The Gifted Resource Center of New England
GRCNE Toon Girl
Growing Minds recently completed a web site redesign for the Gifted Resource Center of New England which is located in Providence, RI. The new site details services offered at the GRCNE, features articles by Deirdre V. Lovecky, Ph.D., and provides links and resources for the parents of gifted children, as well as for the children themselves.
The new site design is based on a 960 grid system, which streamlines web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants, 12 and 16 columns; we used the 12 column version for this site.
Since the GRCNE provides services to gifted children and their families we developed a “family friendly” look and feel for the site. The color scheme is bright and cheerful, with a playful header produced with Adobe Flash with Actionscript 3.0, and colorful cartoon illustrations of children sprinkled here and there around the site. The cartoon illustrations were created in 3D with Poser from Smith Micro using Art Materials’ specialized toon shaders. Pre and post production work was done in Photoshop. The CSS was customized for the fonts on the site, and search engine optimization (SEO) was an important consideration in the redesign.
The Gifted Resource Center of New England
GRCNE Toon Girl
Growing Minds recently completed a web site redesign for the Gifted Resource Center of New England which is located in Providence, RI. The new site details services offered at the GRCNE, features articles by Deirdre V. Lovecky, Ph.D., and provides links and resources for the parents of gifted children, as well as for the children themselves.
The new site design is based on a 960 grid system, which streamlines web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants, 12 and 16 columns; we used the 12 column version for this site.
Since the GRCNE provides services to gifted children and their families we developed a “family friendly” look and feel for the site. The color scheme is bright and cheerful, with a playful header produced with Adobe Flash with Actionscript 3.0, and colorful cartoon illustrations of children sprinkled here and there around the site. The cartoon illustrations were created in 3D with Poser from Smith Micro using Art Materials’ specialized toon shaders. Pre and post production work was done in Photoshop. The CSS was customized for the fonts on the site, and search engine optimization (SEO) was an important consideration in the redesign.