services
We mainly focus on web and print design at Gwen Harlow Design, but often enjoy the opportunity to take on a variety of other types of work.What can we do for you?
How about a customized marketing presence tailored to your needs, audience, and budget?
WEB SITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Graphic and logo design, user interface/information architecture (UI/IA), online marketing using HTML emails and on-site advertisements. Front-end web site development using HTML, CSS, and a variety of scripting languages from own designs or building out designs provided by client for small business, non-profit, and corporate sites. Strong adherence to W3C standards and cross-browser compliance. CMS/blogware site builds, template customizations, maintenance; shopping carts; galleries/portfolios; business card sites.
PRINT DESIGN
Graphic design for traditional marketing/promotional collateral. Typesetting and typography, color/palette, proofing/copyediting, pre-press conversion of images and other attachments to appropriate filetypes, creating print-ready files.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Graphic and logo design; online marketing using HTML emails and on-site advertisements; templates; banners; digital pre-press.
SOCIAL NETWORKING/NEW MEDIA
Research and integration of, and training in, social networking and multimedia features — Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, et al. — to take advantage of new technology and add value to client products and services by widening their availability to consumers.
IDENTITY AND BRANDING
Logos; print collateral; color scheme/palette; personalized look and feel.
ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
Copywriting and editing; search engine optimization; HTML e-mail promotion; ad placement.
DATABASE AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT
On- and offline set-up for single or multiple users; community forums; CMS and blogware.
IMAGERY
Digital photography; photo manipulation and optimization; customized graphics and illustrations.
OUR FAVORITE TOOLS
Some of the applications and technologies we use when creating a sparkling new [insert your project here] include, but are certainly not limited to:
Adobe Creative Suite Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Fireworks, Dreamweaver
Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint
BBEdit
Social networking/new media Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
CMS/blogware MovableType, TypePad, WordPress
Filemaker, MySQL, various FTP, and e-mail clients
advanced HTML, XHTML, CSS, RSS
intermediate PHP, Perl, XML, Javascript, jQuery
We have no unhealthy phobias about either Windows or Mac, but will admit to a slight preference for cuddling with our G5 on lazy summer evenings.