Comments for AM Design http://blog.amdesign.com The blog of AM Design. Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Jump Start Your Creative Battery by Stephen Carr http://blog.amdesign.com/creative/jump-start-your-creative-battery/comment-page-1/#comment-812 Stephen Carr Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:18:02 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=336#comment-812 Very cool stuff. I agree with the "Take a Look" segment. Always good to check out other ideas etc. That's what I do with AM DESIGN! Very cool stuff. I agree with the “Take a Look” segment. Always good to check out other ideas etc. That’s what I do with AM DESIGN!

]]> Comment on Case Study – PureMission by Stephen Carr http://blog.amdesign.com/case-studies/case-study-puremission/comment-page-1/#comment-750 Stephen Carr Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:22:39 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=383#comment-750 Cool story. I am just about to take on a second non profit organization for web development. I won't be charging anything but it will be a fun project. Keep up the good work AM DESIGN! Even though I am a one man shop your website inspires me to always make my next project better! Cool story. I am just about to take on a second non profit organization for web development. I won’t be charging anything but it will be a fun project.

Keep up the good work AM DESIGN! Even though I am a one man shop your website inspires me to always make my next project better!

]]> Comment on Identity Crisis by Stephen Carr http://blog.amdesign.com/creative/identity-crisis-2/comment-page-1/#comment-648 Stephen Carr Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:23:42 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=357#comment-648 Branding is an old favorite of mine. Some people have the opinion that branding is the "layout" of their website. Personally though, I think once a company has established a logo and colors, everything else is free reign. The example I love to use is McDonalds. Their website changes weekly, the layout changes, the backgrounds change, but what doesn't change? The Yellow Golden Arches and the RED background. Other than that, McDonalds realizes that their brand is not in the layout of their website. The soon companies learn this the better, and the more free they will feel to be creative in the web development process! Cheers! Branding is an old favorite of mine. Some people have the opinion that branding is the “layout” of their website. Personally though, I think once a company has established a logo and colors, everything else is free reign.

The example I love to use is McDonalds. Their website changes weekly, the layout changes, the backgrounds change, but what doesn’t change? The Yellow Golden Arches and the RED background. Other than that, McDonalds realizes that their brand is not in the layout of their website. The soon companies learn this the better, and the more free they will feel to be creative in the web development process! Cheers!

]]> Comment on Need a Great Church Website? Start Here. by Stephen Carr http://blog.amdesign.com/strategy/we-build-great-church-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-647 Stephen Carr Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:17:29 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=143#comment-647 At this point in my personal consultations I have development many websites, but only 1 Church website. I have to give AMDESIGN.COM credit because I love AM's Design Layouts and Graphics. You guys make your sites Bold and Fresh and I like them a lot! I have no experienced the back end of your sites, but I'm sure they are very smooth and easy to work with. Keep up the Good Work! At this point in my personal consultations I have development many websites, but only 1 Church website. I have to give AMDESIGN.COM credit because I love AM’s Design Layouts and Graphics. You guys make your sites Bold and Fresh and I like them a lot! I have no experienced the back end of your sites, but I’m sure they are very smooth and easy to work with. Keep up the Good Work!

]]> Comment on Mobile Invasion by Stephen Carr http://blog.amdesign.com/news/mobile-invasion/comment-page-1/#comment-646 Stephen Carr Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:13:41 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=266#comment-646 I have found mobile websites, especially iPod Touch / iPhone Web Apps to be tremendously useful in house. At New Mexico State University I have designed for our department mobile versions of our intranet phone book, ticket systems and display tv controllers. This makes our jobs amazingly easy, we have these large LCD TV's in the entrance of our building and we can control them by simply pulling out our iPod Touch and opening our webapp and then choosing a specific slide to display on the web based TV system we also designed in house. Not only that, but if our students are out helping a client they can simply pull out their android or iPod and enter the ticket information on the fly. I have found mobile websites, especially iPod Touch / iPhone Web Apps to be tremendously useful in house. At New Mexico State University I have designed for our department mobile versions of our intranet phone book, ticket systems and display tv controllers. This makes our jobs amazingly easy, we have these large LCD TV’s in the entrance of our building and we can control them by simply pulling out our iPod Touch and opening our webapp and then choosing a specific slide to display on the web based TV system we also designed in house. Not only that, but if our students are out helping a client they can simply pull out their android or iPod and enter the ticket information on the fly.

]]> Comment on The AM Website Development Process by Stephen Carr http://blog.amdesign.com/strategy/website-development-process/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Stephen Carr Mon, 31 May 2010 23:38:58 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=97#comment-636 I think this is very important and I like that you discuss in your blog the process of starting and closing a website deal. Being a one man shop / consultant I have found that most of my clients don't know what they want, and most of the time they rely completely on my judgment. If a client wants to have more creative input I usually just tell them to find a website they like and then model their site accordingly. I have found in my very small market that clients usually want their hands held, and in the past when I await for their input their site could take 6 months to get up, which is fine, but that is why I do 50% payment up front, and 50% on completion. I think this is very important and I like that you discuss in your blog the process of starting and closing a website deal. Being a one man shop / consultant I have found that most of my clients don’t know what they want, and most of the time they rely completely on my judgment. If a client wants to have more creative input I usually just tell them to find a website they like and then model their site accordingly.

I have found in my very small market that clients usually want their hands held, and in the past when I await for their input their site could take 6 months to get up, which is fine, but that is why I do 50% payment up front, and 50% on completion.

]]> Comment on What has your website done for you lately? by Eric Neubauer http://blog.amdesign.com/news/what-has-your-website-done-for-you-lately/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Eric Neubauer Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:22:02 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=304#comment-82 Thanks for helping us ask the hard questions. We have been imagining how to use our site to increase visibility and drive down cost of advertising through the elimination of "paper" marketing. Thanks for helping us ask the hard questions. We have been imagining how to use our site to increase visibility and drive down cost of advertising through the elimination of “paper” marketing.

]]> Comment on 2009 AM Design Summer Picnic by rolturn http://blog.amdesign.com/news/2009-am-design-summer-picnic/comment-page-1/#comment-64 rolturn Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:59:49 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=172#comment-64 Looks like fun! Nice to see things are still going so well. Looks like fun! Nice to see things are still going so well.

]]> Comment on AM sites featured in Collide Magazine by Drew Goodmanson http://blog.amdesign.com/news/am-sites-featured-in-collide-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Drew Goodmanson Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:05:11 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=206#comment-22 Congrats and great work. I know it's not a church but I also have shown a lot of people the http://www.ccanet.org/ website you did. Amazing design. Congrats and great work. I know it’s not a church but I also have shown a lot of people the http://www.ccanet.org/ website you did. Amazing design.

]]> Comment on Two Timelines Diverged In a Wood by Kelli Garner http://blog.amdesign.com/strategy/two-timelines-diverged-in-a-wood/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Kelli Garner Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:29:05 +0000 http://blog.amdesign.com/?p=94#comment-21 Thats very good to know... thanks Thats very good to know… thanks

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