Future Sounds Gets Facelift

Designed and built by Algorithm, tastemaker Larry Little's Future Sounds blog has just received a spanking new background courtesy of San Francisco's VegaProject.

Recently Completed: Zenwerks.com

Algorithm recently completed consultancy and creative direction for Seattle-based web design and interactive development agency in the re-launch of their website, zenwerks.com

Just Updated: Scott Derby Illustration

Algorithm has just completed the redesign of Illustrator (and long time friend) Scott Derby's website.

RedCarpetJunkie.com

Algorithm has recently designed and built celebrity photography site redcarpetjunkie.com.

Tova25 Featured On Ravenwood Creative Blog

"The Internet is full of cool sites to explore and hopefully interact with, as I think that’s the goal of any site, you want the user to take some sort of action, whether it’s just learning something or playing a game or buying something, to often corporations forget that the web is an interactive media.

To show you what can be done if you merge design with function - I just wanted to share a cool site friends of mine from my QVC days have put together for a client - Tova Borgnine - the site is Tova25. Designed to help Tova celebrate 25 years of her fragrance line, the site has everything from her OSCAR-award-winning actor and husband, Ernest Borgnine to QVC and others that have influenced her fragrance are here in a slick, yet elegantly simple, timeline interface.

It’s interface is cutting-edge, a truly multimedia experience on the web for something, like fragrance, that would challenge most of us to present in such an eye-catching and dramatic fashion. Until they invent, the “Scent Internet” this is the way to promote a brand and its essence.

So a shout out to Tim Megaw and Matt Shadbolt for a job well done. Do you know any cool site that are out there using the latest in video, audio and graphics? Let me know and we’ll share them here."

Link:http://www.ravenwoodcreative.com/blog1/tvmedia/tova-25-web-design/

Redesigned & Updated: Film School Official Site

Recently Updated: Tiger-Fly.com

In preparation for the upcoming Hoboken Arts & Music Festival, Algorithm has just completed work on a large content upgrade and online store build for New Jersey based photographer Mary Shadbolt over at Tiger-Fly

Recently Completed: Tova25.com

In collaboration with Mulberry Consulting, Algorithm has just completed the design and build of cosmetics celebrity (and wife of Ernest), Tova Borgnine's interactive archival site, Tova25.com. Designed towards recording and documenting the past 25 years of her Signature fragrance, the site integrates both still and video content through the use of the lightbox.js and heavybox.js scripts.

Just Completed: BDMP.TV

Film School: New Website Now Online

To promote today's release of San Francisco / Los Angeles based indie band Film School's third album 'Hideout', Algorithm has redesigned the official Film School website with all new content, blog functionality for their upcoming tour, as well as new multimedia content and a whole new revised user interface.

Visit www.filmschoolmusic.com

Just Completed: Heart Of Gold Website

Just completed www.heartofgoldnj.comfor our family-based local jewelry store in Randolph, New Jersey.

Recently Updated: Tiger-Fly.com

Tiger-Fly.com, Algorithm's close collaborator, has just undergone a massive content and interactive functionality overhaul. Aside from the additional pages of photography (of which there are many), interactive maps from WikiMapia have been added, as well as interactive slideshows, industry links, contact forms and many other items.

Visit Tiger-Fly

Websites face four-second cut-off

BBC
A slow-loading site can mean web shoppers give up. Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests.

The research by Akamai revealed users' dwindling patience with websites that take time to show up.

It found 75% of the 1,058 people asked would not return to websites that took longer than four seconds to load.

The time it took a site to appear on screen came second to high prices and shipping costs in the list of shoppers' pet-hates, the research revealed.

Akamai consulted those who shop regularly online to find out what they like and dislike about e-tailing sites. About half of mature net-shoppers - who have been buying online for more than two years or who spend more than $1,500 (£788) a year online - ranked page-loading time as a priority.

It found that one-third of those questioned abandon sites that take time to load, are hard to navigate or take too long to handle the checkout process.

The four-second threshold is half the time previous research, conducted during the early days of the web-shopping boom, suggested that shoppers would wait for a site to finish loading.

To make matters worse, the research found that the experience shoppers have on a retail site colours their entire view of the company behind it.

About 30% of those responding said they formed a "negative perception" of a company with a badly put-together site or would tell their family and friends about their experiences.

Further research by Akamai found that almost half of the online stores in the list of the top 500 US shopping sites take longer than the four-second threshold to finish loading.

The survey questioned 1,058 net shoppers during the first six months of 2006. Consultants Jupiter Research did the survey for Akamai.

In Progress : Awakening Voices

In progress, brand development and strategy, website build and streaming video implementation for Awakening Voices, an online newsletter exploring the path to spiritual growth.

Now Online: Film School

I am thrilled to announce that Algorithm has just completed the redesign of San Francisco based band Film School's website. The site, which went live yesterday, contains news updates, release information, merchandise, multimedia and photography. This project follows the successful poster campaign for their Spring 2006 tour earlier this year.

Links : Spunk United Design

Some wonderful online presentations from Singapore based design blog Spunk UN. Navigation is a little tough to use, but if you can find their wallpaper projects it's well worth the hunt.