Dennis Deacon

We are truly blessed.
No, I’m not getting religious. As a web professional, we here in Chicago are truly bless.

The Galapagos Islands is a standards-based, lead-generation, travel-related microsite designed for an existing client and developed on a Wordpress CMS. Much of the look n’ feel was derived from existing branding from travel supplier print material. The site leverages Cufon, a font-replacement technology, that allowed me to target the well-established supplier branding. As the Galapagos [...]

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The client, who created the initial 10-year old website using Frontpage, was my dentist at the time. For many years, I commented on how I could freshen up the look of his website while increasing the chance the site would rank better on the search engines. After several off and on discussions over a period [...]

The client had an existing table-based website which was designed by the hosting company. In two years, the client had never received any leads from the website. Desperate to increase business, Jean-Jacques was referred to me to redesign the website, making it more effective. The redesigned website incorporated a web standards-based approach with search engine [...]

The client contacted my web design partner requesting a redesign of a site who’s business they purchased. The old site had a grunge, retro feel to it, and didn’t match the new owner’s fun retro tone they wanted to achieve. As this was a seasonal business and the season fast approaching, we worked with [...]

This one-page design of my personal website came out of a charge by a recruiter to display my web design work online instead of printed (makes sense). The inspiration came from a one-page site I found online and felt the layout to be fitting for what I wanted to communicate. It leveraged an Adobe Spry [...]

Cruise West Alaska is a lead generating microsite for a travel agency which specializes in small ship cruises. It was my first web standards-based website and has been quite effective for the business.
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About the site

Completed 2008
Microsite; supplier and destination focused

Work performed

Web Design & Development
Flash Video processing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Technologies Used

(X)HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Flash Video

Applications / Tools Used

Adobe Dreamweaver [...]

This web design project was to create an online presence for an interior decorator specializing in children’s rooms and furniture. This was a departure from my previous sites, which were all in the travel industry.
Highlights
About the site

Website for interior decorator of children’s rooms & furnishings..
Completed 2004.

Work performed

Web Design & Development
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Technologies Used

(X)HTML
CSS
JavaScript

Applications / [...]

The site was a redesigned website created for this travel agency. The original site created mimicked the look & feel of the OnlineAgency system for Travel Agents, which was being leveraged for content and promotions by the business. The site was designed with Dreamweaver, leverage a table-based layout and it’s templates feature, for use with [...]