MTO Productions

As usual, I’m helping out Dave Kunkel Sound Service again this summer.  The Timeless Classics car show was our first event of the summer. 

The new Gibson County Theatre Company website is up at http://www.gibsoncountytheatre.com  This has been a great site build.  The clients have been wonderful in giving me content for the new site, and providing feedback on the design and content.

MTO Productions is happy to announce that we have just received the Adobe CS5 Master Collection.  This new release from Adobe will allow us to produce high quality work in shorter amounts of time.  The software contains several new and exciting features that we can’t wait to try out.

I have already been playing with the new natural brushes in PhotoShop and am hoping to play with the warp tools soon.  The natural brushes allow me to paint over photos such as the one below.  This was a quick test of the natural brushes.  I took a photo I had taken and then went over it with the new tools.  I think, with a little practice and using a few more of the brushes, I will be able to get some very nice effects.

I have another new project.  I am working on building a website for the Gibson County Theatre Company.  The Theatre Company puts on about 4 plays each year, does monthly play readings and helps host a week long summer drama camp for children.

The web-site’s header will be incorporating a flash slide-show with photos from previous productions. The new website will incorporate several new sections including an online contact form, a participation section for information about upcoming productions with online and download-able applications and a donor information section.  The site will also have an area for users to find out more about the shows and actors in the theater company.

Notice a pattern yet?  Every one of these sites utilizes large graphic images as part of the header and has little to no actual sales content above the fold.  Why do we build our sites like this?  I’m not saying that the images aren’t nice. Some of the images might even really capture your attention, but why do all of these sites look exactly the same?