HandCanon designs and builds gorgeous, functional, semantic websites that get noticed by clients & search engines alike. We work with small businesses and pride ourselves on designing great looking sites that are accessible, eye-catching & cross-browser compatible.

Backed by eight years of web design experience, we have taken a broad array of skills and experiences ranging from photography to identity to front-end design, into a finely focused process. Tempered by equal parts communication, emotion and logic, we use wisdom gained from the past to innovate new approaches and generate ideal web solutions.

In addition to crafting your site, we can update your identity design to match your new look, keeping all elements of your visual brand in line, ensuring a consistent customer experience. Being a small business ourselves, we believe small businesses should be able to compete on equal grounds when it comes to online identity. We use a variety of tools and a keen eye for graphic design to bring new ideas to fruition; or if you already have a site, we can realign it and freshen things up.

Enough talk, take a look around and see what we’ve been up to lately.

Ediboo Clothing

Roles: Web design and development, identity design, photography and implementation.

Overview: Ediboo Clothing is an upscale, urban line of female apparel. They came in need of a visual makeover and a fully functional eCommerce solution to replace their former online presence: a MySpace page.

Services Provided: HandCanon designed and built a sexy and stylized website guided by the client’s targeted demographic information, established color palette and technical requirements. Starting with a logo revision, the site was given a fresh face, an integrated shopping cart and interactive features, all built atop an easily administrated open-source CMS.

Note: client has modified current site since the original implementation.

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McKinnon Massage

Roles: Development and implementation.

Overview: Seeking to update their already well-established existing site, McKinnon Massage wanted to lose their old tables, and embrace web standards. They also wanted to add functionality to both the front and back-end for a richer user experience and easy site management.

Services Provided: HandCanon analyzed the design provided by zendoug.com and built a redesigned, CSS + XHTML valid template based front-end to the client’s specifications. An AJAX function for <table> sorting procedures was implemented to reduce strain on the database and to provide for a better UI. The back-end was updated as well and the sum of these changes resulted in multiple benefits: reducing page load and bringing an increase in visitors due to search engine friendly mark-up.

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Alumnah

Roles: Design, development and implementation.

Overview: The Alumnah Blog Network required a multi-author platform from which launch an edgy, opinionated series of blogs from people across the US.

Services Provided: Using popular open-source software Wordpress as a foundation, HandCanon designed and built a custom solution for the client and authors to post entries on a shared front page, as well as content exclusive to their individual sites.

Note: site no longer live (sadly.)

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