Creative Nights portfolio
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Jasno & Glasno
Jasno & Glasno (Loud and Clear) is a Pro Community Management company (the kind of Internet company, a prophets talked about, some 15 years ago). The shop is specialized in community driving, Twitter and Facebook profile management, content production, viral campaigns and web strategy.
The site’s design and illustrations reflect the playful nature of the shop’s dynamic duo and puts their ideas in anything-but-ordinary category.
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Glazbena Škola Križevci
Glazbena škola Alberta Štrige Križevci (The School of Music “Albert Štriga” Križevci) is a web site for local, but very active school for young musicians with both elementary and high school programmes.
The web site is regularly updated with recent and future school activities.
The content is managed by WordPress, extended with excellent Events plugin and running a custom developed theme.By the way, here’s an interesting detail (translated by Google).
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2MLPharmacare Themes
2MLPharmacare offers fully maintained, subscription based hosted service for pharmacy websites around the world.
We designed and developed three different themes based on the provided wireframes. Themes had to be customized via CMS, so we used quite a lot advanced CSS and multiple overlapping PNG graphics, to ensure endless skinning possibilities.
Each 2MLPharmacare theme can be restyled with different color scheme (text and background), background illustration, header image and by repositioning main content columns. In case a customer pharmacy doesn’t have its own logo, we provided the default neutral branding.
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PlanB
PlanB is a print magazine about internet, new media and modern lifestyle.
We were asked to create custom WordPress theme — but apart from regular theme skinning, we were also about to write a number of specific PHP functions for different page types and custom content displays.
The site was designed by Kiosk studio.
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Cvrk
Cvrk is the first Croatian Twitter-based community. It features various data and statistics collected from Croatian Tweeple, for instance: popularity of users and hash-tags, or number of recent followers for each user.
The design challenge we had on this project was to take care of various layout scenarios after the unpredictable user generated content patterns, and yet to maintain compact look and feel.
Since there is plenty of data — the tiny portions of text and images are scattered all over the pages — we choose monochromatic color-scheme as a contrast to bright colors of user avatars.
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Why Croatia?
Croatian Internet users started non-profit project to save Croatia from recession — guerilla way. Croatia is a country that lives from tourism and the site is in fact one huge personal call for all the travelers to visit Croatia this summer.
it was a privilege for Creative Nights to participate in this Internet stunt. Illustrative layout and absence of straight lines and precise curves in most of the details resulted in easy-going informal look and feel. Relaxed and friendly — that’s what your vacation should be.
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Seek and Hit
Seek and Hit is a small Internet marketing, pay-per-click advertising and SEO consultancy company. We were hired to re-design their existing site and deliver WordPress theme.
The client already had a clear vision about the business objectives and recognized use cases. As a result, the web site was divided into two main parts to cover the major visitor groups: prospect clients interested in company’s services and peers from the field interested in industry news and relevant opinions.
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Ljekarne Zagrebačke županije
A site for the local chain of pharmacy stores serves three main purposes:
- Provide an easy to find store location and working hours information
- Feature articles on health based on the current seasonal conditions
- List all the brands represented and announce the related upcoming events
The project was first intended to be an Internet brochure, but we soon realized that the company had the resources and potential to handle something that would be of more value to their customers. We conducted a heuristic evaluation of the competitors’ web presence which resulted in the aforementioned three major features.
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Gadgeterija
Gadgeterija is a daily blog about gadgets, computers, audio and video equipment, and technology in general. Site is regularly updated with in-depth product reviews and announcements. Written in Croatian.
When we first discussed the site re-design with the client, we soon came to realize we’re on the same side of the table. Once we were given a full freedom in deciding the general look and feel, the process was a breeze and resulted in highly usable web interface which was immediately approved by both — the client and the visitors.
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Croportal
Croportal is a RSS aggregator + user suggested content application.
With over 50 media partners (incl. the top Croatian news portals) and a user-base of 80.000+ registered members, Croportal gives an overview of what‘s hot in Croatia at any given moment.
The project was first rapidly developed and released with bare minimum functionality. A few months later, the interface was re-aligned according to data generated by visitor activities and web site statistics, and feedback gathered on focus groups and usability testing sessions.
Our work with users is summarized in the presentation Što korisnici žele? (What users want?). The presentation was held on web.start 08 conference in Croatian.
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QBN
QBN is one of the largest online design communities.
In 2007. founders Jason Kristofer and Patrick Riley from Vantageous redesigned and transformed Newstoday.com to QBN.com.
