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New WordPress Website for Brewster Companies

Posted on November 30, 2017 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure recently designed and developed a new custom WordPress website for Brewster Companies. Brewster is a family owned and operated excavating company based out of Maryville, Illinois that specializes in land clearing, structural and bridge demolition, site preparation and erosion control. As a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, Brewster have earned a solid reputation for safety, high standards and delivering projects on time and in budget. They work with private owners, state agencies as well as local municipalities. Their client list includes: IDOT, MODOT, Ameren, Waste Management, Alcoa and more.

Brewster's new WordPress website

The new website was built in WordPress using a custom coded, responsive designed/mobile friendly theme. It features a clean, simple layout, multi-column layout options, and simple to maintain slideshows.

Photography

In addition to designing and developing the new website, Visual Lure also provided photography services – shooting multiple Brewster work sites. Below are a couple of our favorite images from those shoots.

Brewster St. Louis Photography

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Sneak Peek at New Website for St. Louis Metro Construction Company

Posted on February 5, 2015 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure, in collaboration with Cohesion, is currently working on Holland Construction Services’ new website. Cohesion is a St. Louis, MO based strategic consulting firm and a full-service marketing agency, and Holland Construction Services is a top St. Louis metro east commercial contractor. Holland specializes in providing full-service construction services to commercial, educational, government, industrial, multi-family, recreational and religious organizations and businesses.

The new website is being built in WordPress utilizing a fully custom theme with a plethora of custom features. These include a leadership page where member’s photos are black and white, when selected, they turn to color and move to the foreground. A custom admin section is also being created so that the Holland team can easily add, edit and remove featured projects. The new site will be responsive so that users have a pleasant viewing experience no matter what type of device they are using to view the website.

Cohesion was responsible for the messaging, copywriting and the design of most of the main pages. We then took what they delivered, modified the design so that it could be converted to a responsive layout and we designed the rest of the site staying true to the provided aesthetic.

View the sample pages below, along with our initial proposed home page design (at the very bottom), and check back soon for the official launch.

Home page design

Leadership page

Featured projects landing page

Project’s sub category landing page

Sample feature projects page

Responsive page layout samples

Our initial proposed home page design

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Niche Photography Website Launch, Branding Package Update & Brochure Design

Posted on January 21, 2015 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure recently launched a new website for Niche Photography. Niche Photography is a St. Louis area wedding photographer specializing in portrait, baby and high school senior photography. They are located in Mascoutah, IL and service the entire St. Louis and St. Louis metro east area. In addition to their new website, we updated their identity package and designed a new pricing brochure for them.

The new website was built using a fully custom designed, search engine friendly, responsive WordPress theme with a multitude of cool effects. The new site features a “sticky” menu that always stays at the top of the page. The logo mark elegantly fades away allowing the menu bar to use less vertical space. Other features include an easily maintainable home page slideshow, a unique rollover-effect for recent post on the home page, and masonry style responsive galleries. Click here to visit Niche’s new website.

We also updated Niche’s visual branding package by switching his logo to all grey (the logo mark was originally a Tiffany’s colored teal blue). Niche felt this switch made the brand more neutral or more appealing to the masses.

We wrapped up all these upgrades with an engagement and wedding pricing brochure. They will hand these out to potential bride and grooms at local bridal shows.

Niche Photography Branding & Website

Update: We recently received printed samples of the new brochure and had a chance to photograph them. They turned out fantastic!

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New Website Design for a Colorado WordPress Web Developer

Posted on March 24, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure is currently in the process of designing a new website for Mr. WordPress, a Colorado based web developer that specializes in fast-loading, SEO friendly and W3C compliant custom WordPress themes and plugins. We will be providing design-only services on this project as our client will develop the new website himself.

Mr. WordPress wanted his new website to be simple, clean and easily converted into a responsive design. We feel our initial home page design (seen below) meets all of his requirements.

Check back for updates and the official launch of the new website design.

Learn more about our logo design and web design services and don’t forget to check out our logo design portfolio and web design portfolio.

Website Redesign for St. Louis based Professional Photography Consultant & Educator

Posted on May 18, 2012 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure has been helping Salvatore Cincotta build his brands from the beginning, including his photography company, his album line, his editing company and his professional photography consulting/education business, Behind The Shutter – which brings us to the new redesign. Behind the Shutter will soon be changing its content/format into a digital interactive magazine. It will feature videos, industry insider’s best kept secrets, exclusive interviews along with Sal’s expert business advise. Sections of the magazine will be free with signup while other sections will require a reasonably priced upgrade to view.

Using design elements taken from the new magazine layout, the new website will be built in a custom designed WordPress theme along with custom PHP coding to make the site easier to maintain.

Below is a sneak peek at the new home page design. Check back soon for the new website launch.

photography consultant web design

Learn more about our Word Press design and web design services. Also, don’t forget to check out our web design portfolio.

UPDATE: The new Behind the Shutter website launches along with the premiere issue of ShutterMag.

Check out the all new BehindTheShutter.com along with the premiere issue of ShutterMag. Check it out, membership is FREE!

…here is our full page spread ad for ShutterMag:

St. Louis advertising & design

Website Design for St. Louis based Landscaping/Lawn Care & Tree Maintenance Companies

Posted on May 17, 2012 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure was recently contracted to redesign websites for a St. Louis based landscaping/lawn care company, and their sister company that provides tree trimming and tree maintenance services. Their old web design company, who also setup their emails, went dark and quite returning email and phone calls. Then Rite-A-Way/Tip Top started having email problems… you get the idea… Visual Lure to the rescue.

In order to work with our client’s budget and save cost, we created one custom WordPress theme and then designed the second website using the exact same framework – simply changing out the logo, a couple backgrounds, some colors and of course content.

Check back soon for the launch of the new websites.

Here is the new home page for Rite-A-Way Lawn Care:

St. Louis landscaping web design

…and the new home page for Tip Top Tree Care:

St. Louis tree trimming web design

UPDATE: Tip Top Tree Care and Rite-A-Way Lawn Care websites have launched. For tree stump removal, tree trimming or tree removal in St. Louis or the St. Louis Metro East visit www.TipTopTreeCare.com. For landscaping or lawn care services visit www.RiteawayLawnCare.com.

Learn more about our Word Press design and web design services. Also, don’t forget to check out our web design portfolio.

Web design for St. Louis/St. Charles, MO Auto Performance Company

Posted on May 5, 2011 by JUSTEN HONG

We are working on a new website for a St. Louis/St. Charles/St. Peters, MO auto performance company that specializes in making cars & trucks faster and more “bad ass”. Some of their services include: Dyno testing, diesel performance, lift kits, Nitrous, superchargers, turbo systems and wheel & tires. We are still in the process of working on the new website, but as usual, here is a sneak peek at our proposed home page design. Check back soon for the launch of the new site.

UPDATE: The new Craven Performance website has launched. Check out the new website here: www.cravenperformance.com.

St. Louis web design for auto performance company

Learn more about our Word Press design and web design services. Also, don’t forget to check out our web design portfolio.

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UPDATE: The new Behind the Shutter website launches along with the premiere issue of ShutterMag.