SimcoMedia Professional Web Design

Allergy Associates Project

SimcoMedia Design — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:47:06 +0000

Another delightful project we have had the privilege of designing and developing, Asthma and Allergy Associates in Bellevue, WA who has provided medical services for asthma and allergy patients for over 70 years. The concept was to keep it simple, informative and to introduce their great staff and physicians.

It was decided to create the site using WordPress in order to allow for more educational materials to be added over time. It also allows for easy transitions between employees and site administrators. This site is not 100% finished and should launch by May 15th, 2012.

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Asthma and Allergy Associates

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Jen Haugland Music Project

SimcoMedia Design — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:00:12 +0000

It’s been a joy working with rising music artist, Jen Haugland, in getting her website up to speed for showcasing and selling her music online. We inherited some issues including a WordPress installation that had been hacked with malicious content.

We researched the other site issues and performed an update to WordPress, changed themes to be more accommodating, created an interim header/logo, moved her hosting to our hosting services and installed a set of plugins that we knew would get the job done.

When finished, the site will allow for purchase and download of her various songs and albums.

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15 great HTML5 and CSS3 generators

SimcoMedia Design — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:15:38 +0000

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How to become a Gmail power-user -

SimcoMedia Design — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:41:25 +0000

How to become a Gmail power-user : http://usat.ly/IxPVhT

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Dawson Paralegal Completed

SimcoMedia Design — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:38:07 +0000

I just had the pleasure of working with an up and coming paralegal ( who is continuing his education to become an attorney ) in doing a makeover of his website in order to enhance the SEO capabilities. The previous design was incomplete in regards to utilizing the WordPress SEO features and was structured in a way that made updating and edits difficult.

I felt there were underlying issues in the method used for the content, especially pertaining to the home page. The previous designers had used a series of ‘widgets’ like a puzzle to create the layout which was confusing to the site owner when needing to make changes. Key word headlines and related content were lacking. The desire was to create a more appealing design and easier navigation to enable the site to grow in a more efficient manner.

The project involved:

the creation of an image slideshow for the home page bullet points
more visible calls to actions
easier method of updating content

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NCAIED Project Completed

SimcoMedia Design — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:11:06 +0000

I recently had the pleasure of working on the NCAIED.org website in converting it to a CSM based platform using WordPress. The previous version of the site made making updates and changes very difficult and almost impossible if you were not familiar with various coding languages.

Additionally, we were able to add in much more functionality including:

Events calendar
Facebook updates
Twitter feed
Photo galleries
and much more

The NCAIED is a nationwide economic development organization for American Indians doing business around the globe. Their website is a vital portal to all the various events, committees and sub-chapters they represent. We are proud to have worked alongside them in producing the updated website.

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A screenshot of the new site:

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X-Cart Awesome Ability Theme

SimcoMedia Design — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:35:32 +0000

We’d like to introduce X-Cart users to a fantastic new template, called Ability, that is so loaded with features that you really need to see it in action to fully understand why it is so advanced compared to other ‘skins’ available on the market. This template comes with literally 100′s of color and background combinations and several dynamically generated and animated areas.

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View this demo to get the full view of the powerful features and presentation: Click Here For Demo

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Click the thumbnail below for a detailed screenshot

Additional Specs and Information

Ability is an advanced, all-purpose X-Cart v4.4.x template solution, with a rich amount of layout possibilities and features built-in.

The idea behind Ability is to give you all the design flexibility and features you need, in one template, whilst keeping your costs down.

It can be used as the foundation to any web store. You’ll be surprised at what you can achieve with this template alone.

