Well the Big Catch Fish and Chips Family Restaurant website is complete and was launched this afternoon. The web site was the last part of the huge project which included logo and full branding, 10 30 x 40” poster, vinyl wall netting installations, takeout menus, a 13 x 5 foot menu board and storefront signage.

This is only the second time I have had the pleasure to design a full package project from the ground up and I have to say as challenging as it was I really enjoyed it. Anyways on to the Big Catch web page.

I would like to start off by saying that once again I have programmed and coded a web site which validates with strict compliance. It has been tested in all browsers even that old piece of crap ie6 and works flawlessly across the board.

When I first started researching fish and chip shop websites all over the world I quickly noticed that most never had a site and those that did never really put any effort in to them. So right off the bat I not only wanted to outdo all the competition but I wanted to annihilate them all.

I began drawing some mockups and decided that this website was going to have a lot of character and I also wanted to have an animation of the sea. After playing around and figuring out how I was going to execute the effect the rest of the site kind of just fell into place.

The web site has a few other little interesting tidbits and graphics that I will leave as a surprise. Not only did I have a blast working on the website but I really enjoyed the whole project, it challenged me and allowed me to use a lot of skills that I haven’t used in a while and it taught me a few new ones.

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Just completed another o2ecs web project for the ElectroGuy which launched today. The ElectroGuy is a technology specialist who provides the installation and service for many different technologies such as security, computers, internet, satellites and electronics.

The site was designed in Photoshop then sliced up and programmed with some XHTML 1.0 strict compliant code. The main idea behind the side is to show the audience that the ElectroGuy services all sorts of clients from the city to the country and everyone in between.

To get this point across we literally created a landscape graphic of the big city (in this case Toronto) morphing into the countryside. A silhouette of a satellite dish pointing to the company logo was added to give the eye a more interesting course to follow.

And speaking of the company logo it wouldn’t be much of a Digital Deceptions creation if I didn’t add a little animation to really give it a personality. When you mouse over the ElectroGuy logo it electrifies and right below that I have placed a wind turbine which produces electricity (are you getting the theme here?) giving the landscape graphic that element of the third dimension.

All in all this project isn’t the most complex I’ve worked on but just like the ElectroGuy I to work with clients of many different sizes and I’m able to provide them with solutions to their problems no matter how large or small they are.

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With this in mind the website was created in a way that it could easily grow with Comma into any direction that they want to take their business to.

The site was build using PHP and some of the highlights include a logo rollover and Toronto city skyline animation as well as a secure email system allowing candidates to attach their resumes right from the site.

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Since they are in the Home building business I thought a wood texture was the way to go which they really liked the idea of. We stayed away from Flash and animations to get a better ranking in search engines so the website was constructed using PHP.

One of the big highlights of the site is the Virtual Tour, we used QuickTime Virtual Reality (OTVR) and they turned out beautifully. Another media element on the site is their TV commercial.

Once again the client was really happy with the project and I look forward to working for them many times again in the future.

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The website was constructed with HTML and CSS with elements of Flash and XML, a special feature to watch out for is a random quote that pops up in the main header on every page load.

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This project was my first real world experience and it was a massive undertaking for a noob because they needed everything from a logo to a website and everything in between and on top of all that it was to be done low budget because rock bands usually don’t have any money.

The band was pretty successful for a little while and did quite a few gigs (that’s band talk) eventually pressing a CD, making a music video which actually got played on Much Music for a week or two and then later on as most bands do they broke up.

Before they broke up we managed to make a pretty slick website that got lots of buzz, for its time it was pretty interactive, it was mostly flash based and even had a twisted version of space invaders which used the band members heads instead of aliens.