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Center City District Restaurant Week 2008 Banner Ads

By Vance Bell | January 27, 2008 | commentLeave a Comment »

Center City District LogoFor many years Center City District has organized the Center City District Restaurant Week event where participating Center City restaurants offer a “price fixed” multiple course meals to their patrons. It is a great chance to try out those new restaurants you’ve been thinking about. I usually get to a couple every Restaurant Week.

Center City District Restaurant Week 2008 Banner Ads

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Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings

By Vance Bell | December 24, 2007 | commentLeave a Comment »

Over the Holiday break I had some free time and decided to create a Holiday e-card to send to friends, clients and colleagues.

Sending out the email allowed me an opportunity to test Campaign Monitor’s HTML email validation tools. Later on I’ll be bloging my in depth review comparing the email testing and validation tools offered by Campaign Monitor and MailChimp.

Vance Bell Holiday Card - Front

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Fertility and Gynecology Associates – Reproductive Success in a Nurturing Environment

By Vance Bell | December 12, 2007 | commentLeave a Comment »

Fertility and Gynecology Associates WebsiteRecently Fertility and Gynecology Associates approached me to redesign and relaunch their Web site. Located at the Pennsylvania Hospital (with a satellite office in Willow Grove, PA), physicians Leonore Huppert, M.D. and Maria Pia Platia, M.D. provide advanced reproductive and fertility care.In completing this project, I provided project management, Web design, front-end Web development, copy writing and editing, and finally, hosting services.

Online marketing support was provided through a third-party service and resulted in dramatically increased Web site traffic and new patient phone inquires and appointments.

Fertility and Gynecology Website Traffic Analytics

Fertility and Gynecology Associates Website Design

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Donnelly Creative Services – A Business Built from the Client Up

By Vance Bell | November 15, 2007 | commentLeave a Comment »

Donnelly Creative Services WebsiteThis Fall Michael and Tom Donnelly, co-founders of Donnelly Creative Services, asked me to help them redevelop and expand their online presence. They could have managed it themselves, but since we’ve been collaborating on Web design and development projects for the better part of a year now, it seemed the natural thing to do. Michael Donnelly took creative lead, while I was happy to execute the front-end development, hosting set-up, and share copywriting and information architecture responsibilities with Tom.

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Innovation Philadelphia – Cultivating Philadelphia’s Creative Economy

By Vance Bell | October 2, 2007 | commentLeave a Comment »

Innovation Philadelphia LogoThis past Summer SoftOrigins was selected to complete a redevelopment of the Innovation Philadelphia Web site. Founded in 2001, Innovation Philadelphia collaborates with Philadelphia region economic organizations to generate new ideas and programs to highlight and grow the knowledge and technology sectors of Philadelphia’s economy.

Innovation Philadelphia selected the regional design firm Untuck to execute a new logo and general site design theme. SoftOrigins provided project management, technical strategy, information architecture, front- and back-end Web development, hosting provider vetting and finally training services. A fully custom, integrated Web application allows Innovation Philadelphia staff to maintain their site in a flexible and efficient manner.

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