Pleased to announce two new sites that went up recently. The first is a pet news service called Pet News Alerts and leveraged an existing Woo theme. There isn’t too much exciting going on with this site in terms of design. I created a simple logo (sorry – its a complete CNN rip-off) and got the site up and running. The real learning experience with this project was getting to know oDesk and Elance. The client contracted me to find a writing team for the site and using oDesk and Elance was really helpful. Persoanlly, I liked oDesk better. The interface was better, easy to use and quite frankly, I was able to find good talent quickly and at very reasonable prices. So far the site is performing great and the client is happy.
The other project I just completed is a pet supply coupon web site called Coupon-Zoo and I’m really pleased with how the site turned out. For this project I once again, did something new; I bought a pre-made logo from 99 Designs. I never thought I’d resort to buying logos on the cheap, but for what the project needed it was perfect and looks good. 99Designs has a whole library of logos that can be customized incredibly fast and very inexpensively – right around $100. I will definitely be using their services again. The rest of coupon-zoo was a modified theme that I like. I adjusted all of the colors to match the logo and have more of an organic feel and made some other minor tweaks. Check out the site and if you have a pet – check out all the good coupons.
