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Sunday, November 30, 2008

"And Here... We... Go.."

Heath Ledger as the Joker in the smash hit The Dark Knight said it best as he waged war on Gotham and our hero the Dark Knight, BATMAN! That's kind of how we feel tonight here at Aerial Perspective Web and graphic Design. Our official launch of the brand new site will be at 12:01am On December 1st, and be an exciting and we are sure interesting ride.

So check out the site, and let us know what you think, and what you need!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Almost There!

We're almost there. The new site homepage is basically finished and we are working on plugging in all the other portions of the site.  It's pretty exciting around here to finally get this thing off the ground and fully functional!

Also, our fall intern Samantha Sargent, from the University of Utah, is going to continue with us into the spring semester as our Project Manager!  Sam has done a great job promoting AP, and working as our initial contact for many clients.  Thanks for your hard work Sam!

As a great man once said (quite recently), "Yes we can."  And yes, we can get this ship afloat and on the way!  

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Direct Approach

A couple of weeks ago, we tried a direct approach to connect with the Great Salt Lake Bird Festival coordinator in hopes of snagging the bird fest as a new client. Their current site is a bit on the awkward and outdated side - http://www.greatsaltlakebirdfest.com - and in terms of overall usability it is a bit clunky. We went as far as to design and build a demo version of the homepage to try and show them what the possibilities were for their site. Currently there are numerous birding festivals around the nation, and all the websites promoting these events are for the most part, on the sad side. Below is a screen shot of what we came up with...



We wanted to give the bird fest folks a modern, sophisticated-yet-fun, and easy to use and navigate site. Thus far we haven't heard back from them and are wondering if the approach we used was a little to forward. In any event, we wanted to show some of the stuff we are working on right now and try to spread the word.

So if you run a bird festival and are looking to modernize... Let us know!

Over a year in the making!

When we started Aerial Perspective in August 2007 with a soft launch, we didn't expect to pick up clients at the pace that we would be just a year later. In August 2008 we launched a new site, but got caught up in a lot of projects and never finished what we had hoped would be a great site. Finally, after a few months and a little free time in between jobs, we have managed to throw together a new layout, and get the site up and running. Today we launched the new homepage with a built in blogger.com blog to keep updates flowing and talk about what we are working on.

Tomorrow we plan on hooking up the back-end for the rest of the site and get all the other portions up and working 100%. There is still a lot of work to come, but everything should take shape in the next week. So just over a year and three soft builds, it looks like theaerialperspective.com will be fully functional!

Check back soon and often to see whats new and what we have on our plates!