It's not often that we pose the "before" image of a website and have ourselves to credit for it's "lesser" quality and appearance. Today however we're featuring Green Meadows Inc. - a NJ landscaper that used Brand Renovations by GDS to revamp their website. The twist? We did their previous website too. They were in love with it. It brought tons of business through the years and got positive feedback till the day it died. So why did they redo it? Simple. Although the website we originally designed for them 5 years ago was attractive and forward-thinking by that "era's" standards - the web has simply become much more since then. Monitors are bigger, people have flash capabilities allowing viewing of complex flash animations, and the rules of search engine optimization have drastically changed.
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Green Meadow's new site is one we're really proud of. It has tons of warmth and texture and it really displays the company's portfolio of *gorgeous* landscapes well. They had professional photos done of their projects which made our lives a lot easier. With all that gorgeous imagery we just had to find the vein of what they were going for and run in it. Classy, upscale, natural. To top it off, it's really well ranked in search engines and it's browser proof!
We featured a new type of gallery on this site. It has a "ken burns" panning and fading effect on it appearing as a slideshow. It still features manual controls if people wish to control which image they're viewing. It displays their photos really well. NOTE: If you'd like this gallery on your site - make sure you give us large, high quality files. Click here to view the gallery
This site is full of neat little details. We put testimonials (which are very flattering to Green Meadows) all over the left navigation and featured their photos wherever we could.SITE CREDITS:
Art Direction: Dan Antonelli
Site Design & Flash Animation: Sarah Neal
Site build out: Jen Baker & Dan Antonelli
CSS & Interior Graphics: Brianna Meyer Scott
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