Alyson Design

Please vote for us! We'd love to win the People's Choice Award!

adesign — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:50:50 +0000

Cast your vote here, we’re first on the list!

Original Design

We participated in a website building contest that matched a non-profit organization with a team of designers/programmers to build a fully disabled accessible website fulfilling the needs (and wishes!) of the non-profit from start to finish in 28 DAYS! My team, Unchain my Art was matched with the Diverse Arts: East End Cultural Heritage District, to build an archival site using mapping and original source material to preserve the art and culture of Black East Austin.

In just 28 days, our team accomplished many technical feats, including the ability to switch from the graphic site to a basic no-graphic site (to help users using a text-to-speech-reader navigate easier) we captioned video so hearing impaired users can enjoy the interviews, and we also created an integrated mapping feature that allows users to see what was happening in different areas of the East End Cultural District at different times.

The content management system we created is set up so that volunteers at Diverse Arts can add edit and delete content in an organized fashion, allowing them to catalog and make available their copious amount of original source material (interviews, documents, audio files, etc.)

We lost a few team members due to the flu, and it was a race to the finish yesterday (our home page still looks a little naked) but we are very proud of the accessibility and technical foundation we’ve created for Diverse Arts. We hope they will be able to use and build on this web site for many years to come!

Now for the ask:
Please vote for us!! We’d love to win the People’s Choice Award!
Here’s the list of sites on the Knowbility website (we’re at the top of the list)

The voting form is here (we’re at the top of the list)

Vote Early, Vote Often! :)

Website Design: Blue Rocket Books

adesign — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:09:06 +0000

Alyson Design created a new website design for Blue Rocket Books, an Austin-based company specializing in eco-friendly online buying, selling, and rental of all kinds of books and textbooks. The site was programmed by Michael Berding of Berding Consulting, and contains some really clean, proprietary code specifically created for use in the online book industry. We also integrated our Organic SEO Starter Kit to help give the rocket a boost in their efforts to place their site as high as possible in organic search engine rankings.

Poster Design: 2010 Valentine’s Day

adesign — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:27:29 +0000

Poster design for Opal Divine’s 3rd Annual Valentine’s Day Beer Dinner. What could be more romantic – three courses of delicious food and dessert, and an array of his and hers pints! Sweet!

Logo Design: Coco And Duckie

adesign — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:48:04 +0000

Coco and Duckie is a Houston, Texas based business featuring artist jewelery and accessories, skin care products, bath and body items, and personal and home fragrances. An ecommerce website is in development and will be launching soon!

Portfolio Gallery

adesign — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:07:46 +0000

GRAND Flash Album Gallery

Skins for GRAND FlAGallery, Photo Galleries, Video Galleries

developed by CodEasily.com - WordPress Flash Templates, WordPress Themes and WordPress plugins

The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..

Click FULLSCREEN to view larger images.

Identity Design: Austin Centric Realty

adesign — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:43:07 +0000

Identity and branding for up and coming Austin Real Estate firm, Austin Centric Realty, Ross Cole, Principal.

For this design, we employed the use of modern, bright (almost neon) colors on a dark black background for a product that would stand out against the competition, especially in a yard sign. Now you can’t miss the bright blue signs while driving around central Austin!

We are currently developing a website design for Austin Centric Realty with a Google Mapping feature and listing galleries.

Custom WordPress Theme: Watermark & Company

adesign — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:16:19 +0000

Watermark & Company’s owner had some very specific visual goals for their website redesign, and with an ever-expanding project portfolio, the ability to make updates themselves was a priority. Using WordPress, we created a fully custom, functional and easily updatable site with an easy to use CMS control panel. To further enhance the new site launch, we brought a fresh logo idea to life, printed coordinating business cards, and redirected some of their online marketing efforts toward strong organic SEO performance.

Logo Design: Carport Core & Cardio

adesign — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:41:37 +0000

Logo design for Carport Core & Cardio, group fitness classes incorporating strength exercises interspersed with cardio intervals. A Total Body Tune Up!