Specific elements included a big, colorful announcement of the new album on the home page and changes to the site-wide background image. Replacing an image of Jorge singing and playing guitar from his previous album, Here I Am, the new background depicts a stylized photo of the musician’s hands playing the guitar. This background comes directly from the Gracias Madrecita CD insert artwork.

The new website design also features two additional pages for Gracias Madrecita. One shows photos from the making and recording of the album, while the other provides MP3 song samples which can be played directly on the site. The site also gives users links to buy the album online. Finally, the redesign adds Gracias Madrecita to Jorge’s discography database.

Prominent new features on the site are the home page—with its Gracias Madrecita theme and album artwork—and the Gracias Madrecita pages added deeper into the site.

The newest release of the site adds vibrant color and design elements into the existing site structure. By swapping out the subtle site-wide background image, visitors get a sense of change throughout the site. The new Gracias Madrecita graphic elements are a great color play and focal point for the site.

JorgeSantana.com’s Redesign Promotes His Newest Album, Gracias Madrecita is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

WebSight Design is very proud to be a part of the Doobons.com launch. WSD was involved with extensive development and design, as well as search engine optimization. The Doobons site is clean and organized, creating a highly user-friendly interface.

Doobons is a legal medical marijuana dispensary search engine dedicated to providing medical marijuana advice, promotions, and other resources to anybody who might benefit from the use of medical marijuana.

Doobons traces its beginnings to an unsuspecting family member whose father was diagnosed with cancer. When traditional treatments were unable to effectively manage the patient’s pain and chemotherapy was causing a debilitating inability to eat, Doobons’ founder began to search for alternative medicines.

Unaware of how to navigate the world of legal medical marijuana, the Doobons founders quickly realized that no user-friendly and moreover no patient-friendly resources existed to serve those in need of this alternative medicine.

When he saw the great response the patient had, he knew that something had to be done to help patients and their caregivers. Doobons was born.

The site features interactive maps of medical marijuana dispensaries, doctors, lawyers, or other cannabis related businesses. Additionally, location based deals and discounts allow patients to access the very best price for their medication.

Doobons also provides comprehensive resources, such as information on how to get your medical marijuana doctor’s recommendation or cannabis card, which strains or forms of intake are best for particular illnesses or ailments, as well as current up-to-date news.

Doobons is committed connecting medical marijuana patients with the legal help and rights information that they need.

The Doobons team is highly committed to the cure and treatment of ailments which can be treated by alternative medicines. They have begun donating and giving back to the foundations such as The American Cancer Society.

Doobons business members can create profiles including video and photo galleries, company information, reviews section, and product menu option. They also have  the opportunity to create and post banner and geo-targeted ads on the Doobons site, as well as send out email notifications to Doobons patient members.

Doobons.com had its official public launch over the past weekend, November 11 to 13, at the HempCon medical marijuana show in San Jose, and the owners are gearing up to have the Southern California release this coming weekend, November 18 to 20, at the KushExpo in Orange County. Don’t miss your chance to meet the great founders of Doobons.com!

Doobons Launches as the First Truly Professional and Patient-Oriented Medical Marijuana Resource! is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

WebSight Design is proud to announce the launch of Cindy Blackman Santana‘s new website! WSD worked closely with Cindy to create the most rockin’ and user-friendly website for her future or current loyal fanbase. Specifically, our team was involved with the design and presentation-layer code.

Cindy is originally from Yellow Springs, Ohio and is a renowned jazz and rock drummer. She has preformed with a variety of other world class musicians, including Lenny Kravitz, Sam Rivers, and Buckethead!

Today, she performs in jazz and rock & roll concerts worldwide. She is currently the touring drummer for Carlos Santana to whom she is also married.

Cindy’s new website includes many great features. The cool moving background give site visitors a sense of levity, and the photo & video galleries allow them to get an inside peek into the life of Cindy Blackman Santana. The website also has loads of other interesting info and ‘tid-bits’ about Cindy.

Cindy Blackman Santana’s Website Design is Rockin’! is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

Sustainable home design is a growing industry & green buildings are the way of the future. If you’re looking to invest your money in a beautiful/sustainable green home, we know an excellent place for you. The WSD team recently developed a website for a new, modern LEED Platinum Mill Valley green home.

Mill Valley green home is a sustainable/green house located right in the heart of downtown Mill Valley in Marin County. The house is designed by architect Geoff Butler and is the most exciting new home of the year. The 2,500 square foot residence includes 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, a great room, family room, master suite, outdoor shower, skylights, clerestory windows, and a 2-car garage.

Usability is an essential goal of creating any website. Therefore, the WSD team created a website that is user-friendly and incredibly easy to navigate. The professional looking layout features a light and clean design. With all the information available, the WSD team has emphasized the delivery of reliable and helpful information to prospective homebuyers in Marin. The content management system allows the client to easily add, edit, and delete content on every page of the site.

