Freelance Web Design Projects in San Jose and more
Mind-Catching treats every web design and web development project in its own terms: WEB + DESIGN. We focus not only on the DESIGN elements [layout/composition, typography, color scheme, imagery...] but also on the WEB elements [web usability, accessibility, searchability, and sellability] of your site.
Your website will have the look and feel of your business and industry; will function properly cross-browser and cross-platform; will be user-friendly and search engine-friendly; and will help you sell your ideas, products and services to your target audience.
Below are some of the most current web design projects.
PolarOnyx - World's Leading Fiber Laser Supplier
Project info: PolarOnyx is the leading supplier of fiber laser products with serveral world's first-to-market fiber laser products and patents. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. I redesigned and redeveloped the website to bring it up-to-date with the rotating banner on the home page featuring PolarOnyx's key product applications.
The new website was well received by the client and by search engines. After the first several weeks of launching, polaronyx.com ranks top with several important keywords including fiber laser company, fiber laser supplier, fiber laser solutions, femtosecond fiber laser, ultrafast fiber laser...
Tam Harbert - An Award Winning Journalist in D.C.
Project info: The website and blog for is for Tam Harbert, an award-winning freelance writer based in Washington D.C. I re-designed / re-developed the site using a customized WordPress theme allowing the client to be able to maintain and update her blog and individual web pages herself.
The theme was customized to have highlighted navigation system, different sidebars between the main pages and the blog posts, and low maintenance to name a few.
Sizzling Buy - Affiliate Website Design and Development
Project info: The website is an affiliate site, a coupon/deal offering kind of site. Sizzling Buy lists special online deals and coupons from various merchants for its users.
The current initial version developed in PHP with MySQL database has about 6 front-end pages. Functionality and new pages are being added continously.
Radford - Website Re-design with New Branding
Project info: This is the second time I re-designed and re-developed the Radford website. The company, again, is the leading provider of compensation surveys and consulting services for the hi-tech and life sciences industry based in San Jose, CA.
This time the company launched its website together with the new branding featuring a cleaner look with the dominant use of white spaces. The website also incorporated some additional survices that were offered but not featured in the previous version bringing the total number of web pages to about 70.
Visible Ranking - WordPress Powered Blog
Project info: Visible Ranking is a WordPress blog about online marketing resources for marketing professionals. I designed and custom-developed the web blog with WordPress and also provided the hosting package for the client.
Using WordPress blogging system helped meet multiple purposes: the client can update the blog/website by themselves without having to worry about HTML coding, plus the posts can be easily optimized for search engines, especially Google. Affiliate link masking script was also developed and used.
Elizabeth King Photography - Photography Website Redesign
Project info: Elizabeth King is a wedding, portrait photographer in Maryland, DC, and Virginia. I re-designed/ re-developed this photography website using PHP, XHTML, CSS, XML and Flash.
The site has 6 Flash-based photo albums featured with automatic slideshow function, and external loading images to reduce the overall loading time. I also customized Elizabeth's blog with Blogger to make it consistent with the website.
After two months of launching, the site ranks from 1-15 in Google, MSN, and Yahoo! with "portrait photography Gaithersburg," "portrait photography Maryland," "portrait photography DC," "engagement photography Gaithersburg," "engagement photography Maryland"... My client in fact confirmed that she's booked people who found her studio through online search for photography sessions. Here's how the old website looked: old home page, old photo album, old HTML codes. Click on image to view sample pages.
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BaoHy Label Co. Ltd. - Bilingual Website
Project info: BaoHy Label is a mid-size company providing labeling solutions to the clothing industry based in Vietnam and serving customers in Asia and around the world. I re-desiged and re-developed this bilingual website in both English and Vietnamese using Unicode.
The website is also highly optimized with top rankings in Google and Yahoo! for keywords like "woven label in Vietnam," or "Vietnam label," and other major keywords in Vietnamese... The site is currently small yet scalable with the use of CSS and PHP page setup behind the scene allowing adding/editing pages, site navigation, content, and switching languages at ease.Click on image to view sample pages.
Radford Surveys + Consulting - Public Website
Project info: Radford Surveys + Consulting is the leading provider of compensation surveys and consulting services for the hi-tech and life sciences industry based in San Jose, CA. I worked for Radford as a web designer and had a chance to re-develop and re-launch the whole Radford.com website; to optimize the site coding and content for major search engines; and to assess front-end usability.
Radford.com is highly, if not top ranked in Google, Yahoo!, and MSN for its compensation survey products such as "Sales survey," "Benchmark survey," "Executive survey," "Life Sciences survey," "Sabbatical valuation services," or "Stock valuation services"...Click on the image to view sample pages.
On-point Consulting Group - Web Template
Project info: I designed the user interface, prepared web graphics, and coded XHTML/CSS template for another designer in this project. Click on image to view sample pages.
Seaview Travel - Website Design Makeover
Project info: The website is one in my website design makeover series - I found websites that I don't like and make them better in terms of coding, design, and usability. This is one step further of Webpagesthatsuck.com
Here is the "before" version, and here is the "after" version. Click on image to view sample pages.
99 Video Rental - E-commerce Website
Project info: This is an e-commerce website built from the ground up for a video store in San Jose, CA featured new customer registration area, current customer login area, shopping cart functions including checkout process, adding and deleting items to and from cart, and internal search functions.
The site was built with PHP and MySQL on the backend. I solved myriad web design problems for the client including how to position/market the store against Netflix and BlockBuster Online.Click on image to view sample pages.
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