Familiar Hymns
Myrl Peterson is a local Friendswood resident and musician who has recently completed the recording of 5 CDs of his own arrangements of traditional hymns and church songs. As the demand for his recordings has grown, Mr. Peterson felt an online presence would help him market his CDs and give him more options for marketing. Since he was not yet ready for a full website, we designed a simple one-page site with strong visual elements and simple “Buy Now” buttons to accommodate sales without the need for a full shopping cart.
Lil Princess Moonwalks
Lil Princess Moonwalks is a new, family-owned and operated business in Pearland, Texas, specializing in rental items for children’s parties. The owners needed a site with high visual appeal, easy-to-access information on products and packages, a map of their delivery area, and contact information. The new site, with a vibrant color scheme, makes use of visual shortcuts in the navigation, and a Home page comprised of rotating “Featured” banners to emphasize the visual elements of the site.
Hogan Public Adjusting
Daniel C. Hogan is a licensed Public Insurance Adjuster based in Friendswood, Texas. Mr. Hogan needed a site that would allow him to not only promote his services, but also provide helpful information to property owners about the process of managing an insurance claim related to a property loss. We worked with Mr. Hogan to design his site so that it adequately reflects his services as an experienced, licensed client advocate. The site is built on a WordPress CMS platform, with a News/Tips section which functions as an easily updatable blog for Mr. Hogan. The addition of this section also benefits search engine rankings for hoganpublicadjusting.com.
Chocolate Bayou FCU
Chocolate Bayou Federal Credit Union is based in Brazoria County, Texas, with $80 million in assets and almost 18,000 members. They came to us seeking a fresher look for their website, and a need for updated functionality. Their request was for a more modern look, and a more effective platform from which to promote their services and loan rates. For their new website, we included a much larger banner area for marketing efforts, and better visual cues to the site navigation. With the wide variety and age range of the credit union’s membership, they needed a site that would have visual and functional appeal to their younger members, and ease-of-use for the older members.
Made New Again
Made New Again is a local business specializing in cleaning and restoration of hard surfaces, such as tile, grout, concrete and brick. The company needed a new logo, as well as a new website with an updated design and more flexibility in managing content. We were able to design a site that not only met these requirements, but also streamlined the customer contact, added customer testimonials, and allowed Made New Again to better showcase their services, including video demos of their cleaning processes.
Safe Air Mexico
Safe Air is an existing company based in Texas, but needed a simple, dual-language website to promote its expansion into Mexico and Latin America. Through the design, and use of relevant images, we were able to help Safe Air highlight their services and promote their brand in new markets.
LeBlanc Strategic Resources
LeBlanc Strategic Resources is a Friendswood, Texas-based business that operates in a variety of global markets. The goals for this site design were to highlight LeBlanc’s range of services, their global diversity and industry partners, and also provide a user-friendly way for potential clients to make contact. We added social media links, and Google Translate, which will allow visitors to access the content in any language.
Visicor
VISICOR, a Houston-based employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm, came to Big Splash Web Design needing a redesign of their website that would allow them to better highlight their services and news. This client was seeking a modern, dynamic site that offered flexibility in promoting their business, and also feature their new eServices Online Benefits Administration Portal. The new site design accommodates extensive use of custom video, and callouts on the Home feature Customer Testimonials, Latest Benefits, and Company news in addition to the eServices Online Portal.
Coastal Insurance Group
Clayton Johnson is an insurance agent in Friendswood, Texas, and came to us for the design of a site for his new independent agency. As a Gulf Coast resident, Mr. Johnson wanted to highlight his specialization in coverage for coastal residents. The business logo, along with carefully chosen images, help to convey this specialization, and the overall site layout was designed for visitors to easily browse this client’s multiple product lines.
Jump N Jungle
Jump n Jungle is a local kid’s party and play place, great for birthday parties as well as providing a quality daycare during the week. Since the business focuses on children, we wanted their website to be bright and colorful, yet still pleasant to look at. The jungle theme fits with the facility’s decorations and helps to make the website stand out and be more vibrant. This website is more cohesive and readable as well as easier to navigate then their previous site.
