Belle Jolie
JEWELRY AND ACCESSORIES

High fashion Flash website design in AS3, with search engine. Search through many categories of products and order online safe and secure with a Paypal shopping cart integrated in with the Flash.

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

A gorgeous website, built for none other than... my wife. Yes, my beloved is starting her own business, and needed a gorgeous website, so of course I built her one. Fully AS3, this site featured an XML-driven product catalog, a search engine, a zoom feature, and lots of gorgeous pieces of jewelry and beyond the explore and order online. Very reasonable prices too, I might add.

CW Gorgeous
HEALTH, BEAUTY, LASER HAIR REMOVAL

The CNY Laser for Hair and Skin website design features soft earth and skin tones as a bed for dynamic content laid out on top. Staff, services and more are all XML-driven, and the Flash design features a unique background photo for each page. Site also features on online booking system for easy customer appointment coordination.

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

A redesign of a local salon, the same place that my wife goes to. :)

Site features alternating backgrounds for each page, XML-driven services and staff content, and CMS for easy updating.

CNY Laser
HEALTH, BEAUTY, LASER HAIR REMOVAL

The CNY Laser for Hair and Skin website design features soft earth and skin tones as a bed for dynamic content laid out on top. Staff, services and more are all XML-driven, and the Flash design features a unique background photo for each page. Site also features on online booking system for easy customer appointment coordination.

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

A redesign of a local salon, the same place that my wife goes to. :)

Site features alternating backgrounds for each page, XML-driven services and staff content, and CMS for easy updating.

Michael Jon Maple
HAIR STYLIST

Features inlcude introductory video, appointment booking form, portfolio photo gallery and animated page transitions. Efficiently dislplays all work of this talented and successfull manhattan stylist.

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

This is the official site for up and coming hairdresser, Michael Jon Maple. What started off as a simple idea for a simple site ended up getting a bit more elaborate beyond what we originally intended, but worked out well. Site features 4 main sections, each of which is represented by grungy polaroids. When selected, the photos slide out to reveal more eye candy, and in the case of the welcome page even come to life with video. Transitions are also built in for easy navigation from any section to any section. Online appointment booking system available as well.

Simin Haute Couture
HIGH END FASHION DESIGN, EVENING GOWNS, BRIDAL DRESSES CELEBRITY CLIENTS

Located in Beverly Hills, CA Simin hand makes luxary gowns and dresses for numerous clientle. Her 'flashy' website uses a classic and clean white aesthetic to bring out the beauty of her dresses. It features a specialized intro animation, roll over photo gallery and vibrate slideshow.

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

Sometimes simple is more difficult to pull off than complex; such was the case with this site.
The notion was to use a "needle and thread" motif for the animations, which was quite difficult to pull off. That's the home page. Then the bridal gallery and red carpet pages have their own quirks and unusual display. There's also a cool roll-over zoom effect for close-up view of the dresses at the end of the home page intro.
Site features several celebrity clients. Content management system created as well, for easy client-side updating.

Utopia Hair Professionals
HAIR SALON, SPA & BARBERSHOP

Utopia's Flash site displays a variety of soothing tones as the user navigates through it's several interative pages. Printable coupons, custom barber pole animation and revolving picture slideshows are some of the highlights of this solid website. Just looking at it will make you feel better!

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

Since returning to Upstate NY, this is my second salon site. The request here was Earth colors, lots of high quality photos, and of course functional service menus. So, I toyed with a technique of applying a different background picture for each button, and in such a way so that the background changes per button roll-over, not only on the clicks. So, there are lots of backgrounds to choose from, and no matter what you can still read the text on top.
Incidentally, I had them cut my hair after I finished the job, and I must admit, they're very good. :)

Innovations Salon & Day Spa
BEAUTY SALON

Innovations Salon & Spa located in Liverpool, NY. Their Flash website has a variety of special features that sets this site apart from others. It allows online booking, displays a complete pricing structure and sharply contains high resolution dissolving buttons.

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

My first Upstate NY job after returning home to my roots. My wife, sister, and mother all frequent this salon, as it is highly regarded in the area... but we noticed the old website wasn't quite up to the caliber of their services. So, I offered my own services. They accepted, wanted something with dark chocolate colors, and beyond that it was all up to me. So, after a few drafts, I came up with this notion of having the buttons themselves turn into the full pages. It was tricky, but worked out very well I think. Rather proud of this one.

Ibiza Nails and Spa Services
BEAUTY/ TANNING SALON

Ibiza Nails is a full service Salon and Spa located in Hollywood, CA. It's site uses a feminine, yet modern feel using pink and purple tones.Features include sliding transitions, animated buttons and coupon pages

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

Another beauty site with Joe's Graphics, Ibiza Nails was a fun chance to play with the variations of pinks, blacks, and grays. Site features a side scrolling page transition, fancy roll-over buttons, printable specials, and of course all the services you'd expect.

Body And Art
TEXTILE DESIGN

Body And Art is a Flash portfolio site for artist Arden Nutt. It uses a majority of negative space to bring attention to her artwork. Scrollable thumbnail slideshows with mouse sensitivity and simple design are the major benefits of this site.

DESIGNER COMMENTS:

A very simple black and white site, featuring a cool mouse-sensitive-navigation gallery system.