Since QBN is ongoing project, my role is creating and updating web standards compliant XHTML templates based on Patrick’s mockups. On that path I work closely with talented Django developers Beau Harthorne and Bryan Chow.
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Krop Creative Jobs
Krop is a job listing for designers, artists, and developers with instant search tool. All Krop jobs are also broadcast across Vantageous Advertising Network.
The Krop application is AJAX based, and the layout is changed dynamically most of the time, requiring well thought HTML structure and bullet-proof CSS.
The branded web forms were the crucial for this web application, so we made an extra effort in order to make it work consistently in a wide variety of Mac and Windows browsers.
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Vantageous Advertising Network
The Vantageous Advertising Network targets an audience of professionals in design, and related creative industries. Vantageous is behind QBN.com and Krop.com.
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Coolinarika — Cooking portal
Coolinarika is a brand of Podravka, the largest Croatian food company (world-wide known for it’s flagship product Vegeta).
Coolinarika was the first true social-networking high-profile web site in Croatia, connecting people from all the countries of former Yugoslavia. Users are gathered around the topic of cooking and preparing food, with very active forums and a high volume of on-topic user generated content.
We participated in the project as a part of the greater machinery — Case Sensitive and web.burza agencies.
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Tulumarka
With a strong focus on partying, clubbing and alike events, Tulumarka is Croatian teenager’s social network of choice.
I was involved in the project since the redesign and all the way to it’s acquisition.
After we created logo, I established reusable visual language and modular grid system, which had to support various site templates, such as event announcements, blog entries, photo galleries, member profiles and venues pages.
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KupiProdaj
KupiProdaj (eng. translation: BuySell) is leading Croatian classified ads listings site. In 2007. the original site was split to 3 brands: Kupiprodaj, CentarNekretnina and 4kotača.
Each brand kept the common visual language, but they specialized in different areas: CentarNekretnina deals with real-estates and 4kotača is specialized in motor vehicles.
KupiProdaj was redesigned in 2007. I participated later in the process to help with cross-browser issues and as a fresh pair of eyes with regard to usability and navigation clarity.
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Typetester
The Typetester is an online application for comparing fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier by enabling quick preview of the selected typeface and its’ most common parameters, such as leading, tracking etc. As a special feature, the application generates CSS on-the-fly.
In Typetester’s development, invaluable help was received from the great folks from unpljugged and web.burza studios.
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Aikido for Kids
Aikido for Kids is a kids section page of a web site for Aikido Dojo in Velika Gorica, Croatia.
We needed a friendly illustrated layout to better grab children’s attention and make them eventually read about Aikido. There was no need to clutter the interface with too much serious content. We displayed only the relevant bullet points in a way to interest children.
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CSS Zen Garden: Table Layout Assassination
CSS Zen Garden entry Table Layout Assassination was made in collaboration with the fellow colleague and talented designer Marko Kršul as our small contribution to web standards adoption.
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CSS Zen Garden: The Lost Collection
The Lost Collection is a contribution to CSS Zen Garden, which is promoting web standards through live examples. Even though it never been the official submission, context of the entry is relevant.
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Mirko Beović Photography
Mirko Beović is popular Croatian photographer and artist. We were hired to create an online showcase of his photography pieces.
Apart from updating his photo-galleries, author answers questions in Photography FAQ and writes relevant articles in the photoblog.
All the content on the site is managed through custom made content management system. The site editor has an ability to add, edit or delete image galleries, FAQ entries, site articles and a list of favorite web sites.
Photoblog is powered by WordPress, seamlessly integrated with the rest of the back-end functionality.
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Netiquette
Netiquette is a set of rules for nice behavior on the Internet. The web site features the guidelines, as well as other useful information for Internet novices. Articles are published in Croatian.
Netiquette is a personal project, supported by Croatian design community mi3dot.org and Plus hosting.
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Juraj Sokolić
Juraj Sokolić is professional dog handler, groomer and well known breeder of Parson Russell Terriers and Dalmatians. The web site is an overview of his achievements on dog shows, and also a place to find general information about his breeds and the kennel — Canis Croaticus.
Jurajsokolic.com is powered by custom tailored WordPress theme.
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The Most Beautiful Ugly Dogs
The breed of Bull Terriers originates from UK. Since 1830. till present time Bull Terriers were transformed from rat exterminators to modern companion dogs.
TMBUD features articles about breeding, puppy care and health. People who got to know the breed often refer to Bull Terriers as ‘The Most Beautiful Ugly Dogs’. Hence the title of the web site.