Trendy Homemaking
The website owner is a local Friendswood resident who wanted an online presence to be able to share recipes, as well as articles and information on food, creative projects and general household organization. She wanted a clean layout and design, with the ability to manage the content herself. We designed her site on a WordPress CMS platform, with the clear and simple navigation she requested. The site also includes a shopping cart through which the site owner can sell her self-published cookbook in both print and e-book form. The shopping cart was designed to accommodate more products in the future as the Trendy Homemaking store expands.
Bay Area Veterinary Specialists
Bay Area Veterinary Specialists is a Houston area Animal Specialty Hospital. They needed a website that explained what services they offer to not only attracts referrals but also to highlight the differences between their practive and a standard veterinary hostpital. The design needed to highlight their logo and incorporate the multiple animal images in the header, which rotate through the use of jquery. A library of educational articles are also seamlessy incorporated into the website as well, using WordPress.
King's Kids Learning Center
King’s Kids Learning Center is a Christian daycare in Friendswood, TX. They wanted a more professional looking website that properly reflected the quality of their education and care. Specifically, they wanted a colorful site that didn’t look too “corporate” and still retained a local business feel. The challenge was to strike a balance on the design between being kid-friendly, but still appeal to adults looking for daycare.
Buy and Sell Pearland
Buy And Sell Pearland was created for a local realtor who wanted to establish her own brand and separate herself from the millions of other realtors out there. The basic color scheme was based off of the business cards we designed for her. After looking at other websites that she liked, we chose to give the site a bit of a “grunge” feel. Our goal was to make the site fun and incorporate her upbeat personality, while still keeping it professional-looking.
Trollin N Pollin Fishing
The goal of this website was to feature the client’s souvenir stickers in such a way that was in line with their values of family. Trollin’ and Pollin’ is all about salt water fishing so it made sense to utilize water and sand type graphics. In the photos supplied by the client, there was a beautiful picture of a sunset so we incorporated the orange color into the design as well.
AR15 Conversions
AR15 Conversions is a major distributor for .22lr conversion kits for AR-15s. They needed an eCommerce website that could feature the products they carry and grow with them as they expand their product line. The color scheme of the website were designed to match their existing promotional material. To complement the static content (CMS) pages, we built a large top navigation that is easy to use. The website also features a Dealer Locator to search for brick and mortar stores that carry their products. We also integrated a custom XML notification system between the website and the fulfillment warehouse to automate the order and procurement process.
Blue Marlin Construction
Blue Marlin Construction is a locally owned construction and remodeling company that needed a website to feature their wide variety of services and previous work. The website design utilizes a large drop down navigation for all their services and links. The site is composed of many large high-quality images to attract the users eye and allow home-owners to quickly see the quality and value of their work.
Friendswood Historical Society
Like many historical societies, the Friendswood Historical Society was noticing a lack of interest from younger generations. To combat this, they decided it was time to embrace the Internet age. With their design, we went for a old-fashioned feel to go with the historical images. The website uses an earth tone color scheme to go with the trees and fig leaves central to Friendswood’s history. It utilizes some jquery on the bulletin page as well as integration with Google Maps.
Garner Environmental Services
Garner Environmental Services is a well established environmental and oil spill clean-up company looking to expand into online product sales. In addition, we also redesigned their corporate website to match the look of their ecommerce website. They wanted their website layout to be simple and easy to navigate. Grey and red were the predominant colors in their logo so we carried them over to their websites. Their CSS/HTML site has a unique homepage that is based around their star logo.
Heavenly Boudoir
Heavenly Boudoir wanted an eCommerce website that was elegant and classy. To feature their four main product lines, we constructed a home page layout that was at once simple and eye-pleasing, but also served to draw visitors into the website. They can quickly see what the website offers and choose which product category to browse.
