Real Weight Loss Now vertical stretch 11 2009 After a few years of doing exclusively programming, Designtion is proud to have implemented a web design entirely in CSS for Real Weight Loss Now. This site features a customized CSS blog template, weight loss javascript calculators, and ecommerce integration with Clickbank.

			Floral Gardens of Highland Park Contained 07 2006 Floral Gardens is a simple site that was redesigned into a fully contained site. The redesign was executed in a couple days with additional macro photography by Jordan Balagot, including the image on the home page and site background.

			Culture Critic Wordpress Theme 04 2006 This is a wordpress theme for the culture critic community blog, created as an independent project. It's inspired by parchment paper, canvas texture, and photo borders.

			La Petite Folie Contained 02 2006 La Petite Folie is a French restaurant in Hyde Park, IL. The site is in a contained style with an iframe for scrolling content. The navigation has a glossy button look, the border is in a Celtic knot work style, and the bottom gradient fades into a marketplace picture.

			Interior Planning Contained 01 2006 Interior Planning and Design employs a fully contained design with a brushed metal 3D look. Iframes are used to display the content, thumbnails, and blowups, and javascript is used to print the entire content of the iframe while still maintaining the look of the site.

			Chicago Feng Shui Contained / Frosted Glass 11 2005 Chicago Feng Shui is an interior design / Feng Shui consultant firm, and this design was made to represent the creativity and uniqueness of this company. It features a fully contained iframe design, frosted glass effect, and a flash animated logo mouseover with masking.

			Cubalove.com Contained / Brushed Metal 11 2005 Cubalove was designed to be a PHP ecommerce site with paypal website payments pro selling jewelry, candles, herbs, incense, and Santeria products. This is a screenshot of an early design with a brushed metal look.

			Kuelbs + Rogers Ltd. Architecture Contained 10 2005 This is a contained design for an interior architecture firm. The design features a grid layout in the shape of the golden rectangle, and a line flash drawing that turns from a blueprint into a photo of their architecture.

			Palazzo Flash / Contained 09 2005 Palazzo is an entirely flash-based site. It features an interactive flash soundtrack, an original music composition by Jordan Balagot, and animations designed in Adobe After Effects.

			Maria Isasi Vertical Stretch 09 2005 Maria Isasi is an Artist that does fine art original paintings, metal, wood, and custom furniture. Her site features her artwork both in the foreground and in the background, and a dual horizontal / vertical icon-based navigation.

			The Back Porch Contained 05 2005 The Back Porch of Long Grove is a fully contained ecommerce site with frosted glass effect. It features high quality windchime samples recorded on site with a MOTU 896 and a large diaphragm condenser mic, a unique side-scrolling iframe, and short animations created from movies shot at the store.

			Mid Century Partners Contained 05 2005 This site features a fully contained design with DHTML Javascript mouseover scrolling to display the content. It also features a blurred glass effect, javascript slideshow, and right-hand navigation.

			State Street Entertainment Vertical Stretch 05 2005 State Street DJ's features a contemporary design based on the color burnt orange. Its textual, horizontal navigation is designed for search engine optimization for the terms chicago wedding dj. The site features several wedding checklists and music checklist forms for brides and grooms to be.

			eTraderTools Vertical Stretch 04 2005 eTraderTools is a company that provides computers, monitors, and work stations for E-Traders. It has a vertical stretch layout with the monitor configurations designed in Swift 3D.

			Taste America Catering [transfer] Full Width 03 2005 Taste America was transferred from a previous designer in November 2005. Taste America owns several restaurants in Chicago including Catch 35, Lloyd's Chicago, Cityfront 455, and Boardman's Kitchen. This site is accompanied by custom HTML email marketing.

			Judy Gordon Interior Design Contained 03 2005 This is a very simple site showcasing the work of Judy Gordon Interiors, an Interior Design company. Most of the content is contained within an iframe.

			Joel Frankel.com Vertical Stretch 03 2005 Joel Frankel is a children's musician and his site design uses solid colors and wacky shapes designed to appeal to kids. His site features mp3 downloads and videos.

			The Portrait Place Contained / Vert. Stretch 03 2005 The portrait place is a simple contained design with a vertical stretch to fit the content. It showcases portrait and wedding photography.

			World Art Exchange Pixel art / Full Width 11 2004 World Art Exchange is a massive artist trading site, hosting art auctions, trading, and selling. The design was augmented with programming by insight designs.

