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This week, Concepcion Design launches a new service called The Client Space. It's an interface ideal for small businesses that need to share media with clients on a regular basis.
By signing up, you get your very own client access portal, which you can customize to fit the look of your business. Create individual logins for your clients, upload media and let them know when there's material up for review. The Client Space takes the hassle out of sharing media with your clients. Forget about emailing huge files, or putting everything on an FTP. Upload your media, let your client know, and your project will move much faster.
Upload rough-cuts for your client to review: they can comment on the work right on the page! Post the latest version of your newest song, share a photography set or simply have a posting ground for Word docs, PDFs, research materials and more.
The Client Space offers quite a bit of control over the look and feel of the portal. You can easily add your logo, your website background, and customize the colors to match the aesthetic of your existing website.
If you're curious and just want to poke around, you can try it out for 30 days, absolutely free! Just use the promo code CDESIGN on the sign-up page.
We've been working on it quite a bit and would love to get any feedback we can so that we can make this good product even better. Tell us what you think or just drop in a comment below.
Filed under Site Launches, Web Design
What's in a logo? Why is it important? And why has Concepcion Design gone through all these logo variations in such a short period of time?
First off, your logo goes on everything - business cards, invoices, and your Web site. It helps define your company and the work you do. Now, I'm not saying I don't like the older ones - I do, but as the business changed, so did the company's image.
I always liked the original CDesign logo that I created back in 2003. It's simple, clean and elegant. It worked well for quite some time, but that was when I was doing much more video production and editing, and far less Web.
As time went by, the company became much more focused on Web site design and development, and the part of the company I needed to promote most was design. It needed something edgier, a little fresher, newer, and something that had a youthful style. So in 2007, I replaced the original logo with the 2007 version.
I'm a big fan of the 2007 font, but to be honest, it needed some work. First of all the spacing was all wrong - the letters are too far apart. I felt very limited to the colors I had chosen. It also proved to be more difficult to work into Web sites, e-mail signatures, invoices, and proposals. In those cases, it felt very amateur. The Concepcion Design Web site too, had its limitations. I needed to fix it, especially the Web site, as I found myself not wanting to direct potential clients to the site.
Over the past few years, I tried a few other logos. Some were pretty close to becoming the real thing, but I just couldn't walk away completely from the look and feel I had created back in 2007. There was something nice about it. So rather than to abandon it completely, I decided to "grow it up" a little.
So here in 2009, I kept what was working and threw out what wasn't. The cd part of is a little tighter, with the same font, but this time whited out on a rectangular background that is intended to be color-agnostic (though teal will always be the primary color). The words concepcion design remain lowercase, but the font has been changed to something cleaner and more versatile.
These are just my thoughts. Let me know what you're thinking.
Filed under Branding, Site Launches
Two sites launched in one day? Nooo....
But yes, as it so happens, The Arab Studies Journal site relaunch happened within 24 hours of The Cooperative Playschool site relaunch. Both sites happened to be ready to go live at the same time. I had ambitions to launch a third clients' Web site this week as well, but that may not happen as we are still prepping the site with content.
The Arab Studies Journal (ASJ) is one of my first clients. I originally redesigned / redeveloped their site in 2003, but as time went on, a new site was completely necessary. This time, the site is backed by a much more powerful content management system that makes it easy for the people in their organization to manage the site.
http://www.arabstudiesjournal.org
Filed under Site Launches
I've been working closely with Drew Dellinger - a spoken word poet, professor, and writer, on the redesign and relaunch of his site. We've finally tied all the loose ends and have gone live. Congratulations Drew!
http://www.drewdellinger.org
** Major thanks to John Vicari for assisting me with CSS/XHTML development on this project **
Filed under Site Launches, Web Design
I'm excited to announce the beta launch of WineTasteTV! I've applied a lot of my new AJAX knowledge here - from logging in, commenting, searching and more. This broadband internet channel features interviews with winemakers and sommeliers, tastings and restaurant reviews. Take a look!
WineTasteTV.com
Filed under Site Launches
What an improvement! I wish I had a copy of the old version of the site. Finally, we've done it. To The Contrary is a weekly discussion panel on all topics - with a woman's perspective. Thanks to Bonnie and Persephone Productions, and to Jessica Ludwig at PBS.
Visit the site: http://www.pbs.org/ttc
Filed under Site Launches, Client News
