We recently finished a new website design for Applecrest Farm, New Hampshire’s oldest and largest apple orchard. It’s an earthy, rustic design, a bit like the smooth scroll website we developed last spring. The new web development showcases the tasty offerings of Applecrest (located in Hampton Falls, NH), such as pick-your-own schedules and festival dates [...]

It can be tough to come up with unique ideas for client holiday gifts. We’ve sent North Face fleece shirts, hosted parties, created custom designed posters, and even hand painted ornaments in years past. To thank our clients this year – and show them we appreciate working on their branding, websites, and other marketing projects [...]

As you all know, social media is exploding. Almost everyone has either a Facebook, Twitter (although my wife may think it’s stupid), and/or LinkedIn account, if not all three. YouTube is becoming an everyday resource for tutorials etc. If you still think this social media thing is just a fad, you may be surprised to [...]

No, Vital Design’s blog is not on the cutting room floor. And it hasn’t been censored. We’ve just been a bit busy the past two months designing, laying out, programming, writing, tweeting, conducting public relations and procuring print for the New Hampshire Film Festival. Vital has been fortunate to be NHFF’s exclusive marketing partner since [...]

Two cool links we saw on Twitter today: First is about effectively planning your website design from start to finish. This gives a few good examples and a step-by-step process. They go into balancing good navigation with design.

Second cool link is from Inside Facebook and about Facebook Pages evolving into ecommerce portals. This is a good answer for the question on how Facebook can help your business. Threadless is just a cool company anyway, but they are using Facebook in a great way by constantly keeping people involved in addition to generating all of their products from their community. Also, check out what 1800FLOWERS is doing to sell flowers right from their Facebook page.

New website design using smooth scroll, one-page approach for http://www.thestonechurch.com by Vital Design.