			Amdur Productions Vertical Stretch 11 2004 Amdur Productions is an organization that presents several art festivals in the Chicago area. Their design features a splash page representing artists' work and then several vertical stretch pages about each festival.

			Nopsid.com Vertical Stretch 11 2004 Nopsid stands for national occasion, products and services internet directory. This is a php driven national database of wedding services. It uses a glass distortion and color dodge effect with a vertical stretch layout.

			Cerebral Palsy Directory Grid 10 2004 Cerebral Palsy Directory is a searchable PHP-based directory of resources for people with CP. It features a windows-like, collapsible navigation system called DTree and has an administrative interface to add new listings via the web.

			My PR Agency Full Width / Vertical Stretch 09 2004 My PR Agency was a PR consulting firm for small businesses. The site featured a 8.5 x 11 main content frame and downloadable PDF 'kits' to help people start their businesses.

			Kiki's Bistro Frosted Glass / Vertical Stretch 07 2004 Kiki's Bistro is an upscale French restaurant in Chicago, IL, and the site design features a blurred/bloomed background photo of the restaurant that fades to black. This site is accompanied by an email marketing HTML template to match their web page.

			Herb's Bakery Frosted Glass Effect 07 2004 This is a simple 1 page site that advertises the services and contact information of an Elgin, IL bakery. It uses a vectorized version of their logo as a background and a frosted glass effect for the main content window.

			Fred Wackerle, Plein Air Painter Vertical Stretch 07 2004 This site showcases the work of Fred Wackerle. The simple layout is designed not to distract the viewer from the artwork.

			Tag's Bakery Full Width / 3D Effects 07 2004 Tag's Bakery employs a horizontal navigation / full width layout with a grid based design. The site features original photography by Jordan Balagot. One unique feature of this site is that the contact form automatically emails the company manager on his cell phone, so he can always reply quickly to potential customers.

			North Shore Peace Initiative Vertical Stretch 06 2004 NSPI is a coalition of north suburban peace and justice leaders. Their site features a server side include (SSI) navigation, a full width with vertical stretch layout, and a main content box that looks like a 8.5 x 11 letter, similar to this site.

			The Right CEO One page 06 2004 This is a one page site designed to provide information about the book "The Right CEO". One page sites like these are useful for topics that don't need several pages worth of explanation, and can be created extremely quickly.

			The Explanation Flash / 3D Effects 05 2004 This site is for the former Chicago, IL rock band, The Explanation. The site featured an experimental dual vector / raster 3D animated intro that morphs into the layout of the site. The site also features MP3s of the band. This site was designed as an independent project while a member of the band.

			Fuenfer Jewelers 3D Effect 05 2004 The layout for fuenfer jewelers was created using a 3D rendering program. The content all fits on a beveled transparent rounded box.

			MVP Studio Inc. Contained 04 2004 This was a fully contained, grid-based design for a wedding and portrait photography studio. The design featured a shutter icon theme and spotlight lighting screens.

			Diets to your Door Vertical Stretch 04 2004 Diets to Your Door is a service that offers a low carb diet delivery plan. Menus are updated every week so that customers can choose between 2-3 options for every meal every week. The site features streaming video and a logo mouseover animation done in Swift 3D.

			Jaffe & Berlin Vertical Stretch 03 2004 This webpage is for a law firm and features a translucent background and a gold look generated with Swift 3D.

			Minis in Motion Contained / Brushed Metal 03 2004 Minis in Motion was a site for a car dealer in California. It featured a brushed metal look and lots of sleek shots of mini coopers.

			Constant Custom Homes Contained / Vert. Stretch 03 2004 Constant Custom Homes is a simple site that features a scrolling flash intro and a unique fly-through rendered with Canoma, a software tool that can create 3D scenes from photographs.

			Et Anleer Interior Design Contained 11 2003 Et Anleer Interior Design is a contained site with text placed underneath the main table for search engine optimization purposes. It features remote mouseovers / automatic thumbnail blowups and an elegant blueprint / grid design.

			A & E Dance Instruction Vertical Stretch 09 2003 A & E Dance Instruction was a simple site designed with a focus on information to bring in repeat customers and to optimize for search engines.

			Oberlin Conservatory of Music Vertical Stretch 10 2002 The Oberlin Conservatory of Music's page was redesigned by Jordan Balagot in the fall of 2002 to remove a splash page and make it look more like a professional news source. While no longer maintained by Balagot, the site still maintains the basic look Balagot redesigned.