Maryland Trust Title Escrow Website Portfolio

One of our favorite clients is Maryland Trust Title & Escrow, LLC based in Prince Frederick, MD. They are owned by the same group that owns RE/MAX One and Davis Upton & Palumbo, also of Maryland. They are fantastic clients. They have great content, grounded marketing strategies, and reputable business endeavors.

That makes our job easy.

Maryland Trust Title & Escrow provides settlement services for Maryland and Virginia. They serve both residential and commercial customers, and have a solid record of customer service and a high level of satisfaction among clients. But their branding and web presence had 2004 written all over it. So they approached us to update both. It quickly became one of the smoothest redesign processes we’ve ever been through.

We first tackled the logo design staying in the lines to avoid wrecking brand recognition. After changing a few fonts, we rounded edges and modernized the colors to capture the final product. Sometimes simple, targeted updates can make a world of difference.

Maryland Trust Title & Escrow Logo

Next we crafted the WordPress-based website from the ground up. After content was provided by the client and evaluated by us for SEO compliancy, we built the user experience and template based on the fresh new branding. We added simple call to action buttons and custom designed icons throughout the site to provide a potential client clear direction in mitigating the settlement process.

Our design process has taken a slight turn in ensuring mobile/responsive design is given at least 50% of our design attention if not more based on the statistics that point to mobile-first becoming the dominant design consideration.

Maryland Trust Title Escrow Responsive Portfolio

We took into account page speed, user experience, as well as beauty and attractive aesthetics of the site – all strategies to increase client session time on the site (which leads to client conversion!).

If an attractive, responsive, functional, content-focused site is what you’re after, we’re your graphic designers and web developers.

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 See Maryland Trust Title & Escrow Website here.

 

Remember You Matter, LLC - Logo

One of the privileges of working with small businesses in logo design and marketing is uncovering the passion of starry-eyed dreamers. The owner and creator of Remember You Matter, LLC is such a person.

We spent time covering her graphic design needs – particularly branding (logos, business cards, brochure) – via a few phone calls. From the beginning, her enthusiasm for this new endeavor was clearly conveyed. Remember You Matter is a Central Texas-based business providing life coaching services, mentoring, and consulting. The owner is currently an Occupational Therapist, so she has life experience and wisdom needed to bring out the best in others. Or as she says – “encourage a life that flourishes from the inside out.”

We like that.

In our design for her logo, we chose soothing, yet vibrant colors – the color of life: comforting green, vibrant orange, and deep woody colors. The font we chose  professionally demonstrates stability, yet is organic, almost crooked – like the shape of a tree, an icon of permanence, hope and growth.

On a more practical note, the logo will be reproduced on t-shirt, mugs, and other materials, so a design that reproduces well in one color was also a core value in developing her logo.

Remember You Matter will also work with kids and teens giving them a breath of hope in determining their future. Thus we developed an offshoot logo for Remember You Matter KIDS seen below.

Remember You Matter Kids - Logo

This is a fun project – something different. It is truly a joy to work with this new Killeen, Texas business owner in her early marketing work. We genuinely look forward to witnessing the impact she’ll bring through her gift of providing direction and inspiration to others.

Do you have a dream business of your own, but just need to know where to start? If so, let’s talk…

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Baird Law Firm Website Portfolio

For some reason we’ve found a knack to locking in law firm websites and logos – like here and here. No complaints here. You know what they say about lawyers.

Nevermind.

Charlie Baird is a hard-nosed, Austin, Texas-based lawyer who recently branched out to establish his own firm. His team approached us to rework his new logo and website. They wanted classy, elegant, and sophisticated. Charlie has 35 years of legal experience; his website and logo need to speak to that fact.

Baird Law Firm Austin LogoWe went serif font with a modern color combo for the logo. We leaned to the classical style, while showing presence and experience. The Baird name alone provides its own branding history with countless cases in his career as lawyer, professor, and judge – some of which are in Texas history books. Providing prominence to the Baird name in the logo was an easy decision.

Baird Law Firm Responsive Portfolio

The website design is to the point, easy to navigate, responsive, and clean. We helped discover, craft and edit Charlie’s content – a service we provide that’s proven effective in producing deliverables in a timely manner.

There are countless lawyers in the Austin area. We believe we provided a distinct, classy logo and website design for Charlie Baird’s law firm so he can stand above the crowd of law firms.

Maybe you’d like the same for your law firm or business? We’re just a consult away.

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See Baird Law Firm Website here.

Davis, Upton, & Palumbo Website Portfolio

Until Davis, Upton, & Palumbo came along in 2016 seeking a facelift for several of the firm’s websites, most web design clients in our portfolio were simple “brochure” sites. So we were thrilled to design and develop a website with a law firm as reputable as Davis, Upton, & Palumbo (DUP) anchored in Prince Frederick, MD.

