arkitrave :: log

Karelia Software announces Sandvox™, a “playful, powerful new website development tool for everyone.” We are pleased to have contributed several templates to the project (No Parking Anytime, Glass Box, and Cathedral) which can be seen using the style switcher on the site. Congratulations to the crackerjack development team, who are presenting the project at WWDC as we speak. The launch is scheduled for Q3 of this year.

Our phone number has changed! It is now 716.866.4499.

Our article “Hybrid CSS Dropdowns” has been published in A List Apart, an online magazine “for people who make websites.” The article explains a technique for creating horizontal navigation that is easy to use and maintain. The editors say, “It’s a tasty little vitamin pill, so quit sighing and try it.”

We are pleased to announce the launch of two new sites. LaseOptics Corporation is a local manufacturer of laser products such as counterfeit detectors, and Focus Massage and Myotherapy is a small massage studio in Olympia, Washington.

The Zen of CSS Design featuring our work tulipe has been released. This book is a great resource on using standards-based design to create beautiful sites, and we are thrilled to have our work published in it. From the book: “Tulipe is a prime example of CSS being used both intelligently and responsibly.”

arkitrave rebrands its website for Buffalo Covenant Church. Changes are color and minor typography, bringing the look of the site in line with the look of the building and preparing for a print and banner campaign. Find out more.

arkitrave completes a new website for Nepo Strategies Group, a web and IT marketing firm in Buffalo. The site showcases Nepo’s work in a broad range of IT marketing projects. Read more.

Our first project as a strategic partner of Nepo Strategies is The Creekside Banquet Facility, a small site for a local wedding and business venue. The new site puts them ahead of their competition with an easy-to-navigate site and a sleek graphic treatment. Read more.

arkitrave announces its new partnership with Nepo Strategies, a subsidiary of Noein, Inc.. Our work will include graphic and web design for Nepo’s growing base of business clients. Noein was responsible for the e-commerce site of Dave’s Christmas World, and their application server handled some of the highest traffic on the web during the Christmas season. We are excited about this partnership, and look forward to creating usable, attractive front end design for an excellent programming and technical team.

We submitted a design to the CSS Zen Garden, a gallery exhibiting the potential and beauty of CSS-based web design, and the winner of “Best Developer’s Resource” at this year’s SXSW convention in Austin. Our work was selected as one of the “official” designs in the gallery. Check out the entry, named “tulipe”.