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Book layout completed

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:26:56 +0000

When contacted by Valley County resident, Richard Holm, to help make his book on Payette National Forest fire lookouts a reality, it sounded like an interesting job, and it was. (That’s one thing about my business: you are always learning all these obscure bits of specialized information on a wide range of industries and disciplines.)

His book is now going to press, complete with over 200 contemporary and historic images and looks to be the conclusive guide and history on topic. He’s a meticulous and careful researcher and reviewer and pleasure to work with. And I guess it’s mutual, as his last note to me reads, “Thank you again for all of your help. It has been great.”

I’ll link to the book from this page as soon as it’s available. And though I’m sure he needs a breather after the several years he spend researching, compiling, writing, etc., I hope this is the first of several by Mr. Holm.

[Ed: updated 29 Aug. 2009 with link to book]

Very special fashions on this site

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:47:39 +0000

Shawn is a woman on a mission: women motorcycle riders shouldn’t have to look blocky — shouldn’t be required to forego tasty, stylish wear — should be able to have both excellent quality and beauty.

I enjoyed getting to know her as we worked through just what she wanted her site to present. She wanted simplicity and a certain palette. Her web site meets all her requirements. And I knew just what I wanted to capture when I took the product photos for her site (visible in the slideshow on her home page). She was knocked out by them; called them “beautiful and compelling”; made my day.

Portrait and landscape artist

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:36:37 +0000

Boise artist Theresa Burkes wanted a site to house her growing body of work. With a career in engineering with top companies behind her, she’s embracing a love of oil and watercolor painting with the focus and discipline that served her so well in her prior technical environment.

We were very pleased she chose CFDS to create her website. Top criteria were a spare look and the ability to administer her site herself — easily, so it wasn’t a chore to add or edit artwork displayed on her website. Theresa has declared that the site is just what she’d hoped for. We couldn’t be happier.

Moved static site to a CMS

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:05:35 +0000

You know how some people just give you a lift, an energy boost? We just finished meeting with Patti Murphy, doing a walk-through on her invisible site re-do. Why “invisible”? Because we’d designed her site (which gets a lot of compliments, to hear her tell it) about a year or two ago. At that time, Patti preferred a maintenance set-up, where any changes to the site were sent to us. No problem; we bill by the minute (no rounding).

But now Patti would like to get more involved in adding content all the time, whenever she wants, so we took her site and — though it looks just the same — set it up with a CMS so she can edit pages at will. Plus, she has an all-important news page, so those wondering what this Idaho writer (assignments from the NY Times and Sun Valley Magazine, among others) is doing can keep up with her. (Though, as busy as she is, I think anyone would have trouble keeping up with her!)

Artist’s gallery website

admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:45:57 +0000

Jan Moore is a dedicated artist and it was a pleasure to work with her to get just the right look and feel for her site which displays quality pet portraits in oil (as well as her sketches in various media).

We worked up a couple of approaches and now her site displays a rich palette of deep green, velvety gold, and royal purple, with a rich cream background for the content area.

Prospective clients can write to her about specific pieces of art, and she can update her site’s content and inventory at any time through her personal administration area.

The site is at mooreportraits.com.