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The Sweet Art of Choco-Pan

by Amy on April 8, 2009

When we first started Sumy Designs, one of our long time family friends at Sweet Art Galleries in Indianapolis asked for our help in revamping their site. They make the best cakes and sell Choco-Pan, Gourmet Rolled White Chocolate Fondant. Their original site consisted of pages made up of products and “Buy Now” buttons from Paypal. It worked, but it was rather tedious and of course, the design needed some work.

At the time, we’d never done an e-commerce site before, so we did some research and opted to use the Open Source OsCommerce program. And it worked. The store looked great and worked great and sales increased tremendously.

Several years later, we were approached about redoing that site, because the shopping cart was just out of date. The database was out of date, and it just needed redone.

So we started from scratch and came up with this beautiful design for a beautiful site and I’m really happy with how it came out.

Choco-Pan.com

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The Big One

by Amy on March 30, 2009

I’ve recently had the pleasure to collaborate with Molly Papier to create a site for David Kinney, author of a new book titled, “The Big One.” The Big One takes you inside five sleep-deprived weeks at the Vineyard’s Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, the most celebrated striper fishing contest on the East Coast.

The book is interesting, and I’m really proud of the site we created. It’s a pure CSS/HTML site with a blog for news updates. What I love most about my job is that with every client, I learn something new and this one was no exception. Have a look!

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New Masthead Design: Itchy Bits

by susan on March 27, 2009

From America’s favorite road cyclist living in ruburbia, Itchy Bits.

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New Site Design: The Little Book on Meaning

by susan on March 2, 2009

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New Site Design: The Mac Sport

by susan on March 2, 2009

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New Site Design: Biker Lawyer

by susan on March 2, 2009

Do you ride motorcycles? If you answered yes, then check this site out:

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Contact Oops!

by Amy on February 17, 2009

I recently received a contact through the contact form at Sumy Designs that reads:

Please contact us. We are interested in your services.Tim

Tim, if you see this - you didn’t include your phone number or your email address - so I have no means of contacting you. Please try again and send a contact method.
Thanks!

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Custom Blog Masthead: Just 1 2 Finish

by susan on February 4, 2009

Internet People, Rich is running again, but only because he has a fabulous new custom blog header. Thank God for the Masthead Factory, because Rich needed some intervention.

To show our love to all of you, Internet People, we are extending the Masthead Factory custom masthead sale through Valentine’s day. Just enter the code HOLIDAY to receive $15.00 off your masthead.

AND because we love you even that much more, All pre-made mastheads are just $5.00 through the end of February. That’s right - ONLY $5.00. Just enter the code HEART at check out - be sure to include the title of your blog and we’ll forward your masthead along. Just doing our part to share the love, because we give good masthead.