Theme Options
- Clean layout design with 20 ready made easily customisable colour themes, just 16 lines of CSS per theme
- Multiple themes enables you to easily change the look and feel whenever you like, eg. seasonal
- True unlimited colour themes with in-built theme designer – colour pickers for theme elements, choice of background tile or image
- Over 800 background tiles and images included
- CSS code generator for easy colour theme generation
- Layouts based on a fluid/flexible version of the popular and easy to use 960 grid system
- Option to set the fixed (pixels) and fluid (percentage) widths
- Ability to set the following to fixed or fluid… overall store width / header / header content / body content / checkout / footer / footer content
- Layout can be displayed as 3 columns, 2 columns left / right or 1 column (product layout can also have independant column style)
- Homepage can be set to display as full width (1 column) – maximises the effects of your promotions
Header Options
- Choice of header style, or easily create your own custom header
- Choice of 4 logo sizes and 4 search box sizes
- Customer account dropdown menu box
Category Menu Options
- Horizontal menus included…
  - 5 level animated dropdown / flyout menu
  - 3 level mega dropdown menu, with full control over layout in category admin and option to display parent icons/descriptions
  - 1 level tabbed category menu
  - Tabbed speedbar menu
  - Tabbed custom menu
- Vertical menus included…
  - 5 level animated flyout menu
  - 3 level tree menu, with persistence and choice of theme
  - 2 level sliding menu, with persistence
  - 1 Level basic menu style
  - Or use standard X-Cart menus
- Additional categories page displaying all categories up to 3 levels
Homepage Options
- Promotional Displays Included…
  - Responsive image slider
  - 3D flash image slider
  - Featured image box
  - Horizontal image roundabout
  - Horizontal image accordion
  - Responsive static image or YouTube video (can be set in Ability settings and set to autoplay)
- BBC style animated news ticker, dynamically lists the last x news headlines
- Animated countdown to an event, eg. end of a sale, launch of new product etc.
- Additional new and random products display (amounts configurable in Ability settings)
- Featured products, bestsellers, new and random products can be displayed as animated carousels
- … Or can be displayed in rows or grids, with ability to dynamically switch between row/grid
- Featured products, bestsellers, new and random products can be grouped into a set of compact tabs
- Manufacturers can be displayed as a carousel, or logos/links in columns (amount configurable in Ability settings)
Products Display Options
- Products display options
  - Grid and row switchers, with persistence
  - Smart columns, which adapt to the store width (for use with a fluid layout)
  - Masonry columns, which adapt to the store width in an animated fashion and are centered (for use with a fluid layout)
  - Basic tabular display
  - Or use default X-Cart products display
- Upselling and recommended (random) products use the grid and row switchers display for SEO purposes
- Default grid/row display and number of columns can be set from Ability settings
Product Page Layout
- Product layout can be displayed independantly as 3 columns, 2 columns left / right or 1 column
- 2 types of custom tabbed product information display, either tabbed above or below
- Vertical accordion product information display
- Tabs and accordions have persistence feature
- Or use standard X-Cart tabs below
Footer Options
- Choice of footer style, or easily create your own custom footer
- Display rotating testimonials, news box, latest Tweets etc.
- Display Footer payment icons, large or small
Custom Fonts
- Replaces H1/H2/H3 fonts which are loaded via the Google Fonts API
- 397 fonts to choose from as of Jan 7th 2012
- Includes local font previewer, or use the Google font previewer
Addons
- Dynamic AJAX search box – lists products after 3 characters typed
- BBC style animated news ticker, dynamically lists the last 5 news headlines – enable / disable
- Animated countdown to an event, eg. end of a sale, launch of new product etc. – enable / disable and configure date in Ability settings
- Advanced animated breadcrumbs, collapses and becomes compact if you have many subcategories
- Lazy loader for product images – delays the loading of images until browser focuses on them
- Page peel effect – displays animated promotional message in top right corner
- Google map display for contact us page – displays map and streetview
- FAQs for contact us page in accordion style list
- Advanced lightbox to replace ColorBox, with 10 different themes and ability to display videos, inline content etc.
- Custom floating social bookmarking links for product page – alternative to Socialize module
- Google translator menu box
- Image gallery with categories, automatic thumbnail generation and lightbox
- Display first detailed image as sticky tooltip on product thumbnails hover
Advanced Minicart
- AJAX minicart that can be displayed in header or menu box
- Instantly displays cart contents on adding to cart, with option to change quantities
- Products can be grouped by category and minicart height is configurable
- In addition, when an empty cart is viewed, bestsellers, new and random products are displayed to the customer
RSS Feeds
- Generates feeds for latest news and latest products (generate manually, or set up cron jobs)
- Number of items per feed and additional text, thumbnail size etc. configurable from Ability settings
Miscellaneous
- Choice of menu and dialog box style – rounded, square or basic borderless
- Basic promotional menu boxes can be enabled to display any extra info, such as payment seals etc.
- Choice of manufacturer menu box – dropdown version includes its own search facility if more than 30 manufacturers
- Configure bestsellers and recently viewed image sizes from the Ability settings
- Animated ‘back to top’ button that appears in bottom right corner
- Choice of ‘easing’ effect, autoplay and mouse wheel feature for carousels
- Option to redirect old IE browsers to a browser upgrade page
Just For Fun
- Animated snow effect
Design Features
- Well organised template structure
- Well commented CSS code
- Wide choice of homepage promotion options
- Flexible width carousels
- Scrollable content boxes
- Easy to use tooltips
- Customised view cart page
- And much more…

Requirements

X-Cart v4.4.4 + highly recommended.
Good working knowledge of the X-Cart system.
Basic-intermediate skills in HTML, CSS and Smarty.

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Foreclosure Lawyers Project Underway

SimcoMedia Design — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:13:57 +0000

We’re excited to have been selected for the development of a highly visible service oriented site for helping homeowners in trouble. The project is bi-phasic with the first phase consisting of a fully workable information and contact system.

The initial phase is done in strict CSS/XHTML with a dose of PHP for running the dynamic form system. The 2nd phase of the project will consist of the use of a content management system (CMS) that will contain multiple areas of content including password protected elements.

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Here is a screenshot of the actual live phase one site:

Foreclosure Lawyers.com design by SimcoMedia

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Kessel Auto Repair Project

SimcoMedia Design — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:40:49 +0000

We are in development of a website for a long-time general auto repair and towing business located in the New York area. The site will feature photo galleries, content management, videos and a complete custom design.

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Kirk’s Auto Care Project Underway

SimcoMedia Design — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:17:20 +0000

Currently we are working on a new website for an automotive repair shop specializing in brakes and tires. The project is presently in the beginning stages as we gather and import content. However, we can offer a ‘sneak peek’ at the design we’ve come up with along with the basic concepts.

The site is built around WordPress so the client can update and add to their content over time. It also features some advanced plugins for social networking, video and photo galleries and communications.

Screenshots / Preview

Here are a couple of screenshots of the home and supporting pages.

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