Elgin, Illinois based Rooftop Solutions is a company that manages rooftop grease containment, roof inspections and clean up, HVAC coil cleaning and filter changes, along with selling the Grease Guard™ and Clean Air Vortex™ grease containment systems.   They came to us earlier this year looking to build their brand and to build a website around their existing logo.

The Rooftop Solutions Web site (http://www.rooftopsolutions.com) is a medium-sized site static site, and a good example as to how we take a site that has to accommodate for a wide variety of products and services. It is also able to handle a wide variety of page content, be it filter sizes or product listings.

The McNeill Company is a nautical decor and gift shop in Oak Island, NC. They came to us asking for a product gallery that was reliable, easy to maintain, and could be quickly updated with their ever-changing product assortment.  Along with this, they wanted a site that reflected the relaxed spirit of the Carolina coast to draw in visitors.

We started with Plogger, an open source photo gallery and reworked its features to meet the needs of The McNeill company. We simplified the interface so that it could be easily maintained by anyone regardless of technological familiarity.  Since they maintain their website themselves, it’s important that this feature works reliably and does not require heavy maintenance. The end result was a straightforward, easy to use interface for managing products and product categories.

Latté Litchfield is one of our favorite espresso bars (in fact we’re having some right now) , and we were excited when we got the opportunity to work with them  to create their new logo, packaging, and signage!  An independently owned espresso bar and ice cream shop in Litchfield, South Carolina (not too far from Myrtle Beach), Latté Litchfield’s new owner looked to revamp the existing establishment’s image into something more distinguished and instantly recognizable from the nearby highway.

Along with the new web site and logo, we worked with our friends at nearby Delta Signs to manufacture a new custom sign for both the storefront and pylon, complete with the new logo.

The Old Sign

The New Sign

One of the advantages to having a web site done by Studio Tidal is we’re able to design a web site around your existing logo, as we did with Mobile Wash Pros. We were also able to  give the site a unique layout to not only distinguish it from the crowd, but to take advantage of the client’s desired organization for the site. Visitors are able to quickly view prices, examples of work relevant to their business, and request a quote.

One particularly neat feature on this site is the use of the “lightbox” for the photo gallery- this allows you to showcase your work to clients quickly without wasting their time waiting for pages to load.

Bluewater Nurse Consulting came to Studio Tidal looking to replace a template-based web site that wasn’t meeting the needs of the business. The template-based site was too rigid for its intended purpose, making things such as posting documents for visitors difficult. Additionally, such features as rollover definitions were desired with the redesign to help inform new visitors.

We started from scratch with a clean two-column layout site.  The range of colors were carefully chosen to reflect both the business and the field it operated in, and so  that visitors remembered the site and the business name.  Even a clean, simple site can make a strong impact with your visitors- usually for less than the cost of a template site.