Nashville Interactive

Nashville Interactive’s Blog is 1 Year Old! (Redesign is Imminent)

cbradshaw — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:00:17 +0000

It was a cold day in March 2009 when I first posted to this blog. I mused about finding a Bojangles In Nashville. It was Nashville Interactive's most delicious post to date. Not that it's significant in the grand scheme of things but it seems like only yesterday I was designing and launching this version of the site. It's been a very great year and I have much more than a lot of people could hope for these days and I'm thankful for every bit of it.

Expect a website/visual brand redesign in the next month or so. Subscribe to the RSS feed if you'd like to hear about it hot off the presses.

SpenshaOnline.com Launches

cbradshaw — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:29:28 +0000

This past weekend, Nashville Interactive launched SpenshaOnline.com; the online home of inspirational musical artist Spensha Baker. The website design and development was handled completely by Nashville Interactive. I've said it before: creating an artist website design is always a fun project to work on. The creative freedom and ability to work with less "traditional" layouts allows the opportunity to stretch the creative muscles a bit.

The site was built using an Open-Source Content Management System so that the client has full control over their own online presence. Using open source software also means that there are no monthly licensing fees of any kind which often come along with bulkier proprietary systems.

Drinks Anyone? BoozeCampNashville.com Launches

cbradshaw — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:24 +0000

For those Nashvillians who enjoy the finer side of spirits, there's finally a group for you: BoozeCamp Nashville. What is BoozeCamp Nashville you ask? Well it's a bit of an old-fashioned social network that revolves around great wine, liquor and beer. Events are held around Nashville at various venues and include tastings of great "adult" beverages as well as the company of good people.

Nashville Interactive designed, developed and is hosting BoozeCampNashville.com. A rather simple site overall but one that I've already grown very fond of. Perhaps it will even make the web design portfolio in the near future. Once again an open-source content management system was used for the backend of the site, allowing various administrators to control the content from anywhere with an internet connection. The site is an ongoing project with many improvements in the works so check it out and come back often to see how it's going.

The Winstar Fantasy Derby Website Launches

cbradshaw — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:24:18 +0000

Are you into horse racing and/or fantasy sports? If so you should check out the Winstar Fantasy Derby. Nashville Interactive handled the User Interface design and also had a hand in the development of the Fantasy Derby portion of the Winstar site. Once again, this project entailed working with some great people on a cool site. So, even if you're not a horse racing aficionado, you should check out the contest. It's completely free and you might even win a trip to see the 2010 Kentucky Derby! Mint Juleps and sun hats anyone?

Scripture-Lullabies.com Launches

cbradshaw — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:36:04 +0000

The Nashville Interactive designed and developed scripture-lullabies.com has officially launched! This was a great project to work on. The site design is one that definitely made the web design portfolio and the development portion of the project is a perfect example of how open-source software allows for all the power and flexibility of a proprietary CMS. The site has an e-commerce aspect that allows the client to sell and manage their products directly from the site. The project also included a promotional marketing video created in After Effects. The video and the site have already become some of my favorite work of late but there's much more website and graphic design work on the horizon so stay tuned!

(oh yeah, and if you have kids, this CD is a great one to play at bedtime so check it out.)

Always Sisters Forever Brothers Website Launches

cbradshaw — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:04:20 +0000

Nashville Interactive recently designed, built and launched alwayssisterforeverbrothers.com. This website for the 2010 Always Sisters Forever Brothers Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, proved to be a great project to work on. The site design awarded Nashville Interactive the opportunity to use some pretty cool javaScript and front-end development techniques. The website features a scrolling "homepage" that creates a nice, cohesive experience for viewing the top-level content. Much care was taken to ensure that the browser back and forward buttons would work with this design and more importantly that deep linking to all the top level content within the scrollable sections would work across all the major web browsers.

The site utilizes Wordpress as a content management system which allows the client to take full control of their website and in-turn the message they want to put in front of their audience. Empowering clients to control their website's content is good website design, and this sort of self sustainability is part of Nashville Interactive's primary mission.

Nashville Interactive Now Using Feedburner

cbradshaw — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:40:49 +0000

In an effort to better aggregate fresh Nashville Interactive content (and stay on top of the latest technologies for content feeds), We're now using Feedburner to handle all RSS content. This Google-provided service allows website owners access great data on their site's feed usage. Also, feedburner now updates your twitter page with your latest posts and integrates effortlessly with Google Analytics and AdWords too. Exciting stuff for content people.

Please enjoy, let us know if you love it or hate it and SUBSCRIBE TO THE RSS FEED of course.

If you're interested in using feedburner for your site's feed here's a few good links:
- http://feedburner.google.com/ (obviously!)
- http://adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com/

GiveCard.com Launches

cbradshaw — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:24:36 +0000

If you're one of those people who loves to empower your friends and family to make their own gift decisions via gift cards, this might be the site for you. Nashville Interactive did a portion of the front-end development work on givecard.com and got the chance to work with some great people. This site allows users to give a gift card to a recipient, a portion of which goes to charity. The recipient of the card can give more to charity if they'd like and they can choose from hundreds of charities to donate to. A great site for some great causes so check it out now.

Nashville = Country Music Website Design

cbradshaw — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:14:54 +0000

Being in Nashville means that country music website design is a fact of life for most web professionals. This is definitely not a bad thing. Designing band websites is always a fun project for me. The nature of the work dictates that the aesthetic and layout can be a little outside the box. Although I love creating a nice clean small business website and as great as corporate website design is, having complete creative freedom every now and then is good for the soul. I recently designed a website for up-and-coming country music artist Jamie Tate. (Just the design work on this one). Most of my other projects at the time required a cleaner more "business-esque" look. This site design allowed me to step back and appreciate the occasional break from the norm. Creating unique, non-templated website layouts also allows me to subtly integrate some of these creative and unique elements into more "traditional" designs as well. The bottom line is that creating unique layouts for musician websites helps me keep the creativity flowing in other projects.

Custom Flash Design and Development Completed for Gaylord Entertainment

cbradshaw — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:35:15 +0000

Nashville Interactive recently completed a custom Flash design project for the world-renown Gaylord Entertainment. The client wanted a Flash-based landing page that was tied in with email marketing campaigns. The end product was a completely customizable experience that included a photo slideshow with accompanying text for each image. The all-Flash landing pages are easily "re-skinned" with xml and image replacement making them extremely flexible and quickly edited. While I've become an advocate of more "traditional" methods for web development, I always enjoy diving into some custom Flash Design.