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The Country Inn Motel: The motel
is located in Nimpo Lake, British Columbia and is owned and operated
by Ted and Deana. They took over the Country Inn in summer of 2003
and wanted to update the web site. They wanted a very simple site
with links to other sites offering services in their area. They
did end up getting more pages than they initially planned for two
reasons. They had quite a bit of information, a lot of photos, and
wanted sound on the site. Since this can increase page load time
substantially, it seemed prudent to divide everything up as much
as possible. We just put sound on the buttons but it still increased
the size of the files a great deal. The logo for the Country Inn
is a loon, so I used that quite a bit on each page, and of course
used the sound of the local loons on button rollovers.
Pricing: This
turned out to be a pretty simple site to do, mainly because the
owners of Country Inn left most of the design up to me. They wanted
loons in the background, earthy colors, and the loon pictures at
the top. Putting all that together did take time, since colors in
the loon logo were most definitely not earthy! But the rest was
at my discretion, and that just makes life so much easier. Particularly
since they had the images on cd for me already, so I didn't have
to spend time scanning all the photos in. The only thing I did have
to do was play with the brightness, etc. to try and match the photos
as closely as possible, as some were old. The pricing for a site
of this type would range between $300 and $500 USD depending on
photos, and number of pages, etc.
Unfortunately, on September 28, 2006, the
Country Inn Motel was completely destroyed by fire and it's had
a huge impact on the community of Nimpo Lake. Although the site
is now off of their original domain, this is one of my all time
favorite builds because of the loon sounds on the menu buttons
so I have moved it to my portfolio site so that you can still look
at it. And so that the previous owners can still go in and play
with the buttons so that they get a cascading sound.
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