The Website Launch of Sparks To Flame, Inc. - a Business Development Company in Las Vegas, Nevada
By admin | April 18, 2008
This week, DF Design Studios had the priviledge of launching the brand new site of Sparks To Flame, Inc., a business development company that provides business coaching services to businessses big and small. They have already helped hundreds of firms and/or individuals establish or grow their wealth, improve work/life balance, work less and achieve more, and live a more content and satisfying life.
View the site HERE at www.sparks2flame.com
Our goal was to develop a site for Sparks To Flame, Inc. that would make good use of ‘call to action’. Simply giving the site visitors readily and easy instructions to sign up for the mailing list, ask a question, register for elearning courses, sign up for a free business effectiveness evaluation etc. Our client Sheryl Parks, President of Sparks To Flame, Inc. was very pleased with the final result of our work. Also incorporated in this website was another custom designed wordpress theme, designed to look and fit right into the design of the site. You can view the blog here.
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Starburst PSD for download
By admin | April 15, 2008
I came across this on the internet and thought it would be nice to pass on. Download the psd file below. This is very good for “call to action” purposes on websites and can be used to attract attention to a particular product or service on your website. Leave a comment if this helps you out.
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Another Custom Designed Wordpress Blog
By admin | April 15, 2008
This week we launched a new custom designed blog for Chosen Daughters of Destiny, Inc. using the Wordpress platform. Included in the blog is an online registration form with payment using PayPal, a photogallery and much more.
As I tell all my clients, having a blog can benefit you in multiple ways. It can be an ‘expression’ of your business, organisation, group, hobby, passion, etc.
See the custom designed blog for Chosen Daughters of Destiny, Inc, below.
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Chosen Daughters Upcoming Conference Promo
By admin | April 2, 2008
We were approached by one of our existing clients Chosen Daughters Of Destiny, Inc. to assist them with providing promotional pieces such as a 6″x4″ postcard, flyers, online registrations, photogallery slideshow on their site and a nice graphic email to send out to their mailing list, all of this for their upcoming conference in June, 2008.
We just finished one of the first promotional pieces for this project, of which we are most proud of, a 6″x4″ plugger which you can see a preview of below, and we look forward to completing the other phases of this project and helping make their conference a success.
Here is a the plugger, see below:
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Between Sermons - a custom designed WordPress Blog
By admin | March 20, 2008
Yesterday we launched the redesigned blog for Pastor Jerry McQuay. It was originally hosted at blogger, but we imported it into wordpress, which offers much more features.
This blog has several plugins, one of which is an email subscription, meaning that everytime a blog is made subscribers will receive the post in their email inbox. Another plugin used is an SEO (search engine optimization) plugin which easily allows the ability to input meta tag data for each post.
Check it out today at www.betweensermons.com 
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Christian Life College website is launched
By admin | January 25, 2008
After months of working on this project, we launched the website for Christian Life College yesterday.
The site can be viewed at www.christianlifecollege.edu
According to Mr. Ullman, Director of Library Services, there is a buzz among the faculty and students on how much better this site is than what they had before. This site is still a work in progress as there many more features and functionality that will be added in the near future.
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What to look for in a Web Designer
By admin | January 24, 2008
I had a meeting today where a business man I met, told me that the web designers that he tried to business with are so ‘flaky’. This isn’t the first time I heard this comment from someone. It seems as if the webdesigners out there are looking for ‘quickie’ projects where they are concerned about making a quick buck rather than truly meeting the client’s needs. Below are some of my thoughts on what to look for in a webdesigner.
- Portfolio – Seeing at least 3 samples of the designers work can give you a pretty good idea of the quality of work that they are able to produce. Ask how involved they were in their projects. You want to make sure the webdesigner can do what you are looking for. Look for diversity in the designs. Are the designs the same for each client or unique to each client? You want to have a designer who can pay attention to every detail of what you are about and can truly express the nature of what you are trying to do.
- Testimonials – These are very important as they give you an idea of the experience prior clients had with the webdesigner. What do they have to say about the webdesigner and his work?
- Accessibility – I’ve heard of webdesigners that are hard to get in contact with. Sometimes people have to wait weeks before they get a response. Make sure when choosing a designer that you find out how easily accessible they are in case they need to be reached.
- Reliability – Very Important. You want to choose a designer who has integrity, is honest and takes your project as serious as you are about it. One way of finding out the reliability of a designer is from testimonials or by talking to former clients of the designer.
- Ability to meet deadlines – If your project has to be completed by a certain date. It is imperative that the designer is aware of these expectations and communicate his ability to do complete it in time.
- Business Process – How does the designer do business? Does he work with contracts. If a designer agrees to do a project for you without a contract involved. Beware! This can turn out to be bad in the long run.
- How much? – Make sure the designer can give you upfront pricing, and always ask about domain and hosting.
- Web Standards – Does the designer build websites according to the latest web standards? Most designers in an effort to do ‘quickie’ projects, build sites that are table based, which means that they are using code that’s outdated and will turn up with tons of errors when validated. This results in pages loading slower than they should and can cause errors across multiple browsers.
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DF Design Studios welcomes Dr. Adonijah Ogbonnaya
By admin | January 23, 2008
Dr. Adonijah Ogbonnaya is an African Messianic Hebrew who have been ministering across the United states and around the world for over 25 years. We will be developing a website that will reflect his global ministry.
His site will feature galleries, podcasts, blogs, an online store, online registrations for events, conferences, calendar and many more. We look forward to working with Dr. Adonijah Ogbonnaya and taking him to the next level.
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The Launch of Recklessly Abandoned
By admin | January 12, 2008
This week, we launched the Recklessly Abandoned Website. This site is on of my prized designs. It is completely standards compliant built with xhtml and css with some flash elements making great use of advanced css techniques. I designed the site myself using Photoshop CS3, then took on the challenge of coding it. One thing I’m most proud of is that the pages validate.
This site is for a 9 month Christian Youth Intership program, and features a login system for interns to go into a private secured area of the site, and also features an online application with the ability to pay for the application fee using Paypal.
Also, my client Jen McQuay is more than happy with the work done on this site. I’ve exceeded her expectations delivering professional and custom design work. You can check out the site at www.recklesslyabandoned.org.
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Welcome to ‘A Leap Of Faith Travel Agency’
By admin | January 9, 2008
DF Design Studios is proud to announce the launch of A Leap of Faith Travel Agency.
We took on this client approx. 6 weeks who was looking for a simple flash intro with a one page site. But with our recommendations and commitment to excellence we exceeded the client’s expectation with beautiful design, one that would just make you wish you were on vacation sitting by the beach, great animation and a clean simple easy to navigate site.
We designed the brand of A Leap of Faith Travel (see logo below) as well as the official business card, keeping the same theme (identity) as the site itself. So if you’re planning your vacation for this new year, be sure to check out what A Leap Of Faith Travel Agency can do for you!!
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