Antonio Wells. Web & Multimedia Designer

The newly launched social network website AndroidTapp.com is giving away a new free T-Mobile G1 cell phone, the winner will be chosen at random. Utilizing various “Web 2.0″ methods to gain community participation in the promotion. Promotion starts Monday 11:59pm CST December 22, 2008 and ends Monday 11:59pm CST January 19, 2009. Participants can submit several entries by:

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Part 2 of the “concept-to-completion” series focuses on the Design of a Professional website. In the previous article, Anatomy of Professional Website Design - Part 1, we discussed the Creative Direction, Sitemap & Sketches. The following series will focus on the Development and the Flash Animated Introduction.

Design - now we can crack open Photoshop!

Now that we’ve taken time and analyzed the scope of project, we have our creative direction, Sitemap, and sketches we can now crack open Photoshop. (See the before and after in the captions below)

(Right: Here is a screenshot of the original Photoshop design layout, notice the owners portfolio shot, it was changed towards launch as her clothing color scheme did not compliment the web page design. Left: Plan D Website Sketches gave me an opportunity to establish page structure, draft the homepage splash, interior pages, and other notes.)

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I have not been able to post on my Web Design blog in a while because I’ve been crazy busy multi-tasking the launch of 4 new websites. One in particular just launched today called Android Tapp. Android Tapp is a social network website created to fill the void of many people wanting to see the Android App Market created by Google without having an Android powered phone like the T-Mobile G1.  The Android Market is comparable to Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. With the Android Market having over 400 Apps (at the time of this post), users need clear help fishing through which are worth downloading. With that idea sparked many more:

• You can easily Rate Android Apps
• Read our concise Reviews about Apps
• Post your own Comments or Reviews
• Interact with rock-star mobile App developers, as they are interviewed
• Get Freebies like wallpapers, contest giveaways, etc.
• And hot-off-the-press News about the Android Market

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The first interview on AntonioWells.com will start off with a colleague and good friend of mine Falaah Shabazz. Falaah is a Photographer, Graphic Designer and Marketer of Falaah Shabazz Photography. Specializing in commercial, fashion and concept photography and one hell of a graphic designer and marketing guru.

AW: Tell us a little bit about yourself?

FS:Well I was the, Son of a Share Cropper and… No, seriously, I am just a regular guy. I am a divorcee with three beautiful children and very single. Unlike a lot of individuals, I have a career that I enjoy and love. Photography allows me to be creative and provides me that much needed outlet to keep from going crazy. Being my own boss and having the ability to control all areas of business is also a plus.. I’m just big kid too, I love Nitro (gas) powered RC cars & trucks, all types of electronic gadgets and this new organic BBQ popcorn I’m eating! Ummmmm umm!

AW: Why did you want to become a photographer?

FS: In addition to being a photographer, I am a Graphic Designer. I was working on a project for a local band. The previous photographer was not available and I suggested that I shoot their photographs, for a small fee. I picked up the camera and off to the alley we went and amazingly, that is when my love affair with photography began.

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Fresh is a clean and minimalistic 3 Column BlogEngine.Net Theme suitable for resource blogs or even a company website. Built for BlogEngine.Net Version 1.4.5+ and Widget Ready.

This theme originated from a WordPress theme converted into BlogEngine.Net (an open source .NET blogging project) and I will give it away to the BlogEngine.Net blogger community. I will give away the Theme files, source PhotoShop file, and offer support for the theme. (Showin’ luv to my .Net peeps )

Features:

• 3 Columns: Left Content, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar
• Wigdet Ready Right Sidebar
• Clean Web 2.0 minimalistic color scheme
• Ads can be placed in the Sidebars
• Photoshop PSD file included (with some custom icons).

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This article will concentrate on the full Website Design life-cycle, from ”concept-to-completion”, of a Professional website I recently completed for NAMYnot Multimedia. The goal is to give other aspiring web designers the inside tips, tricks and processes they’ve been yearning for. This will be a 3 part series:

1. Creative Direction, Sitemap & Sketches
2. Design & Development
3. Flash Animated Introduction

Project Synopsis: The anatomy I’ll be breaking down is the Plan D Real Estate website redesign. Plan D Real Estate offers professional services in Residential Sales and Buyers Representation, Residential and Commercial Interior Design Consultation, and Home Staging incorporating Green sustainable friendly materials in the Chicago Metro area. The client did not want a typical realtor website, instead desired a website that showcased the aesthetics of interior design and home staging, as well as a marketing vehicle for the real estate industry.

The scope requested a Flash animated introduction, photo gallery, blog engine, emailing list manager, and the client wanted the ability to manage the content themselves. This instinctively suggested to run the website on a Content Management System. CMS Made Simple, an open source PHP CMS software, was the CMS of choice as it offered all the capability needed natively, and the few features that were not included can be easily downloaded with 3rd party plug-ins. More about the CMS will be covered in Part 2: Design & Development. 

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As a Halloween day special only, MidPhase web hosting is giving away Unlimited Disk Space & Bandwidth at a reduced price of $5.95/mo. versus the normal 250 GB Disk Space & 3 TB Bandwidth data transfer for $7.95/mo.

I use Midphase web hosting for my website AntonioWells.com and those contracted through NAMYnot Multimedia (30+ websites). So when I hear they are are giving away an insane package like this, I encourage my peers to purchase it. Their normal package is already insanely low priced and packed with tons of features, so imagine the same benefits at lower costs and Unlimited resources!

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Business Pro is a Free clean business template that can be used for service, products or solutions companies.

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In my last post about a mobile phone, I ranted about 3 Reasons I’m not getting the iPhone. Well here’s 4 Reasons Why I Love the T-Mobile G1!

1. Internet in my Pocket… Literally!

This phone keeps me in touch with the media I love most, the Internet. I can view full websites on a vivid screen; the colors pop and text is easy to read. I instantly have a wealth of information at my fingertips.

The web browser brings up full HTML pages minus Flash of course, no mobile web versions. That’s an app somebody should write. It can even handle JavaScript… I was able to launch the Lightbox Photogallery effect on one of my websites!

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SoftCorp Website Template is a fully functional template for software related companies I designed and selling over at ThemeForest. It is priced only at $12 for resale (and can be purchased exclusively for $2,200). You can greatly benefit from purchasing this template as it is a High Quality design with amazing features that could drastically reduce development time for your projects.

Click Here to Buy SoftCorp

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