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Given To Gauche Jewelry Studio
Connecticut Websites provided Given To Gauche Jewelry Studio with the full range of our services -  web & graphic design, e-commerce programming and shopping cart database development, digital product photography, print design services, and search engine registration / optimization. Given To Gauche is currently enjoying a new-found success online, and has been featured on television by Janet Peckinpaugh of WVIT NBC-30, and in The New Haven Register. In addition, Connecticut Websites designed print media including a full-color postcard to further market the site to existing Given To Gauche customers.

American Screening
When Connecticut Websites began this project the client provided us with one thing: their logo. From there, we created a simple yet elegant approach to the design, letting the graphics and color have as great an impact as the text the site contains. Combined with an interactive client log-in and a wide variety of online client services, this site is sure to give American Screening a distinct advantage among it's competitors. In addition, clients can download all necessary forms and documents pertinent to doing business with American Screening, resulting in lower document distribution costs.

CTOpenHouses.com
This site is one of our most popular projects, and has been featured on WTNH (ABC), WFSB (CBS) and WTIC (FOX), as well as the New Haven Register and Hartford Courant, and is one of our most ambitious projects to date. A joint project between Beazley Company Realtors, H. Pearce Company Realtors, William Pitt Real Estate, and William Raveis Home-Link, Real Estate & Home Services, this site is a great example of how to use the internet as a compelling marketing tool, allowing visitors to search through open house listings throughout Connecticut without having to go to multiple real estate sites, or waiting for the Sunday Paper to arrive. (Please note that the site becomes more populated as the week gets closer to Sunday, then at midnight it removes all expired open house listings and starts the new week all over again on Monday morning.)

Wholesale Auto Sellers
Connecticut Websites developed this site using a combination of traditional site design with html, and blending subtle animations with Flash. The results speak for themselves - a simple yet creative site design and layout, enhanced by animations that don't jump out and scare away site visitors, as many Flash animated sites seem to do. As web developers, we constantly face the challenge of meeting a client's expectations while still offering them cutting edge designs far beyond their expectations. This site design is a great example of our creative design abilities at Connecticut Websites, as this website will definitely stand out as much more memorable than any of it's competitors.

Corinna Clendenen
Connecticut's newest novelist, Corinna Clendenen needed a site to market her first novel, An Artful Affair. Because the subject matter deals with the New York City art community, the images, colors, and overall design needed to reflect that. Connecticut Websites worked closely with the cover designers in NYC to develop a site that also matches closely to the actual book, allowing for more product recognition and marketing. This is an example of a typical basic site design by Connecticut Websites, and how we treat smaller start-up client sites with the same attention to detail and creativity as larger Fortune 500 clients.

Get Stoned! Jewelry
Specializing in homeopathic stone jewelry, this client needed an e-commerce solution to compliment their hectic schedule of arts & crafts shows throughout southern New England. As a result, we implemented a shopping cart that allows them to administer inventory tracking and control, including the ability to add, edit, or delete inventory items through their web browser. These robust adminstrative controls require no programming skills or advanced computer knowledge from the client, and is an example of how Connecticut Websites can design and implement the right e-commerce solution for any company seeking to do business online, regardless of their computer skills.

Connecticut Websites Original Site Design, circa 1996
We're still not sure what we had in mind with this design, or why we used a cat as the design focus. Back in 1996, that's pretty much how web design worked - nobody knew what was a successful idea, so designs were based on whatever struck a designer's fancy at the time. This particular design seemed to polarize people - either they loved it or they hated it. Although no design can please everyone, it seemed that the people who disliked the design always said the same thing: "Why do you have a cat on your website?" We eventually went out and got a real cat, but even she couldn't save this design from it's demise, so we decided to preserve it here as an example of the ever-changing attitudes in web design.

Connecticut Websites Autumn/Falling Leaves 2K Version
Every few months we change the look of our site to reflect the current season, but the Connecticut Websites Autumn/Falling Leaves version for 2000 holds a place in our hearts as one of our favorite versions (even though there seemed to be alot of folks around to tell us it was just too bright!). The blinding monochromatic red combined with the falling leaves, similar to the falling snow flakes of our 2000/2001 winter version, truly captures autumn here in the Northeast. Will we ever try another design in blinding bright reds? Probably not, but it was a fun experiment while it lasted. 

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