Sandvox Site Gallery | Karelia Software

Douglas Deveny

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:45:44 -0700

Douglas Deveny created a Sandvox website to share his abstract and impressionistic landscape art. The Saffron design provides a great backdrop to his artwork, setting off the vivid colors and images. Photo albums allow him to group his work, display thumbnails, display larger images, and display information about each piece, such as the media used and the canvas size.

A blog allows Doug to share news and progress reports with friends, collectors, curators, and others interested in his work. By combining the albums with text pages and several pagelet types, the site provides a great overview of his philosophy, process, work-in-progress, and completed works.

International Sites

Mon, 21 May 2007 14:23:01 -0700

Sandvox has made support for languages other than English a priority, and we're pleased to offer localizations for French, Italian, Danish, German, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese languages.

Among the many international sites we've seen we're especially pleased to spotlight Gilblog, JT Gilbert's personal site. Starting with the "Wall" design and substituting a banner featuring an aerial photo of La Borne gives the site a personal touch, as does the rich array of images that are displayed in text, in pagelets, and as photo albums throughout the site.

Andrew Soh

Mon, 21 May 2007 13:31:53 -0700

Andrew Soh uses Sandvox to great effect to showcase his digital photographs. The site design--one of his own creations--provides a neutral backdrop that doesn't distract from the vibrancy of his photography.

Through a series of photo collections, Andrew shares not only photos from his travels through northern California and to international destinations, but also information about his preferred equipment. By adding flickr pagelets he directors visitors to additional photos.

Andrew also had this to say: "Sandvox is a great piece of software. It should be used in a software design class as an excellent example of an intuitive user interface. The features are accessible to basic users, but it is also powerful enough for advanced web designers. I've tried out different web publishing software, but they don't come close to Sandvox when compared on features, ease-of-use, and pricing." Thanks, Andrew!

A Little Peek Into Our Lives

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:46:41 -0800

Family sites may not have the sophistication of corporate or more high-profile sites, but the information they convey is just as important! Scott Corscadden of Ontario, Canada, uses his site, A Little Peek Into Our Lives, to share photos of his family, their activities, and their friends.

Scott's site is a collection of collections: photo collections organized by topics and people, easy to navigate and enabling readers to glance at a series of thumbnails or to review photos in nearly full-page size individually. Being able to drag and drop photos and create these collections quickly is a huge plus. As Scott noted: "I had new pictures up in moments of our new baby (which is a really useful ability, given how little time we have now)."

Scott's site is based on the Sandvox Sunburst design.

I-Open

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:49:47 -0800

The Institute for Open Economic Networks uses Sandvox for their site, which is a key communications tool.

Effective communication is important for all organizations, whether for-profit or nonprofit, and the I-Open site offers an example of how an organization can communicate timely information by establishing a blog, share more substantial information by making white papers available for downloading, and alert readers to upcoming speaking events and workshops.

Wendi Schneider Photography & Design

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:19:49 -0800

When your business is photography and design, you need a website that reflects your aesthetic sense to potential clients. Wendi Schneider's site is both a showcase for her work and a way for potential clients and customers to contact her.

Wendi has used Sandvox collections to present examples of her work in several categories, and each category is easily identifiable in the site index on her home page. In addition to the rich visual content, Wendi has used a combination of text pages and pagelets to provide important information about purchasing her artwork, obtaining her design services, and the terms and conditions under which her work may be used.

Wendi's site uses Sandvox's Cathedral design as a starting point and features her enhancements.

VetFM

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:17:59 -0800

VetFM.com is the website for a Mac and PC veterinary practice manager, and they've used Sandvox to present an outline of their services to potential customers.

Of particular interest is the Sandvox photo grid they've used to create a slideshow of their product's features. Presenting a collection in this way gives the viewer a clean and easy-to-read photo grid, presents a nearly full-screen shot of each slide, and allows viewers to easily navigate forward or backward, or to jump to the index to find a particular slide. (For information on how you can create collections, visit the "How do I....?" overview on collections.)

Like other sites in the Site Gallery, VetFM's site also illustrates how the banner can feature a corporate logo or a combination of logo and text to give your site a unique look. Users who are comfortable with graphic design and CSS may wish to review the "How do I...? overview on modifying designs.

The VetFM site is based on Sandvox's Aqua design.

Escuela Bilingüe Internacional

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:08:29 -0800

Orlando Antonio Sánchez has been an enthusiastic Sandvox user, modifying designs and combining many features to achieve the look he wants. We think his design and implementation of the site for the Escuela Bilingüe Internacional in Oakland, California is particularly attractive, and are grateful to Orlando for making his revised design template available free of charge to Sandvox users. (See the link in his "downloads" pagelet.)

Orlando's design is clean and easy-to-read, and attractively guides the reader to the site's key pages via the site index and his use of pagelets and callouts. We think it's an excellent example of how Sandvox can be used to create a rich site quickly and stylishly, and we hope the staff of EBI are as pleased with Orlando's work as we are!