Designing For The Trade

April 12th, 2013
Maynard Electric Company

Logo and busi­ness card designs for May­nard Elec­tric Company

This logo for May­nard Elec­tric Com­pany was designed to func­tion well in the elec­tri­cal trade by cut­ting the clut­ter and get­ting straight to the point. The logo was designed in a tra­di­tional oval for­mat with an extra “Web 2.0″ look added to achieve a bit more visual vol­ume giv­ing it a sub­tle, pol­ished 3D appearance.

In an indus­try as com­pet­i­tive as the elec­tri­cal trade, look­ing pro­fes­sional and being mem­o­rable can be every­thing. Hav­ing a pro­fes­sion­ally deis­gned brand that looks great is the first step to build­ing con­sumer con­fi­dence. As the old say­ing goes — no one wants to eat at a restau­rant with a bro­ken down sign because the kitchen prob­a­bly looks the same.

Custom Home Builder Website

April 11th, 2013
Website design for The Powell Group

Web­site design for The Pow­ell Group

The Pow­ell Group, a cus­tom home builder located in Mor­gan­ton, North Car­olina came to MESH Design Group want­ing their web­site updated and expanded to pro­vide more func­tion­al­ity for them­selves and their clients. We deliv­ered a clean web­site design that visu­ally illus­trates the qual­ity of the beau­ti­ful homes they build com­bined with expanded con­tent and built on a Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tem (CMS) so they can man­age all aspect of the web­site in-​house.

The main sec­tion of the home page fea­tures a large slideshow that allows the com­pany to show­case their work. The lower sec­tion allows for intro­duc­tory copy, a ran­dom tes­ti­mo­nial from one of their sat­is­fied clients, and a few head­lines from their recent news section.

The inte­rior of the site uses a mix of full width and two col­umn (main con­tent with side­bar) lay­outs. The side­bar is used to fea­ture ran­dom tes­ti­mo­ni­als and cross nav­i­ga­tion links to recent news and photo galleries.

When look­ing at the front end of this web­site, you would never know it is built on top of Word­Press. We take great pride in pro­vid­ing com­pletely cus­tom web­site designs that uniquely reflect each client’s busi­ness, yet built on a sys­tem that allows for easy main­te­nance by the client. This approach allows our clients to man­age their own web­site con­tent as desired, yet have a great look­ing site that does not have a cookie-​cutter tem­plate look and feel.

The design of this web­site also makes use of “respon­sive design,” so it dis­plays well on desk­top and lap­top com­put­ers, tablets, and mobile phones. Respon­sive design is the design method rec­om­mended by Google to achieve the best search engine index­ing because it uses one set of HTML files for con­tent and CSS media queries to alter the dis­play of the infor­ma­tion depend­ing on the size of the user’s view­port (screen size).

You can visit this web­site at http://​the​p​ow​ell​group​.net

A New Website for Burke Arts Council

March 21st, 2013
Website design for Burke Arts Council

Web­site design for Burke Arts Council

We have just released a new web­site for the Burke Arts Coun­cil that pro­vides them with a com­pletely fresh look and a respon­sive design that dis­plays well on desk­top com­put­ers and mobile devices. The clean design com­pli­ments their new logo that was also designed by MESH Design Group.

The site is devel­oped on top of the Word­Press CMS (Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tem). We develop using Word­Press because it is sup­ported by a huge com­mu­nity of devel­op­ers which insures a web­site that is bug free and secure with reg­u­lar updates. It also means that the Arts Council’s web­site has thou­sands of plu­g­ins avail­able for future enhancements.

The design of the web­site, how­ever, would never indi­cate to the vis­i­tor that it is built on the world’s most pop­u­lar CMS. We take great pride in cre­at­ing web­site designs that do not look like a tem­plate site. We com­pletely cus­tomize all of the front end files for the web­site to incor­po­rate the respon­sive cus­tom design.

Check out their new web­site now!