Jenn Mears Web Design

Site Launch: C3 Salon.com

Jenn Mears Web Design is thrilled to announce a new site launch for C3 Salon based in Marblehead, MA. Recently voted Marblehead’s number one salon, C3’s owner, Christine Knight found that she wanted to give her web site an overhaul to match her re-vamped business. Formerly Creative Cuts and Color, the name C3 Salon was available and the new url c3salon.com was chosen.

Christine wanted to emulate the rollover navigation used on a salon’s site that she liked, and it was a fun challenge to create a similar effect using just an HTML list and some a:hover CSS trickery. The home page has four nature images which, when moused over, reveal four main areas of the site.

The site’s main navigation also made use of a drop-down menu that was also styled with CSS to match the color theme of the site.

In addition to information about the salon’s stylists and services, a new contact form was utilized to enable clients to book their appointments online. This was a great experience in working with a client who was full of constructive ideas and feedback and the resulting collaboration will hopefully be a new asset to an already very successful business!

Site Launch: Michael McCarthy Law

Michael McCarthy Law has been in development for a while now and readers will soon find that it was worth the wait!

Meant to be much more than a simple “shingle site” for a Personal Injury and Estate Handling firm, MML is aimed at educating both current and potential clients, an approach that more and more businesses are finding to be beneficial to both parties. Creating this site was an exercise in conditional tags, one of Wordpress’s most powerful site architecture tools. Certain pages were designated by the client to live in the top navigational bar, while pages dealing with the various areas of practice were to have their own listing in the left sidebar. The theme is a customized version of CognoBlue 1.0 by BlogsDNA, which was a pleasure to work with, clean, flexible and consistent across browsers. Feel free to stop by Michaelmccarthylaw.com and take the grand tour!

Site Launch: Century Portraits

Earlier in the month, Jenn Mears Web Design completed work on Century Portraits, a web site for the portrait photographer Brian Corbett. This was a great site to work on since the images provided by the client were luminous black and white portraits that lent themselves nicely to a design based on the imagery of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Inspired by the classic portraiture style of George Hurrell, Century Portraits’ owner and photographer Brian Corbett has worked for over a decade and a half in the film industry. From working with such cinematographers as John Seale and Darius Khondji, he has combined his experience and love of photography into a studio that creates commissioned portraits in the style of famous Hurrell photographs of such legends as Humphrey Bogart and Jean Harlow.

To view a collection of Century Portraits’ work, go to: Centuryportraits.com/gallery.html

Featured Client: RCTerry.com

On January 20th, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama II was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States and many comparisons were made to Kennedy’s inauguration into the Oval Office. Beyond the superficial resemblances of vigorous youth and dynamic speaking skills, there is another striking resemblance to that era, President Obama’s call to Americans to work together to create a better world for all. This strongly echoes President Kennedy’s passionate support for one of his administration’s longest-lasting legacies, The Peace Corps.

Sargent Shriver, JFK and RFK’s brother-in-law, became a driving force in the creation of the Peace Corps based on his experience with The Experiment For International Living. In preparing to launch his new agency’s efforts in the area called East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Shriver decided to ask Robert Terry Jr., a journalist who had written about rural community development in South Asia, to lead the first team of Peace Corps Volunteers into East Pakistan. Terry accepted the job and began a long and distinguished career in the field of volunteer service.

After deciding to collect his stories of early life in the Peace Corps into a book entitled “And Everyone Should Try”, Robert Terry realized that he would need a web presence to attract publishing interest and so he contracted Jenn Mears Web Design to develop a site to showcase his experience under the name; rcterry.com

Recently launched, the site’s visual design is based on the colors of the national flag of Bangladesh, Terry’s area of service. In addition to the home page which introduces the user to the site’s purpose, the site also offers a brief biography, samples and reviews of Robert Terry’s writings over the years, and also a photo gallery which reveals fascinating glimpses into the early years of both the Peace Corps and the country now known as Bangladesh.