Our challenge with the DUP website was maintaining the “classic” feel of elegance, integrity, and longevity, yet add a modern touch of color, functionality, and user experience in order to bring DUP into 2016.

On top of that, we needed a highly responsive site and video blog integration to enhance the client experience as well as search engine optimization.

Davis, Upton, & Palumbo Responsive Website Portfolio

To reach a wide clientele for the law firm the site was developed with responsive technology.

DUP’s main office in Prince Frederick is an old, gorgeous farm house converted to office space for DUP and RE/MAX One. This was the perfect backdrop for the header. It brought beautiful Southern Maryland charm to the firm. We then crafted contemporary icons to give quick access to the major practice areas.

Davis, Upton & Palumbo Custom Icons

Morether Crafted custom icons for the different practices in the firm.

Mark Davis and his team are a favorite clients of ours. We’re happy providing web and graphic design assistance needed to tell the story of a stellar firm.

Why not be the next success story?

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See DUP Website here.

Witt, McGregor, Bourland, PLLC Website Portfolio

WMB or Witt, McGregor, & Bourland, P.L.L.C. is a law firm based in Waco, Texas and serve all of Central Texas from Hillsboro to Austin and even DFW. Michael Bourland, the partner approached us some time ago to redesign the website. The old site was dated, information was no longer relevant and they needed a modern appeal. The firm hired several young attorneys, and their demographic has shifted slightly in the past 8 years.

Witt, McGregor, Bourland, PLLC Branding Portfolio

We encouraged WMB to re-work not only the website but their branding as well. We steered away from the classic, serif law firm persona and dove headfirst into a modern, elegant approach using peace-producing grays and blues that elaborate on the stability of the firm. They loved it and so do we. We believe the branding and site are a fresh approach to what is normally a stiff industry.

Witt, McGregor, Bourland, PLLC Responsive Website Portfolio

A responsive site was a must for WMB.

The site is SEO-friendly – necessary in a competitive market and features a monthly blog and robust forms; it’s mobile-responsive, so immediate leads are easy and fast.

WMB is a quality law firm and one of several law firms we’ve equipped. If you’d like us to work with your law firm on your web presence and marketing strategy, have your lawyer call my lawyer. Just kidding. Contact us below.

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RE/MAX One Website Portfolio

The people of RE/MAX One in Maryland (really all over – Southern Maryland, Annapolis, Eastern Shore…everywhere!) have a stellar office. They approached us to revamp their current website situation. They were paying a third party a large sum of money each month for a site that was generating few leads and needed repurposing.

We spent some time with RE/MAX One’s Marketing Director to determine scope and audience for their new site. And while the site has a completely searchable property database to generate leads for home buyers and sellers, we pursued a website targeting potentially new agents for the firm. RE/MAX One has over 120 agents (yeah, we said “holy Moses” too) and 5 different office locations, so they know how to move real estate in Maryland! Thus they need a lean, informational, clean site. Most Realtors® are on the go, so a website that’s responsive on phones, tablets, and desktops is a must. We incorporated the latest Flexbox technology keeping the site fluid on all devices.

The site also taps into the powerful lead-managing IDX Broker plugin to import the 120+ agents and offer thousands of searchable properties.

Though seemingly (and intentionally) simple on the outside, this website is a beast and works well for the intended audience.

RE/MAX One is a rock solid real estate broker with aggressively smart agents. It is a pleasure working beside them.

REMAX One Responsive Website-Portfolio

A responsive site was a must for RE/MAX One.

You need not be an office with 120 agents to move forward in your real estate business. Whether you’re a single agent, and office or a broker, we’d love to partner with you to evaluate your current website or marketing strategy, integrate IDX Broker and begin generating real leads.

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See RE/MAX One Website here.

Temple Wildcat Wellness Logo

This was a challenge, but one of those rare moments when really digging into the client’s request for a new “Temple Wildcat Wellness” program – reading and re-reading the desired outcome paid off. Like, “only-45-minutes-of-work” paid off. The Temple Texas ISD HR department requested a design of a logo for their new Wellness Program. The request included incorporating the “Temple Wildcat Blue”, the block serif font for the “Temple,” which is what Temple ISD’s unofficial/official font is, yet giving it a soft, moving logo to get one in the mindset of eating well, exercising, and keeping a mindset of peace and health.

Not an easy task.

But after studying the request and sketching out (literally…drawing…why don’t we do this any more?) idea after idea, the logo seemed to fall in place. And the team at Temple ISD was happy in one shot. No revisions, no “let me see what else you can do.” No “let me see what my nephew can do in Photoshop.” Just a satisfied customer.

