevin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:09:46 +0000

This custom theme created for Blade.org serves as a community for users of Blade servers. Users can post like any other forum but this forum features a custom built media library, fresh styling and the ability for users to submit posts/questions experts for a quick professional response from the creators of the hardware or software they are posting about. Its quite a unique forum and with proper promotion and maintenance it could serve as a valuable resource for Blade server users and vendors alike.

3D Twitter Background

Kevin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:13:48 +0000

The style for KC Design Lab is a mixture of minimal and technology design. To spruce up Twitter a bit I took the KCDL logo into 3DsMax and rendered a scene with it. The logo and shadows were rendered separately and brought together on the black and gray bar in Photoshop. The final product is a simple design that conveys the style of KC Design Lab to the Twitter audience.

SEE Learning Center

Kevin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:40:32 +0000

Just completed is the SEE Learning Center WordPress conversion. Originally SEE wanted 9 languages and extra functionality added. The update was for a static HTML website and would have cost more than the price of a new CMS enabled website.

A CMS site makes language translations faster and easier, especially when dealing with Arabic. This site allows for maximum customization; custom thumbnails for pages and posts, 95 translated template tags, 6 custom page templates, smart sidebar and foot menu options, and 330 pages… wow.

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The Purple Peony

Kevin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:25:15 +0000

Currently being developed is the next website for thepurplepeony.com. Cheryl Slomkowski specializes in custom made gift baskets for all occasions and was looking for a new way to reach customers as her old website just wasn’t cutting it so she gave Liquid Productions a call to see what we could do for her business. After some discussion about the goals and design ideas I began development on the new website.

The new site features a shopping cart system, various options that are managed from an easy admin interface and integration with various social networks. Cheryl can now manage her website and orders via her iPhone so she never misses a beat and is always in contact with her customers.

Inovaprime

Kevin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:30:58 +0000

The new Inovaprime.com will be a cutting edge website with customer management options. The real magic for this site happens on the backend where the owners can manage their content and customers via an easy-to-use administration panel.

This site is being developed with Katrina Tempero through KC Design Lab. It features lots of AJAX enhancements to make user interaction easy and maybe even a little fun. Custom cross-platform scroll bars can be found along with a strict adherence to web standards.

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Academia de Linguas

Kevin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:48:33 +0000

For extended stays in Portugal it is necessary to learn the language. The Academia de Linguas is located in the heart of Funchal, Madeira and offers a variety of language course including Portuguese for foreigners.There is also a variety of other languages such as German, French and English to help locals of Madeira to their foreign language skills to the next level.

This website is a basic multi-lingual website with CMS capability. Why not have a visit.

New Top Rope Belts

Kevin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:56:12 +0000

Just rolled out a refreshed design for Top Rope Belts. The layout is similar to the old site but with a new homepage, social networking connectivity, and better forms. Users can now use the Flash Belt Creation app to submit their designs for a quote or download the image to share with their friends. Check it out.

http://topropebelts.com

Blade.org Redesign

Kevin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:10:14 +0000

Recently I took a chance at redesigning the home page for Blade.org. The idea behind the design was obviously a to give it a fresh look and bring important information to the front page instead of having to dig for it. Blade.org has a lot of technical papers for blade servers and related products.

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