ambiquity design

Rick designed a new one-page site for Delta: http://singbecauseyoucare.com

The site, hosted by Ambiquity Design, is an ad for a four-day Karaoke fundraiser, “Sing Because You Care,” which raised $2655.25 for the local Wayne-Westland Corps of The Salvation Army. The event was organized and hosted by employees of Delta Air Lines and Wayne County Airport Authority.

The original art for the banner was provided by Gordie Roedeing.

The new site for the Set Medics is ready: http://911setmedics.com. We used the logo we designed, with a tagline that the guys wanted, and they worked out to be a great combo.

Good digital photos are an integral piece of the web design process. Unfortunately, it was difficult to get the crew together for some good shots to use on the site. They all work completely different shifts. Luckily, the medics had a firefighter buddy who is also a really good photographer, and they were able to coordinate schedules for a quick photo session.

The photos turned out well, and we used them as inspiration for the rest of the site development. I decided to make the navigation bar out of a film strip graphic, and coordinated the site background with the brown in the photos. Using a photo of the team that has a bit of red at the top — which matched the red in the banner — brought it all together into a cohesive look.

We also created a blog for the set medics. The next Ambiquity Design blog will discuss integrating a blog into your site, an especially important element of search engine optimization.

We created a site for a new local company. Geoff Lassers and three other West Bloomfield firefighters have created a service that protects local film production crews. They offer an important service and we’re happy to have the chance to work up a site and business cards for these young entrepreneurs.

Since the style and color of the new website are going to complement the company logo, we needed to create that first. The guys wanted something that utilized the staff of life and the EMS star, plus something that signified the film industry.

After playing around with some ideas, we came up with this:

The white background, grayscale, and stark red will work on small media, like a business card, and can also be used as a banner for the site, once we add a tagline. Here’s how the logo looks on the new business card:

The next blog will focus on the site.

The Word of Truth Church of God in Christ is a suburban Detroit outreach that needed a website. Rick worked together with church Minister Mandell Pressley, to create one that corresponded with the vision of the church and its founder, Dr. Robert E. Garner. The result: twtchurchandministries.com (also twtchurch.com — a shorter version that can be used on business cards or other space-limited media).

The six-page site fulfilled their unique requirements, including a prayer request form, a listing of the church’s weekly worship schedule, a blog about upcoming church events, and a blog written by Dr. Garner, the pastor and founder of the church. The two blogs each serve to keep the church members informed, and both pages needed to complement the look of the rest of the site.

Reconfiguring blog templates is a challenge, since a blog isn’t simple html code. Finding the element of the css code and which parts of the page they affect is a little piece of detective work. The blogs rarely look exactly like the html site, but they can incorporate the banner and colors of the main site.