Through the recent design and launch of Harrison Development’s newest website, www.harrisonspotlight.com, we are proud to have formed a strategic partnership with Agent Shield.  The problem with many land development and community sites is that real estate agents are often hesitant to direct leads to a website for fear of losing valuable leads. Makes sense right?  In comes Agent Shield, their Web 2.0 patented pending technology allows realtors and land developers to utilize a new development’s website as a marketing and sales tool while maintaining control of their prospects and leads.

Lets see an example, first visit the site, harrisonspotlight.com. As you can see, all contact information such as phone number and address are located on the home page as well as on the contact page here.

Now, lets go to a realtor’s page where the Harrison Community is being advertised,for example here. Scroll down about half way and click on the “view details” for the Harrison Development link, which will then take you back to the Harrison home page.  See the difference?   That’s right, the site has now been masked to show only the realtors information on the contact page.   The user’s computer is also cookied in the event that he or she goes back to visit the homepage, even if they don’t go through the realtor site.  Seller gets the credit for the lead, both parties are happy.

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Read more about Agent Shield at www.agentshield.com

In these times of economic want and woe, it’s more important than ever to stick together. Chances are pretty good you’re feeling the economic pinch — especially if you are a small business owner — making the 2009 Small Business Summit here in Effingham County all the more important. Finding out what some of our area’s most successful business owners and entrepreneurs are doing to find new clients and customers, lower their operating costs, adapt to changing markets and succeed in today’s economic climate seems like a no-brainer. We’ll be there.

When Ken Stoner of  Effingham County Chamber of Commerce, contacted us about developing a logo for this chamber-sponsored event, we were honored.  We worked out several idea sketches and ended up going with a light bulb illustration, with a red-and-white on black color scheme. The DIN 1451 font family was applied. It is a realist sans-serif typeface that is used as a standard typeface for traffic, administration and business applications making it a perfect fit for the summit logo. On the vertical version, Futura was also used. The logo will be used on print products and advertising for the event.

The Summit is April 4, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Savannah Tech Effingham Campus. Reservations are limited. Reservations are free for Effingham Chamber members. (Non-members $49). Includes admission to keynote address, class sessions, course materials, trade show and business roundtable discussion groups. Call 912-754-3301. See you there!

What can we say, good design makes for good neighbors.  Our next door neighbor Cindy Barnett Interior Design needed a website presence and well, we felt we had to.  Heaven forbid good interior design be show through bad website design right? All website design, build and content development was done by bighouse.

Most of the photography on the site was done through Azelle Photography.   Our longtime friends at Azelle have a great eye for good photography and composition which really came together on the final site design.  More of their work can be seen at their site here or take a look at a few of the thumbnails below.

This site is a CMS site with a mix of flash and PHP thrown in. Look for their online storefront this summer.

www.cindybarnettinteriors.com

Bighouse is proud to have helped launch yet another restaurant with our good friends at VSAG. All branding to include logo development, signage, menu boards, and take out menus was done by bighouse.

Located at Cross Creek Mall in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Kobi’s Fast Wraps  is a fresh food fast concept, specializing in sandwich wraps and grilled paninis. Unlike the usual food court offerings of deep fried and the other not-so-good-for-you selections, Kobi’s prides itself in using only the freshest ingredients and roasts their sandwich meats daily.