Visual Lizard
Why Visual Lizard?
Our dedication to web standards means that your web site will load faster, be more accessible, cost less and reach more people right out of the gate. From structure through design, we are dedicated to the person that will be using your web site.
Your business needs are simple: reach more people, deliver your message, make a connection, complete a transaction. Your web site should not impede any of your needs. Don’t let it.
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Visual Lizard Launches the Nellie McClung Foundation Website
Visual Lizard is proud to officially announce the launch of http://www.ournellie.com for the Nellie McClung Foundation. We worked with our friends at KIK Strategy and Blindside Creative to bring it all together.
The site contains a wealth of information about Nellie McClung (Wikipedia link on Nellie McClung), but more importantly, it challenges us to remember that it was not so long ago that women were not considered persons in the eyes of the law. Nellie McClung helped to change that and forever change the course of history in Canada.
Some of the interesting bits of the site that we got to build, aside from a gorgeous design from Rob, are:
- a special module for our Catalyst CMS to handle pull quotes, or specifically in this case, Words of Wisdom from Nellie.
- a tool for creating a timeline from within Catalyst. You can see the public results at http://www.ournellie.com/womens-suffrage/history-of-womens-rights.
- an interesting system for managing source information which comprises the archives found at http://www.ournellie.com/primary-sources. This area of the site is setup to allow it to grow to any size.
- a tie into our email system so that the staff at the Foundation can manage their electronic mailing list, get stats back on what they send out, and much more. I'll save the specifics for when we launch our site around the mailing system (hint: look for a future post on that).
- a special visual separation between the corporate site and the public site. We will let you discover that for yourself. Go exploring.
As always, we very proud to have a project we have worked on go live. It has been very busy around here of late, which is odd for mid-summer, but we love it. Cheers to everyone involved~!
On The Road To A New Web Site - Photography
In 1996, when we started Visual Lizard, we didn’t have a web site. The Internet had just started to appear on the landscape of everyday use. In fact, at the time, there wasn’t even a web host in Winnipeg that had a working server, but that is a different story. One of our first...
Visual Lizard Launches the Women's Health Clinic Site
It was back in the fall of ’08 when our good friends over at Guppy Design asked us to help out with a project for their landlords. The Women’s Health Clinic site needed a makeover so we said sure and jumped in. Working with Guppy and the crew at the Women’s Health...
Summer Days Are Here Again
It is that time of year again. The sun is warm. The days are long. There is a great big country out there just begging to be explored. As always, Visual Lizard will be maintaining normal business hours over the course of July and August, from 9am-5pm Monday through Friday During those...
Visual Lizard helps the Winnipeg Art Gallery win a 2010 Signature Award for Best Website
.. Visual Lizard is proud to announce that one of our design partners, Velocity Branding, has won the 2010 Signature Award for best website as well as a people’s choice award. The team here at Visual Lizard put an incredible amount of time and keystrokes into developing the site....
Valve Releases Steam For Mac
On Wednesday afternoon, Valve Software officially released Steam, their video game launch platform and online store, for Mac. Steam had been a service exclusively for PC users since launched it in 2004. This year, however, Valve has not only ported it over to the Mac, but given it a visual...
On Our Radar
Folklorama
Aug 01, 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Aug 13, 2010
Resident Evil Afterlife
Sep 10, 2010
Iron Man 2
Sep 28, 2010
From The Web
Urbanized
Gary Hustwit next film in his design trilogy, after Helvetica and Objectified.
Linked by Wil Alambre
CloudApp
CloudApp has launched and it looks like it could replace dropbox.
Linked by Julian Moffatt
Apple looking into iOS4 and 3G issues?
My iPhone 3G has become frustrating to use since upgrading to iOS4. What happened to the silky smooth experience that sold me on the hardware in the first place?
Linked by Wil Alambre
Office for Mac 2011 beta 5
Linked by Wil Alambre
W3C's Unicorn Validator Checks Multiple Standards at Once
It's described as brutally unforgiving and that it's near impossible to get a perfect score. Sounds like a challenge! ;).
Linked by Wil Alambre
The Gamer's Alphabet
Q is for Q-bert's curse filled speech bubble... he was a bit of a potty-mouth, wasn't he?
Linked by Wil Alambre
YouTube to increase upload limit from 10 to 15 minutes
Looking forward to bigger, longer internet meme music videos. Oi. :).
Linked by Wil Alambre
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye HD
Linked by Julian Moffatt
Flower Warfare - Psychedelic Action Scene
Linked by Wil Alambre
Safari Extensions Gallery
Wish they would provide screenshots of what the installed extensions do. :/.
Linked by Wil Alambre
Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1
Today's software update fixes the autofill security hole recently reported in Apple's browser.
Linked by Wil Alambre