Kalamazoo Web Design & Development | Boyle Creations LLC

Running another test for FB

secure_user-117 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:15:22 +0000

testing info.

And another test

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check it out

some test

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with some info

and yeah

AutoBeat Insider Launched

secure_user-117 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:41:06 +0000

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Morning Glory House

secure_user-117 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:41:40 +0000

This is a piece I’ve done about a year ago, but never wound up adding to my portfolio. The design was made for Morning Glory House which is an elderly retirement home near Kalamazoo, Michigan. They were looking for a solution to create and manage pages so they could easily update the website for their business as well as a floral themed design to match the name of their business.

For this custom wordpress theme development I used the thematic wordpress framework by Ian Stewart to cut down on cross browser inconsistencies and made a general layout.

The Site URL can be found at MGH Seniors.

Automob WordPress Design

secure_user-117 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:31:51 +0000

This is a wordpress theme design I recently made in Photoshop. I was having an inspired day and simply had to do some design work. I really wanted to work with a grain pattern on a darker themed website, and try to lean away from some of the full width containers that I have on a lot of my designs.

After getting some sketching done and working with a few options for the grid I got to photoshopping and wound up with this design. I was pretty pleased with how it turned out. Keeping wordpress in mind, I started to think the design would be great for a wordpress theme.

For now this is going to sit in my portfolio folder, but once I’m done with some other projects I’m on, this piece will definitely be in line for wordpress theme development and I have to say I’m quite excited about it.

Version Business Theme

secure_user-117 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:21:19 +0000

A clean and easily customizable business theme design for Wordpress. Under development to be released as my first for sale premium theme.

New Website Launched

secure_user-117 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:56:49 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted on this site. Since I got better, I took a look at my site here and realized I wanted to give a fresh new look to my site, one that was more up to date. With that in mind I decided to build a new design for boylecreations. Now that all this is taken care of I can start posting articles here as well, and represent myself the way I’ve always wanted. I’ll be starting a new marketing campaign soon to promote boylecreations and designrelay as well as coming out with a lot more new content as well as working on some custom wordpress themes for sale. I hope everyone enjoys the new look of things and I’m really excited to be writing again!

Design blog

secure_user-117 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:40:26 +0000

I’ve recently decided that I wanted to seperate my personal blog from a more informational and design related one. I’ve wanted to get into working with screencasts and tutorials to provide information for my clients and anyone out there who may find as much use from it as I do from many of the other blogs out there. For the time being, this blog will be carrying more personal information, (though some work related may still come in).

This Site used to be DesignRelay but I did not renew the domain has since been moved to become part of this site and is currently under development. Check back soon for updates!

Go Green Web Design

secure_user-117 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:52:10 +0000

Just the other day I joined up in an art competition at the Center for New Media in Kalamazoo. The idea was that designers would collaborate with other designers to come up with a three piece campaign that helped promote renewable energy instead of offshore drilling. Obviously inspired by the recent disaster with the BP oil spill, I teamed up with local designers Amy O’donnell and Andy Peninger to create our campaign.

Rather then focus on one type of energy over another we kind of bent the rules a bit and attempted a campaign that was more towards promoting people to come visit a website where all the information was collected. We made up a fictional company called ESAmerica (Environmtal Support of America) and I designed a website for them and worked on a logo for them with Andy Peninger. Amy went on to work on a Propaganda poster that showed an awesome image about who was to blame on the matter of the oil spill. Andy then went on to create a billboard with some strong typography that said “Spill Your Thoughts”.

All in all it was a lot of fun, but we were all on really tight schedules with work so we didn’t get to do as much preparation as we’d like.

On the other hand though, we DID get Honorable Mention and a pretty high score overall afterwards. So while we didn’t really win any cash for our efforts, getting the honorable mention was really cool. Someone obviously liked our work so we’re going to have it displayed with all the rest at the Center for New Media in downtown Kalamazoo at the next local Art Hop.

As for the website design I made for ESAmerica, you can take a look here or in my portfolio page. I’m looking into doing a 3 part tutorial later on how I brainstormed, planned, designed it and how to turn it into a wordpress theme for personal use later. But thats for another day. Enjoy!