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Recent Site Launches

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:50:56 +0000

I realized I haven’t made note of any site launches in quite a while. So if you’ll indulge me, here are some recent (and not-so-recent) updates…

The following sites/microsites/blogs were all designed and developed by Kieran Chapman Design:

O’Connor Constructors
Arborjet Blog
Super Soil Raised Bed Garden
Organic Tick Control
Lincoln Street Cooking School
Sara Richard

I’ve also been doing some front-end development to bring to life the work of other talented designers:

KSN Partners
Ooh-la-la Salon
Newborn Possibilities
Navia Systems
KBK Wealth Connection

I’m also planning a redesign of my personal site, but that’ll only happen when I have some free time (or a burst of inspiration).

Two New Sites Launched

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:11:51 +0000

I launched a couple new sites in the past week:

Hofmann Joinery
Where the original Hofmann Joinery site was more focused on their custom furniture, the redesigned Hofmann Joinery site better reflects their current business model, which is high-end custom residential woodworking. I kept the design simple and elegant to put the focus on the photos of their beautiful work.

My Vintage Generation
My Vintage Generation was a very-quick-turnaround Wordpress site. It’s an eBay-powered store and blog, but with little budget it meant no fancy commercial eBay store apps. However, I was able to display products on the site even without a special application or plug-in simply by using eBay’s RSS feeds.

“Around the Common” Redesign

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:44:19 +0000

Around the Common is a community blog about my town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. I recently did a redesign of the site, replacing the default Blogger template with a custom site design. The new design gives the site its own individual look, rather than just be another generic Blogger-powered blog. The almost-daily updates of what’s going on in the town still remains front and center, clearly the focus and easily read on the white background.

Around the Common original site

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The old links sidebar, which scrolled for many screens, has been split into two sidebars of logically grouped items: The center column contains town-specific links (government, community, business, and political sites) and the right column is blog-specific content (about the site, RSS feed, Google ads, “Best of Bridgewater” site poll winners, and the archives). The ads, originally buried in the bottom of the sidebar in the old site, now are more easily seen, yet still remain unobtrusive and blend nicely with the site’s colors.

You can visit Around the Common and find out what’s going on in Bridgewater.

Barbara Peavey Website Re-Launched

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:39:34 +0000

I re-launched the site for oil painter Barbara Peavey this weekend. I switched from my custom content management system I built with PHP and MySQL — which did the job well — to an “artist website” package I built using Quick.CMS. (Other sites built on the artist site are Leanne Hannah’s and Craig Rousseau’s.)

If you’re an artist in need of a custom website, please contact me.

New Site (Finally) Launched

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:52:27 +0000

After being in business for almost a year, this new site was long overdue. Much like the carpenter who never has time to fix up his own house, I’ve (happily) been too busy with clients to update Kieran Chapman Design beyond my initial one-page site.

One addition to the site is this blog. I’ve had a personal blog since 2001, but this will be focused on work: current projects, design, usability, tools I use, useful sites, and the like. But I’ll still keep my Red Sox ramblings and Flickr photos on my personal site.

So welcome to the new site, have a look around, and if you’d like to discuss a design project please feel free to contact me.