"24-hours before the project deadline, completely re-design the layout and graphics"

I love the way you called that a Challenge, instead of WTF?? heheh Good business diplomacy. ;)

;)

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When we completed some intermediate blog integration work on Ohio Boating, the client had this to say:

I am excited as hell to see the completed site but I'm so in love with our intermediate site that I might fight to keep it when it's time to roll it in. The blues blend beautifully and the shadow affect is classy and adds to the mood. Yup, we might duke it out on that one... :>)

Because we had already roughed out the basic design of the new, integrated Black/Gold "Good Boating" portal site, we were pretty certain that Ann would really like the new look. I was so certain, that I made this (rather cocky) claim:

It means a lot to us, as the designers/programmers, to hear that we're going to have to duke it out with you over the design! We're so certain that you'll love the new layout that we're prepared to bet you $1,000 -you won't even consider fighting to keep the interim one. ;)

Unfortunately, she didn't commit to the bet, otherwise we'd be a tad wealthier. ;)

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Yes, it is a good thing I didn't commit!!

I can't begin to say how you folks continue to uhm, well - astonish me! I have been circulating the link of the mock up page around to the staff and to selected viewers and it is unanimous praise all the way around. 'Exciting', 'unique', 'gorgeous' are some of the words feeding back. We are really going to have one of the most unique sites of it's kind in our industry and I can't thank you enough for investing the imagination that is making this one outstanding endeavor.

ann
http://ohioboating.net

Saludos
Felicitaciones por esta página.
Impresionante los efectos de sus imágenes.
Favor con que plugin trabajo usted?
Si me puede indicar el lugar de descarga?
Gracias

William Juan,

Gracias por el elogio.

¿Asumo que usted está utilizando b2evolution?

Ahora, estamos trabajando para un plug-in que haga con este efecto de la foto (PZ3) muy fácil. Sin embargo, el efecto de la imagen se puede utilizar en todas las páginas de XHTML. Es una solución de pure-CSS y usted puede AHORA descargar el código y comenzar a usarlo, si usted desea.

Usted puede encontrar más información aquí.

Espero que esto ayude.

-stk

that boating site is quite impresive. is quite a good job

I wonder what happened to them since then...

Nice default skin huh?

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Oh my goodness, had no idea you had posted this.

Great place for me to bestow my gratitude as well as accolades for a job exceedingly well done.Trying to communicate this concept to many designers met with resistance, from some outright contempt, some had no idea what blogs were, - many provided dire warnings that I would be lost to search engines and traffic would die - and finally,out of frustration, I had to settle for a pretty site that chained me to the site designer whenever i wanted to update the front pages (I am HTML/CSS illiterate to the max) and it served to force the reader to jump through hoops to get to the regularly updated blog content.

An intrinsic component to a blog's viability as a business tool is it's immediacy,authentic content and the possibility to interact. The idea of making blogs 'the water' the business site 'swims in', if you will (sorry - I have nautical on the brain), seems a natural expression of blogs as opposed to their being appended like some clumsy hanger-on to an existing static site.

I'd been using B2 on a personal site when I took on the job of writing content for ohioboating and I knew B2's flexibility and ease of use would serve the concept of creating a boating community well. Cruising B2 forums for clues on changes I wanted to do, I had the fortune to communicate with Scott and long story made short - he was the designer/developer I had been looking for all along.

It was an incredible relief to have finally found someone willing to imagine and invent and make happen exactly what I had hoped was possible for a web site to achieve. It is fortunate that boating is such a pretty business and boaters tend to be community oriented. It is a very good example of the product being a good match with the blog concept.

I am excited as hell to see the completed site but I'm so in love with our intermediate site that I might fight to keep it when it's time to roll it in. The blues blend beautifully and the shadow affect is classy and adds to the mood. Yup, we might duke it out on that one... :>)

Many thanks gentlemen.

Ann
ohioboating.net

It means a lot to us, as the designers/programmers, to hear that we're going to have to duke it out with you over the design! We're so certain that you'll love the new layout that we're prepared to bet you $1,000 -you won't even consider fighting to keep the interim one. ;)

We're truly pleased you like the intermediate design and we thank you for your kind words. Although it means a loss in editing revenue, we agree that a blog provides the power to control your own website, without needing a dedicated web team. At the end of the day, a website, like any tool, should work for you as best it can and not the other way around. We simply strive to provide our clients with the best tools.

Regardless, we're going to win the bet! ;)

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