iBroadway Blog » Web Design http://ibroadway.net/blog Broadway At Your Fingertips Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:43:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Black and the Jew Comedy Hour http://ibroadway.net/blog/2009/04/29/the-black-and-the-jew-comedy-hour/ http://ibroadway.net/blog/2009/04/29/the-black-and-the-jew-comedy-hour/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:02:17 +0000 Laurie Connor http://artmeetscommerce.net/blog/?p=617 Allow us to introduce you to Epstein and Hassan, otherwise known as The Black and The Jew Comedy Hour, and the website we just created for them. You can subscribe to their podcast on Itunes there and see where they’ll be performing live.

Aren’t those photographs wonderful? These two are hilarious, edgy and, in the way of all great comedy and social commentary, their humor is informed by a craftily observant eye on the universal experience. Think George Carlin. Think Lenny Bruce. Plus, spend five minutes with them and you’ll see they are in loooove, which adds a wonderfully gentle underpinning to their razory repartee.

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Have you seen the new skittles site?

Skittles made a widget at the corner of the site, and built the navigation around that. This menu-overlay box allows the user to interface with their already existing social networks, thus allowing for the candy brand to spread through the normal daily actions of the user. It’s working, I love skittles, and I totally made it a fan on my facebook.

Instead of photos, it directs to their Flickr page. They hooked ‘Chatter’ to Twitter. Instead of the normal everyday about page, they hooked it to Wikipedia. It’s a social networking rainbow!

There are still some quirks to this campaign. The menu overlay blocks a lot of the content on my smaller laptop screen. Also, originally they used the homepage as their twitter search, but everyone was using it as a way to knock the brand (haters) so they switched it to their Facebook fan page. This comes with the territory when you allow anonymous users to run the content of your website.

Overall, it’s a lesson in how important the big sites (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Wikipedia) are to major brands and how they will continue to change the way we market.

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We’re happy with how things have turned out so far, and are looking forward to a fabulous new year with some exciting platforms and projects in store. Stay tuned.

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Jeffrey Zeldman—as always, it seems—speaks the truth:

Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet. Guarantee: All incidents taken from life.

Perhaps my favorite—though they’re all great (and true!)—is this:

17. Client begins first meeting by making a big show of telling you that you are the expert. You are in charge, he says: he will defer to you in all things, because you understand the web and he does not. (Trust your uncle Jeffrey: this man will micromanage every hair on the project’s head.)

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This afternoon, we launched a brand new site for our friends at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. The redesign involved restructuring content, implementing standards-based XHTML/CSS design, strengthening their existing brand, as well as introducing dynamic XML-powered Flash photo galleries to showcase their striking production design – all with the goal of enhancing their current community of audience members and supporters, while showing new visitors just what it is that makes the Classical Theatre of Harlem such a powerful and unique arts organization.

Check out the new site at www.classicaltheatreofharlem.org and let us know what you think!

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]]> http://ibroadway.net/blog/2008/09/18/new-look/feed/ 0 The Seagull Takes Flight http://ibroadway.net/blog/2008/07/29/the-seagull-takes-flight/ http://ibroadway.net/blog/2008/07/29/the-seagull-takes-flight/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:17:24 +0000 Jim Glaub http://artmeetscommerce.net/blog/2008/07/29/the-seagull-takes-flight/ We just launched The Seagull’s brand new site:

www.seagulltheplay.com

This promises to be an amazing show.  Definitely one of Broadway’s Not-to-be-missed this Fall.

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Update 12-12-2008: James Braly is now redirecting the “Life” domain to a site featuring news and more general information about his work, so the site we designed is no longer live.

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Our latest company project is the twisted-love story ‘Stitching’ by Anthony Neilsen, directed by our very own Timothy Haskell. It stars Meithal Dohan (you might remember her as the sexy Israeli in Showtime’s Weeds). Check out the website at www.stitchingtheplay.com and be sure to check it out at the Wild Project when it opens June 17.

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Lauren Kennedy, Anneliese Van Der Pol and Sarah Stiles in rehearsal. Photo by Chris Owyoung.

AMC JUST launched the mini-site for Vanities the Musical (Kevin, you did an amazing job!) This all happened while I had the extreme pleasure of seeing the very first presentation of this awesome show yesterday. Jaisen, Laurie and I went to the Ripley Grier Studios to see the rehearsals and tape interviews (PS. Have you been to Ripley Grier? It’s AMAZING! I ran into Charlotte d’Amboise who complimented me on my outfit!) We were armed with our video cameras, lights and smiles ready to interview the cast and creatives for a video webcast. It was a riot! The girls are sugar and everyone on the show is twice as nice. Confession: I have women crushes on the three girls. They are my new best friends forever and ever glittery pony pops Amen! (They just don’t know it yet!)

Lauren Kennedy

Lauren Kennedy. Go TIGERS! Photo by Chris Owyoung.

I’m so jazzed for this show and there’s going to be a lot we have to do: social networking, video, games, connecting…I’ll keep you updated on the progress. Meanwhile, check out the rich history, bios and sign-up for the mailing list on VanitiestheMusical.com.

SUPER AWESOME FUN FACT:
When Vanities the Play first opened in 1976, the ticket price Off-Broadway was $6. When it closed in 1981 it was $8.

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