Archive for the ‘Website Design’ Category

Bazinga!

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Let’s see …
- Upgraded our web server to a VPS (Virtual Private Server), to allow for more flexibility and administration.
- Created some new ads for www.watchwholesalers.com.

- Designed a logo and a business card for SecurePac.

- Working on creating a new ecommerce website for Premier Merchandising.

Posted in Ecommerce, Graphic Design, Project Updates, Web Hosting, Website Design

K&C Classic Homes

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

The website for K&C Classic Homes is finally live! This was a joint effort between Baker One Design and myself.  Baker One Design did the graphics, and art direction, while I did the Flash and website code. The website features some jQuery effects, such as navigation drop down, lightbox, and expanding information panels.

Posted in Project Updates, Website Design

Wuz Hapn’

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Hoa Da Herbal Medicines - Brain Power - Label

Each label includes Vietnamese on one side, and English on the other. The type selection is simply VNI-Times and VNI-Helvetica, a free font. To get the Vietnamese characters to show up on the website was quite an ordeal. The process is as follows:

  • The client sends over a Word document with all the information in VNI-Times.
  • I use a free Java application called UnicodeConverter.jar, to convert the Word document from VNI-Times to Times New Roman. This is necessary because:
    • For the Vietnamese characters to show up correctly on the website, the characters have to be in Unicode format. It doesn’t matter if it’s converted to Times New Roman or what; it just has to be in a Unicode format. In the head of the website, the meta is set to charset=UTF-8.
    • For the characters to store correctly in the MySQL Database, the database has to be set to UTF-8.

Posted in Graphic Design, Project Updates, Website Design