Fab Web Work - Web Design in the Hudson Valley

Looking for a gorgeous piece of jewelry by David Frankel / HoppingdogSilver? We created this site a while back. Nice pages with slideshows of various pieces. Currently, his work can be seen at High Falls Mercantile in High Falls N.Y. Private/Studio sales by appointment.

Thought we’d share. www.hoppingdogsilver.com

Fab donated our services to the hurricane relief project.

Please help spread the word and go to the site to listen to these amazing Hudson Valley artists. Go Machan Taylor, you rock!!

The Hudson Valley Artists Hurricane Relief Project is a collective of some of the Hudson Valley’s most illustrious and talented musical artists in a fund raising effort. Sponsored by Soundscape Presents, a non-profit 501c3, all the artists have contributed their original works for the sole purpose of raising money to help the thousands of people that are still struggling to recover and rebuild their lives in the devastating aftermath of the 2011 Hurricane Irene and subsequent tropical storms.
hvahurricanereliefproject.com

Our friend and client, Nirmala Narine, was on Martha Stewart last week.  She showed us how to make a mango lassi and some spiced chicken with cous cous.  Nirmala sells her spices online and you can buy them here:  nirmala’s kitchen.  Beautiful tins and high-quality spices delivered to your door.  Couldn’t be easier!

WOW – Our wonderful client, Hudson Steel Co, had a couple of nice articles in Women’s Health, Men’s Health and Self. Fab’s graphic design work was featured in a couple of photos.
Here’s one:

I think it’s about time to start riding the bike!
To buy your own, go here: hudsonsteelco.com

Just finished a pretty design for now or never – lisa todd sweaters. It is a custom design and coded in WordPress so that they can update the text and blog!

www.noworneverlisatodd.com

Interesting – I was programming a wide website and it was giving me some horizontal scrolling on my ipad – which I did not want. Did you know that you can specify the viewing width of a site for the ipad? It’s pretty cool. Put this in the head section: meta name=”viewport” content=”width=1440″ So since my website is 1440 wide, this will make it all fit within the ipad screen.

EMAIL MARKETING!!!

We’ve been designing and programming a lot of html emails for clients these days!  We really enjoy doing this.  Most recently we’ve a few clients using a system called Silverpop.  It appears that Silverpop is often used by the larger corporate clients interested in tracking email information, reporting and so forth.  Our smaller clients use Constant Contact which works well for their needs.

If you have any interest in email marketing, give us a shout!

Here is a very interesting video explaining the new google panda updates and how it affects SEO. Not only content but user experience, current site design, graphics and click through traffic are entering into the rankings (plus more). I have to say that FAB always strives to make the user experience straightforward, enjoyable and eye-catching.

Come and see Ross Rice and the Very Sexy Trio at the Bywater Bistro in Rosendale NY. May 28 at 9pm.

Poster Design by Fab!!

we recently finished a wordpress conversion of the holycrossmonastery.com site. Now they can do their own updates! We pretty much kept the exact same layout as that was what they wanted. It looks and works great.

We just completed an attractive, informational site for deer-solutions.com based in fairfield county, connecticut.
Go deer-solutions.com!

just finished migrating a static site to the wordpress platform.  it’s a vegetarian / vegan recipe site with lots of pages.  looks and works great now.  It is a custom template, custom design – yes that is possible with wordpress.  yummyvegetarianrecipes.com

Come and see the Very Sexy Trio at the country inn in krumville, ny – on Friday, March 4.    Our own Maja B. designed the poster and might be singing a song or two.  See you there.

The Rock and Roll Vegetarian is up and running with a new content management site.  We created it in WordPress.  See some great vegetarian recipes, cooking & music videos, music and restaurant reviews in the region and new york city, as well as some vegan and vegetarian food reviews.  Here is a link to rockandrollvegetarian.com and a pic:

We do a lot of programming for ad agencies and individuals who design their own site or html newsletter in photoshop and then give the design to us to program.  It’s a great way you can combine your design skills with our programming expertise.

We just updated a cool website: http://www.pk30system.com

We replaced a flash menu with a slick jquery accordian style menu as well as did many other updates to the site.  As you may know, flash does not show up on the ipad or different phones.  While we did not originally design it, we are more than happy to work on existing sites for clients.  We worked within their existing framework and code.  It can be fun figuring out existing code (if it is done well, that is!!)  We will also be doing some search engine optimization in the near future.  Thanks for the opportunity!

Here’s a shot of the site:

we recently created a facebook page, added the social network link to the site and created a slick html newsletter advertising their jazz events for Jack and Luna’s Cafe in stone ridge, NY. not only do they have a delicious menu, offer catering and delicious desserts – they also have village vanguard quality jazz on the weekends.  check out their site (designed by fab, of course) for current dates:  jackandlunas.com sweet!  here is their facebook link:  j&l

we programmed a beautiful site that was graphically designed by elsebeth thomsen – it has a nice flash area on the homepage, slideshows and some neat javascript popup images on the portfolio pages. we also programmed it for optimal search engine readability as well as tagged it for seo.   check it out: http://www.brandingetc.com

we recently finished a zen-cart site for a fitness equipment company called hudson steel co.  http://www.hudsonsteelco.com

they are adding more products shortly.  it’s got a simple sophisticated look and feel to it.  those zen cart sites are mucho work – lots of modifications have to be done to them to get them to look attractive.  On the plus side, as an ecommerce package, zen-cart is very robust, offers a lot of options, add-ons from the open source community and has a great administration panel for adding products, etc.

We added a blog  to Monica John’s site:  http://claritymanagementconsulting.com/blog/

It looks great and Monica always has a lot of great information to share.  Check it out!

just finished a pretty site for a viberatto. check er out: aviberatto.com

love the music – good to calm the nerves. jimmy goodman wrote the music and the performers are: jimmy goodman, garth hudson, tony levin, chris macchia, ross rice, jane scarpantoni, nat russell, & maja berwald-russell (yes, fab’s maja)!

just finished up a zen cart e-commerce site a few weeks back for collegeprep online. zen-cart is a robust program. has a cool back end admin area. we made a completely custom site so it looks good and has the basic shopping cart functionality. http://www.collegepreponline.com

To add a post to your new blog, follow these steps:
1. go into your admin.
2. click on posts.
3. click on add new and give the post a nice descriptive title.
4. go to the text area and start typing.
5. once finished with your post, look at the right-hand column. here you can add a tag(s) and put your post into a category(s).
6. hit the preview button to take a look at your new post. if it’s what you want, hit the publish button.

1. Click the computer icon next to the words “Upload/Insert”.
2. Select your images(s), click open.
3. Edit the image details – click the show link on the right of the image thumbnail.

You can then add lots of image options such as title, caption, description, link or none if you don’t want it to link anywhere.  You can choose from a few size options as well.

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It’s pretty easy to add an image to your blog post.

1. Click on the img button in the “edit post or add new post” area.
2. Then type in the url of the image into the text box that pops up.
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Fab Web Work’s blog is up and running.

We are ready to provide our customers with blogs!  Beautiful blogs that can be incorporated into sites or independent blogs.

To discuss the possibilities, give us a call or email us.

We’ll be adding helpful instructions about how to work with your blog as time goes on….