Dray Design Studio's web site portfolio.

Your business goals come first.

Development of a web site for your business does not start with graphic or technical design. The first step is to understand what business goals you want to achieve with your web site - how it fits into your overall business strategy.

Developing a web strategy that fits with your business strategy is a key deliverable of the Studio's approach and a strength of its Chief Designer, Duane Schermerhorn.

For one customer, the Studio developed a web site strategy and three-year plan that fulfilled that strategy in affordable steps.

Technology

Dray Design Studio has experience and expertise with all of the technologies needed to develop, deploy and maintain web sites:

PHP
MySQL
Microsoft’s ASP
Microsoft’s SQL Server and Access databases
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Photoshop
CorelDraw

Web Site Design Portfolio - Page 1

Examples of web sites designed and developed by the Dray Design Studio. The Studio hosts and maintains many of these web sites, as well.

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René Huard

René Huard - actor, musician, keynote speaker, antique show host and expert. The challenge of this website was to present this muli-talented personality in a way that provides focus, yet does justice to all of Rene's talents. Splash page, Flash animations, movie clips, and e-commerce enabled.

Innovative web site design for interior designers.

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Essence of Life Keepsakes

Essence of Life Keepsakes produces tribute and celebration DVDs. Includes flash and examples of a memoiral tribute DVD and a birthday celebration DVD.

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Troubadour House

This website showcases Troubadour House Bed and Breakfast in Stratford, Ontario, just fifty yards from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theatre.

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Mind and Matter Designs

This web site provides the interior designer with a forum for presenting her work and explaining her services to prospective clients. Dray Design Studio worked with the owner to present services, develop a logo and a slogan. Includes a discreet Flash animation.

Keywords and text were optimized for search engines, and the site is #1 at AOL and Google for searches on "showcasing homes" and #2 for "house staging". It gets page one ranking in searches at AOL, Excite, Google, Yahoo, MSN, All the Web, and Teoma.

Innovative web site design for performing artists.

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Port Hope Friends of Music

The client wanted an eye-catching web site that was commensurate with the sophistication of classical concert music performances by world-class artists. A color palette was chosen to be reminiscent of the performance stage, musicians in formal attire, and the rich browns of string instruments.

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Art Gallery of Northumberland

Organizing a great deal of information about the gallery, its collection, and artists was a key to this website design. User-friendly navigation allows visitors to find information that is important to them with no fuss. Colors and layout were choses to suggest the contemporary feel of the this gallery/museum, while not losing contact with its rich history.

Innovative web site design for non-profit organizations.

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Arts Council of Northumberland

The Arts Council of Northumberland is a coalition of organizations that sponsor, promote and support cultural activities in Northumberland County, Ontario. The groups are affiliated with Theater, Music, Film, Heritage, Visual Arts, Literary Arts, and Arts and Crafts.

With over 80 member organizations and hundreds of events taking place throughout the county, it was extremely important that the website be easy to navigate and simple to find information on. Aestical appeal was also important. The website is such as success that the ACN stopped publishing its bimonthly calendar of events and use the website as the only means of communicating with its public.

Innovative web site design for small business.

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Theories - It's A Game

This site for the party game "Theories" provides the reference sources for the game's always interesting and sometime whacky theories. The website colors and textures were chosen to match the game packaging to ensure a consistent brand identity across all media. The loose layout was designed to highlight the product and to suggest a good time.

Technically, the site uses PHP and a MySQL database of reference sources for the game's theories.

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Silkie Art

Painted silk art by Alison Jackson. This e-commerce website includes a Flash movie that illustrates Alison's photographic art. The website is colorful and lively, like its talented owner. A silkie is an ocean seal, and Alison's art is celebration of her passion for the sea and its wonderful creatures.

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Audley Interiors

This website for the talented interior decorator Sarah Audley captures the clean lines of her decorating and design work. The online portfolio presents some of her past achievements in a number of different styles.