Going green with Mill Valley Green Home is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

Paseo Properties has an experienced team of agents ready to guide customers through the complex processes of real estate transactions hassle-free. Leasing is the heart of what they do and they specialize in both residential and commercial transactions.

The WSD team believes that design is not secondary to functionality and exemplary design translates directly into user action. Without user action, none of the robust programming your site has will ever get executed properly. Therefore design initializes all functionality on the site. So our design team focused on form and function working together to generate engaged visitors that translate into leads and sales conversions for the Paseo Properties website.

The WebSight Design team created a professional website designed to deliver proficient property management services and combine cutting edge web technology with social media.

Provide the best property management and home improvement services with Paseo Properties is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

The goal of the site was to attract businesses such as bakeries, food chains and restaurants located in the greater Bay Area. Hence the WSD team developed a new web site for Kael foods and added both a professional design optimized for search engines and an easy-to-use content management system. WSD organized site content in a well thought out hierarchy optimized for search engine rankings. The new website is now user-friendly and generates leads.

“Kael foods does it BUTTER than the rest.” is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

While representing clients well might be a stretch for many fine artists, it’s second nature for WebSight Design, where we’ve been communicating clients’ branding and sales messaging for more than 15 years.

This is Stephanie’s second street painting festival, having participated in the Italian Street Painting Festival in San Rafael, California — the nation’s second-largest street painting event — in 2006. Drawing on the asphalt with brightly colored pastels is quite a break from manipulating pixels, but is a great way to get creative juices flowing, explore different artistic perspectives, and polish design skills. Event-goers enjoy such festivals because they get to see artists at work, and ask questions during the process.

Interested to find out how we can visually represent your business? Contact us, and let’s talk.

One of WSD’s own wins art award is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

While our specialty remains web development — SEO-enhanced, open source, PHP-based web development for businesses small and large — we occasionally get our hands dirty with print work. Usually this involves creating print collateral and branding material for our existing web site design clients; however, this spring marked the completion of a unique project for one of our long-term clients, international dude ranch expert Gene Kilgore.

The eighth edition of Gene Kilgore’s Ranch Vacations is a robust guide to dude, guest, resort, and working cattle ranches in the US, Canada, and even Central & South America. The guide is organized by state (and country), and contains everything you need to know about nearly 100 different ranches: what the food is like, what the accommodations are like, if kids’ programs are available, what the price range is, a description of activities, and more. In the center of the book is a thick section of full-color photographs highlighting the beauty and fun available at many of the ranches. The guide also contains helpful tips on what to pack, and how to “be a good dude.”

And it’s all designed to fit in the back pocket of your jeans!

The book is a fantastic portable, personalizable supplement to Gene Kilgore’s www.ranchweb.com, which is getting a makeover — the WebSight Design works! — as we speak.

Gene Kilgore’s Ranch Vacations was a wonderful opportunity to provide an extra-web service for a great client and top-notch person, and a chance to strengthen our relationship with RanchWeb.com. We look forward to more great projects with Gene in the future. And we’ll be sure to blog about the launch of the upcoming redesigned RanchWeb.com web site.

To purchase Ranch Vacations, click here. And as Gene Kilgore might say, “Happy trails!”

All this and the occasional print job is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

WebSight Design has just completed a much-needed revamp for TresAgavesProducts.com.

Our client’s goal with the redesign was to emphasize and strengthen their brand. To accomplish this, each page was custom designed rather than created to be template-based.

Along with the design element, we focused on integrating social media onto the site to help Tres Agaves grow their brand. This strategy included:

• An RSS feed that incorporates Twitter updates from all members of the Tres Agaves Products Team and the blog
• A community section which has quizzes, party planning suggestions, and shows live Facebook and Twitter feeds
• A regularly updated blog also with a custom designed skin

This multimedia rich site includes a video gallery that can link to any video with an embed code, a photo gallery, and printable recipe cards.

With a desire to fill a major gap in the premium tequila market, Eric Rubin, former Cabo Wabo President Barry Augus and Chris Alvarez founded Tres Agaves Products in 2008. The company is dedicated to designing a product line that delivers the best margaritas. Since launching, it has been honored with various awards from prestigious competitions and won in multiple blind taste tests.

A Redesign for Tres Agaves Products is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design

In the fall of 2010, long time WSD client, Santana, released his new album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time. Santana and co-producer, Clive Davis, invited some of the best singers in rock to provide vocals for the tracks.

To celebrate the release, we designed a multimedia rich four-page mini-site inspired by the artwork from the album. The pages are jQuery based giving the site a cool slide effect that eliminates page load time. To allow the client to manage videos, links, and content, we fully integrated the site with Santana.com’s existing database.

Visit the mini-site to preview songs, purchase music, and watch behind-the-scenes videos of the making of the new album.

WebSight Design in Guitar Heaven with Santana is a post from: WebSight Design, Inc. company blog. With headquarters in the San Francisco bay area, WebSight Design, Inc. has been providing world class web engineering, creative design and hosting solutions since 1995. WebSight Design