Busy busy busy..... Time to make many websites, but too little time to note them here. We have just launched a new site for a long-time client, buehlervineyards.com. This site is packed with photos. Some were taken taken by Lisa Buehler, notably the beautiful shot of the winery with mustard blooming in the foreground. The rest were taken by us.
1/11/06
We have launched our first site of the new year, bresslervineyards.com. Too bad we can't tell you to click right now and buy some of their stupendous 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon, as it's currently allocated to mailing list members. But the site does have a list of the winery's restaurant's accounts, so if you're lucky you may be able to find a bottle.
12/13/05
I couldn't be more delighted to announce the launch of tiagavin.com, the website of an insanely talented photographer who also happens to be the love of my life and mother of my beautiful children. Besides her accomplishments in her main gig shooting weddings, Tia has made substantial photographic contributions to many WestEggWeb websites, notably Judds Hill, Paradigm, Zazu, Corison, and Easton. I also designed Tia's new logo. Since I'm a web designer, not a graphic artist, I'm stupid proud it.
12/08/05 We just launched the most dangerous site in our portfolio, sweetiepies.com. Fortunately Toni's incredible Napa bakery and all the amazing goodies inside are almost an hour from here, or this project would have given us a permanant case of sugar shock.
11/11/05 We're very pleased to announce the launch of amerestaurant.com. This is a terrific new San Francisco restaurant from the owners of Terra in St. Helena. We wanted to think outside the box on this project, and that led us into a box, oddly enough, as we devised an interface with a unique look that compliments the restaurant's graphics and interior design. Most of the photos on the site are ours.
9/20/05 One of my favorite clients, Mia Klein, has started writing a harvest blog on her website. If you're in the wine business, or interested in the process of making wine as described by one of the best in her field, this is a great opportunity to learn about the nuts and bolts. Plus, she's a good writer, and it's a good read.
8/20/05 We posted two new sites this week, Lex Mercator, mentioned below, and also www.jocelynwines.com, though this site has two pages that are still under construction, and we plan to update some of the photography very soon. It's a somewhat unusual design, and loads much more quickly than one would think.
8/16/05 Early in the A.M. today, we put www.lexmercator.com online. Probably the most surprising thing about this project is that the client is not a winery, but a school that conducts online post-graduate classes in American Law for Latin American lawyers. But there is a winery connection. A principal in this business is Michael Dalton, who also is majority owner of Tantalus Winery in Sonoma. We did their site a couple of years back.
8/02/05 Yesterday we launched www.piedrahillvineyard.com for Bill and Joan Smith of W.H. Smith Wines. They are fantastic people who make fantastic wines. Join the mailing list! It's probably the only way you'll get a chance to try this wine.
7/30/05 We just launched KesnerWines.Com for Jason Kesner, vineyard manager of Hudson Vineyards, who has started selling a tiny quantity of Chardonnay sourced from Hudson Vineyards fruit. The wine is featured in this month's Wally's flyer, so it is sure to sell out quickly.
7/13/05 We have a new site online for Wine Colleagues, a partnership of three established winery executives who have started a new consultancy. They are seriously knowledgeable, seriously committed people and their services are highly recommended.
6/12/05 We just launched a new website for Judd's Hill Winery. Early reviews suggest that it's a hit. If you spot any typos or other problems, give a holler. It's funny; sometimes people use the same text on websites that they've been using on printed collateral for years, and it's not until the website launches that the client, as well as their customers, friends, and family, start noticing the typos.
6/10/05 Just launched a new site for a long-time client, Kinyon Gordon. Now that his business, Kinyon! Culinary, has expanded from its origin as a catering company into it on-site cafeteria management, Kinyon needed a new site. We think the result is pretty sharp; more importantly, Kinyon does too.
6/06/05 We just went live with a shopping cart for Wine Opinions. This cart is uses authorize.net for real-time credit card processing.