The Kilpatrick Company, based in Boynton Beach, Florida, has been in the Irrigation and Landscape business since 1958. This year marks the Kilpatrick Company’s 50th Anniversary. To coincide with this milestone, they wanted to drastically update their web site and give it a modern look and feel.

The company approached me in late 2007 to request a re-design of their existing web site. Their old site had been around for a while, and it was time for a change - both in terms of design, as well as the features and information that they offer to both new and old customers, alike.

About the Company

With thirteen locations, and growing, The Kilpatrick Company specializes in Irrigation and Landscape Products, as well as Turf Equipment. The web site currently focuses on their three main divisions:

• KILPATRICK Irrigation & Landscape Products
• KILPATRICK Turf & Commercial Equipment
• KILPATRICK International

“The Kilpatrick Company has been established as one of the largest distributors of turf care equipment in the world with customers in over 35 countries. The company has been named the Distributor of the Year several times by Jacobsen/TEXTRON.”

Project Details

Client: The Kilpatrick Company
URL: www.kilpatrickco.com
Site Launch: March 2008

Project Scope:

• Web Site Site Design
• Front-End Web Development
• Flash Header Animation
• Valid Standards Compliant Tableless XHTML / CSS
• Continued Site Maintenance / Updates

Before

It had been some time since The Kilpatrick Company had re-designed their web site. The old site was much more conservative in nature, featuring a “safe” white background. The old design was based on the shades of blue and green found in the company logo.

After

The main objective for this project was to design a web site for The Kilpatrick Company that has a professional and corporate feel, while still maintaining the company branded blue and green color palette. After a complete overhaul, the site now has a modern edge to it, with colors that “pop” - all while maintaining a clean and simple style.

New features of the site include a flash header animation on the home page - which rotates through images of the company’s three main divisions - as well as a calendar of events, voting poll, and store locator.

As part of regular site maintenance, I update the company’s Bonus Buy’s on a monthly basis, as well as periodically add new locations and make other minor content changes. Site development is not 100% complete yet - there are a few areas, such as the FAQ, that the company is still working on creating content for (I’ll be adding this to the site as it becomes available).

Client Testimonial

It was nice working with iDesign Studios.

Thank you for your hard work in creating our website. Everyone likes it and they are happy with it. We look forward to continuing to work with you.
Thanks again!

Angela P. Thomas, Marketing Manager
The Kilpatrick Company

How Can I Help You?

If you like what you see, please don’t hesitate to visit the main business site - iDesign Studios - to view the complete portfolio, full list of services, or to contact me directly for more information.

I look forward to hearing from you!

2008 has proven to be a very busy year for me, so far. In the last four months, I’ve completed the design and development of three client web sites - two of which have officially launched today!

This is among other development only projects, several email and banner ad designs, as well as on-going content maintenance for existing clients. Not to mention, of course the re-launch of my business site (which includes a new shopping cart for the Services area), and the re-design of this blog.

New Blog Section

This has been in the works, but I’m happy to announce a new Portfolio section of my blog today. Here I will be highlighting recently completed projects as they launch. I have a little bit of catching up to do for the past few web sites, but once caught up, I’ll be announcing new site launches from this section as they happen.

Sneak Peek - Just Launched Today!

So as not to bombard you with too many new posts all in one day, I’ll be posting each of these portfolio pieces over the course of the month. For a sneak peek, though, below are the two web sites that have officially launched today.

Pick Nick’s Brain

My involvement in this WordPress driven web site and blog includes complete web site design and development in the form of a custom WordPress theme. Although this will be my third WordPress theme, it is my first for a client. Soon to be followed by an official announcement of new WordPress services.

picknicksbrain.com

A Miner Miracle

My involvement in this site includes the re-design of the company home page, based on the existing interior site pages. The main focus of this project, however, was the creation of a flash intro animation.

aminermiracle.org

More Portfolio Pieces

As a note, you can view all of the sites about to be profiled through the Portfolio page on the main site.

I hope you enjoy this new section. I’m going to enjoy being able to spotlight recent projects with more inside information than what’s found through the main portfolio.

Of course, I can’t end a post like this without another shameless plug! If you like my design style, please feel free to contact me to see how I can help make your web site stand out from the crowd!

I am proud to announce the official re-launch of iDesign Studios!

This has been in the works for quite some time now, and I’m very happy that the new site is finally live.

The latest version of the web site takes on a much different look and feel than the previous site. It also includes a great deal of new content…

Specifically a new FAQ section with a few articles which give additional information on the web design process, and what you can expect when working with me. I have also added a testimonials section, which include recommendations from some of satisfied customers.

Most notable is the addition of a shopping cart, using CRE Loaded software. This enables us to include detailed information on each of our services, as well as making my rates readily available to the public. This is new, as potential customers previously had to contact me in order to request a proposal for services. My thoughts for this addition was to enable visitors to the site to learn about my services, with minimal effort (ie. not having to complete an online form just to view rates, etc.)

I hope you’ll take a look at the new web site!

• iDesign Studios

I would love to hear your thoughts on the new design as well as on the content, etc. Both positive and negative critiques welcome!

Please post a comment below to let me know what you think.

I look forward to hearing from you!

…Me!

All I can say is Wow! I am completely thrilled, and very pleasantly surprised to find out that I’m the winner of 5 Minutes for Mom’s Ultimate Blog Party Design Contest!

I know that I had the voting help of a lot of friends and family, and hopefully a few of my readers here as well. Thank you so much for those of you that voted!

To be honest, I didn’t think I stood a chance, because the comments on the original design contest post did not seem to favor me at all.

Apparently it was a very tight race, though - I won by ONE, yes 1 point. LOL.

There were a lot of great designs posted in the contest, so again, I’m thrilled to be the “official” designer for this year’s Blog Party!

I submitted several different sizes, but the two official banners are below. I’ll be creating a few more sizes for these - including the “Welcome” banner for the event itself. I hope that you get involved with the Utimate Blog Party - it sounds like a lot of fun!

Thanks again to everyone who voted for me - you’ve certainly made my day! And special thanks to From the Park Bench for encouraging me to enter the contest in the first place!

Edit: Here are the final banners that were submitted after some slight modification…

Note: I also submitted a Welcome banner for the event, which is exclusive to 5 Minutes for Mom. You can view that one here.