A miracle in July.

Crow Entertainment Website - Portfolio

Crow Entertainment is a Professional DJ and Production Company based in Huntingtown, MD. Crow is run by entrepreneur Brian McDaniel also of Huntingtown. How do you become a professional DJ? Aren’t you supposed to call your second cousin to round up a few great tunes on their phone and plug it into a Peavey sound system borrowed from the uncle who used to have a Guns N Roses cover band? Right? That’s the standard that Brian and his team have shattered by providing amazing customer service and attention to detail in building Crow Entertainment. Crow’s events are unsurpassed in excellence and quality and possess a huge dose of fun and top-notch DJ’s.

That’s how you become a fully employed Professional DJ and Production Company.

But enough about Crow. This website has been a back-burner project for both of our companies. When running your own business, promoting and creating powerful marketing channels, such as high quality website, are difficult in the middle of payroll, finances, meeting with clients, and so on.

So it’s a joy to release this site with Brian. We combed through video footage, photos, and tweaked content to keep Crow’s SEO content high, but ensure we meet client’s needs first. This site captures their professional persona, yet also shows Crow’s product is nothing short of amazing and fun.

Knowing a predominant amount of Crow’s clients are young and use phones nearly exclusively, we tackled the design of this product by developing desktop side by side with mobile responsiveness. The hamburger menu keeps the page clean but provides easy nav through desktop, tablet, or mobile.

Glad to finish this website development project with a quality DJ company.

Crow Entertainment Responsive Website - Portfolio

Crow Entertainment Responsive Website

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Guest Cottage Portfolio Featured Image

Guest Cottage Cocoa Beach, FL Branding LogoWe were approached by a good friend to improve the marketing capacity and presence of a beautiful little beach cottage on the shores of Cocoa Beach, Florida – The Guest Cottage. We tried to barter a month stay in exchange for the branding and website, but they realized we were getting the better deal, so they politely declined. Nonetheless, someday, we’re going to visit to soak in some Florida sun. Yes we have Temple, Texas sun, but without rolling Atlantic waves to cool us off, it’s worthless. It’s not fair. But I digress.

Cocoa Beach, FL is a fun city on the coast, so our logo for Guest Cottage had to reflect that: bold, beautiful colors pulled from the decor of the cottage, a carefree font, and loads of white space – reminds us of sitting at a local beach restaurant sipping a mimosa or Landshark with plenty of white space on the mind.

Ahhh…..

Again, I’ve strayed.

Our client wanted more control over bookings and marketing than vacation rental giants Travelocity, VRBO, and Airbnb allow, so we dove into branding and website headfirst. We set up booking for the site, giving the owners complete control and communication with potential vacationers. We ensured the site was designed with mobile responsiveness at the forefront so when sitting in the middle of a nasty March snowstorm in Chicago, one may grab a phone and book that trip to Cocoa Beach. Done. Easy.

Finally, we followed with simple business cards and rack cards to distribute to local Cocoa Beach businesses and attack one more marketing channel in a town where word of mouth is still king.

Enjoy the site, but be careful: you’ll soon be clicking the “Get Away Now” button and hopping on a plane bound for sunny Florida. See you there.

Guest Cottage Cocoa Beach, FL Brochure and Business Cards Marketing Collateral

Guest Cottage Cocoa Beach, FL Brochure and Business Cards Marketing Collateral

Guest Cottage Website Responsive - Portfolio

Guest Cottage Responsive Website

See Guest Cottage Cocoa Beach Site Here.

Calvert Restoration Website

Calvert Restoration Logo Portfolio

Calvert Restoration, LLC is a waterproofing company based out of Calvert County, Maryland. They came to us via a mutual friend and client needing a website. We discovered when reviewing the project they didn’t have any branding either, which is pretty crazy for a company who has been in business for 20+ years. We believe it goes to show the quality with which they do their work and the amount of care provided for clients. Word of mouth and customer service are still significant these days.

Nonetheless, they were ready to step up branding and marketing a notch, so they hired us for branding and a general marketing website that features a slice of their portfolio. We really had no clue what waterproofing and masonry repair was when setting out in crafting the logo and developing the website; but let’s just say they probably won’t be caulking your next bathroom reno project. They do massive projects in the DC, Virginia, MD region. They’re a big deal. So we wanted to ensure they had a professional, simple style to appeal to contractors and builders.

Calvert Restoration Letterhead & Business Cards

We enjoyed working with Melanie and Calvert Restoration and look forward to further enhancing their marketing presence.

See Calvert Restoration site here.