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Complete Branding Package for a Pittsburgh Photography Studio

Posted on December 18, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

We recently wrapped up a complete visual branding package for Wright Image Photography, a Pittsburgh area family and wedding photography studio. We actually started with their logo and website last year and just completed the letterhead system, packaging and wedding brochure. The new pieces will utilize specialty printing with the logo being gold foil stamped on the letterhead, paper bags and wedding brochure.

Sticking with the white and gold color theme, we selected a crystal flash drive with a gold cap from photoflashdrive.com and we found brass metal business cards at mymetalbusinesscard.com (that look gold). These will we be used for the labels on their large prints and canvases – which will be wrapped in white craft paper and a white ribbon. As mentioned before, the bag will have a gold foil stamped logo, and patterned or solid metallic gold tissue paper will top it off.

Due to the custom search engine optimized WordPress website we created for them last year, they have more than doubled their weddings for next (all without any additional marketing). This bump in income has allowed them to reinvest in the company and they are now working on creating a solid marketing plan for next year. We are also currently converting their existing website to be responsive to improve traffic, lower the bounce rate and provide a better overall user experience.

It is always a pleasure to work with clients that understand and value the power of good design and cohesive visual branding. If you are one of those people, give us a call today, we would love to help take your business to the next level.

Update: Printed samples of the new brochure and identity design package just came in. They printed beautifully!

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Law Firm Website Home Page Design for Marketer’s Pitch

Posted on December 10, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure was recently contracted to design a website home page for a very successful and prominent law firm that has offices throughout Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. We were actually not hired by the firm, but by a marketing company so they could use the design in their initial sales pitch. If they win the contract, the new website will be built in WordPress and feature a responsive design, a custom slideshow, an automated settlements and blog feed, and a dynamic counting numbers widget. The numbers widget will start at all zeros, and when the user scrolls down and it come into view, it will start to count up to the final numbers.

Check back soon to see if our clients win the contract.

Indiana law firm web design for pitch

Custom WordPress Website for St. Louis & Illinois Window & Door Company

Posted on November 14, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure just helped Wilke Window & Door launch a new custom WordPress website. Wilke is a window and door company with showrooms in Shiloh, IL, Fenton, MO and St. Charles, MO. They serve the entire St. Louis Metropolitan area and all of Southern Illinois. In addition to windows and doors, they also carry columns, copper roofs, cupolas, fire place mantels, locksets, shutters & siding, skylights, staircase railing and trim & mouldings. They’ve been in business for over 50 years with a simple business model based on offering high quality products and treating customers right (our favorite types of business to work with).

The new website was built in WordPress using a fully custom designed theme. WordPress will allow Wilke to edit and maintain the entire website in-house (with less than a couple hours of training). The site is responsive, rendering beautifully on all types of devices, which provides for a great user experience. It also features a sliding Request a Quote form, a custom testimonials widget, an accordian showroom contact section and more. In addition to web design and development, we also provided search engine optimization (SEO) services.

Below is the new home page design. Please visit www.wilkewindow.com to view the new website.

Wilke WordPress Website Design

WordPress Website for St. Louis Drug Delivery Solutions Manufacturer

Posted on October 13, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

PD Holdings is a global leader in the fields of manufacturing and developing drug delivery solutions for pharmaceutical, OTC, nutritional, and animal & food companies. They are headquartered in St. Louis, MO with an additional facility in Seymour, Indiana.

PD Holdings recently contracted Visual Lure to design and develop a new fully custom responsive WordPress website. They requested that the new website be user-friendly and that it look “clean and corporate”. We provided them with two initial home page layouts, one that was more modern and contemporary, and the other which used a more traditional layout. Below is a sneak peek of the initial two home page options along with the template page of the selected design.

Visual Lure will also be providing search engine optimization services along with coordinating copywriting, photography and videography services.

Modern/Contemporary Home Page Design:

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Traditional Home Page Layout with Complementary Template Page:

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We are currently in the development stages so check back soon for the official launch of the new website.

Web Design for a Denver, Colorado Chiropractor’s Office

Posted on September 29, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

Visual Lure recently completed this new website home page design for Chiropractic Solutions of Denver, a Colorado chiropractic practice that provides sports medicine, acupuncture, physical therapy and massage services. Their current website has an extremely high bounce rate and a very low click through rate due to its generic look and lack of call-to-actions. The new design features a strong message, “We can make you FEEL BETTER!”, which is essentially what all their services are focused towards. We also decided to showcase their Google Reviews because they have over 25 all of which have 5 star ratings. A new patient special was also added to entice users to schedule an appointment online.

Note: We were contracted to do the design only on this project as another company will be doing the development. The new website will be developed in WordPress by a Colorado based WordPress developer.

Denver web design Chiropractor

Swingforehope.org Launches New WordPress Website

Posted on September 24, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

SwingForeHope.org has officially launched! The new website was suppose to launch before their tournament on June 16th of this year but the company that purchased and controlled their domain name was unresponsive until just yesterday. The lesson here is DO NOT have the web design company working on your website, or anyone else for that matter, purchase or control your domain name! Make sure you purchase it yourself. That way you always have complete control over it.

The new website was built in WordPress. It was developed using a custom designed theme. It is fully responsive, making it easy to view and read on any type of device including desktop computers, tablets and smart phones. The site allows users to make donations and pay for the golf tournament and sponsorships. All donations are directly deposited into their PayPal account through the website.

Swing Fore Hope is a non-for-profit organization based out of Edwardsville, IL with a vision to help end breast cancer. This non-for-profit has two missions. One, to raise money for breast cancer research, and two, to help support local families facing financial difficulties as a result of this horrible disease.

Below are screenshots of the home page design and a sample template page.

Please visit SwingForeHope.org to learn more about this great organization.

Custom WordPress Website Design for a St. Louis Metro East Technology and Communications Contractor

Posted on September 23, 2014 by JUSTEN HONG

C5T Corporation is a woman and service disabled-veteran owned small business based out of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. C5T stands for Command & Control, Communications, Computers, and Capabilities Transformation. The majority of their work is government contracted in the fields of information technology and communications with a focus on Department of Defense, military and civil aviation. Most of their staff is made up of U.S. veterans with years of defense department and civil aviation experience as military, civilian, and contractors. C5T wanted the new website to emphasize their patriotism by using red, white and blue and the American flag in the design.

The new website was developed in WordPress with a custom designed theme. The new theme is responsive, rendering beautifully on desktop computers, tablets and smart phones. It also features an easy to update home page slideshow, multiple easy to maintain widgets including a sub menu widget that automatically populates the sub-page navigation into the sidebar. This makes the site easier to scale as they plan on adding most of the new content themselves. We also updated their logo, staying true to the original, but making it more usable and easier to reproduce. In addition to the website and logo upgrade; we designed C5T a new tri-fold brochure that complements the new site.

Visit www.c5t.com to learn more about C5T and click here to learn more about our WordPress design and development services.

St. Louis WordPress website design for C5T

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