Bizango Blog

We recently launched a brand new website for the Office of Vocations for the Archdiocese of Seattle. Our goal was to capture their story, guiding website visitors along a narrative journey to help them find what they are looking for.

Even non-profits benefit from marketing and storytelling whether it be a product, service or a life-calling.

Give us a call to see what we can do to help tell your story!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new author website. Congratulations to Greg Levin on this new site!!!! We LOVE working with authors, it is great to collaborate with them, help tell their story visually, and capture readers attention on the web.

Websites for authors gives them more opportunity to connect with a wider audience and sell more books!

We recently worked with author, C.L. Denault on a special design project for her upcoming book in the Prodigy Chronicles series. She needed a visual to help readers immerse themselves into this dystopian environment. Chaney, our designer was very excited to work on this project! Here is what she had to say about the experience:

• The most exciting part of the project was to try to put myself into this world. To imagine what each of these regions would be like as if I’d been there, yet through the surveillance lens of a dark, corrupt council.

• The biggest challenge was balancing getting all the details of the map represented while maintaining simplicity, sophistication, and understandability all while being displayed as if on a black translucent screen. 

• I drew reference from CL Denault’s descriptive explanation of the world and the reasons why regions became what they are - like how Wales no longer exists or Scotland area is covered in ice, etc. I also was inspired by other young adult dystopian stories and films like Hunger Games or Divergent in which a similar interactive geographical military map screen is portrayed. 

• I enjoyed working on this creative project. It gave me a fun, fresh opportunity to build a futuristic world imagined by a creative author using only shapes, color and texture. I’ve always been interested in the dystopian stories and how unlikely heroes rise against their oppressors even when it all seems hopeless and dark corruption is allowed as accepted reality in society. 

In the world of web design you will hear the term “above the fold”.  If you are asking yourself what this means, sit back and let us take you on a journey back to the 1990’s (!).  Long ago, back when flash or hit counters were popular and everyone used a desktop computer, it was standard that any important information or calls to action be at the top of the screen, so that site visitors would not have to scroll down to see it.  Any great web designer or web design agency knew that if you wanted your audience to see your message or click on your link, it had to be at the top of the page.  The top of the page was prime real estate.  

Fast forward to today – while our antiquated beliefs regarding keeping all important and relevant content at the top of the page may still hold some truth, the world of computers and web design have evolved.  These days we use many devices with different screen sizes - laptops, iPads, smartphones.  Think about a wide screen, high-resolution monitor, now imagine how that coverts on your smartphone. Responsive websites and a multitude of screen sizes have changed the game.  People now are much more comfortable with scrolling. This variation in how each site visitor views a web page makes it difficult to set a standard “above the fold” guideline.  The notion of “above the fold” is, practically speaking, obsolete. 

Meet Jesse, a Bizango team member since 2014, his extensive web development skills and Fine Arts background have been crucial for the completion of some of our most complex web design projects. Jesse is a prolific artist and outdoors enthusiast.