A video-heavy website built for Six14 Productions, a high quality Los Angeles production company that does everything from classy documentaries (Unconquered with Val Kilmer) to broadcast commercials (AM/PM, Comcast, Fedex, SpikeTV) to industrial films (GMC) to eye-popping music videos (Prom Kings, Breal, Bloodsugar). The company is helmed by the Sloggatt brothers, Justin and Bill, who take a personal approach to every film they make.

This site puts their work front and center, with a powerful, high quality video interface that automatically customizes its feed to the bandwidth of the viewer’s connection.  Handy tabs along the top allow viewers to select a channel of interest, and then side list navigation allows them to choose a film they’d like to see.  Full screen video is just a click away, where a media list of films is also seen so the viewer doesn’t have to click back and forth between full screen and small screen to browse.

In addition to contact and services descriptions, the site also has a full featured blog system that allows the company to put up news with images and video without needing any fancy programming.  A simple backend admin system (available securely over any browser) is always available so the blog can be updated anywhere they might be in the world.

The look is deliberately neutral in color to allow the video to truly pop out colorwise, with a top and bottom navigation bars that have the look of brushed aluminum and a slight 3d feel.  The company logo pops out of the top navigation like a camera lens pointed straight at the visitor.

On a side note, we are particularly proud of these little icons created to spice up their service description page.  Please endulge our designers by giving them a closer look:

If you are in the market for high quality, creative, and competitive cost video/film production services in Los Angeles, delivered with a family touch, look no further than Six14 Productions.

A new fully featured website for The Steve Alexander Group, a powerful San Diego-based communications company that provides a full range of services to both the public and private sector.

The site harnesses compelling animation, the latest blogging and social media strategy, as well as classic capability descriptions to showcase the Group’s unique vision and strengths.

The header for the site uses an animation of a light bulb with a spinning Earth overlay, out of which various trademarked slogans emerge to highlight the major points of each page.

The home page allows visitors to jump quickly to service offerings, or to browse recent blog postings either as a list of headlines or as an excerpted version of the latest post.  Once the visitor clicks deeper into the site, the sidebar changes to a list of headlines.  A handy link below allows a visitor to subscribe to the blog;  they can choose either to receive instant emails alerting them to new posts or receive summaries in a weekly digest form.

The blog itself has all the bells and whistles a reader could want — simple indexed navigation to major content areas, easy two-click sharing to any social media site (Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc), and moderated discussion and commenting.  It greatly boosts the search engine profile of the site, as it keeps content fresh and continually adds new keyword-rich pages to the site, providing plenty of new fodder every time the site is indexed by Google, Bing, or Yahoo.  From the contributor side, adding new posts with text, images, video, etc. is a simple process using the secure backstage area that can be accessed from any browser (even via PDA or cell phone).  As recognized thought leaders in communications strategy, this area will be heavily used by the company and be a key educational tool for current and prospective clients.

The site design sits in a subtly 3D looking frame that seems to float slightly above the page, with corners turned down to touch at bottom right and left.  Colors feature blue (signifying dependability, reliability, and calm) balanced by a secondary orange tone (which radiates vitality, action, stimulation, etc).  The combination gives a highly professional look without distracting from the main content delivery.

A handy tab at top left allows visitors to bookmark the site for easy access in the future.

A very fun website, chock full of animated goodies, built for/with the band Superchimp.

The band’s leader is also a crack animator who has created a very interesting visual look for the band.  Not content to assault the band’s fans with punk-influenced rock with a message, he has also painstakingly created old school animated videos and single sheet comics as well.

This site pays homage to all that art and music by giving the visitor lots to explore, poke, and play with.  We created popping balloon NAV, peeling bananas, steaming coffee, and much much more.  More is planned, but the first run through is plenty engrossing and lots of fun.

There’s a fully featured blog that allows the band to post news, gigs, music, and the latest comics and films easily.  There’s also a random “?” area where a piece of something interesting is always on display (often a cutting room floor item that is too good to let sit on the floor).

Fans of mindbending, subversive culture, check out the video for “Pop Your Balloon.”!

The latest incarnation of our company website utilizes twin bullhorns at the top to illustrate our ability to amplify the marketing power, creativity, and reputation of any organization.

In order to let the content take center stage, the site look and feel is deliberately neutral and understated in muted grey set against a white backdrop. Intuitive navigation, fast loading, and ease of use was of paramount concern. (more…)

Honkey tonker Grant Langston’s new website went live today, in preparation for his sixth album release. From a design standpoint, we created a straightforward, easily navigable look with some touches of country flair, placed in a color scheme that hints at old leather. The focal points are two big worn boots that appear on every page, mirroring Grant’s larger than life musical personality and real, no gimmicks songs and performances.

This is a fully featured WordPress-based music website, modern and webby in every way. It is built on the basic WordPress blogging system, but heavily hacked to allow Grant to use the administration area as a full blown content management system. Every aspect of the site is built in templates, so he can update everything easily from pictures to text to photos to calendar dates to video with no programming or coding, and no risk to damaging any page accidentally. (more…)

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